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词条 1785 in Wales
释义

  1. Incumbents

  2. Events

  3. Arts and literature

     New books 

  4. Births

  5. Deaths

  6. References

{{Year in Wales header|1785}}

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

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
  • Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

  • October - The Mona Mine Company is formed by Thomas Williams of Llanidan and Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge.[1]
  • 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 the Prince of Wales.

Arts and literature

New books

  • Florence Miscellany (including poems by Hester Thrale)
  • Nathaniel Williams - Darllen Dwfr a Meddyginiaeth[2]

Births

  • 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)[3]
    • William Owen, historian (died 1864)

Deaths

  • June - Siôn Bradford, poet, 78?
  • 20 October - David Jones of Trefriw, poet, 77?
  • November (probable) - John Guest, industrialist, [4]

References

1. ^{{cite book|author=William Henry Chaloner|title=Palatinate Studies: Chapters in the Social and Industrial History of Lancashire and Cheshire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bw0OAQAAMAAJ|date=1 January 1992|publisher=Carnegie Publishing|isbn=978-0-948789-85-4}}
2. ^{{cite book|author=William Rowlands|title=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 Eighteeth Century. With Biographical Notices|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0ZKvynOd-iAC&pg=PA624|year=1869|publisher=John Pryse|pages=624–}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://wbo.llgc.org.uk/en/s-HUGH-DAV-1785.html|title=Hughes, David (1785–1850), cleric and author|last=Ellis|first=Thomas Iorwerth|authorlink=Thomas Iorwerth Ellis|work=Welsh Biography Online|publisher=National Library of Wales|year=2007|accessdate=5 March 2009}}
4. ^*{{ cite web | author=Price, W. W. | title=Josiah John Guest | url=https://biography.wales/article/s-GUES-DOW-1722 | work=Welsh Biography Online | publisher=National Library of Wales | accessdate=2007-08-26 | year=2007 }}

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