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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 Llanstephan
Arts and literature
New books
- Robert Jones (Robert ab Ioan) – Drych i'r Anllythrennog
- 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
References
- Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
- ^ J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
- Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
- Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
- Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
- Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
- Bertie George Charles (1959). "Philipps family, of Picton". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
- Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
- The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
- John Henry James (1898). A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff. Western Mail. p. 16.
- The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
- Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 163.
- A. H. Dodd. "KENRICK family of Wynn Hall, Denbs., and Bron Clydwr, Mer.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
- Suggett, Richard (1995) John Nash Architect in Wales, The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, ISBN 1-871184-16-9
- Annual Report. National Library of Wales. 1926. p. 26. Note: DWB is the only source that gives a date of 1778 as opposed to 1788
- Pollard, Albert; Walters, Huw (2004). "Owen, Nicholas (1752–1811)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 16 March 2009.
- Burke, Sir Bernard (1852). A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland for 1852 (Public domain ed.). Colburn and Company. p. 1423.
- Williams, Griffith John. "Waring, Elijah". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.
- Theo Aronson (1979). Kings over the Water: The Saga of the Stuart Pretenders. Thistle Publishing. p. 361.
- Moelwyn Idwal Williams. "THOMAS, DAVID (1739?–1788), bone-setter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- Aneirin Lewis. "Evans, Evan Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir 1731-1788), scholar, poet, and cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
- Thomas Iorwerth Ellis (1959). "Shipley, William (1745–1826), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- Griffith, Robert David (1959). "Evans, David (1705–1788), cleric, author, and musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 17 July 2020.