1796 in Wales - Wikiwand

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1796 to Wales and its people.

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Incumbents

Bishop of Bangor â John Warren^[11]^[12]
Bishop of Llandaff â Richard Watson^[13]
Bishop of St Asaph â Lewis Bagot^[14]^[11]
Bishop of St Davids â William Stuart^[15]

Events

February - The main line of the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal opens; it is 12.5 miles (20.1 km) long, and runs from Newport to Pontnewynydd, via Pontymoile, rising by 447 feet (136.3m) through 42 locks.
27 February - John Stuart is created Marquess of Bute.
June - At the British general election, Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, backed by Bishop John Warren, challenges sitting MP Sir Robert Williams, the sitting member for Caernarvonshire; Sir Robert is easily re-elected.
John Wilkinson blows in blast furnace No. 1 on the site that becomes Brymbo Steelworks.

Arts and literature

New books

Charles Heath - The Excursion Down the Wye^[16]
Thomas Pennant - Whiteford and Holywell
Uvedale Price - An Essay on the Picturesque^[16]
Anna Seward - Llangollen Vale and Other Poems^[16]
David Williams - The History of Monmouthshire

Births

7 January - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, only child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1817)^[17]
8 January - Eliza Constantia Campbell, author (died 1864)^[18]
1 March - John Jones, Talysarn, preacher (died 1857)^[19]
30 September - John Mytton, sportsman (died 1834)^[20]
December - David Owen (Brutus), writer (died 1866)

Deaths

February - John Jones, organist, 70?^[21]
26 July - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet, landowner and politician, 61^[22]
8 August - Peter Williams, Methodist writer, 63^[23]
date unknown - Ioan Siencyn, poet

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]
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.
[6]
Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
[7]
Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
[8]
Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
[9]
Bertie George Charles (1959). "Philipps family, of Picton". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
[10]
Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
[11]
Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
[12]
The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
[13]
John Henry James (1898). A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff. Western Mail. p. 16.
[14]
The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
[15]
Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 163.
[16]
Enoch Robert G. Salisbury (1873). A catalogue of Cambric books at Glan-aber, Chester, A.D. 1500-1799. p. 67.
[17]
J. Coote (1818). A Biographical Memoir of the Much Lamented Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales and Saxe Coburg. J. Barfield. p. 18.
[18]
Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Campbell (Morrieson), Eliza Constantia (1796-1864), author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
[19]
Gerald Norris (June 1981). A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland. David & Charles. p. 305. ISBN 978-0-7153-7845-8.
[20]
Bernard Burke (1869). Vicissitudes of Families. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. p. 333.
[21]
The Musical Times, 1 June 1879
[22]
"MOSTYN, Sir Roger, 5th Bt. (1734-96), of Mostyn, Flints. and Gloddaeth, Caern". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
[23]
Roberts, Gomer M. "Peter Williams, Methodist cleric, author, and Biblical commentator.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 February 2017.

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