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1790s In Wales
{, class="infobox" id="toc" , - , align="left" , 1780s , 1800s , Other years in Wales , - , , Other events of the decade This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1790–1799 to Wales and its people. Events *1790 *1791 *1792 *1793 *1794 *1795 *1796 *1797 *1798 *1799 Arts and literature New books *1790 ** Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - ''Gardd o Gerddi'' **Thomas Pennant - ''Indian Zoology'' ** Peter Williams - ''Tafol i Bwyso Sosiniaeth'' *1792 **Hester Thrale - ''The Three Warnings'' ** Nicholas Owen - ''Carnarvonshire, a Sketch of its History, etc.'' *1793 **Edward Daniel Clarke - ''A Tour Through the South of England, Wales, and Part of Ireland, Made During the Summer of 1791'' *1794 **Iolo Morganwg - ''Poems Lyric and Pastoral'' ** Peter Williams -''Gwreiddyn y Mater'' *1795 ** Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) - ''The Miscellaneous Repository neu Y Drysorfa Gymysgedig'' ** John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) - ''Seren Tan Gwmmwl'' *1797 **Edward C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1780s In Wales
{, class="infobox" id="toc" , - , align="left" , 1770s , 1790s , Other years in Wales , - , , Other events of the decade This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1780–1789 to Wales and its people. Events *1780 *1781 *1782 *1783 *1784 *1785 *1786 *1787 *1788 *1789 Arts and literature New books 1780 * John Walters - ''Poems with Notes'' 1781 *Thomas Pennant - ''Tours in Wales'', volume 2 1782 *Thomas Pennant - ''Journey to Snowdon'', volume 1 1783 * Julia Ann Hatton - ''Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects'' 1784 * Richard Price - ''Importance of the American Revolution'' 1785 *Nathaniel Williams - ''Darllen Dwfr a Meddyginiaeth'' 1786 *David Samwell - ''A Narrative of the Death of Captain James Cook'' *Hester Lynch Piozzi - ''Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., during the last twenty years of his life'' 1788 *Hester Lynch Piozzi - ''Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson'' 1789 * Richard Price - ''Love for our Country'' Music 1781 *J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Pennant
Thomas Pennant (14 June Old Style, OS 172616 December 1798) was a Welsh natural history, naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian. He was born and lived his whole life at his family estate, Downing Hall near Whitford, Flintshire, in Wales. As a naturalist he had a great curiosity, observing the geography, geology, plants, animals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish around him and recording what he saw and heard about. He wrote acclaimed books including ''British Zoology'', the ''History of Quadrupeds'', ''Arctic Zoology'' and ''Indian Zoology'' although he never travelled further afield than continental Europe. He knew and maintained correspondence with many of the scientific figures of his day. His books influenced the writings of Samuel Johnson. As an antiquarian, he amassed a considerable collection of art and other works, largely selected for their scientific interest. Many of these works are now housed at the National Library of Wales. As a traveller he visited Sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Events Pre-1600 * 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent. * 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to become monks by Constantine VII, who becomes sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire. *1186 – Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily. *1302 – Dante Alighieri is condemned in absentia and exiled from Florence. *1343 – Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull ''Unigenitus'' to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. Nearly 200 years later, Martin Luther would protest this. 1601–1900 *1606 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31. *1695 – Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan and Caliph of Islam in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abdication in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Jones (Bardd Y Brenin)
