This article is about the particular significance of the year 1788 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 - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Bishop of Bangor – John Warren Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley (until 6 December) Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell (until 15 April); Samuel Horsley (from 11 May)
Events 18 March – Great Sessions at Wrexham hear a graveyard dispute between the "Old" and "New" chapels at Llanuwchllyn. 4 June – Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, becomes Chief Justice of the King's Bench. date unknown – Architect John Nash, during his "Welsh interlude", designs the stable block at Plas LlanstephanSuggett, Richard (1995) John Nash Architect in Wales, The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales,
Arts and literature
New books Robert Jones (Robert ab Ioan) – Drych i'r Anllythrennog Note: DWB is the only source that gives a date of 1778 as opposed to 1788 Nicholas Owen – British Remains. John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) – Yr Athrofa Rad Hester Lynch Piozzi – Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson
Births 12 February – William Williams, MP (died 1865) 5 October – John Montgomery Traherne, antiquary (died 1860). 28 December – Griffith Davies, actuary (died 1855) date unknown – Mary Morgan, servant hanged for killing her newborn child (died 1805) probable – Elijah Waring, English-born preacher, editor and writer (died 1857)
Deaths 30 January – Charles Edward Stuart, last Stuart claimant to the title of Prince of Wales, 67 25 May – David Thomas, noted bone-setter, 49 4 August – Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir), priest and poet, 57 6 December – Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of Llandaff and St Asaph, 74 date unknown – David Evans, canon of St Asaph, writer and musician, 82–83
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