1771 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1771 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• 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 – Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth (until 21 April) ^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - William Vaughan ^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis ^[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]}

• Bishop of Bangor – John Ewer ^[13]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington ^[14]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley ^[15]
• Bishop of St Davids – Charles Moss ^[16]

Events

• 4 February - First meeting of the Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion is held; Owen Jones is its president. ^[17]
• 21 December - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, marries, as his second wife, Charlotte Grenville. ^[18]

Arts and literature

New books

• Henry Evans - Cynghorion Tad i'w Fab (translated from English) ^[19]
• David Williams - The Philosopher, in Three Conversations

Music

• Elis Roberts - Tair Rhan Oes Dyn ^[20]
• Peter Williams (1722-1796) - Hymns on Various Subjects (includes "Prayer for Strength", the first English translation of the hymn "Cwm Rhondda")

Births

• 14 May - Robert Owen, socialist businessman, founder of the cooperative movement (died 1858) ^[21]
• 27 July - Simon Yorke, politician (died 1858) ^{[22] [23]}
• date unknown - Hannibal Evans Lloyd, English-born translator of Welsh parentage (died 1847) ^[24]

Deaths

• 21 April - Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth, Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, 39 ^[25]
• 15 May - Thomas Morgan (of Rhiwpera), politician, 43 ^[26]
• 9 June - Richard Trevor, former bishop of St David's, 63 ^[27]
• 17 November - Lewis Hopkin, poet, 63 ^[28]
• date unknown - Alban Thomas, physician ^[29]

References

1. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
2. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
3. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN   9780806313146.
4. Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
5. "MORGAN, Thomas (1727-71), of Tredegar, Mon". History of Parliament Online (1754-1790). Retrieved 19 October 2021.
6. 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.
7. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
8. "Rice, George"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
9. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN   9780806313146.
10. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
11. George Grenville (1962). Additional Grenville Papers 1763-1765. Manchester University Press. p. 176.
12. Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
13. John McClintock; James Strong (1981). Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Baker Book House. p. 324.
14. "Barrington, Shute (at Llandaff) (CCEd Appointment ID 275358)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835 . Retrieved 4 September 2014.
15. The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
16. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
17. Jenkins, R.T.; Ramage, Helen M. (1951). A History of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion and of the Gwyneddigion and Cymreigyddion Societies (1751-1951). Y Cymmrodor. Vol. 50. London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. pp. 91–128.
18. "WYNN, Sir Watkin Williams, 4th Bt. (1748-89), of Wynnstay, Denb". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
19. Walter Thomas Morgan. "EVANS, HENRY ('Harri Evan William'; fl. end of 17th cent.), poet and translator". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 3 October 2018.
20. University of Wales. Board of Celtic Studies (1950). Llên Cymru. Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. p. 83.
21. Douglas F. Dowd. "Robert Owen". Encyclopædia Britannica (Online academic ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
22. "Yorke, Simon (YRK788S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
23. "YORKE, Simon (1771-1834), of Erddig, Denb". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
24. Haigh, John D. "Lloyd, Hannibal Evans". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16835.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
25. Bernard Burke; Ashworth Peter Burke (1910). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage. Harrison. p. 121.
26. Walter Thomas Morgan. "Morgan family, of Tredegar Park, Monmouth". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
27. "TREVOR family, of Trevalun, Denbs., Plas Têg, Flints., and Glynde, Sussex". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
28. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Hopkin, Lewis"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 27. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
29. William Llewelyn Davies. "Thomas, Alban". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 October 2019.