1781 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1781 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1781 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 Wynn (until 27 December); Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley (from 27 December)Edward 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 – 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 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 – John WarrenThomas 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 June - The Chancery court agrees the sale of the Kinmel estate to a London buyer.https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/95a6c427-5a71-36a3-a930-d82a28e0a67c Kinmel Manuscripts Archives Hub 21 October 2018 Richard Price is made an honorary LL.D. by Yale University, in the company of George Washington. Arts and literature New books Thomas Pennant - Tours in Wales, volume 2https://museum.wales/art/online/?action=show_item&item=612 Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) National Museum Wales - Art Collections Online 27 May 2018 Music John Parry (harpist) - British Harmony, being a Collection of Antient Welsh AirsPhyllis Kinney Welsh Traditional Music https://books.google.com/books?id=SUyuBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA253 15 April 2011 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-2358-8 253– Births 11 March (baptised) – Lucy Thomas, colliery owner ('The Mother of the Welsh Steam Coal Trade') (d. 1847) ?November - William Williams of Wern, Independent minister (d. 1840)s-WILL-WIL-1781 Williams, William (1781-1840), ‘of Wern’, Independent minister Richard Griffith Owen 27 May 2018 1 November – Robert Thomas, newspaper proprietor (died 1860 in Australia)https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/thomas-robert-4710 Robert Thomas (1781–1860) Suzanne Edgar S. Cockburn Australian Dictionary of Biography 7 December 2024 28 November – Love Jones-Parry, soldier, politician and High Sheriff of Anglesey (d. 1853)http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21428 Oxford DNB article: Parry, Sir Love Parry Jones Chichester H.M. 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/21428 2008-12-17 Deaths 4 April – Henry Thrale, brewer, 556-57 Engell James Johnson and his age Harvard University Press Cambridge, Mass 1984 9780674480759 72 7 May – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet of Orielton, politician, 84 http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/owen-sir-william-1697-1781 Owen, Sir William, 4th Bt. (1697-1781), of Orielton, Pemb. History of Parliament Online (1754-1790) 26 October 2021 30 June – John Pettingall, Anglican clergyman and antiquarian, about 73http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22064 Pettingall, John (1707/8–1781) G. Le G. Norgate Mercer M. J. M. J Mercer subscription 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/22064 2008-02-25 12 October – David Powell (Dewi Nantbrân), Franciscan friar and authors-POWE-DAV-1781 POWELL, DAVID (Dewi Nantbrân; d. 1781), Franciscan friar Robert Thomas Jenkins 27 May 2018 References Wales Wales Category:1781 in Europe Category:1780s in Wales