1784 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1784 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget (from 1 August)^[1][2][3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer^[9][2]

• Bishop of Bangor – John Warren^[10][11]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson^[12]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley^[13]
• Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell^[14]

Events

• 30 March - Lloyd Kenyon becomes Master of the Rolls.^[15]
• 7 May - Lady Henrietta Herbert, heiress of the Earl of Powis, marries Edward Clive, 2nd Baron Clive of Plassey.^[16]
• 14 May - Thomas James Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley, is created Baron Bulkeley.
• 19 May - Henry Bayly Paget, 9th Baron Paget, is created Earl of Uxbridge.
• 23-25 July - Hester Thrale marries Gabriele Piozzi, much to the displeasure of Dr Samuel Johnson.^[17]
• 28 July - Lloyd Kenyon is raised to a baronetcy.^[18]
• unknown date – Samuel Homfray and his brother quarrel with Anthony Bacon and take out a lease of one of the richest iron-ore deposits in the district (which develops into the Penydarren ironworks).

Arts and literature

New books

• Richard Price – Importance of the American Revolution

Music

• Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) – The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, including first publication of the harp air Dafydd y Garreg Wen^[19]

Births

• 17 January – Joseph Tregelles Price, ironmaster (died 1854)^[20]
• 25 May – John Frost, Chartist leader (died 1877)^[21]
• 16 December - Mary Jones, purchaser of an early Welsh-language Bible (died 1864)
• date unknown
  • Walter Coffin, coal-owner (died 1867)^[22]
  • Anthony Hill, ironmaster (died 1862)^[23]
  • David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), poet (died 1841)^[24]

Deaths

• 8 February – Christopher Bassett, Methodist exhorter, 30 (tuberculosis)^[25]
• March – John Evans, Methodist exhorter, 47?^[26]
• 5 April – David Williams, minister and schoolmaster, 74?
• December – John Richard, Calvinistic Methodist exhorter and hymn-writer, age unknown^[27]
• date unknown
  • John Hanbury III, ironmaster, 40?^[28]
  • Stafford Prys [cy], publisher, 52?

References

1. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
2. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
3. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
4. Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
5. Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
6. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
7. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
8. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
9. Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
10. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
11. The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
12. John Henry James (1898). A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff. Western Mail. p. 16.
13. The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
14. Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 163.
15. Joseph Timothy Haydn; Robert Beatson (1851). Beatson's Political index modernised. The book of dignities; containing rolls of the official personages of the British empire, together with the sovereigns of Europe, the peerage of England and of Great Britain; and numerous other lists. pp. 244–.
16. Paul Frame (12 April 2018). "Clive, Henrietta Antonia (1758-1830), traveller and scientific collector". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
17. Marianna D’Ezio (8 January 2010). Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi: A Taste for Eccentricity. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 50–. ISBN 978-1-4438-1891-9.
18. "No. 12562". The London Gazette. 20 July 1784. p. 1.
19. Herbert, Trevor (September 2009). "Jones, Edward [Bardd y Brenin] (1752–1824)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
20. Thomas Mardy Rees (1925). A History of the Quakers in Wales and Their Emigration to North America. W. Spurrell and son.
21. The Australian Encyclopaedia. Grolier Society of Australia. 1977. ISBN 978-0-9596604-0-1.
22. Cardiff (Wales). Records Committee (1905). Cardiff records, being materials for a history of the County Borough from the earliest times. Western Mail Ltd.
23. Stewart Williams (1968). Stewart Williams' Glamorgan Historian. D. Brown. p. 187.
24. "Owen, David". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.
25. Roberts, Gomer Morgan. "BASSETT, CHRISTOPHER (1753–1784), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
26. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "EVANS, JOHN (1737? - 1784), Methodist exhorter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
27. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "RICHARD, JOHN (fl. 1743-1784), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and hymn-writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
28. "Hanbury family". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.