Английская Википедия:1790 in Wales

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Шаблон:Use Welsh English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Year in Wales header This article is about the particular significance of the year 1790 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne
• 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
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Watkin Williams
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (until 11 October)

• Bishop of Bangor – John Warren
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
• Bishop of St Asaph – Samuel Hallifax (until 4 March); Lewis Bagot (from 28 April)
• Bishop of St Davids – Samuel Horsley

Events

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Monmouth County Gaol

• 18 May - The first meeting of the Literary Fund, founded by David Williams ("to assist indigent authors") takes place in London.
• 9 June - Royal assent is given to establishment of the port of Milford Haven.
• August - Construction of the Glamorganshire Canal begins.
• exact date unknown
  • Sir Herbert Mackworth gives up the Parliamentary seat of Cardiff when John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart, comes of age.
  • The world's first railway viaduct (used by horse-drawn wagons to carry coal from the mines) is built at Blaenavon.
  • Monmouth County Gaol is built.
  • Calvinistic Methodist clergyman Thomas Charles of Bala attempts to preach at Corwen but is driven out of town by a mob.
  • John Coles, son of the founder of the Cambrian Pottery, goes into partnership with entrepreneur George Haynes, resulting in the expansion of the business.

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Gardd o Gerddi
• Thomas Pennant - Indian Zoology
• David Williams - Lessons to a Young Prince (published anonymously)
• Peter Williams - Tafol i Bwyso Sosiniaeth

Births

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Sir George Everest

• 27 January - William Davies Evans, mariner and chess player (died 1872)
• July - James Williams, cleric and co-founder of the Anglesey Association of the Preservation of Lives from Shipwreck (died 1872)
• 20 February (baptised) - Hugh Hughes, painter (died 1863)
• 19 June - John Gibson, sculptor (died 1866)
• 4 July - George Everest, surveyor and geographer (died 1866)
• 11 August - William Probert, minister and author (died 1870)
• 16 September - Thomas Vowler Short, Bishop of St Asaph (died 1872)
• 29 September - John Jones, printer (died 1855)
• date unknown - Owen Jones Ellis Nanney (born Ellis Jones), MP (died 1870), father of Sir Hugh Ellis-Nanney
• probable - Thomas Penson (the younger), architect and surveyor (died 1859)

Deaths

• 4 March - Samuel Hallifax, Bishop of St Asaph, 57
• 20 March - Thomas Richards of Coychurch, cleric and lexicographer, 80
• 24 August - John Worgan, organist and composer, 66
• 11 October - Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire, 64
• 16 October - Daniel Rowland, Methodist leader, c.79
• 5 November - Michael Lort, clergyman, academic and antiquary, 65