1790 in Wales

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1770s; 1780s; 1790s; 1800s; 1810s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1790 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1790 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

Monmouth County Gaol

18 May - The first meeting of the Literary Fund, founded by David Williams ("to assist indigent authors") takes place in London.[1]
9 June - Royal assent is given to establishment of the port of Milford Haven.[2]
August - Construction of the Glamorganshire Canal begins.[3]
exact date unknown
- Sir Herbert Mackworth gives up the Parliamentary seat of Cardiff when John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart, comes of age.[4]
- The world's first railway viaduct (used by horse-drawn wagons to carry coal from the mines) is built at Blaenavon.[5]
- Monmouth County Gaol is built.[6]
- Calvinistic Methodist clergyman Thomas Charles of Bala attempts to preach at Corwen but is driven out of town by a mob.
- John Coles, son of the founder of the Cambrian Pottery, goes into partnership with entrepreneur George Haynes, resulting in the expansion of the business.

Arts and literature

New books

Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Gardd o Gerddi
Thomas Pennant - Indian Zoology[7]
David Williams - Lessons to a Young Prince (published anonymously)[7]
Peter Williams - Tafol i Bwyso Sosiniaeth[8]

Births

Sir George Everest

27 January - William Davies Evans, mariner and chess player (died 1872)
July - James Williams, cleric and co-founder of the Anglesey Association of the Preservation of Lives from Shipwreck (died 1872)
20 February (baptised) - Hugh Hughes, painter (died 1863)[9]
19 June - John Gibson, sculptor (died 1866)[10]
4 July - George Everest, surveyor and geographer (died 1866)
11 August - William Probert, minister and author (died 1870)
16 September - Thomas Vowler Short, Bishop of St Asaph (died 1872)
29 September - John Jones, printer (died 1855)
date unknown - Owen Jones Ellis Nanney (born Ellis Jones), MP (died 1870), father of Sir Hugh Ellis-Nanney[11]
probable - Thomas Penson (the younger), architect and surveyor (died 1859)[12]

Deaths

20 March - Thomas Richards of Coychurch, cleric and lexicographer, 80[13]
24 August - John Worgan, organist and composer, 66
16 October - Daniel Rowland, Methodist leader, c.79[14]
5 November - Michael Lort, clergyman, academic and antiquary, 65

References

David Williams. "WILLIAMS, DAVID (1738 - 1816), littérateur and political pamphleteer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
Phil Carradice (15 August 2013). The Ships of Pembroke Dockyard. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-4456-1310-9.
Dean Powell (15 September 2012). Dr William Price: Wales's First Radical. Amberley Publishing Limited. pp. 64–. ISBN 978-1-4456-2052-7.
"MACKWORTH, Herbert (1737-91), of Gnoll, Glam". History of Parliament online. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
Tim Taylor (2005). The Time Team Guide to the Archaeological Sites of Britain & Ireland. Channel 4. pp. 106–. ISBN 978-1-905026-01-2.
Newman, John (2000). The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire. Penguin Books. p. 407. ISBN 9780300096309.
Enoch Robert G. Salisbury (1873). A catalogue of Cambric books at Glan-aber, Chester, A.D. 1500-1799, not mentioned in Rowland's 'Cambrian bibliography' [by E.R.G. Salisbury]. p. 62.
Marion Loffler (15 October 2014). Political Pamphlets and Sermons from Wales 1790-1806. University of Wales Press. pp. 37–. ISBN 978-1-78316-102-7.
Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Hughes, Hugh (1790?-1863)" . Dictionary of National Biography. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Greenwood, Martin. "Gibson, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10625. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Thomas Richards. "NANNEY (formerly ELLIS), DAVID ELLIS (1759 - 1819), attorney-general for North Wales". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
Colvin H. A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600–1840 Yale University Press 3rd ed 1995,748-49
"Richards, Thomas (1710?-1790)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
Gomer Morgan Roberts. "ROWLAND, DANIEL (1713-1790), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 November 2018.

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[1] David Williams. "WILLIAMS, DAVID (1738 - 1816), littérateur and political pamphleteer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 November 2018.

[2] Phil Carradice (15 August 2013). The Ships of Pembroke Dockyard. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-4456-1310-9.

[3] Dean Powell (15 September 2012). Dr William Price: Wales's First Radical. Amberley Publishing Limited. pp. 64–. ISBN 978-1-4456-2052-7.

[4] "MACKWORTH, Herbert (1737-91), of Gnoll, Glam". History of Parliament online. Retrieved 23 October 2018.

[5] Tim Taylor (2005). The Time Team Guide to the Archaeological Sites of Britain & Ireland. Channel 4. pp. 106–. ISBN 978-1-905026-01-2.

[6] Newman, John (2000). The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire. Penguin Books. p. 407. ISBN 9780300096309.

[Cambric-7] Enoch Robert G. Salisbury (1873). A catalogue of Cambric books at Glan-aber, Chester, A.D. 1500-1799, not mentioned in Rowland's 'Cambrian bibliography' [by E.R.G. Salisbury]. p. 62.

[8] Marion Loffler (15 October 2014). Political Pamphlets and Sermons from Wales 1790-1806. University of Wales Press. pp. 37–. ISBN 978-1-78316-102-7.

[9] Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Hughes, Hugh (1790?-1863)" . Dictionary of National Biography. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[10] Greenwood, Martin. "Gibson, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10625. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[11] Thomas Richards. "NANNEY (formerly ELLIS), DAVID ELLIS (1759 - 1819), attorney-general for North Wales". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 November 2018.

[12] Colvin H. A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600–1840 Yale University Press 3rd ed 1995,748-49

[13] "Richards, Thomas (1710?-1790)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

[14] Gomer Morgan Roberts. "ROWLAND, DANIEL (1713-1790), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 November 2018.