1792 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1792 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- 3 June - Monmouthshire Canal receives its Act of Parliament.[1]
- 21 June - Iolo Morganwg holds the first Gorsedd ceremony at Primrose Hill in London.[2]
- June - The Merthyr to Newbridge section of the Glamorganshire Canal is completed.
- Bodnant House is built.
Arts and literature
New books
- David Davis (Castellhywel) - Cri Carcharor dan farn Marwolaeth
- Nicholas Owen - Carnarvonshire, a Sketch of its History, etc.
- Hester Thrale - The Three Warnings
Births
- 10 February - John Jones (Ioan Tegid), writer (died 1852)[3]
- 23 July - Aneurin Owen, scholar (d. 1851)[4]
- 5 September - Sir David Davies, royal physician (d. 1865)
- 11 November - Mary Anne Evans (d. 1872), future wife of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli[5]
- 20 December - David Griffiths, missionary (d. 1863)
- date unknown - Sir Charles John Salusbury, 3rd Baronet (d. 1868)
Deaths
- 23 February - Thomas Ellis, clergyman, about 80[6]
- 10 March - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, friend of Augusta, Princess of Wales and ancestor of the Marquesses of Bute, 78
- 17 May - Sir Noah Thomas, royal physician, 72?
- 27 June - John Morgan (of Dderw), politician, 48[7]
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References
- Cyril James Oswald Evans (1953). Monmouthshire, its history and topography. W. Lewis (printers).
- Mary-Ann Constantine; Dafydd R. Johnston (15 April 2013). Footsteps of 'Liberty and Revolt': Essays on Wales and the French Revolution. University of Wales Press. pp. 158–. ISBN 978-0-7083-2591-9.
- Robert Thomas Jenkins. "JONES, JOHN (Tegid — less usually Ioan Tegid; 1792-1852), cleric and man of letters". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Owen, Aneurin". Dictionary of National Biography. 42. London: Smith, Elder & Co. - Mollie Hardwick (1972). Mrs. Dizzy: the life of Mary Anne Disraeli, Viscountess Beaconsfield. Cassell. p. 1.
- Jenkins, Robert Thomas. "Ellis, Thomas (1711/12–1792), cleric". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- William Retlaw Williams (1895). The Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales, from the Earliesr Times to the Present Day, 1541-1895: Comprising Lists of the Representatives, Chronologically Arranged Under Counties, with Biographical and Genealogical Notices of the Members, Together with Particulars of the Various Contested Elections, Double Returns and Petitions. Priv. print. for the author by E. Davis and Bell.
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