This article is about the particular significance of the year 1785 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw 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 – Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet 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 Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell
Events
October - The Mona Mine Company is formed by Thomas Williams of Llanidan and Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge. date unknown Richard Pennant buys out the Yonge family of Devon and comes into possession of the whole of the Penrhyn estate. Griffith Rowlands becomes surgeon to Chester city hospital. Sir Joshua Reynolds paints George, Prince of Wales.
Arts and literature New books Anna Maria Bennett - Anna: or Memoirs of a Welch Heiress Florence Miscellany (including poems by Hester Thrale) Nathaniel Williams - Darllen Dwfr a Meddyginiaeth
Births 2 February - John Josiah Guest, engineer and industrialist (died 1852) 9 August - John Henry Vivian, copper merchant, industrialist and politician (died 1855) December - Richard Jones (Gwyndaf Eryri), poet (died 1848) 24 December - William Bruce Knight, clergyman and scholar (died 1845) date unknown David Hughes, Anglican priest and writer (died 1850) William Owen, historian (died 1864)
Deaths 27 February - Robert Hughes, poet (Robin Ddu o Fôn) 25 April - Sir Charles Tynte, 5th Baronet, politician, 74 June - Siôn Bradford, poet, 78? 20 October - David Jones of Trefriw, poet, 77? November (probable) - John Guest, industrialist, 72/73
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