# 1790 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1790 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne
* 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
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Watkin Williams
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (until 11 October)
* Bishop of Bangor – John Warren
* Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
* Bishop of St Asaph – Samuel Hallifax (until 4 March); Lewis Bagot (from 28 April)
* Bishop of St Davids – Samuel Horsley

## Events

* 18 May - The first meeting of the Literary Fund, founded by David Williams ("to assist indigent authors") takes place in London.
* 9 June - Royal assent is given to establishment of the port of Milford Haven.
* August - Construction of the Glamorganshire Canal begins.
* exact date unknown
** Sir Herbert Mackworth gives up the Parliamentary seat of Cardiff when John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart, comes of age.
** The world's first railway viaduct (used by horse-drawn wagons to carry coal from the mines) is built at Blaenavon.
** Monmouth County Gaol is built.
** Calvinistic Methodist clergyman Thomas Charles of Bala attempts to preach at Corwen but is driven out of town by a mob.
** John Coles, son of the founder of the Cambrian Pottery, goes into partnership with entrepreneur George Haynes, resulting in the expansion of the business.

## Arts and literature
### New books
#### English language

* Thomas Pennant - Indian Zoology
* David Williams - Lessons to a Young Prince (published anonymously)

#### Welsh language

* Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Gardd o Gerddi
* Peter Williams - Tafol i Bwyso Sosiniaeth

## Births

* 27 January - William Davies Evans, mariner and chess player (died 1872)
* 20 February (baptised) - Hugh Hughes, painter (died 1863)
* 19 June - John Gibson, sculptor (died 1866)
* July - James Williams, cleric and co-founder of the Anglesey Association of the Preservation of Lives from Shipwreck (died 1872)
* 4 July - George Everest, surveyor and geographer (died 1866)
* 11 August - William Probert, minister and author (died 1870)
* 16 September - Thomas Vowler Short, Bishop of St Asaph (died 1872)
* 27 September - Owen Jones Ellis Nanney (born Ellis Jones), MP (died 1870), father of Sir Hugh Ellis-Nanney
* 29 September - John Jones, printer (died 1855)
* 25 November - Sir James Hamlyn-Williams, 3rd Baronet, politician (died 1861)
* probable - Thomas Penson (the younger), architect and surveyor (died 1859)

## Deaths

* 4 March - Samuel Hallifax, Bishop of St Asaph, 57
* 20 March - Thomas Richards of Coychurch, cleric and lexicographer, 80
* 24 August - John Worgan, organist and composer, 66
* 11 October - Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire, 64
* 16 October - Daniel Rowland, Methodist leader, c.79
* 5 November - Michael Lort, clergyman, academic and antiquary, 65