1776 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1776 This article is about the significance of the year 1776 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd BaronetEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 24J.C. Sainty John Sainty (civil servant) List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd London 1979 Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 695Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru University of Wales Press 1992 169 Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of DderwEdwin Poole 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 1886 378 Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas WynnEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 26 Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George RiceRice, George Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 612 Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (from 10 June)Edward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 29 Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford (until 21 November); George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (from 21 November) Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl MortimerJonathan Williams The History of Radnorshire R. Mason 1859 115 Bishop of Bangor – John MooreThe Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row Tobias Smollett 1775 159 Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barringtonappointment 275358 Barrington, Shute Llandaff 4 September 2014 Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan ShipleyThe Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15 Bishop of St Davids – James YorkeThomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 305 Events 4 July – United States Declaration of Independence signed in Philadelphia. Sixteen of the 56 signatories are of Welsh descent, Francis Lewis having been born in Llandaff.Welsh in the New World http://www.britannia.com/wales/whist31.html A Brief History of Wales GoBritannia! 2014-05-07 8 May 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140508025709/http://www.britannia.com/wales/whist31.html deadDavid Williams The Contribution of Wales to the United States of America http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/USA.html National Library of Wales Journal Summer 1942 2 3/4 GENUKI 2014-05-07 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20140707220323/http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/USA.html 2014-07-07 22 July – Sir Richard Philipps, 7th Baronet, is created 1st Baron Milford in the peerage of Ireland.Lewis Namier John Brooke The House of Commons, 1754-1790 History of Parliament Trust 1985 275 24 August – Herbert Mackworth is created a baronet.11694 24 August 1776 2 dates unknown John, Lord Mountstuart is created Baron Cardiff of Cardiff Castle. Sir Thomas Wynn, 3rd Baronet, is created Baron Newborough in the Peerage of Ireland. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/wynn-thomas-1736-1807 WYNN, Thomas (1736-1807), of Glynnllivon, Caern. . History of Parliament Online 3 December 2017 26 August 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190826135618/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/wynn-thomas-1736-1807 dead Arts and literature New books Thomas Churchyard – The Worthines of Wales, a PoemBibliotheca Boswelliana, a catalogue of the entire library of ... James Boswell... https://books.google.com/books?id=jTRbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA18 1825 18 Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) – Casgliad o Bregethau Hugh Jones (Maesglasau) – Gardd y Caniadau David Powell (Dewi Nantbrân) – cy Allwydd y Nef. O gasgliad D.P. Off.John Hughes John Fisher Allwedd neu agoriad Paradwys i'r Cymry. Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru 1929 xiii cy Music Aaron Williams - Collection of hymn-tunesBye-gones: Relating to Wales and the Border Counties Caxton workd 1892 427 Births 18 February – John Parry, composer (d. 1851)Frederick James Crowest The Dictionary of British Musicians: From the Earliest Times to the Present Jarrold and Sons 1895 85 April (baptized 21 April) – Ann Griffiths, hymn-writer (d. 1805)James E. Wyn Introduction to the life and work of Ann Griffiths http://www.anngriffiths.cardiff.ac.uk/introduction.html gwefan Ann Griffiths website Cardiff University 23 October 2021 2 August – Thomas Assheton Smith II, landowner, industrialist, politician, and sportsman (d. 1858) 20 October – Sir Thomas Mostyn, 6th Baronet, politician (d. 1831) dates unknown John Bryan (died 1856)s-BRYA-JOH-1770 Bryan, John (1776-1856), Wesleyan Methodist minister Williams Albert Hughes 23 October 2021 William Henry Scourfield, Member of Parliament (d. 1843)http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/scourfield-william-henry-1776-1843 Scourfield, William Henry (1776–1843), of Robeston Hall, Robeston West and New Moat, Pemb. History of Parliament Online Thorne, R.G. 2 January 2012 22 April 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160422033111/http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/scourfield-william-henry-1776-1843 dead Deaths 26 January – Evan Lloyd, poet, 41s-LLOY-EVA-1734 Lloyd, Evan (1734-1776), cleric and writer Cecil John Layton Price yes 4 October 2018 6 April – Hugh Hughes ("Y Bardd Coch"), poet, 83Hughes, Hugh (1693-1776) 28 4 July – Sir John Powell Pryce, 6th Baronet (in debtors' prison)s-PRYC-NEW-1450 PRYCE family, of Newtown Hall, Montgomeryshire John Davies Knatchbull Lloyd yes 4 October 2018 Burke John A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1977 9780806307398 430 6 September – Joshua Parry, Nonconformist minister and writer, 67s-PARR-JOS-1719 Parry, Joshua (1719-1776), Nonconformist minister, and writer 1959 Robert Thomas Jenkins Emyr Wyn Jones yes 1 November – Miles Harry, Baptist minister, 76s-HARR-MIL-1700 Harry, Miles (1700-1776), Baptist minister Edward William Price Evans National Library of Wales yes 4 October 2018 December – John Edwards ("Sion y Potiau"), poet, 76/77s-EDWA-JOH-1700 EDWARDS, JOHN ('Siôn y Potiau'; 1699?-1776); translator and poet Garfield Hopkin Hughes yes 4 October 2018 10 December – Robert Hay Drummond, Bishop of St Asaph 1748–1761, 65Drummond, Robert Hay dates unknown William Evans, lexicographer, age unknowns-EVAN-WIL-1776 Evans, William(fl. 1768-1776), Presbyterian minister, and lexicographer Robert Thomas Jenkins yes 22 September 2019 Aaron Williams, composer, about 45Cymmrodorion Society Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion https://books.google.com/books?id=9YArAAAAIAAJ 1931 The Society 98 References Wales Wales Category:1776 in Europe Category:1770s in Wales