1791 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1791 to Wales and its people.

← 1790 1789 1788 1787 1786 1791 in Wales → 1792 1793 1794 1795 1796
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1791 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• June - William Jones distributes copies of an address at the Llanrwst eisteddfod, titled To all Indigenous Cambro-Britons, calling on poor Welsh farmers to set up a colony in the United States.[1]
• Richard Phillips builds Clyne Castle.[2]
• Peter Williams is excommunicated by the Methodists for publishing Sabellian heresy.
• Probable date of completion of Methodist chapel at Earlswood, Monmouthshire.
• Thomas Jones becomes High Sheriff of Radnorshire.

Arts and literature

New books

• Joshua Thomas - New translation of the Baptist "Confession of Faith" issued by the London Assembly of 1689
• John Williams - An enquiry into the truth of the tradition concerning the discovery of America by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the year 1170
• Peter Williams Llythyr at Hen Gydymaith

Births

• 23 February - Sir John Cowell-Stepney, baronet, landowner and politician (d. 1877)[3]
• 5 December - William Henry Yelverton, MP for Carmarthen Boroughs 1832–1835 (d. 1884)[4]
• date unknown
  • Robert Everett, Independent minister and writer (d. 1875)[5]
  • Thomas Fothergill, ironmaster (d. 1858)

Deaths

• 11 January - William Williams (Pantycelyn), poet and hymn-writer, 73[6]
• 13 February - William Parry, artist, 48
• 19 April - Richard Price, philosopher, 68[7]
• 17 September - David Morris (hymn writer), 47

References

1. Mary-Ann Constantine; Dafydd R. Johnston (15 April 2013). Footsteps of 'Liberty and Revolt': Essays on Wales and the French Revolution. University of Wales Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-7083-2591-9.
2. Ralph Alan Griffiths (1977). Clyne Castle, Swansea: A History of the Building and Its Owners. University College of Swansea. ISBN 978-0-86076-001-6.
3. “The” Illustrated London News. Elm House. 1877. pp. 526–.
4. The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland. 1809. p. 864.
5. Welsh Bibliographical Society (1916). The Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society. Welsh Bibliographical Society.
6. Robert Hall Baynes (1871). The Churchman's shilling magazine and family treasury, conducted by R.H. Baynes. pp. 84–.
7. McElroy, Wendy (2008). "Price, Richard (1723–1791)". In Hamowy, Ronald (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE; Cato Institute. pp. 388–89. doi:10.4135/9781412965811.n240. ISBN 978-1412965804. LCCN 2008009151. OCLC 750831024.