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
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