1785 in Wales
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Template:Short description Template:Use Welsh English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Year in Wales header This article is about the particular significance of the year 1785 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget[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
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- October - The Mona Mine Company is formed by Thomas Williams of Llanidan and Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge.[15]
- date unknown
- 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 George, Prince of Wales.
Arts and literature
New books
- Anna Maria Bennett - Anna: or Memoirs of a Welch Heiress[16]
- Florence Miscellany (including poems by Hester Thrale)
- Nathaniel Williams - Darllen Dwfr a Meddyginiaeth[17]
Births
- 2 February - John Josiah Guest, engineer and industrialist (died 1852)[18]
- 9 August - John Henry Vivian, copper merchant, industrialist and politician (died 1855)[19]
- 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)[20]
- William Owen, historian (died 1864)
Deaths
- 27 February - Robert Hughes, poet (Robin Ddu o Fôn)[21]
- 25 April - Sir Charles Tynte, 5th Baronet, politician, 74[22]
- June - Siôn Bradford, poet, 78?
- 20 October - David Jones of Trefriw, poet, 77?[23]
- November (probable) - John Guest, industrialist, 72/73[18]
References
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