1788 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1788 to Wales and its people.

← 1787 1786 1785 1784 1783 1788 in Wales → 1789 1790 1791 1792 1793
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1788 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• 18 March – Great Sessions at Wrexham hear a graveyard dispute between the "Old" and "New" chapels at Llanuwchllyn.[1]
• 4 June – Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, becomes Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
• date unknown – Architect John Nash, during his "Welsh interlude", designs the stable block at Plas Llanstephan[2]

Arts and literature

New books

• Nicholas Owen – British Remains.[3]
• John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) – Yr Athrofa Rad
• Hester Lynch Piozzi – Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson

Births

• 12 February – William Williams, MP (died 1865)
• 5 October – John Montgomery Traherne, antiquary (died 1860).[4]
• 28 December – Griffith Davies, actuary (died 1855)
• date unknown – Mary Morgan, servant hanged for killing her newborn child (died 1805)
• probable – Elijah Waring, English-born preacher, editor and writer (died 1857)[5]

Deaths

• 25 May – David Thomas, noted bone-setter, 49[6]
• 4 August – Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir), priest and poet, 57
• 6 December – Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of Llandaff and St Asaph, 74[7]
• date unknown – David Evans, canon of St Asaph, writer and musician, 82–83[8]

References

1. A. H. Dodd. "KENRICK family of Wynn Hall, Denbs., and Bron Clydwr, Mer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
2. Suggett, Richard (1995) John Nash Architect in Wales, The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, ISBN 1-871184-16-9
3. Pollard, Albert; Walters, Huw (2004). "Owen, Nicholas (1752–1811)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 16 March 2009.
4. Burke, Sir Bernard (1852). A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland for 1852 (Public domain ed.). Colburn and Company. p. 1423.
5. • Welsh Biography Online
6. Moelwyn Idwal Williams. "THOMAS, DAVID (1739?–1788), bone-setter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
7. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis (2007). "Shipley, William (1745–1826), cleric". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
8. Griffith, Robert David (2007). "Evans, David (1705–1788), cleric, author, and musician". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 17 July 2020.