1772 in Wales

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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 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]}

• 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

• 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 ^[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".

Births

• 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]

Deaths

• 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]

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. Evan Evans (1772). The love of our country. Printed by H. Humphreys. pp.  28–.
18. Llewelyn Gwyn Chambers. "PRICE, RICHARD (1723-1791), philosopher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 3 October 2018.
19. "Full text of "A manual of Welsh literature, containing a brief survey of ..." Archive.org. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
20. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). "Rees, William Jenkins"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
21. "Hans Busk, Radnorshire squire". Radnorshire Society Transactions. Cylchgronau Cymru (Welsh Journals online). 8: 47–50. 1938. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
22. Evans, Evan Lewis (1959). "Davies, John (1772-1855), school teacher and missionary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.
23. The House of Commons. Boydell & Brewer. 1986. p. 3. ISBN   978-0-436-52101-0.
24. Williamson, David (1986). Debrett's Kings and Queens of Britain. Salem House. p. 157. ISBN   978-0-88162-213-3.
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. Francis Green (1918). West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales. W. Spurrell and son.
28. Williams, William Gilbert (1959). "Farrington, Richard (1702-1772), cleric and antiquary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.