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1772 in Wales
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September 2019
1772
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1772 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 – Thomas Morgan of Rhiwpera (until 15 May) 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 Charles Morgan of Dderw (from 23 December)Edwin 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 (from 22 March) 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 Powis (until 11 September);George 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
May - Walter Siddons appears on stage at Chester and joins the Kemble family troupe.
The Stepney family of Prendergast sell their Pembrokeshire estates.
Henry Herbert is promoted to general, shortly before his death.
Arts and literature
New books
English language
Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) - The Love of our Country
Williams Evans - A New English-Welsh dictionary: Containing All Words Necessary for Reading an English AuthorEvan Evans The love of our country https://archive.org/details/loveourcountrya01evangoog 1772 Printed by H. Humphreys 28–
Jinny Jenks - Tour through Wales
Richard Price - Appeal ... on the National Debts-PRIC-RIC-1723 PRICE, RICHARD (1723-1791), philosopher Llewelyn Gwyn Chambers 3 October 2018
Welsh language
Iolo Morganwg - Dagrau yr Awen
Job Orton - Eglwys yn y Ty : neu Bregeth am Grefydd-Deuluaidd.https://archive.org/stream/catalogueprinte01jonegoog/catalogueprinte01jonegoog_djvu.txt Full text of "A manual of Welsh literature, containing a brief survey of ... Archive.org 29 April 2019
Daniel Rowland - Pum Pregeth ac Amryw o Hymnau
Music
William Williams Pantycelyn writes the words of the missionary hymn "O'er the Gloomy Hills of Darkness".
Births
10 January - William Jenkins Rees, antiquary (died 1855)Rees, William Jenkins 47
28 May - Hans Busk, poet (died 1862)Radnorshire Society Transactions 8 1938 47–50 Hans Busk, Radnorshire squire http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewpage/llgc-id:1191402/llgc-id:1191946/llgc-id:1191995/get650 Cylchgronau Cymru (Welsh Journals online) 29 April 2019
11 July - John Davies, missionary (died 1855)1959 s-DAVI-JOH-1772 Davies, John (1772-1855), school teacher and missionary Evan Lewis Evans yes
July - Edward Hughes (Y Dryw), bard (died 1850)
26 October - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet (died 1840)The House of Commons https://books.google.com/books?id=j0AsmWc5zYwC&pg=RA3-PA596 1986 Boydell & Brewer 978-0-436-52101-0 3
Deaths
8 February - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Dowager Princess of Wales, 52 (throat cancer)Debrett's Kings and Queens of Britain Williamson David 1986 Salem House 978-0-88162-213-3 157
11 September - Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis, 69Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Page 3209.
October - Sir Thomas Stepney, 6th Baronet,rev. William Betham The baronetage of England, or, The history of the English baronets, and such baronets of Scotland, as are of English families https://archive.org/details/baronetageengla00unkngoog 1801 236Francis Green West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=07McAQAAMAAJ 1918 W. Spurrell and son.
16 October - Richard Farrington, antiquary, 711959 s-FARR-RIC-1702 Farrington, Richard (1702-1772), cleric and antiquary William Gilbert Williams yes
References
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