1791 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1791 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- June - William Jones distributes copies of an address at the Llanrwst eisteddfod, titled To all Indigenous Cambro-Britons, calling on poor Welsh farmers to set up a colony in the United States.[1]
- Richard Phillips builds Clyne Castle.[2]
- Peter Williams is excommunicated by the Methodists for publishing Sabellian heresy.
- Probable date of completion of Methodist chapel at Earlswood, Monmouthshire.
- Thomas Jones becomes High Sheriff of Radnorshire.
Arts and literature
New books
- Joshua Thomas - New translation of the Baptist "Confession of Faith" issued by the London Assembly of 1689
- John Williams - An enquiry into the truth of the tradition concerning the discovery of America by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the year 1170
- Peter Williams Llythyr at Hen Gydymaith
Births
- 23 February - Sir John Cowell-Stepney, baronet, landowner and politician (d. 1877)[3]
- 5 December - William Henry Yelverton, MP for Carmarthen Boroughs 1832–1835 (d. 1884)[4]
- date unknown
- Robert Everett, Independent minister and writer (d. 1875)[5]
- Thomas Fothergill, ironmaster (d. 1858)
Deaths
- 11 January - William Williams (Pantycelyn), poet and hymn-writer, 73[6]
- 13 February - William Parry, artist, 48
- 19 April - Richard Price, philosopher, 68[7]
- 17 September - David Morris (hymn writer), 47
References
- Mary-Ann Constantine; Dafydd R. Johnston (15 April 2013). Footsteps of 'Liberty and Revolt': Essays on Wales and the French Revolution. University of Wales Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-7083-2591-9.
- Ralph Alan Griffiths (1977). Clyne Castle, Swansea: A History of the Building and Its Owners. University College of Swansea. ISBN 978-0-86076-001-6.
- “The” Illustrated London News. Elm House. 1877. pp. 526–.
- The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland. 1809. p. 864.
- Welsh Bibliographical Society (1916). The Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society. Welsh Bibliographical Society.
- Robert Hall Baynes (1871). The Churchman's shilling magazine and family treasury, conducted by R.H. Baynes. pp. 84–.
- McElroy, Wendy (2008). "Price, Richard (1723–1791)". In Hamowy, Ronald (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE; Cato Institute. pp. 388–89. doi:10.4135/9781412965811.n240. ISBN 978-1412965804. LCCN 2008009151. OCLC 750831024.
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