1784 in Wales
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Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget (from 1 August)[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer[9][2]
- Bishop of Bangor – John Warren[10][11]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson[12]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley[13]
- Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell[14]
Events
- 30 March - Lloyd Kenyon becomes Master of the Rolls.[15]
- 7 May - Lady Henrietta Herbert, heiress of the Earl of Powis, marries Edward Clive, 2nd Baron Clive of Plassey.[16]
- 14 May - Thomas James Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley, is created Baron Bulkeley.
- 19 May - Henry Bayly Paget, 9th Baron Paget, is created Earl of Uxbridge.
- 23-25 July - Hester Thrale marries Gabriele Piozzi, much to the displeasure of Dr Samuel Johnson.[17]
- 28 July - Lloyd Kenyon is raised to a baronetcy.[18]
- unknown date – Samuel Homfray and his brother quarrel with Anthony Bacon and take out a lease of one of the richest iron-ore deposits in the district (which develops into the Penydarren ironworks).
Arts and literature
New books
- Richard Price – Importance of the American Revolution
Music
- Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) – The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, including first publication of the harp air Dafydd y Garreg Wen[19]
Births
- 17 January – Joseph Tregelles Price, ironmaster (died 1854)[20]
- 25 May – John Frost, Chartist leader (died 1877)[21]
- 16 December - Mary Jones, purchaser of an early Welsh-language Bible (died 1864)
- date unknown
- Walter Coffin, coal-owner (died 1867)[22]
- Anthony Hill, ironmaster (died 1862)[23]
- David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), poet (died 1841)[24]
Deaths
- 8 February – Christopher Bassett, Methodist exhorter, 30 (tuberculosis)[25]
- March – John Evans, Methodist exhorter, 47?[26]
- 5 April – David Williams, minister and schoolmaster, 74?
- December – John Richard, Calvinistic Methodist exhorter and hymn-writer, age unknown[27]
- date unknown
- John Hanbury III, ironmaster, 40?[28]
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References
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