1785 in Wales
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
- Nathaniel Williams - ''Darllen Dwfr a Meddyginiaeth''
Births
- 2 February - John Josiah Guest, engineer and industrialist
- 9 August - John Henry Vivian, copper merchant, industrialist and politician
- December - Richard Jones (Gwyndaf Eryri), poet
- 24 December - William Bruce Knight, clergyman and scholar
- date unknown
- *David Hughes, Anglican priest and writer
- *William Owen, historian
Deaths
- 27 February - Robert Hughes, poet
- 25 April - Sir Charles Tynte, 5th Baronet, politician, 74
- June - Siôn Bradford, poet, 78?
- 20 October - David Jones of Trefriw, poet, 77?
- November - John Guest, industrialist, 72/73