1798 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1798 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
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
• 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

• March - Historian William Richards returns from Wales to King's Lynn.
• 31 March - George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, becomes Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire; ^[16]
• June/August - Clogwyn Du'r Arddu is climbed by Peter Bailey Williams and William Bingley, botanists looking for alpine plants on Snowdon.
• 13 July - William Wordsworth, visiting Wales, writes "Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour". ^[17]
• 17 October - First recorded use of the word "tramroad", in the minutes of the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal Company.
• unknown dates
  • The Gwyneddigion Society launches its project of publishing ancient Welsh manuscripts.
  • William Lort Mansel becomes Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. ^[18]
  • William Madocks buys the Tan-yr-Allt estate on Traeth Mawr.
  • Morgan John Rhys buys a tract of land in the Allegheny mountains of North America for the purpose of founding a Welsh colony, which he names Cambria. ^[19]

Arts and literature

New books

• Emily Clark - Ianthé, or the Flower of Caernarvon ^[20]
• Thomas Roberts of Llwyn'rhudol - Cwyn yn erbyn Gorthrymder
• Hester Thrale - Three Warnings to John Bull before he dies. By an Old Acquaintance of the Public ^[21]
• Richard Warner - Second Walk Through Wales ^[22]

Music

• Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - Popular Cheshire Melodies ^[23]

Births

• 3 August - Llewelyn Lewellin, first principal of St David's College, Lampeter (died 1878)
• 16 August - Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff (died 1882) ^[24]
• date unknown - John Jones Archdeacon of Bangor (died 1863) ^[25]

Deaths

• 21 June - Edward Evan, poet, 81 ^[26]
• 6 July - Joshua Evans, Quaker minister of Welsh descent, 66
• 17 November - George Cadogan Morgan, dissenting minister and scientist, 44 ^[27]
• 23 November - David Samwell (Dafydd Ddu Feddyg), naval surgeon and poet, 47 ^[28]
• 16 December - Thomas Pennant, naturalist and travel writer, 72 ^[29]

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. "No. 15002". The London Gazette . 27 March 1798. p. 263.
17. Arthur Beatty, William Wordsworth, his doctrine and art in their historical relations, University of Wisconsin Studies #17, 1922, p.64
18. John Scott; John Taylor (1820). The London Magazine ... Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. p. 236.
19. John Vyrnwy Morgan (1918). The Church in Wales in the Light of History: A Historical and Philosophical Study. Chapman & Hall. p. 18.
20. Jane Aaron (1 February 2010). Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales: Nation, Gender and Identity. University of Wales Press. p. 35. ISBN   978-0-7083-2287-1.
21. Elizabeth Edwards (15 February 2013). English-language Poetry from Wales 1789-1806. University of Wales Press. p. 51. ISBN   978-0-7083-2569-8.
22. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800. Cambridge University Press. 1971. p. 1407.
23. Enoch Robert G. Salisbury (1873). A catalogue of Cambric books at Glan-aber, Chester, A.D. 1500-1799, not mentioned in Rowland's 'Cambrian bibliography' [by E.R.G. Salisbury]. p. 68.
24. John Vyrnwy Morgan (1908). Welsh Political and Educational Leaders in the Victorian Era. J. Nisbet. p. 119.
25. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Jones, John (100)"  . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 . Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
26. "Evan, Edward". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 9 November 2021.
27. Thomas, D. O. (2004). "Morgan, George Cadogan (1754–1798)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press . Retrieved 16 March 2009.
28. David Samwell; Nicholas Thomas; Martin Fitzpatrick; Jennifer Newell (15 July 2007). The death of Captain Cook and other writings. University of Wales Press. p. 20. ISBN   978-0-7083-1968-0.
29. Samuel Johnson (1841). Johnson's Dictionary of the English language, containing many additional words; also, A compendium of chronology [&c.]. p. 253.