title: 1790s in Wales
text: # 1790s in Wales
  
  This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1790 - 1799 to Wales and its people.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
  * Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick (from 1795)
  
  ## Events
  
  * 1790
  * 1791
  * 1792
  * 1793
  * 1794
  * 1795
  * 1796
  * 1797
  * 1798
  * 1799
  
  ## Arts and literature
  
  ### New books
  
  * 1790
     * Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Gardd o Gerddi
     * Thomas Pennant - Indian Zoology
     * Peter Williams - Tafol i Bwyso Sosiniaeth
  * 1792
     * Hester Thrale - The Three Warnings
     * Nicholas Owen - Carnarvonshire, a Sketch of its History, etc.
  * 1793
     * Edward Daniel Clarke - A Tour Through the South of England, Wales, and Part of Ireland, Made During the Summer of 1791
  * 1794
     * Iolo Morganwg - Poems Lyric and Pastoral
     * Peter Williams -Gwreiddyn y Mater
  * 1795
     * Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) - The Miscellaneous Repository neu Y Drysorfa Gymysgedig
     * John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) - Seren Tan Gwmmwl
  * 1797
     * Edward Charles - Epistolau Cymraeg at y Cymry
     * John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) - Toriad y Dydd
     * Nathaniel Williams - Pregeth a Bregethwyd yn Llangloffan ar Neilltuad … Joseph James a James Davies
  * 1798
     * Thomas Roberts of Llwyn'rhudol - Cwyn yn erbyn Gorthrymder
     * Hester Thrale - Three Warnings to John Bull before he dies. By an Old Acquaintance of the Public
  * 1799
     * Philip Yorke - The Royal Tribes of Wales
  
  ### Music
  
  * 1798
     * Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - Popular Cheshire Melodies
  
  ## Births
  
  * 1790
     * 27 January - William Davies Evans, chess player (d. 1872)
     * 11 August - William Probert, minister and author (d. 1870)
     * 16 September - Thomas Vowler Short, Bishop of St Asaph
     * 29 September - John Jones (printer) (d. 1855)
  * 1791
     * date unknown - Robert Everett, Independent minister and writer (d. 1875)
  * 1792
     * 23 July - Aneurin Owen, scholar (d. 1851)
     * 5 September - Sir David Davies, royal physician (d. 1865)
     * 20 December - David Griffiths, missionary (d. 1863)
     * date unknown - Sir Charles John Salusbury, Baronet (d. 1868)
  * 1793
     * 17 January - Owen Owen Roberts, physician (d. 1866)
     * March - Lewis Lewis (Lewsyn yr Heliwr), political activist (date of death unknown)
     * 19 July - John Propert, physician (d. 1867)
     * 10 August - John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute (d. 1848)
     * 25 September - Felicia Hemans, poet (d. 1835)
  * 1794
     * 7 May - Rees Howell Gronow, memoirist (d. 1865)
     * 3 November - David Thomas, industrialist (d. 1882)
     * date unknown
     * Evan Davies (Eta Delta), Independent minister (d. 1855)
     * Thomas Jenkyn, theologian (d. 1858)
  * 1795
     * 13 January - Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn, politician (d. 1884)
     * 5 August - George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor, politician (d. 1869)
     * December - John Davies, philosopher (d. 1861)
     * 7 December - Samuel George Homfray, industrialist (d. 1882)
     * 11 December - Thomas Taylor Griffith, surgeon (d. 1876)
  * 1796
     * 1 March - John Jones, Talysarn, preacher (d. 1857)
  * 1797
     * 11 January - Connop Thirlwall, Bishop of St David's (d. 1875)
  * 1798
     * 16 August - Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff (d. 1882)
  * 1799
     * 30 June - David Williams, politician (d. 1869)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 1790
     * 20 March - Thomas Richards of Coychurch, lexicographer, 80
     * 16 October - Daniel Rowland, Methodist leader, 77
  * 1791
     * 11 January - William Williams (Pantycelyn), poet and hymn-writer, 73
     * 13 February - William Parry, artist, 48
     * 19 April - Richard Price, philosopher, 68
     * 17 September - David Morris (hymn writer), 47
  * 1792
     * 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?
  * 1793
     * 5 January - Elizabeth Griffith, actress and writer, 73?
  * 1794
     * 22 January - John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart, MP and heir of the Marquess of Bute, 26
     * ?August - Sackville Gwynne, landowner, 43?
     * 19 August - Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet, soldier and politician, 76
     * Hon. William Paget, MP for Anglesey, 25?
  * 1795
     * 25 January - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian, 72
     * 14 October - Henry Owen, theologian, 79
  * 1796
     * February - John Jones, organist, 70?
     * 8 August - Peter Williams, Methodist writer, 63
  * 1797
     * 1 June - John Walters, lexicographer, 75
  * 1798
     * 6 July - Joshua Evans, Quaker minister of Welsh descent, 66
     * 16 December - Thomas Pennant, naturalist and travel writer, 72
  * 1799
     * May - John Evans, explorer, 29
     * 4 November - Josiah Tucker, economist, 87
  