• Source: 1792 in Wales

      • This article is about the particular significance of the year 1792 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 – Thomas Harley
      Bishop of Bangor – John Warren
      Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
      Bishop of St Asaph – Lewis Bagot
      Bishop of St Davids – Samuel Horsley


      Events


      3 June - Monmouthshire Canal receives its Act of Parliament.
      21 June - Iolo Morganwg holds the first Gorsedd ceremony at Primrose Hill in London.
      June - The Merthyr to Newbridge section of the Glamorganshire Canal is completed.
      Bodnant House is built.


      Arts and literature




      = New books

      =
      David Davis (Castellhywel) - Cri Carcharor dan farn Marwolaeth
      Nicholas Owen - Carnarvonshire, a Sketch of its History, etc.
      Hester Thrale - The Three Warnings


      Births


      10 February - John Jones (Ioan Tegid), writer (died 1852)
      10 April - Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar, politician (died 1875)
      9 June - David Arthur Saunders Davies, politician (died 1857)
      23 July - Aneurin Owen, scholar (d. 1851)
      27 July - Llewelyn Lloyd, naturalist (died 1876)
      5 September - Sir David Davies, royal physician (d. 1865)
      11 November - Mary Anne Evans (died 1872), future wife of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli
      20 December - David Griffiths, missionary (d. 1863)
      date unknown
      Thomas Davies, physician (died 1839)
      Daniel Evans, poet (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion; died 1846)
      Sir Charles John Salusbury, 3rd Baronet (d. 1868)


      Deaths


      23 February - Thomas Ellis, clergyman, about 80
      10 March - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, friend of Augusta, Princess of Wales and ancestor of the Marquesses of Bute, 78
      17 May - Sir Noah Thomas, royal physician, 72?
      27 June - John Morgan (of Dderw), politician, 48
      September - John Edwards, poet (Siôn Ceiriog), 44/45


      References

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