__NOTOC__ Edward Jones (March 1752 – 18 April 1824) was a Welsh harpist, bard, performer, composer, arranger, and collector of music.Joan Rimmer"Edward Jones's Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, 1784: A Re-Assessment" ''The Galpin Society Journal'', Vol. 39 (September 1986), pp. 77-96 He was commonly known by the bardic name of "Bardd y Brenin", which he took in 1820, when King George IV, his patron, came to the throne. Jones was born in Llandderfel, near Bala, and is remembered for his three-volume work, the ''Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards''. He first came to London in 1775, and was patronised by prominent Welshmen and by Charles Burney. He played in the Bach-Abel concerts which were London’s first subscription concert series, started in 1765. He became harp tutor to several wealthy families, and in about 1790 was made Harp-Master to the Prince of Wales. In 1805 he moved into the Office of the Robes, St James's Palace. Jones suffered signifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Yorke (antiquary)
Philip Yorke (30 July 1743 – 19 February 1804) was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1775 and 1792 and an antiquary who developed an interest in Welsh history and genealogy relatively late in life. He was the author of ''The Royal Tribes of Wales'' (1799). Background The son of Simon Yorke (1696–1767) and Dorothy Hutton (1717–1787), he was born at Erddig, not far from Wrexham (Denbighshire, Wales). He was related to Philip Yorke, first earl of Hardwicke, who was uncle to Simon's father Simon Yorke. His mother, Dorothy, was a daughter of Matthew Hutton of Newnham, Hertfordshire. After receiving his basic education in Wanstead and at Newcome's School in Hackney, he went to Eton College and subsequently in 1762 to Benet College, Cambridge, where he was awarded an MA degree in 1765. He proceeded to Lincoln's Inn in 1762 and was 'called to the bar' in 1767. He took delight in classical literature, and became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Roberts Of Llwyn'rhudol
Thomas Roberts (1765/66–1841) was a Welsh radical writer. Personal life Roberts was a son to William and Jane Roberts of Llwyn'rhudol. He was baptized at Llwyn'rhudol Uchaf in the parish of Aber-erch near Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. He moved from Wales to London before he reached the age of 14, and was probably apprenticed to a goldsmith. In 1791, Roberts married Mary, the daughter of a prosperous Warwickshire Quaker family. Their first child, Hannah, was born in October the same year. They had five daughters and a son and lived near the city of London at Aldgate, Clerkenwell. Mary died in March 1829 and was buried on 5 April in Bunhill Fields. Roberts became a London goldsmith through Mary's family. In 1802, Roberts practiced at the firm of Weatherby and Roberts, goldsmiths and then worked at the firm of Thomas and R. J. Roberts in 1805. Thomas Roberts was an active member of '' Gwyneddigion'', a society of Welsh patriots founded in London in 1770 as a Welsh-language d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel Williams
Nathaniel Williams (born 1656 or 1657 – c.1679) was a Welsh writer. Life Nathaniel Williams was the son of Thomas Williams, from Swansea in South Wales. He studied at the University of Oxford, matriculating as a member of Jesus College in 1672 and obtaining a Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ... degree in 1676. He wrote two books: ''A Pindaric Elegy on the famous Physician Dr. Willis'' (published in 1675) and ''Imago Saeculi or the Image of the Age represented in four Characters, viz. the ambitious Statesman, insatiable Miser, atheistic Gallant, and factious Schismatic'' (published the following year). He died in about 1679. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Nathaniel Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford 17th-century Welsh writers 17th-centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Charles
Edward Charles Edmond Hemsted (born Anacapri, Isola de Capri, 1898), better known by the pen name Edward Charles, was an English author, educator, social advocate and sexologist. His most famous writings are ''The Sexual Impulse'', ''Mens Gods'', ''Those Thoughtful People'', ''Sand & the Blue Moss'', ''Apple Pie Bed'', ''Indian Patchwork'' (with "Mary Charles", a pseudonym for his wife, Dorothy Mary Chance), ''Portrait of the Artist's Children'' and ''Idle Hands''. Life He was educated at Lancing College, St John's College, University of Oxford (where he took a double first) and Louvain University. During the early 1920s, he was a Professor of English in Japan (where he tutored the sons of the Emperor of Japan), then a Professor at the University of Peking. He sailed to Singapore on a tramp steamer, and worked as a barman at the "Long Bar" of the Raffles Hotel, before returning to Oxford. He later moved to India and served as principal of a Moslem-Hindu school in central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors)
