1786 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1786 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget^[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 (until 16 January); Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (from 11 June)^[2][9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer^[10][2]

• Bishop of Bangor – John Warren^[11][12]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson^[13]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley^[14]
• Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell^[15]

Events

• 25 December - Plymouth ironworks is leased to Richard Hill.
• The Kinmel estate is sold to the Rev Edward Hughes for £42,000.^[16]
• Abraham Rees completes his edition of Chambers 's Encyclopaedia, and is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his work.
• Charles Pratt is created Earl Camden.

Arts and literature

New books

• David Samwell - A Narrative of the Death of Captain James Cook
• Hester Lynch Piozzi - Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., during the last twenty years of his life^[17]
• Helen Maria Williams - Poems^[18]

Music

• William Ellis - Ychydig o Hymnau a Chaniadau Newyddion (collection of hymns)^[19]
• Benjamin Francis - Aleluia (collection of hymns)

Births

• 6 April - John Humffreys Parry, barrister and antiquary (died 1825)^[20]
• May - John Jones, printer and inventor (died 1865)
• 22 June - Ellis Evans, minister and author (died 1864)^[21]
• 22 July - John Edward Madocks, MP for Denbigh (died 1837)

Deaths

• 16 January - Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet, politician, about 55^[22]
• 21 January - Anthony Bacon, ironmaster, 67^[23]
• 12 March - Barbara Herbert, Countess of Powis, 51^[24]
• 2 July (bur.) - John Ystumllyn, gardener, "first well-recorded black person of North Wales"
• 16 September - Edward Parry, poet and hymn-writer, 63

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. Bertie George Charles (1959). "Philipps family, of Picton". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
10. Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
11. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
12. The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
13. 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.
14. The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
15. Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 163.
16. H. J. Habakkuk (1994). Marriage, Debt, and the Estates System: English Landownership, 1650-1950. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-820398-8.
17. Hester Lynch Piozzi (1786). Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: during the last twenty years of his life. Printed for T. Cadell.
18. Kennedy, Deborah, Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press (June 2002). ISBN 0-8387-5511-9.
19. Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940. Paratowyd dan nawdd Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion. Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorioa. 1953.
20. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Parry, John Humffreys (1786-1825)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 43. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
21. Tom Ellis Jones (1959). "Evans, Ellis (1786-1864), Baptist minister and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
22. "OWEN, Hugh (?1731-86), of Orielton, Pemb". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
23. Watkin William Price (1959). "Bacon family". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
24. Salopian Shreds and Patches. 1875. p. 159.