1795 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1795 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

For Great Britain incumbents, see 1795 in Great Britain § 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 (until 2 April) ^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute ^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet ^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis ^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford ^{[2] [10]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Harley ^{[11] [2]}

• Bishop of Bangor – John Warren ^{[12] [13]}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson ^[14]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Lewis Bagot ^{[15] [12]}
• Bishop of St Davids – William Stuart ^[16]

Events

• 8 April - George, Prince of Wales, marries his first cousin, Princess Caroline of Brunswick. ^[17]
• June - Cecilia Thrale, youngest daughter of Hester Thrale, elopes with John Meredith Mostyn, a member of the prominent Anglesey family. ^[18]
• July - Ezekiel Hughes, Edward Bebb and others leave Llanbryn-mair on foot, bound for Philadelphia. ^[19]
• September - Hester Thrale and her second husband, Gabriele Piozzi, settle in Wales, where they begin renovating Bachygraig. ^[20]
• date unknown
  • Samuel Homfray brings an unsuccessful suit, at Hereford Assizes, of the commoners against the Dowlais Company. ^[21]
  • The events of the French Revolution cause corn prices to rise dramatically, but wages do not follow. Food riots are commonplace across Wales for the several years after.
  • The Universal British Directory includes the first-ever entry for Merthyr Tydfil. ^[22]
  • Copper bolts forged at Parys Mountain are used in the construction of an American warship, the USS Constitution. ^[23]

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) - The Miscellaneous Repository neu Y Drysorfa Gymysgedig ^[24]
• John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) - Seren Tan Gwmmwl

Births

• 18 January - Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn, politician (died 1884) ^[25]
• 5 August - George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor, politician (died 1869) ^[26]
• December - John Davies, philosopher (died 1861)
• 7 December - Samuel George Homfray, industrialist (died 1882)
• 11 December - Thomas Taylor Griffith, surgeon (died 1876)
• date unknown - Zephaniah Williams, Chartist (died 1874) ^[27]
• probable - Maria Jane Williams, musician (d. 1873) ^[28]

Deaths

• 25 January - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian, 72 ^[29]
• 2 April – Richard Myddelton, Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire, 69 ^[7]
• 11 March - William Mostyn Owen, landowner and politician, 72/3 ^[30]
• May - David Ellis, clergyman and poet, 58 ^[31]
• 20 August - William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical 71 ^[32]
• 14 October - Henry Owen, theologian, 79 ^[33]

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. "Myddelton, Richard (1726-95), of Chirk Castle, Denb". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
8. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN   9780806313146.
9. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
10. Bertie George Charles (1959). "Philipps family, of Picton". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 19 October 2021.
11. Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
12. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
13. The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
14. 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.
15. The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
16. Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 163.
17. Alfred Bailey (1879). The Succession to the English Crown: A Historical Sketch. Macmillan. p. 262.
18. John Rylands University Library: Thrale-Piozzi manuscripts. Accessed 16 January 2015
19. William Ambrose Bebb. "Hughes, Ezekiel (1766-1849), one of the early Welsh settlers in the far west of the U.S.A.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 11 October 2019.
20. The Gregynog Papers #7: Chapter 3. Accessed 16 January 2015
21. Watkin William Price. "Homfray family, of Penydarren". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 17 December 2020.
22. Paul Reynolds, The Ironmasters' Bags (2010), p93
23. "A Copper Confessional". USS Constitution Museum. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
24. Philip Jenkins (13 October 2014). A History of Modern Wales 1536-1990. Routledge. pp. 180–. ISBN   978-1-317-87269-6.
25. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1878. p. 855.
26. Debrett's Illustrated Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Bosworth & Harrison. 1864. p. 81.
27. David Williams. "Williams, Zephaniah (1795-1874), Chartist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 11 October 2019.
28. Marion Löffler. "Williams, Maria Jane ('Llinos') (1795-1873), folklore collector and musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 11 October 2019.
29. Edward William Price Evans. "Edwards, Morgan (1722-1795), Baptist minister and historian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 11 October 2019.
30. P. D. G. Thomas (1964b). "Owen, William (?1742–95), of Woodhouse, Salop and Bryngwyn, Mont.", The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754–1790, ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke.
31. David Jenkins. "Ellis, David (1736-1795), cleric, poet, translator, and transcriber of manuscripts". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 11 October 2019.
32. Enid Pierce Roberts. "Jones, William (1726-1795), antiquary and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
33. Robert Thomas Jenkins; Llewelyn Gwyn Chambers. "Owen, Henry (1716-1795), cleric, physician, and scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 11 October 2019.