1792 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1792 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget^[1][2][3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort^[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 - Watkin Williams^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford^[2][9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Harley^[10][2]

• Bishop of Bangor – John Warren^[11][12]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson^[13]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Lewis Bagot^[14][11]
• Bishop of St Davids – Samuel Horsley^[15]

Events

• 3 June - Monmouthshire Canal receives its Act of Parliament.^[16]
• 21 June - Iolo Morganwg holds the first Gorsedd ceremony at Primrose Hill in London.^[17]
• June - The Merthyr to Newbridge section of the Glamorganshire Canal is completed.
• Bodnant House is built.

Arts and literature

New books

• David Davis (Castellhywel) - Cri Carcharor dan farn Marwolaeth
• Nicholas Owen - Carnarvonshire, a Sketch of its History, etc.
• Hester Thrale - The Three Warnings

Births

• 10 February - John Jones (Ioan Tegid), writer (died 1852)^[18]
• 10 April - Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar, politician (died 1875)^[19]
• 9 June - David Arthur Saunders Davies, politician (died 1857)^[20]
• 23 July - Aneurin Owen, scholar (d. 1851)^[21]
• 27 July - Llewelyn Lloyd, naturalist (died 1876)
• 5 September - Sir David Davies, royal physician (d. 1865)
• 11 November - Mary Anne Evans (died 1872), future wife of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli^[22]
• 20 December - David Griffiths, missionary (d. 1863)
• date unknown
  • Thomas Davies, physician (died 1839)^[23]
  • Daniel Evans, poet (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion; died 1846)^[24]
  • Sir Charles John Salusbury, 3rd Baronet (d. 1868)^[25]

Deaths

• 23 February - Thomas Ellis, clergyman, about 80^[26]
• 10 March - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, friend of Augusta, Princess of Wales and ancestor of the Marquesses of Bute, 78^[27]
• 17 May - Sir Noah Thomas, royal physician, 72?^[28]
• 27 June - John Morgan (of Dderw), politician, 48^[29]
• September - John Edwards, poet (Siôn Ceiriog), 44/45^[30]

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. Cyril James Oswald Evans (1953). Monmouthshire, its history and topography. W. Lewis (printers).
17. 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. pp. 158–. ISBN 978-0-7083-2591-9.
18. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "JONES, JOHN (Tegid — less usually Ioan Tegid; 1792-1852), cleric and man of letters". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
19. Morgan, Walter Thomas. "MORGAN family, of Tredegar Park, Monmouth". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
20. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Davies, David, (Arthur Saunders)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
21.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Owen, Aneurin". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 42. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
22. Mollie Hardwick (1972). Mrs. Dizzy: the life of Mary Anne Disraeli, Viscountess Beaconsfield. Cassell. p. 1.
23.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Moore, Norman (1888). "Davies, Thomas (1792-1839)". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 14. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
24. Jones, David Gwenallt. "Evans, Daniel (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion; 1792–1846)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 September 2008.
25. William Llewelyn Davies (1959). "Salusbury, Sir Charles John (1792-1868), cleric and antiquary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
26. Jenkins, Robert Thomas. "Ellis, Thomas (1711/12–1792), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
27. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
28. Lamont-Brown, Raymond. (2009). Royal Poxes and Potions: Royal Doctors and Their Secrets. Stroud: History Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-7524-7390-1.
29. William Retlaw Williams (1895). The Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales, from the Earliesr Times to the Present Day, 1541-1895: Comprising Lists of the Representatives, Chronologically Arranged Under Counties, with Biographical and Genealogical Notices of the Members, Together with Particulars of the Various Contested Elections, Double Returns and Petitions. Priv. print. for the author by E. Davis and Bell.
30. Griffith John Williams (1959). "Edwards, John (Siôn Ceiriog; 1747-1792), bard and orator". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 November 2021.