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Incumbents

Bishop of Bangor â John Ewer^[13]
Bishop of Llandaff â Shute Barrington^[14]
Bishop of St Asaph â Jonathan Shipley^[15]
Bishop of St Davids â Charles Moss^[16]

Events

4 February - First meeting of the Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion is held; Owen Jones is its president.^[17]
21 December - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, marries, as his second wife, Charlotte Grenville.^[18]

Arts and literature

New books

Henry Evans - Cynghorion Tad i'w Fab (translated from English)^[19]
David Williams - The Philosopher, in Three Conversations

Music

Elis Roberts - Tair Rhan Oes Dyn^[20]
Peter Williams (1722-1796) - Hymns on Various Subjects (includes "Prayer for Strength", the first English translation of the hymn "Cwm Rhondda")

Births

14 May - Robert Owen, socialist businessman, founder of the cooperative movement (died 1858)^[21]
27 July - Simon Yorke, politician (died 1858)^[22]^[23]
date unknown - Hannibal Evans Lloyd, English-born translator of Welsh parentage (died 1847)^[24]

Deaths

21 April - Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth, Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, 39^[25]
15 May - Thomas Morgan (of Rhiwpera), politician, 43^[26]
9 June - Richard Trevor, former bishop of St David's, 63^[27]
17 November - Lewis Hopkin, poet, 63^[28]
date unknown - Alban Thomas, physician^[29]

References

[1]
Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
[2]
J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
[3]
Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
[4]
Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
[5]
"MORGAN, Thomas (1727-71), of Tredegar, Mon". History of Parliament Online (1754-1790). Retrieved 19 October 2021.
[6]
Edwin Poole (1886). 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. p. 378.
[7]
Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
[8]
"Rice, George" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885â1900.
[9]
Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
[10]
Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
[11]
George Grenville (1962). Additional Grenville Papers 1763-1765. Manchester University Press. p. 176.
[12]
Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
[13]
John McClintock; James Strong (1981). Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Baker Book House. p. 324.
[14]
"Barrington, Shute (at Llandaff)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540â1835. CCEd Appointment ID 275358. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
[15]
The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
[16]
Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
[17]
Jenkins, R.T.; Ramage, Helen M. (1951). A History of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion and of the Gwyneddigion and Cymreigyddion Societies (1751-1951). Y Cymmrodor. Vol. 50. London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. pp. 91â128.
[18]
"WYNN, Sir Watkin Williams, 4th Bt. (1748-89), of Wynnstay, Denb". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
[19]
Walter Thomas Morgan. "EVANS, HENRY ('Harri Evan William'; fl. end of 17th cent.), poet and translator". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
[20]
University of Wales. Board of Celtic Studies (1950). LlÃªn Cymru. Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. p. 83.
[21]
Douglas F. Dowd. "Robert Owen". EncyclopÃ¦dia Britannica (Online academic ed.). EncyclopÃ¦dia Britannica Inc. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
[22]
"Yorke, Simon (YRK788S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
[23]
"YORKE, Simon (1771-1834), of Erddig, Denb". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
[24]
Haigh, John D. "Lloyd, Hannibal Evans". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16835. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
[25]
Bernard Burke; Ashworth Peter Burke (1910). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage. Harrison. p. 121.
[26]
Walter Thomas Morgan. "Morgan family, of Tredegar Park, Monmouth". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
[27]
"TREVOR family, of Trevalun, Denbs., Plas TÃªg, Flints., and Glynde, Sussex". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
[28]
Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Hopkin, Lewis" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 27. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
[29]
William Llewelyn Davies. "Thomas, Alban". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 October 2019.

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