1791 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1791 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 (politician, born 1730) (from 8 April) ^{[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

• June - William Jones distributes copies of an address at the Llanrwst eisteddfod, titled To all Indigenous Cambro-Britons, calling on poor Welsh farmers to set up a colony in the United States. ^[16]
• Richard Phillips builds Clyne Castle. ^[17]
• Peter Williams is excommunicated by the Methodists for publishing Sabellian heresy.
• Probable date of completion of Methodist chapel at Earlswood, Monmouthshire.
• Thomas Jones becomes High Sheriff of Radnorshire.

Arts and literature

New books

• Joshua Thomas - New translation of the Baptist "Confession of Faith" issued by the London Assembly of 1689
• John Williams - An enquiry into the truth of the tradition concerning the discovery of America by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the year 1170
• Peter Williams - Llythyr at Hen Gydymaith

Births

• 23 February - Sir John Cowell-Stepney, baronet, landowner and politician (d. 1877) ^[18]
• 5 December - William Henry Yelverton, MP for Carmarthen Boroughs 1832–1835 (d. 1884) ^[19]
• date unknown
  • Robert Everett, Independent minister and writer (d. 1875) ^[20]
  • Thomas Fothergill, ironmaster (d. 1858)

Deaths

• 11 January - William Williams (Pantycelyn), poet and hymn-writer, 73 ^[21]
• 13 February - William Parry, artist, 48 ^[22]
• 19 April - Richard Price, philosopher, 68 ^[23]
• 17 September - David Morris (hymn writer), 47

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. 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. p. 135. ISBN   978-0-7083-2591-9.
17. Ralph Alan Griffiths (1977). Clyne Castle, Swansea: A History of the Building and Its Owners. University College of Swansea. ISBN   978-0-86076-001-6.
18. “The” Illustrated London News. Elm House. 1877. pp. 526–.
19. The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland. 1809. p. 864.
20. Welsh Bibliographical Society (1916). The Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society. Welsh Bibliographical Society.
21. Robert Hall Baynes (1871). The Churchman's shilling magazine and family treasury, conducted by R.H. Baynes. pp. 84–.
22. "William Parry ARA (ca. 1742-1791)". Royal Academy. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
23. McElroy, Wendy (2008). "Price, Richard (1723–1791)". In Hamowy, Ronald (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE; Cato Institute. pp. 388–89. doi:10.4135/9781412965811.n240. ISBN   978-1412965804. LCCN   2008009151. OCLC   750831024.