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List of events

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1795 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents[edit]

  • 8 April – George, Prince of Wales, marries his first cousin, Princess Caroline of Brunswick.[17]
  • June – Cecilia Thrale, youngest daughter of Hester Thrale, elopes with John Meredith Mostyn, a member of the prominent Anglesey family.[18]
  • July – Ezekiel Hughes, Edward Bebb and others leave Llanbryn-mair on foot, bound for Philadelphia.[19]
  • September – Hester Thrale and her second husband, Gabriele Piozzi, settle in Wales, where they begin renovating Bachygraig.[20]
  • date unknown

Arts and literature[edit]

New books[edit]

  • 25 January – Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian, 72[29]
  • 2 April – Richard Myddelton, Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire, 69[7]
  • 11 March – William Mostyn Owen, landowner and politician, 72/3[30]
  • May – David Ellis, clergyman and poet, 58[31]
  • 20 August – William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical 71[32]
  • 14 October – Henry Owen, theologian, 79[33]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] … for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
  2. ^ a b c d e J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
  3. ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
  4. ^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
  5. ^ Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
  6. ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] … for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
  7. ^ a b “Myddelton, Richard (1726-95), of Chirk Castle, Denb”. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  8. ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
  9. ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] … for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
  10. ^ Bertie George Charles (1959). “Philipps family, of Picton”. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  11. ^ Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
  12. ^ a b Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
  13. ^ The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
  14. ^ John Henry James (1898). A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff. Western Mail. p. 16.
  15. ^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
  16. ^ Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 163.
  17. ^ Alfred Bailey (1879). The Succession to the English Crown: A Historical Sketch. Macmillan. p. 262.
  18. ^ John Rylands University Library: Thrale-Piozzi manuscripts. Accessed 16 January 2015
  19. ^ William Ambrose Bebb. “Hughes, Ezekiel (1766-1849), one of the early Welsh settlers in the far west of the U.S.A.” Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  20. ^ The Gregynog Papers #7: Chapter 3. Accessed 16 January 2015
  21. ^ Watkin William Price. “Homfray family, of Penydarren”. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  22. ^ Paul Reynolds, The Ironmasters’ Bags (2010), p93
  23. ^ “A Copper Confessional”. USS Constitution Museum. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  24. ^ Philip Jenkins (13 October 2014). A History of Modern Wales 1536-1990. Routledge. pp. 180–. ISBN 978-1-317-87269-6.
  25. ^ Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke’s Peerage Limited. 1878. p. 855.
  26. ^ Debrett’s Illustrated Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Bosworth & Harrison. 1864. p. 81.
  27. ^ David Williams. “Williams, Zephaniah (1795-1874), Chartist”. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  28. ^ Marion Löffler. “Williams, Maria Jane (‘Llinos’) (1795-1873), folklore collector and musician”. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  29. ^ Edward William Price Evans. “Edwards, Morgan (1722-1795), Baptist minister and historian”. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  30. ^ P. D. G. Thomas (1964b). “Owen, William (?1742–95), of Woodhouse, Salop and Bryngwyn, Mont.”, The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754–1790, ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke.
  31. ^ David Jenkins. “Ellis, David (1736-1795), cleric, poet, translator, and transcriber of manuscripts”. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  32. ^ Enid Pierce Roberts. “Jones, William (1726-1795), antiquary and poet”. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  33. ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins; Llewelyn Gwyn Chambers. “Owen, Henry (1716-1795), cleric, physician, and scholar”. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.