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1770 in Wales
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September 2019
September 2019
1770
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1770 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Great Britain incumbents 1770 in Great Britain#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 – Thomas Morgan of Rhiwpera https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/morgan-thomas-1727-71 MORGAN, Thomas (1727-71), of Tredegar, Mon. History of Parliament Online (1754-1790) 19 October 2021 26 October 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211026154857/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/morgan-thomas-1727-71 dead
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 – Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 612
Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - William VaughanEdward 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 – Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of PowisGeorge Grenville Additional Grenville Papers 1763-1765 Manchester University Press 1962 176
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th 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 EwerJohn McClintock James Strong Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature Baker Book House 1981 324
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 – Charles MossThomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 305
Events
September - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, holds his legendary coming-of-age party, to which 15,000 guests are invited. Three coachloads of cooks are sent from London to provide the refreshments, and a hall is built especially for the occasion at Wynnstay.http://www.wrexham.gov.uk/english/heritage/sir_watkin/arts_lifelong_obsession.htm Sir Watkin & The Arts - A Lifelong Obsession Wrexham County Borough Council 1 April 2020January 2021 InternetArchiveBot yes
Approximate date - Bridge at Pontardawe built by William Edwards.
Arts and literature
New books
Robert Jones (Calvinistic Methodist) - Lleferydd yr AsynBranwen Jarvis Dafydd Johnston A Guide to Welsh Literature: c. 1700-1800 https://books.google.com/books?id=GZViAAAAMAAJ 31 March 2000 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1482-1 302
Thomas Meredith - An Illustration of Several Texts of Scripture
John Walters - A Dissertation on the Welsh Language
Sir John Wynn, 1st Baronet - History of the Gwydir Family (posthumously published)John Wynne History of the Gwydir family https://books.google.com/books?id=o3LLDwAAQBAJ&pg=PR5 1 January 1878 Dalcassian Publishing Company 5
Music
Daines Barrington - Some Account of Two Musical Instruments Used in WalesArchaeologia: Or, Miscellaneous Tracts, Relating to Antiquity.. https://books.google.com/books?id=Gy4GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA28 1786 Society of Antiquaries of London 28
Births
15 January - Sir John Edwards, 1st Baronet, of Garth, politician (died 1850)s-EDWA-JOH-1770 Edwards, Sir John (1770-1850), baronet and M.P. Glyn Roberts 20 October 2021
8 April - John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri), antiquarian (died 1829)http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/95358 Jenkins, John (1770–1829) Stephens Meic Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press October 2006 28 January 2009
14 April - John Evans, explorer (died 1799)s-EVAN-JOH-1770 Evans, John (1770-1799), explorer David Williams yes 20 October 2021
30 April - David Thompson, explorer (died 1857)
Deaths
13 January - Howel Davies, Methodist leader, about 54Howel Davies s-DAVI-HOW-1716 Williams Griffith John yes 3 October 2018
19 June - Thomas Williams, Congregational minister, about 45 Williams, Thomas (?-c.1770) 2011 Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies http://dissacad.english.qmul.ac.uk/new_dissacad/phpfiles/sample1.php?parameter=personretrieve&alpha=6349 21 December 2013 24 December 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131224105132/http://dissacad.english.qmul.ac.uk/new_dissacad/phpfiles/sample1.php?parameter=personretrieve&alpha=6349 dead
8 August - John Jones, clergyman and author, 7015029 Jones, John John Stephens
References
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