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1784 in Wales

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

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
  • Princess of Wales - vacant

    • Events

  • 30 March - Lloyd Kenyon becomes Master of the Rolls.
  • 7 May - Lady Henrietta Herbert, heiress of the Earl of Powis, marries Edward Clive, 2nd Baron Clive of Plassey.
  • 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.
  • 28 July - Lloyd Kenyon is raised to a baronetcy.
  • 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).

    • 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

    • Births

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

    • Deaths

  • 8 February - Christopher Bassett, Methodist exhorter, 30 (tuberculosis)
  • 5 April – David Williams, minister and schoolmaster, 74?
  • date unknown
  • John Hanbury III, ironmaster, 40?
  • Stafford Prys, publisher, 52?

    • References

    1784 in Wales Wikipedia
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