1793 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1793 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- 22 November - Two ships, the Morva and the Cavendish, are wrecked on The Smalls off Pembrokeshire.[1]
- Construction of Clydach Ironworks begins.[2]
- A group of Quakers from Nantucket Island settle at Milford Haven, where they attempt to set up a whaling industry.
- Y Cylchgrawn Cymraeg is the first political journal to be published in the Welsh language.
Arts and literature
New books
- Edward Daniel Clarke - A Tour Through the South of England, Wales, and Part of Ireland, Made During the Summer of 1791[3]
Births
- 17 January - Owen Owen Roberts, physician (d. 1866)
- 8 February - Daniel Rees, clergyman and hymn-writer (d. 1857)
- March - Lewis Lewis (Lewsyn yr Heliwr), political activist (date of death unknown)
- 19 July - John Propert, physician (d. 1867)
- 10 August - John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute (d. 1848)
- 11 October - Maria James, poet and domestic servant (d. 1868 in the United States)
- 25 September - Felicia Hemans, poet (d. 1835)
Deaths
- January - Marged ferch Ifan, harpist, 96
- 5 January - Elizabeth Griffith, actress and writer, 73?
- 14 March - Cecil de Cardonnel, 2nd Baroness Dynevor, 57
- 22 May - John Lloyd, antiquary, 60[4]
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References
- "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (2562). 22 November 1793.
- A. W. Skempton; Mike Chrimes (2002). A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500-1830. Thomas Telford. pp. 319–. ISBN 978-0-7277-2939-2.
- Michael J. Franklin (22 September 2011). 'Orientalist Jones': Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and Linguist, 1746-1794. OUP Oxford. pp. 121–. ISBN 978-0-19-953200-1.
- Jenkins, Robert Thomas. "LLOYD, JOHN (1733–1793)". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 May 2008.
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