John Jones (10 November 1766 – 21 May 1821), better known by his bardic name Jac Glan-y-gors, was a Welsh language satirical poet and radical pamphleteer, born in Cerrigydrudion, Denbighshire, north Wales. Glan-y-gors was an accomplished and natural prose writer although his output was small. His best known prose works are ''Seren Tan Gwmmwl'' and ''Toriad y Dydd'', political tracts addressed to the Welsh people which reflect the radical ideals of Thomas Paine and the author's Welsh patriotism. As a satirist, he was highly influential. His poetic output is more considerable and includes the poem entitled ''Cerdd Dic Siôn Dafydd''Dic Siôn Dafydd - Richard son of John son of David - is the name given to a Welshman who despises his language and who imitates the English. Dic Siôn Dafydd left Wales and became a draper in London; his pomposity led him to claim that he had forgotten how to speak Welsh, and on a visit to his mother in Wales who spoke only Welsh he insisted on spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi)
Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) (20 June 1764 – 29 January 1833), was a Welsh poet, Unitarian, and political activist. Early life and work Evans, son of Evan and Hannah Evans, was born at Capel Sant Silyn, Gwernogle, Carmarthenshire. His birthplace was not far from the Cothi River, from which he later took his bardic name, Tomos Glyn Cothi. He seems to have had little early education, but by following his craft as a weaver, he frequented the fairs of Glamorgan, selling his cloth. In this way, he came into contact with the poets of Glamorgan and their bardic traditions. He was at the gorsedd of Mynydd y Garth in the midsummer of 1797. He also had access to books, and Theophilus Lindsey assisted by sending him English books from 1792 until 1796. Religious affiliations Evans lived in an area which was predominantly Calvinist, but as early as 1786 he began to preach having embraced the doctrines of Unitarianism. He was nicknamed "Little Priestley". In order to worship with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iolo Morganwg
Edward Williams, better known by his bardic name Iolo Morganwg (; 10 March 1747 – 18 December 1826), was a Welsh antiquarian, poet and collector.Jones, Mary (2004)"Edward Williams/Iolo Morganwg/Iolo Morgannwg" From ''Jones' Celtic Encyclopedia''. Retrieved 11 June 2009 (only USA, see. He was seen as an expert collector of Medieval Welsh literature, but it emerged after his death that he had forged several manuscripts, notably some of the Third Series of Welsh Triads.Mary Jones (2003)"Y Myvyrian Archaiology" From ''Jones' Celtic Encyclopedia''. Retrieved 11 June 2009 (in US only. Even so, he had a lasting impact on Welsh culture, notably in founding the secret society known as the Gorsedd, through which Iolo Morganwg successfully coopted the 18th-century Eisteddfod revival. The philosophy he spread in his forgeries has had an enormous impact upon neo-Druidism. His bardic name is Welsh for "Iolo of Glamorgan". Early life Edward Williams was born at Pen Onn, near Llancarfan in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Daniel Clarke
Edward Daniel Clarke (5 June 17699 March 1822) was an English clergyman, naturalist, mineralogist, and traveller. Life Edward Daniel Clarke was born at Willingdon, Sussex, and educated first at Uckfield School"Anthony Saunders, D.D." in Mark Antony Lower, ''The Worthies of Sussex'' (1865), p. 63: "In fact, Uckfield school enjoyed considerable celebrity. During the mastership of the Rev. Robert Gerison, Dr. James Stanier Clarke, and his brother Edward Daniel Clarke, the well-known traveller, received their rudimentary education there..." and then at Tonbridge. In 1786 he obtained the office of chapel clerk at Jesus College, Cambridge, but the loss of his father at this time involved him in difficulties. In 1790 he took his degree, and soon after became private tutor to Henry Tufton, nephew of the Duke of Dorset. In 1792 he obtained an engagement to travel with Lord Berwick through Germany, Switzerland and Italy. After crossing the Alps, and visiting a few of the principal citi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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