1772_in_Wales
1772 in Wales
List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1772 to Wales and its people.
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan of Rhiwpera (until 15 May)[5][2] Charles Morgan of Dderw (from 23 December)[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Wynn[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice[8]
- 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)[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - William Vaughan[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis (until 11 September);[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer[12][2]
- 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.
New books
English language
- Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) - The Love of our Country[17]
- Williams Evans - A New English-Welsh dictionary: Containing All Words Necessary for Reading an English Author[17]
- Jinny Jenks - Tour through Wales
- Richard Price - Appeal … on the National Debt[18]
Welsh language
- Iolo Morganwg - Dagrau yr Awen
- Job Orton - Eglwys yn y Ty : neu Bregeth am Grefydd-Deuluaidd.[19]
- 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".
- 10 January - William Jenkins Rees, antiquary (died 1855)[20]
- 28 May - Hans Busk, poet (died 1862)[21]
- 11 July - John Davies, missionary (died 1855)[22]
- July - Edward Hughes (Y Dryw), bard (died 1850)
- 26 October - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet (died 1840)[23]
- 8 February - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Dowager Princess of Wales, 52 (throat cancer)[24]
- 11 September - Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis, 69[25]
- October - Sir Thomas Stepney, 6th Baronet,[26][27]
- 16 October - Richard Farrington, antiquary, 71[28]
- Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
- J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
- "MORGAN, Thomas (1727-71), of Tredegar, Mon". History of Parliament Online (1754-1790). Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- Edwin Poole (1886). 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. p. 378.
- Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
- "Rice, George" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
- Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
- George Grenville (1962). Additional Grenville Papers 1763-1765. Manchester University Press. p. 176.
- Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
- John McClintock; James Strong (1981). Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Baker Book House. p. 324.
- "Barrington, Shute (at Llandaff) (CCEd Appointment ID 275358)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
- The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
- Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
- Evan Evans (1772). The love of our country. Printed by H. Humphreys. pp. 28–.
- Llewelyn Gwyn Chambers. "PRICE, RICHARD (1723-1791), philosopher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
- "Full text of "A manual of Welsh literature, containing a brief survey of ..." Archive.org. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
- Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). "Rees, William Jenkins" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- "Hans Busk, Radnorshire squire". Radnorshire Society Transactions. 8. Cylchgronau Cymru (Welsh Journals online): 47–50. 1938. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
- Evans, Evan Lewis (1959). "Davies, John (1772-1855), school teacher and missionary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.
- The House of Commons. Boydell & Brewer. 1986. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-436-52101-0.
- Williamson, David (1986). Debrett's Kings and Queens of Britain. Salem House. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-88162-213-3.
- Mosley, 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.
- rev. William Betham (1801). The baronetage of England, or, The history of the English baronets, and such baronets of Scotland, as are of English families. pp. 236.
- Francis Green (1918). West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales. W. Spurrell and son.
- Williams, William Gilbert (1959). "Farrington, Richard (1702-1772), cleric and antiquary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.