1794 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1794 to Wales and its people.

← 1793 1792 1791 1790 1789 1794 in Wales → 1795 1796 1797 1798 1799
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1794 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• 21 April - Charles Kemble, Brecon-born brother of Sarah Siddons, makes his first appearance on the London stage as Malcolm in Macbeth.[1]
• September - The 80th Foot, commanded by Henry Paget, begins service in Flanders.
• October - Morgan John Rhys arrives in Pennsylvania, where he founds the Welsh colony of Cambria.[2]
• Richard Crawshay buys out Anthony Bacon to become sole proprietor of Cyfarthfa Ironworks.[3]
• Completion of the Pontypridd to Cardiff section of the Glamorganshire Canal.
• Richard Hill is accused by the owners of the Glamorganshire Canal of improperly taking water from the Taff river which for his Plymouth Ironworks.
• Mumbles Lighthouse is built.

Arts and literature

New books

• Iolo Morganwg - Poems Lyric and Pastoral
• Hester Thrale - British Synonymy: or an attempt at regulating the choice of words in familiar conversation
• Mary Whateley - Poems on Several Occasions
• Peter Williams - Gwreiddyn y Mater

Music

• The music of Men of Harlech is first published (without words) as Gorhoffedd Gwŷr Harlech—March of the Men of Harlech in the second edition of The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards.[4]

Births

• 9 January - John Hay-Williams, baronet, landowner (d. 1859)[5]
• 7 May - Rees Howell Gronow, memoirist (d. 1865)[6]
• 3 November - David Thomas, industrialist (d. 1882)[7]
• date unknown
  • Evan Davies (Eta Delta), Independent minister (d. 1855)
  • Rowland Fothergill, ironmaster (d. 1871)[8]
  • David Hughes (Eos Iâl), poet and publisher (d. 1862)[9]
  • Thomas Jenkyn, theologian (d. 1858)

Deaths

• 22 January - John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart, MP and heir of the Marquess of Bute, 26
• 26 January - Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke, 59[10]
• ?August - Sackville Gwynne, landowner, 43?
• 19 August - Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet, soldier and politician, 76[11]
• September (at sea) - Hon. William Paget, MP for Anglesey, 24 (old wound)[12]
• 1 October - David William, hymn-writer, 74

References

1. K., J. (1892). "Kemble, Charles" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
2. HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA BY HENRY WILSON STOREY, vol. 1 (1907), p 204
3. Watkin William Price. "CRAWSHAY family, of Cyfarthfa, Glam., industrialists". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
4. Fuld, James J. (2000). The Book of World-famous Music: classical, popular, and folk (5th ed.). Dover. p. 394.
5. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. New England Historic Genealogical Society. 1942. p. 70.
6. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Gronow, Rees Howell (1794-1865), writer of memoirs". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
7. Robert (Bob) Owen. "Thomas, David (1794-1882), pioneer of the iron industry in U.S.A." Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
8. Watkin William Price. "Fothergill family, iron-masters". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
9. Robert (Bob) Owen. "The National Library of Wales: Dictionary of Welsh Biography". yba.llgc.org. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
10. Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. G. Woodfall. 1828. p. 98.
11. "WILLIAMS, Sir Hugh, 8th Bt. (1718-94), of Nant, Caern". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
12. "PAGET, Hon. William (1769-94), of Plas Newydd, Anglesey". Retrieved 24 October 2018.