1792 in Wales

1792 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1792 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"

Events

*Bodnant House is built.
*Completion of the Merthyr to Pontypridd section of the Glamorganshire Canal.
*Monmouthshire Canal receives its Act of Parliament.

Arts and literature

New books

*Hester Thrale - "The Three Warnings"
*Nicholas Owen - "Carnarvonshire, a Sketch of its History, etc."

Births

*July 23 - Aneurin Owen, scholar (d. 1851)
*September 5 - Sir David Davies, royal physician (d. 1865)
*December 20 - David Griffiths, missionary (d. 1863)
*"date unknown" - Sir Charles John Salusbury, Baronet (d. 1868)

Deaths

*March 10 - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, friend of Augusta, Princess of Wales and ancestor of the Marquesses of Bute, 78
*May 2 - John Jones (Ioan Tegid), writer, 60
*May 17 - Sir Noah Thomas, royal physician, 72?
*June 27 - John Morgan (of Dderw), politician, 48


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