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词条 1790 in Wales
释义

  1. Incumbents

  2. Events

  3. Arts and literature

     New books 

  4. Births

  5. Deaths

  6. References

{{Year in Wales header|1790}}

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1790 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

  • 18 May - The first meeting of the Literary Fund, founded by David Williams ("to assist indigent authors") takes place in London.[1]
  • 9 June - Royal assent is given to establishment of the port of Milford Haven.[2]
  • August - Construction of the Glamorganshire Canal begins.[3]
  • exact date unknown
    • Sir Herbert Mackworth gives up the Parliamentary seat of Cardiff when John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart, comes of age.[4]
    • The world's first railway viaduct (used by horse-drawn wagons to carry coal from the mines) is built at Blaenavon.[5]
    • Monmouth County Gaol is built.[6]
  • When Calvinistic Methodist clergyman Thomas Charles of Bala attempts to preach at Corwen, he is driven out of town by a mob.
    • John Coles, son of the founder of the Cambrian Pottery, goes into partnership with entrepreneur George Haynes, resulting in the expansion of the business.

Arts and literature

New books

  • Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Gardd o Gerddi
  • Thomas Pennant - Indian Zoology[7]
  • David Williams - Lessons to a Young Prince (published anonymously)[7]
  • Peter Williams - Tafol i Bwyso Sosiniaeth[8]

Births

  • 27 January - William Davies Evans, mariner and chess player (died 1872)
  • July - James Williams, cleric and co-founder of the Anglesey Association of the Preservation of Lives from Shipwreck (died 1872)
  • 20 February (baptised) - Hugh Hughes, painter (died 1863)[9]
  • 19 June - John Gibson, sculptor (died 1866)[10]
  • 4 July - George Everest, surveyor and geographer (died 1866)
  • 11 August - William Probert, minister and author (died 1870)
  • 16 September - Thomas Vowler Short, Bishop of St Asaph (died 1872)
  • 29 September - John Jones, printer (died 1855)
  • date unknown - Owen Jones Ellis Nanney (born Ellis Jones), MP (died 1870), father of Sir Hugh Ellis-Nanney[11]
  • probable - Thomas Penson (the younger), architect and surveyor (died 1859)[12]

Deaths

  • 20 March - Thomas Richards of Coychurch, cleric and lexicographer, 80
  • 24 August - John Worgan, organist and composer, 66
  • 16 October - Daniel Rowland, Methodist leader, c.79[13]
  • 5 November - Michael Lort, clergyman, academic and antiquary, 65

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-WILL-DAV-1738|title=WILLIAMS, DAVID (1738 - 1816), littérateur and political pamphleteer|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|author=David Williams|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=26 November 2018}}
2. ^{{cite book|author=Phil Carradice|title=The Ships of Pembroke Dockyard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6DOIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT13|date=15 August 2013|publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited|isbn=978-1-4456-1310-9|pages=13}}
3. ^{{cite book|author=Dean Powell|title=Dr William Price: Wales's First Radical|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TUdpCAAAQBAJ&pg=PP64|date=15 September 2012|publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited|isbn=978-1-4456-2052-7|pages=64–}}
4. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/mackworth-herbert-1737-91 |title=MACKWORTH, Herbert (1737-91), of Gnoll, Glam.|publisher = History of Parliament online|accessdate = 23 October 2018}}
5. ^{{cite book|author=Tim Taylor|title=The Time Team Guide to the Archaeological Sites of Britain & Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KtJrplHI2AgC&pg=PA106|year=2005|publisher=Channel 4|isbn=978-1-905026-01-2|pages=106–}}
6. ^{{cite book|last=Newman|first=John|title=The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire|year=2000|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=9780300096309|page=407}}
7. ^1 {{cite book|author=Enoch Robert G. Salisbury|title=A catalogue of Cambric books at Glan-aber, Chester, A.D. 1500-1799, not mentioned in Rowland's 'Cambrian bibliography' [by E.R.G. Salisbury].|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K6cIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA62|year=1873|pages=62}}
8. ^{{cite book|author=Marion Loffler|title=Political Pamphlets and Sermons from Wales 1790-1806|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B4OvBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT37|date=15 October 2014|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-1-78316-102-7|pages=37–}}
9. ^{{cite DNB|wstitle=Hughes, Hugh (1790?-1863)|volume=28}}
10. ^{{cite ODNB|id=10625|title=Gibson, John|first=Martin|last=Greenwood}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s1-NANN-ELL-1759|title=NANNEY (formerly ELLIS), DAVID ELLIS (1759 - 1819), attorney-general for North Wales|author=Thomas Richards|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=26 November 2018}}
12. ^Colvin H. A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600–1840 Yale University Press 3rd ed 1995,748-49
13. ^{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-ROWL-DAN-1713|title=ROWLAND, DANIEL (1713-1790), Methodist cleric|author=Gomer Morgan Roberts|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=26 November 2018}}

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