1798 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1798 to Wales and its people.

← 1797 1796 1795 1794 1793 1798 in Wales → 1799 1800 1801 1802 1803
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1798 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
• Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

Events

• March - Historian William Richards returns from Wales to King's Lynn.
• 31 March - George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, becomes Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire;[1]
• 13 July - William Wordsworth, visiting Wales, writes "Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour".[2]
• 17 October - First recorded use of the word "tramroad", in the minutes of the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal Company.
• "Great Debate" held at Ramoth Chapel in Llanfrothen, Merionethshire, as a result of which John Richard Jones forms the "Scottish Baptist" connexion.[3]
• The Gwyneddigion Society launches its project of publishing ancient Welsh manuscripts.
• William Lort Mansel becomes Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.[4]
• William Madocks buys the Tan-yr-Allt estate on Traeth Mawr.
• Morgan John Rhys buys a tract of land in the Allegheny mountains of North America for the purpose of founding a Welsh colony, which he names Cambria.[5]
• Clogwyn Du'r Arddu is climbed by Peter Bailey Williams and William Bingley, botanists looking for alpine plants on Snowdon.

Arts and literature

New books

• Emily Clark - Ianthé, or the Flower of Caernarvon[6]
• Thomas Roberts of Llwyn'rhudol - Cwyn yn erbyn Gorthrymder
• Hester Thrale - Three Warnings to John Bull before he dies. By an Old Acquaintance of the Public[7]

Music

• Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - Popular Cheshire Melodies[8]

Births

• 3 August - Llewelyn Lewellin, first principal of St David's College, Lampeter (died 1878)
• 16 August - Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff (died 1882)[9]
• date unknown - John Jones Archdeacon of Bangor (died 1863)[10]

Deaths

• 21 June - Edward Evans, poet, 81
• 6 July - Joshua Evans, Quaker minister of Welsh descent, 66
• 17 November - George Cadogan Morgan, dissenting minister and scientist, 44[11]
• 23 November - David Samwell (Dafydd Ddu Feddyg), naval surgeon and poet, 47[12]
• 16 December - Thomas Pennant, naturalist and travel writer, 72[13]

References

1. "No. 15002". The London Gazette. 27 March 1798. p. 263.
2. Arthur Beatty, William Wordsworth, his doctrine and art in their historical relations, University of Wisconsin Studies #17, 1922, p.64
3. John Thomas Jones. "Jones, John Richard (1765-1822), Sandemanian Baptist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
4. John Scott; John Taylor (1820). The London Magazine ... Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. p. 236.
5. John Vyrnwy Morgan (1918). The Church in Wales in the Light of History: A Historical and Philosophical Study. Chapman & Hall. p. 18.
6. Jane Aaron (1 February 2010). Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales: Nation, Gender and Identity. University of Wales Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-7083-2287-1.
7. Elizabeth Edwards (15 February 2013). English-language Poetry from Wales 1789-1806. University of Wales Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-7083-2569-8.
8. Enoch Robert G. Salisbury (1873). A catalogue of Cambric books at Glan-aber, Chester, A.D. 1500-1799, not mentioned in Rowland's 'Cambrian bibliography' [by E.R.G. Salisbury]. p. 68.
9. John Vyrnwy Morgan (1908). Welsh Political and Educational Leaders in the Victorian Era. J. Nisbet. p. 119.
10. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Jones, John (100)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
11. Thomas, D. O. (2004). "Morgan, George Cadogan (1754–1798)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 16 March 2009.
12. David Samwell; Nicholas Thomas; Martin Fitzpatrick; Jennifer Newell (15 July 2007). The death of Captain Cook and other writings. University of Wales Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-7083-1968-0.
13. John Burke (1836). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Univested with Heritable Honours. H. Colburn. p. 34.