1786 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1786 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 (until 16 January); Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (from 11 June)^{[2] [9]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer^{[10] [2]}
• Bishop of Bangor – John Warren^{[11] [12]}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson^[13]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley^[14]
• Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell^[15]

Events

• 25 December - Plymouth ironworks is leased to Richard Hill.
• The Kinmel estate is sold to the Rev Edward Hughes for £42,000.^[16]
• Abraham Rees completes his edition of Chambers 's Encyclopaedia, and is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his work.
• Charles Pratt is created Earl Camden.

Arts and literature

New books

• David Samwell - A Narrative of the Death of Captain James Cook
• Hester Lynch Piozzi - Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., during the last twenty years of his life^[17]
• Helen Maria Williams - Poems^[18]

Music

• William Ellis - Ychydig o Hymnau a Chaniadau Newyddion (collection of hymns)^[19]
• Benjamin Francis - Aleluia (collection of hymns)

Births

• 6 April - John Humffreys Parry, barrister and antiquary (died 1825)^[20]
• May - John Jones, printer and inventor (died 1865)
• 22 June - Ellis Evans, minister and author (died 1864)^[21]
• 22 July - John Edward Madocks, MP for Denbigh (died 1837)

Deaths

• 16 January - Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet, politician, about 55^[22]
• 21 January - Anthony Bacon, ironmaster, 67^[23]
• 12 March - Barbara Herbert, Countess of Powis, 51^[24]
• 2 July (bur.) - John Ystumllyn, gardener, "first well-recorded black person of North Wales"
• 16 September - Edward Parry, poet and hymn-writer, 63

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. s-PHIL-PIC-1491. Philipps family, of Picton. Bertie George Charles. 1959. 19 October 2021.
10. Book: Jonathan Williams. The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. 1859. 115.
11. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 305.
12. Book: The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. 95.
13. 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.
14. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
15. Book: Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. 163.
16. Book: H. J. Habakkuk. Marriage, Debt, and the Estates System: English Landownership, 1650-1950. 1994. Clarendon Press. 978-0-19-820398-8.
17. Book: Hester Lynch Piozzi. Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: during the last twenty years of his life. 1786. Printed for T. Cadell.
18. Kennedy, Deborah, Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press (June 2002). .
19. Book: Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940. Paratowyd dan nawdd Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion. 1953. Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorioa.
20. Parry, John Humffreys (1786-1825). 43.
21. s-EVAN-ELL-1786. Evans, Ellis (1786-1864), Baptist minister and author. Tom Ellis Jones. 1959. 29 October 2021.
22. Web site: OWEN, Hugh (?1731-86), of Orielton, Pemb.. History of Parliament Online. 28 June 2016.
23. s-BACO-N00-1718. Bacon family. Watkin William Price. 1959. 29 October 2021.
24. Book: Salopian Shreds and Patches. 1875. 159.