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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1786 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Bishop of Bangor – John Warren^[11]^[12]
Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson^[13]
Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley^[14]
Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell^[15]

Events

25 December - Plymouth ironworks is leased to Richard Hill.
The Kinmel estate is sold to the Rev Edward Hughes for £42,000.^[16]
Abraham Rees completes his edition of Chambers 's Encyclopaedia, and is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his work.
Charles Pratt is created Earl Camden.

Arts and literature

New books

David Samwell - A Narrative of the Death of Captain James Cook
Hester Lynch Piozzi - Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., during the last twenty years of his life^[17]
Helen Maria Williams - Poems^[18]

Music

William Ellis - Ychydig o Hymnau a Chaniadau Newyddion (collection of hymns)^[19]
Benjamin Francis - Aleluia (collection of hymns)

Births

6 April - John Humffreys Parry, barrister and antiquary (died 1825)^[20]
May - John Jones, printer and inventor (died 1865)
22 June - Ellis Evans, minister and author (died 1864)^[21]
22 July - John Edward Madocks, MP for Denbigh (died 1837)

Deaths

16 January - Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet, politician, about 55^[22]
21 January - Anthony Bacon, ironmaster, 67^[23]
12 March - Barbara Herbert, Countess of Powis, 51^[24]
2 July (bur.) - John Ystumllyn, gardener, "first well-recorded black person of North Wales"
16 September - Edward Parry, poet and hymn-writer, 63

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.
^ Bertie George Charles (1959). "Philipps family, of Picton". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
^ 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.
^ H. J. Habakkuk (1994). Marriage, Debt, and the Estates System: English Landownership, 1650-1950. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-820398-8.
^ Hester Lynch Piozzi (1786). Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: during the last twenty years of his life. Printed for T. Cadell.
^ Kennedy, Deborah, Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press (June 2002). ISBN 0-8387-5511-9.
^ Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940. Paratowyd dan nawdd Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion. Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorioa. 1953.
^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Parry, John Humffreys (1786-1825)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 43. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ Tom Ellis Jones (1959). "Evans, Ellis (1786-1864), Baptist minister and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
^ "OWEN, Hugh (?1731-86), of Orielton, Pemb". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
^ Watkin William Price (1959). "Bacon family". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
^ Salopian Shreds and Patches. 1875. p. 159.

[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] Bertie George Charles (1959). "Philipps family, of Picton". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 October 2021.

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

[Fasti305-11] Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.

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

[13] 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.

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

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

[16] H. J. Habakkuk (1994). Marriage, Debt, and the Estates System: English Landownership, 1650-1950. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-820398-8.

[17] Hester Lynch Piozzi (1786). Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: during the last twenty years of his life. Printed for T. Cadell.

[18] Kennedy, Deborah, Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press (June 2002). ISBN 0-8387-5511-9.

[19] Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940. Paratowyd dan nawdd Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion. Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorioa. 1953.

[20] Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Parry, John Humffreys (1786-1825)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 43. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[21] Tom Ellis Jones (1959). "Evans, Ellis (1786-1864), Baptist minister and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 October 2021.

[22] "OWEN, Hugh (?1731-86), of Orielton, Pemb". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 28 June 2016.

[23] Watkin William Price (1959). "Bacon family". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 October 2021.

[24] Salopian Shreds and Patches. 1875. p. 159.

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1786 in Wales

Incumbents

Events

Arts and literature

New books

Music

Births

Deaths

References