1793 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1793 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 (until 14 March) ^[7] John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Watkin Williams (until 4 December); Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet (from 4 December) ^[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 (until 7 December) ^[15]

Events

• 22 November - Two ships, the Morva and the Cavendish, are wrecked on The Smalls off Pembrokeshire. ^[16]
• Construction of Clydach Ironworks begins. ^[17]
• 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.

Arts and literature

New books

• Edward Daniel Clarke - A Tour Through the South of England, Wales, and Part of Ireland, Made During the Summer of 1791 ^[18]

Births

• 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)
• 11 October - Maria James, poet and domestic servant (d. 1868 in the United States)
• 25 September - Felicia Hemans, poet (d. 1835)

Deaths

• January - Marged ferch Ifan, harpist, 96
• 5 January - Elizabeth Griffith, actress and writer, 73?
• 14 March - Cecil de Cardonnel, 2nd Baroness Dynevor, 57 ^[19]
• 22 May - John Lloyd, antiquary, 60 ^[20]

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. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (2562). 22 November 1793.
17. A. W. Skempton; Mike Chrimes (2002). A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500-1830. Thomas Telford. pp. 319–. ISBN   978-0-7277-2939-2.
18. Michael J. Franklin (22 September 2011). 'Orientalist Jones': Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and Linguist, 1746-1794. OUP Oxford. pp. 121–. ISBN   978-0-19-953200-1.
19. Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes. Dod's. 1921. p. 283.
20. Jenkins, Robert Thomas. "LLOYD, JOHN (1733–1793)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 1 May 2008.