1779 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1779 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1779 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 Rice (until 3 August)Rice, George Thomas Johnes (from 7 September) http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/johnes-thomas-1721-80 JOHNES, Thomas (c.1721-80), of Croft Castle, Herefs. History of Parliament Online 7 October 2017 15 September 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170915161450/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/johnes-thomas-1721-80 dead 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 BaronetEdward 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 – 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 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 Yorke (until 2 August); John Warren (from 19 September)Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 305The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged Porter 1780 95 Events February - Ship's surgeon David Samwell witnesses the death of Captain James Cook in Hawaii.David Samwell The Death of Captain Cook and Other Writings https://books.google.com/books?id=JL9IPgAACAAJ 2007 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-2073-0 June - Valentine Morris, governor of St Vincent, negotiates unfavourable surrender terms with the French. Clodfelter Micheal Warfare and armed conflicts : a statistical encyclopedia of casualty and other figures, 1492-2015 McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Jefferson, North Carolina 2017 9780786474707 129 unknown dates New bridges are built over the River Wye at Builth Wells and River Towy at Llandeilo. Haverfordwest prison is built on the site of the former castle. Baptist Assembly at Glynceiriog. Robert Jones, Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, preaches in London. Arts and literature New books David William - Joy in the Tents of Zion (English edition)s-WILL-DAV-1720 WILLIAM, DAVID (1720-1794), hymn-writer Gomer Morgan Roberts Gomer Morgan Roberts 5 October 2018 Music Richard Morris creates a list of "Henwau Mesurau Cerdd Dafod a Thant a arferir yn gyffredinol gan y Prydyddion a'r Telynorion yng Nghymru".Phyllis Kinney Welsh Traditional Music https://books.google.com/books?id=SUyuBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA38 15 April 2011 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-2358-8 38– Births 14 March - William Ormsby-Gore, politician (died 1860) 24 August - Charles Norris, artist (died 1858) Deaths June/July - Hugh Williams, Anglican clergyman and writers-WILL-HUG-1722 Williams, Hugh (1722?-1779), cleric and author Robert Thomas Jenkins 1959 2 November 2021 3 August - George Rice, Lord Lieutenant and MP for Carmarthenshire, 55 9 August - Morgan Rhys, hymn-writer, 63s-RHYS-MOR-1716 Rhys, Morgan (1716-1794), hymn-writer Gomer Morgan Roberts Gomer Morgan Roberts yes 1 October 2019 11 December - "Madam" Bridget Bevan, philanthropist, 81s-BEVA-BRI-1698 Bevan, Bridget ('Madam Bevan’; 1698-1779), philanthropist and educationist Mary Clement yes 23 February 2020 December - Richard Morris, collector of folk songs, 76s-MORR-RIC-1703 MORRIS, RICHARD (1703-1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society Robert Thomas Jenkins Robert Thomas Jenkins yes 5 October 2018 date unknown - Edward Jones, composer, 49/50Robert Evans Maggie Humphreys Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=xZCvAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA189 1 January 1997 Bloomsbury Publishing 978-1-4411-3796-8 189 References Wales Wales Category:1779 in Europe Category:1770s in Wales