1788 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1788 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- March 18 - Great Sessions at Wrexham hear a graveyard dispute between the "Old" and "New" chapels at Llanuwchllyn.
- June 4 - Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, becomes Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
- date unknown - Architect John Nash, during his "Welsh interlude", designs the stable block at Plas Llanstephan[1]
Arts and literature
New books
- Nicholas Owen - British Remains.[2]
- John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) - Yr Athrofa Rad
- Hester Lynch Piozzi - Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson
Births
- 12 February - William Williams, MP (died 1865)
- 5 October - John Montgomery Traherne, antiquary (died 1860).[3]
- 28 December - Griffith Davies, actuary (died 1855)
- date unknown - Mary Morgan, servant hanged for killing her newborn child (died 1805)
- probable - Elijah Waring, English-born preacher, editor and writer (died 1857)[4]
Deaths
- 4 August - Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir), clergyman and poet, 57
- 6 December - Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of Llandaff and St Asaph, 74
- date unknown - David Evans, canon of St Asaph, writer and musician, 82-83
References
- ↑ Suggett, Richard (1995) John Nash Architect in Wales, The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, ISBN 1-871184-16-9
- ↑ Pollard, Albert; Walters, Huw (2004). "Owen, Nicholas (1752–1811)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 16 March 2009.
- ↑ Burke, Sir Bernard (1852). A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland for 1852 (Public domain ed.). Colburn and Company. pp. 1423–. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
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