1784 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1784 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- 30 March - Lloyd Kenyon becomes Master of the Rolls.
- 7 May - Lady Henrietta Herbert, heiress of the Earl of Powis, marries Edward Clive, 2nd Baron Clive of Plassey.
- 14 May - Thomas James Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley, is created Baron Bulkeley.
- 19 May - Henry Bayly Paget, 9th Baron Paget, is created Earl of Uxbridge.
- 23-25 July - Hester Thrale marries Gabriele Piozzi, much to the displeasure of Dr Samuel Johnson.
- 28 July - Lloyd Kenyon is raised to a baronetcy.
- Samuel Homfray and his brother quarrel with Anthony Bacon and take out a lease of one of the richest iron-ore deposits in the district (which develops into the Penydarren ironworks).
Arts and literature
New books
- Richard Price - Importance of the American Revolution
Music
- Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, including first publication of the harp air Dafydd y Garreg Wen
Births
- 17 January – Joseph Tregelles Price, ironmaster (died 1854)
- 25 May – John Frost, Chartist leader (died 1877)
- 16 December - Mary Jones, purchaser of an early Welsh-language Bible (died 1864)
- date unknown
- Walter Coffin, coal-owner (died 1867)
- Anthony Hill, ironmaster (died 1862)
- David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), poet (died 1841)[1]
Deaths
- 8 February - Christopher Bassett, Methodist exhorter, 30 (tuberculosis)[2]
- 5 April – David Williams, minister and schoolmaster, 74?
- date unknown
- John Hanbury III, ironmaster, 40?[3]
- Stafford Prys, publisher, 52?
References
- ↑ Welsh Biography Online
- ↑ Roberts, Gomer Morgan. "BASSETT, CHRISTOPHER (1753–1784), Methodist cleric". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2008-04-22.
- ↑ Welsh Biography Online
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