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1788 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1788 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • 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

    • New books

  • Nicholas Owen - British Remains.
  • 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).
  • 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)

    • Deaths

  • 4 August - Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir), priest 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

    1788 in Wales Wikipedia
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