This article is about the particular significance of the year 1792 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 - Watkin Williams Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Harley Bishop of Bangor – John Warren Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson Bishop of St Asaph – Lewis Bagot Bishop of St Davids – Samuel Horsley Events 3 June - Monmouthshire Canal receives its Act of Parliament. 21 June - Iolo Morganwg holds the first Gorsedd ceremony at Primrose Hill in London. June - The Merthyr to Newbridge section of the Glamorganshire Canal is completed. Bodnant House is built. Arts and literature New books David Davis (Castellhywel) - Cri Carcharor dan farn Marwolaeth Nicholas Owen - Carnarvonshire, a Sketch of its History, etc. Hester Thrale - The Three Warnings Births 10 February - John Jones (Ioan Tegid), writer (died 1852) 23 July - Aneurin Owen, scholar (d. 1851) 5 September - Sir David Davies, royal physician (d. 1865) 11 November - Mary Anne Evans (d. 1872), future wife of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli 20 December - David Griffiths, missionary (d. 1863) date unknown - Sir Charles John Salusbury, 3rd Baronet (d. 1868) Deaths 23 February - Thomas Ellis, clergyman, about 80 10 March - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, friend of Augusta, Princess of Wales and ancestor of the Marquesses of Bute, 78 17 May - Sir Noah Thomas, royal physician, 72? 27 June - John Morgan (of Dderw), politician, 48 unknown date - John Edwards, poet (Siôn Ceiriog), 44/45 References Wales Wales