1795 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1795 to Wales and its people.

← 1794 1793 1792 1791 1790 1795 in Wales → 1796 1797 1798 1799 1800
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1795 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)[1]
• Princess of Wales - (from April) Caroline of Brunswick[1]

Events

• 8 April - The Prince of Wales marries his first cousin, Princess Caroline of Brunswick.[1]
• June - Cecilia Thrale, youngest daughter of Hester Thrale, elopes with John Meredith Mostyn, a member of the prominent Anglesey family.[2]
• July - Ezekiel Hughes, Edward Bebb and others leave Llanbryn-mair on foot, bound for Philadelphia.[3]
• September - Hester Thrale and her second husband, Gabriele Piozzi, settle in Wales, where they begin renovating Bachygraig.[4]
• date unknown
  • Samuel Homfray brings an unsuccessful suit, at Hereford Assizes, of the commoners against the Dowlais Company.[5]
  • The events of the French Revolution cause corn prices to rise dramatically, but wages do not follow. Food riots are commonplace across Wales for the several years after.
  • The Universal British Directory includes the first-ever entry for Merthyr Tydfil.[6]
  • Copper bolts forged at Parys Mountain are used in the construction of an American warship, the USS Constitution.[7]

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) - The Miscellaneous Repository neu Y Drysorfa Gymysgedig[8]
• John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) - Seren Tan Gwmmwl

Births

• 18 January - Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn, politician (died 1884)[9]
• 5 August - George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor, politician (died 1869)[10]
• December - John Davies, philosopher (died 1861)
• 7 December - Samuel George Homfray, industrialist (died 1882)
• 11 December - Thomas Taylor Griffith, surgeon (died 1876)
• date unknown - Zephaniah Williams, Chartist (died 1874)[11]
• probable - Maria Jane Williams, musician (d. 1873)[12]

Deaths

• 25 January - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian, 72[13]
• 11 March - William Mostyn Owen, landowner and politician, 72/3[14]
• May - David Ellis, clergyman and poet, 58[15]
• 20 August - William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical 71[16]
• 14 October - Henry Owen, theologian, 79[17]

References

1. Alfred Bailey (1879). The Succession to the English Crown: A Historical Sketch. Macmillan. p. 262.
2. John Rylands University Library: Thrale-Piozzi manuscripts. Accessed 16 January 2015
3. William Ambrose Bebb. "Hughes, Ezekiel (1766-1849), one of the early Welsh settlers in the far west of the U.S.A." Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
4. The Gregynog Papers #7: Chapter 3. Accessed 16 January 2015
5. Watkin William Price. "Homfray family, of Penydarren". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
6. Paul Reynolds, The Ironmasters' Bags (2010), p93
7. "A Copper Confessional". USS Constitution Museum. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
8. Philip Jenkins (13 October 2014). A History of Modern Wales 1536-1990. Routledge. pp. 180–. ISBN 978-1-317-87269-6.
9. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1878. p. 855.
10. Debrett's Illustrated Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Bosworth & Harrison. 1864. p. 81.
11. David Williams. "Williams, Zephaniah (1795-1874), Chartist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
12. Marion Löffler. "Williams, Maria Jane ('Llinos') (1795-1873), folklore collector and musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
13. Edward William Price Evans. "Edwards, Morgan (1722-1795), Baptist minister and historian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
14. P. D. G. Thomas (1964b). "Owen, William (?1742–95), of Woodhouse, Salop and Bryngwyn, Mont.", The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754–1790, ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke.
15. David Jenkins. "Ellis, David (1736-1795), cleric, poet, translator, and transcriber of manuscripts". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
16. Enid Pierce Roberts. "Jones, William (1726-1795), antiquary and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
17. Robert Thomas Jenkins; Llewelyn Gwyn Chambers. "Owen, Henry (1716-1795), cleric, physician, and scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.