1796 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1796 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 – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet (from 4 April)
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet (until 26 July); Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon (from 9 September)
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute ^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet ^[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 – William Stuart ^[15]

Events

• February - The main line of the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal opens; it is 12.5 miles (20.1 km) long, and runs from Newport to Pontnewynydd, via Pontymoile, rising by 447 feet (136.3m) through 42 locks.
• 27 February - John Stuart is created Marquess of Bute.
• June - At the British general election, Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, backed by Bishop John Warren, challenges sitting MP Sir Robert Williams, the sitting member for Caernarvonshire; Sir Robert is easily re-elected.
• John Wilkinson blows in blast furnace No. 1 on the site that becomes Brymbo Steelworks.

Arts and literature

New books

• Charles Heath - The Excursion Down the Wye ^[16]
• Thomas Pennant - Whiteford and Holywell
• Uvedale Price - An Essay on the Picturesque ^[16]
• Anna Seward - Llangollen Vale and Other Poems ^[16]
• David Williams - The History of Monmouthshire

Births

• 7 January - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, only child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1817) ^[17]
• 8 January - Eliza Constantia Campbell, author (died 1864) ^[18]
• 1 March - John Jones, Talysarn, preacher (died 1857) ^[19]
• 30 September - John Mytton, sportsman (died 1834) ^[20]
• December - David Owen (Brutus), writer (died 1866)

Deaths

• February - John Jones, organist, 70? ^[21]
• 26 July - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet, landowner and politician, 61 ^[22]
• 8 August - Peter Williams, Methodist writer, 63 ^[23]
• date unknown - Ioan Siencyn, poet

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. Enoch Robert G. Salisbury (1873). A catalogue of Cambric books at Glan-aber, Chester, A.D. 1500-1799. p. 67.
17. J. Coote (1818). A Biographical Memoir of the Much Lamented Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales and Saxe Coburg. J. Barfield. p. 18.
18. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Campbell (Morrieson), Eliza Constantia (1796-1864), author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
19. Gerald Norris (June 1981). A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland. David & Charles. p. 305. ISBN   978-0-7153-7845-8.
20. Bernard Burke (1869). Vicissitudes of Families. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. p. 333.
21. The Musical Times, 1 June 1879
22. "MOSTYN, Sir Roger, 5th Bt. (1734-96), of Mostyn, Flints. and Gloddaeth, Caern". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
23. Roberts, Gomer M. "Peter Williams, Methodist cleric, author, and Biblical commentator.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 1 February 2017.