1788 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1788 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 - 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 – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford^{[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 (until 6 December)^[14]
• Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell (until 15 April); Samuel Horsley (from 11 May)^[15]

Events

• 18 March – Great Sessions at Wrexham hear a graveyard dispute between the "Old" and "New" chapels at Llanuwchllyn.^[16]
• 4 June – Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, becomes Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
• date unknown – Architect John Nash, during his "Welsh interlude", designs the stable block at Plas Llanstephan^[17]

Arts and literature

New books

• Robert Jones (Robert ab Ioan) – Drych i'r Anllythrennog^[18]
• Nicholas Owen – British Remains.^[19]
• John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) – Yr Athrofa Rad
• Hester Lynch Piozzi – Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson

Births

• 12 February – William Williams, MP (died 1865)
• 5 October – John Montgomery Traherne, antiquary (died 1860).^[20]
• 28 December – Griffith Davies, actuary (died 1855)
• date unknown – Mary Morgan, servant hanged for killing her newborn child (died 1805)
• probable – Elijah Waring, English-born preacher, editor and writer (died 1857)^[21]

Deaths

• 30 January – Charles Edward Stuart, last Stuart claimant to the title of Prince of Wales, 67^[22]
• 25 May – David Thomas, noted bone-setter, 49^[23]
• 4 August – Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir), priest and poet, 57^[24]
• 6 December – Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of Llandaff and St Asaph, 74^[25]
• date unknown – David Evans, canon of St Asaph, writer and musician, 82–83^[26]

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. s-KENR-ICK-1741. KENRICK family of Wynn Hall, Denbs., and Bron Clydwr, Mer.. A. H. Dodd. A. H. Dodd. 23 October 2018.
17. Suggett, Richard (1995) John Nash Architect in Wales, The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales,
18. Book: Annual Report. National Library of Wales. 1926. 26. Note: DWB is the only source that gives a date of 1778 as opposed to 1788
19. Web site: Owen, Nicholas (1752–1811). Pollard. Albert. Albert Pollard. Walters, Huw. 2004. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 16 March 2009.
20. Book: Burke, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland for 1852. Public domain. 1852. Colburn and Company. 1423.
21. s-WARI-ELI-1788. Waring, Elijah. Griffith John. Williams.
22. Book: Theo Aronson. Kings over the Water: The Saga of the Stuart Pretenders. Thistle Publishing. 1979. 361.
23. s-THOM-DAV-1739. THOMAS, DAVID (1739?–1788), bone-setter. Moelwyn Idwal Williams. 5 February 2019.
24. s-EVAN-EVA-1731. Evans, Evan Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir 1731-1788), scholar, poet, and cleric. Aneirin Lewis. 21 August 2020.
25. Shipley, William (1745 - 1826), cleric. s-SHIP-DAV-1745. 1959. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. 17 July 2020.
26. Evans, David (1705 - 1788), cleric, author, and musician . s-EVAN-DAV-1705. 1959. Griffith. Robert David. 17 July 2020.