1793 in Wales

Updated on Oct 21, 2023

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Centuries: 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th Decades: 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1793 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)

Princess of Wales - vacant

Construction of Clydach Ironworks begins.

A clipper, the Pennsylvania, is wrecked on The Smalls with the loss of 75 lives.

A group of Quakers from Nantucket Island settle at Milford Haven, where they attempt to set up a whaling industry.

Y Cylchgrawn Cymraeg is the first political journal to be published in the Welsh language.

Edward Daniel Clarke - A Tour Through the South of England, Wales, and Part of Ireland, Made During the Summer of 1791

17 January - Owen Owen Roberts, physician (d. 1866)

8 February - Daniel Rees, clergyman and hymn-writer (d. 1857)

March - Lewis Lewis (Lewsyn yr Heliwr), political activist (date of death unknown)

19 July - John Propert, physician (d. 1867)

10 August - John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute (d. 1848)

25 September - Felicia Hemans, poet (d. 1835)

January - Marged ferch Ifan, harpist, 96

5 January - Elizabeth Griffith, actress and writer, 73?

14 March - Cecil de Cardonnel, 2nd Baroness Dynevor, 57

22 May - John Lloyd, antiquary, 60

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