1785 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1785 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw^[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 Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer^{[9] [2]}
• Bishop of Bangor – John Warren^{[10] [11]}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson^[12]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley^[13]
• Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell^[14]

Events

• October - The Mona Mine Company is formed by Thomas Williams of Llanidan and Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge.^[15]
• date unknown
  • Richard Pennant buys out the Yonge family of Devon and comes into possession of the whole of the Penrhyn estate.
  • Griffith Rowlands becomes surgeon to Chester city hospital.
  • Sir Joshua Reynolds paints George, Prince of Wales.

Arts and literature

New books

• Anna Maria Bennett - Anna: or Memoirs of a Welch Heiress^[16]
• Florence Miscellany (including poems by Hester Thrale)
• Nathaniel Williams - Darllen Dwfr a Meddyginiaeth^[17]

Births

• 2 February - John Josiah Guest, engineer and industrialist (died 1852)
• 9 August - John Henry Vivian, industrialist and politician (died 1855)
• December - Richard Jones (Gwyndaf Eryri), poet (died 1848)
• 24 December - William Bruce Knight, clergyman and scholar (died 1845)
• date unknown
  • David Hughes, Anglican priest and writer (died 1850)^[18]
  • William Owen, historian (died 1864)

Deaths

• 27 February - Robert Hughes, poet (Robin Ddu o Fôn)^[19]
• 25 April - Sir Charles Tynte, 5th Baronet, politician, 74^[20]
• June - Siôn Bradford, poet, 78?
• 20 October - David Jones of Trefriw, poet, 77?^[21]
• November (probable) - John Guest, industrialist, 72/73^[22]

Notes and References

1. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 24.
2. Book: J.C. Sainty . John Sainty (civil servant) . List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 . Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd . London . 1979.
3. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 695.
4. Book: Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. 169.
5. Book: Edwin Poole. 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. 1886. 378.
6. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 26.
7. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 612.
8. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 29.
9. Book: Jonathan Williams. The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. 1859. 115.
10. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 305.
11. Book: The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. 95.
12. Book: John Henry James. A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff. Western Mail. 1898. 16.
13. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
14. Book: Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. 163.
15. Book: William Henry Chaloner. Palatinate Studies: Chapters in the Social and Industrial History of Lancashire and Cheshire. 1 January 1992. Carnegie Publishing. 978-0-948789-85-4.
16. Book: Diane Long Hoeveler. Darby Lewis. Anna Maria Bennett. Frederick Burwick. Nancy Moore Goslee. The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature. Wiley. 2012. 120.
17. Book: William Rowlands. Cambrian Bibliography: Containing an Account of the Books Printed in the Welsh Language, Or Relating to Wales, from the Year 1546 to the End of the Eighteenth Century. With Biographical Notices. 1869. John Pryse. 624–.
18. s-HUGH-DAV-1785. Hughes, David (1785 - 1850), cleric and author. Ellis. Thomas Iorwerth. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. 1959. 5 March 2009.
19. Hughes, Robert (1744?-1785). 28.
20. Web site: KEMYS TYNTE, Sir Charles, 5th Bt. (1710-85), of Halswell, Som. and Cefn Mably, Glam.. History of Parliament Online (1754-1790). 12 November 2018.
21. s-JONE-DAV-1708. Jones, David (1708?-1785), 'of Trefriw ', poet, collector of manuscripts, publisher, and printer. Griffith Milwyn Griffiths. 1959. 28 October 2021.
22. Price, W. W. . Josiah John Guest . s-GUES-DOW-1722 . 28 October 2021 . 2007 .