This article is about the particular significance of the year 1795 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 (until 2 April) Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet 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 – William Stuart
Events 8 April - George, Prince of Wales, marries his first cousin, Princess Caroline of Brunswick. June - Cecilia Thrale, youngest daughter of Hester Thrale, elopes with John Meredith Mostyn, a member of the prominent Anglesey family.John Rylands University Library: Thrale-Piozzi manuscripts. Accessed 16 January 2015 July - Ezekiel Hughes, Edward Bebb and others leave Llanbryn-mair on foot, bound for Philadelphia. September - Hester Thrale and her second husband, Gabriele Piozzi, settle in Wales, where they begin renovating Bachygraig.The Gregynog Papers #7: Chapter 3. Accessed 16 January 2015 date unknown Samuel Homfray brings an unsuccessful suit, at Hereford Assizes, of the commoners against the Dowlais Company. The events of the French Revolution cause corn prices to rise dramatically, but wages do not follow. Food riots are commonplace across Wales for the several years after. The Universal British Directory includes the first-ever entry for Merthyr Tydfil.Paul Reynolds, The Ironmasters' Bags (2010), p93 Copper bolts forged at Parys Mountain are used in the construction of an American warship, the USS Constitution.
Arts and literature
New books Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) - The Miscellaneous Repository neu Y Drysorfa Gymysgedig John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) - Seren Tan Gwmmwl
Births 18 January - Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn, politician (died 1884) 5 August - George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor, politician (died 1869) December - John Davies, philosopher (died 1861) 7 December - Samuel George Homfray, industrialist (died 1882) 11 December - Thomas Taylor Griffith, surgeon (died 1876) date unknown - Zephaniah Williams, Chartist (died 1874) probable - Maria Jane Williams, musician (d. 1873)
Deaths 25 January - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian, 72 2 April – Richard Myddelton, Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire, 69 11 March - William Mostyn Owen, landowner and politician, 72/3P. D. G. Thomas (1964b). "Owen, William (?1742–95), of Woodhouse, Salop and Bryngwyn, Mont." , The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754–1790, ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke. May - David Ellis, clergyman and poet, 58 20 August - William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical, 71 14 October - Henry Owen, theologian, 79
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