1784 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1784 to Wales and its people.

← 1783 1782 1781 1780 1779 1784 in Wales → 1785 1786 1787 1788 1789
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1784 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• 30 March - Lloyd Kenyon becomes Master of the Rolls.[1]
• 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.[2]
• 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)[3]
• 25 May – John Frost, Chartist leader (died 1877)[4]
• 16 December - Mary Jones, purchaser of an early Welsh-language Bible (died 1864)
• date unknown
  • Walter Coffin, coal-owner (died 1867)[5]
  • Anthony Hill, ironmaster (died 1862)
  • David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), poet (died 1841)[6]

Deaths

• 8 February – Christopher Bassett, Methodist exhorter, 30 (tuberculosis)[7]
• March – John Evans, Methodist exhorter, 47?[8]
• 5 April – David Williams, minister and schoolmaster, 74?
• December – John Richard, Calvinistic Methodist exhorter and hymn-writer, age unknown[9]
• date unknown
  • John Hanbury III, ironmaster, 40?[10]
  • Stafford Prys, publisher, 52?

References

1. Joseph Timothy Haydn; Robert Beatson (1851). Beatson's Political index modernised. The book of dignities; containing rolls of the official personages of the British empire, together with the sovereigns of Europe, the peerage of England and of Great Britain; and numerous other lists. pp. 244–.
2. Marianna D’Ezio (8 January 2010). Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi: A Taste for Eccentricity. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 50–. ISBN 978-1-4438-1891-9.
3. Thomas Mardy Rees (1925). A History of the Quakers in Wales and Their Emigration to North America. W. Spurrell and son.
4. The Australian Encyclopaedia. Grolier Society of Australia. 1977. ISBN 978-0-9596604-0-1.
5. Cardiff (Wales). Records Committee (1905). Cardiff records, being materials for a history of the County Borough from the earliest times. Western Mail Ltd.
6. Welsh Biography Online
7. Roberts, Gomer Morgan. "BASSETT, CHRISTOPHER (1753–1784), Methodist cleric". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
8. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "EVANS, JOHN (1737? - 1784), Methodist exhorter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
9. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "RICHARD, JOHN (fl. 1743-1784), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and hymn-writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
10. Welsh Biography Online