1785 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1785 to Wales and its people.

← 1784 1783 1782 1781 1780 1785 in Wales → 1786 1787 1788 1789 1790
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1785 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• October - The Mona Mine Company is formed by Thomas Williams of Llanidan and Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge.[1]
• Richard Pennant buys out the Yonge family of Devon and comes into possession of the whole of the Penrhyn estate.
• Griffith Rowlands becomes surgeon to Chester city hospital.
• Sir Joshua Reynolds paints the Prince of Wales.

Arts and literature

New books

• Florence Miscellany (including poems by Hester Thrale)
• Nathaniel Williams - Darllen Dwfr a Meddyginiaeth[2]

Births

• 9 August - John Henry Vivian, industrialist and politician (died 1855)
• December - Richard Jones (Gwyndaf Eryri), poet (died 1848)
• 24 December - William Bruce Knight, clergyman and scholar (died 1845)
• date unknown
  • David Hughes, Anglican priest and writer (died 1850)[3]
  • William Owen, historian (died 1864)

Deaths

• 27 February - Robert Hughes, poet (Robin Ddu o Fôn)[4]
• June - Siôn Bradford, poet, 78?
• 20 October - David Jones of Trefriw, poet, 77?
• November (probable) - John Guest, industrialist, [5]

References

1. William Henry Chaloner (1 January 1992). Palatinate Studies: Chapters in the Social and Industrial History of Lancashire and Cheshire. Carnegie Publishing. ISBN 978-0-948789-85-4.
2. William Rowlands (1869). Cambrian Bibliography: Containing an Account of the Books Printed in the Welsh Language, Or Relating to Wales, from the Year 1546 to the End of the Eighteeth Century. With Biographical Notices. John Pryse. pp. 624–.
3. Ellis, Thomas Iorwerth (2007). "Hughes, David (1785–1850), cleric and author". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
4. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Hughes, Robert (1744?-1785)" . Dictionary of National Biography. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
5. • Price, W. W. (2007). "Josiah John Guest". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 August 2007.