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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1784 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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]
- Stafford Prys [cy], publisher, 52?

References

^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
^ ^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.
^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
^ 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.
^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
^ Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
^ Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
^ The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
^ 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.
^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
^ Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 163.
^ Joseph Timothy Haydn; Robert Beatson (1851). Beatson's Political index modernised. The book of dignities; containing rolls of the official personages of the British empire, together with the sovereigns of Europe, the peerage of England and of Great Britain; and numerous other lists. pp. 244–.
^ Paul Frame (12 April 2018). "Clive, Henrietta Antonia (1758-1830), traveller and scientific collector". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
^ Marianna D’Ezio (8 January 2010). Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi: A Taste for Eccentricity. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 50–. ISBN 978-1-4438-1891-9.
^ "No. 12562". The London Gazette. 20 July 1784. p. 1.
^ Herbert, Trevor (September 2009). "Jones, Edward [Bardd y Brenin] (1752–1824)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
^ Thomas Mardy Rees (1925). A History of the Quakers in Wales and Their Emigration to North America. W. Spurrell and son.
^ The Australian Encyclopaedia. Grolier Society of Australia. 1977. ISBN 978-0-9596604-0-1.
^ Cardiff (Wales). Records Committee (1905). Cardiff records, being materials for a history of the County Borough from the earliest times. Western Mail Ltd.
^ Stewart Williams (1968). Stewart Williams' Glamorgan Historian. D. Brown. p. 187.
^ "Owen, David". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.
^ Roberts, Gomer Morgan. "BASSETT, CHRISTOPHER (1753–1784), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
^ Gomer Morgan Roberts. "EVANS, JOHN (1737? - 1784), Methodist exhorter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
^ Gomer Morgan Roberts. "RICHARD, JOHN (fl. 1743-1784), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and hymn-writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
^ "Hanbury family". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.

[1] Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.

[Sainty-2] 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] Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.

[8] Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.

[9] Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.

[Fasti305-10] Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.

[11] The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.

[12] 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.

[13] The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.

[14] Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 163.

[15] Joseph Timothy Haydn; Robert Beatson (1851). Beatson's Political index modernised. The book of dignities; containing rolls of the official personages of the British empire, together with the sovereigns of Europe, the peerage of England and of Great Britain; and numerous other lists. pp. 244–.

[16] Paul Frame (12 April 2018). "Clive, Henrietta Antonia (1758-1830), traveller and scientific collector". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 October 2021.

[17] Marianna D’Ezio (8 January 2010). Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi: A Taste for Eccentricity. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 50–. ISBN 978-1-4438-1891-9.

[18] "No. 12562". The London Gazette. 20 July 1784. p. 1.

[19] Herbert, Trevor (September 2009). "Jones, Edward [Bardd y Brenin] (1752–1824)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 9 December 2015.

[20] Thomas Mardy Rees (1925). A History of the Quakers in Wales and Their Emigration to North America. W. Spurrell and son.

[21] The Australian Encyclopaedia. Grolier Society of Australia. 1977. ISBN 978-0-9596604-0-1.

[22] Cardiff (Wales). Records Committee (1905). Cardiff records, being materials for a history of the County Borough from the earliest times. Western Mail Ltd.

[23] Stewart Williams (1968). Stewart Williams' Glamorgan Historian. D. Brown. p. 187.

[24] "Owen, David". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.

[25] Roberts, Gomer Morgan. "BASSETT, CHRISTOPHER (1753–1784), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 April 2008.

[26] Gomer Morgan Roberts. "EVANS, JOHN (1737? - 1784), Methodist exhorter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 February 2019.

[27] Gomer Morgan Roberts. "RICHARD, JOHN (fl. 1743-1784), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and hymn-writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 February 2019.

[28] "Hanbury family". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.

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1784 in Wales

Incumbents

Events

Arts and literature

New books

Music

Births

Deaths

References