1775 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1775 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 – Charles Morgan of Dderw ^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Wynn ^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne ^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice ^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart ^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - William Vaughan (until 12 April); Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (from 10 June) ^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford (from 20 April) ^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet (until 24 June); Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet (from 24 June) ^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer ^{[10] [2]}

• Bishop of Bangor – John Moore ^[11]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington ^[12]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley ^[13]
• Bishop of St Davids – James Yorke ^[14]

Events

• 19 April - Outbreak of the American Revolutionary War:
  • Anthony Bacon obtains munitions contracts for his ironworks.
  • Fort Belan built commanding the western end of the Menai Strait by Thomas Wynn.
• 8 September - An earthquake measuring 5.1 is felt in Swansea. ^[15]
• 18 September - Dr Samuel Johnson accompanies Hester Thrale and her husband Henry on a visit to France.

Arts and literature

New books

• Edward Evans - An Address delivered before the Association of Ministers at Dref Wen, near Newcastle Emlyn, with two Hymns ^[16]
• Elizabeth Griffith - The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated ^[17]
• Nicholas Owen (attr.) - History of the Island of Anglesea

Music

• Dafydd Jones - Hymnau a Chaniadau Ysprydol (hymns and psalms)
• Morgan Rhys - Golwg o Ben Nebo, 3rd ed. (collection of hymns)
• Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) arrives in London.

Births

• 22 February - John Hughes, minister, author and hymn-writer (died 1854) ^[18]
• 7 May - John Parry, minister and author (died 1846)
• 25 November - Charles Kemble, actor (died 1854) ^[19]
• December - John Jones (Archdeacon of Merioneth), Anglican priest and writer (died 1834) ^[20]
• date unknown - John Roberts, Anglican priest and writer (died 1829) ^[21]

Deaths

• 11 April - Roger Mostyn, Canon of Windsor, 54/55 ^[22]
• 12 April - William Vaughan (MP), politician, about 68 ^[23]
• 10 May - Caroline Matilda, queen consort of Sweden, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales, 23 (scarlet fever) ^[24]
• 14 August - Sir Lynch Cotton, 4th Baronet, about 70 ^[25]

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. 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.
6. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
7. "Rice, George"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
8. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN   9780806313146.
9. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
10. Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
11. Tobias Smollett, ed. (1775). The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature. R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row. p. 159.
12. "Barrington, Shute (at Llandaff) (CCEd Appointment ID 275358)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835 . Retrieved 4 September 2014.
13. The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
14. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
15. W. Toone (1834). A Chronological Record, of the Remarkable Public Events, ... During the Reigns of George the Third and Fourth, and His Present Majesty ... Bennett. p. 149.
16. Thomas Rowland Roberts (1908). Eminent Welshmen: A Short Biographical Dictionary of Welshmen who Have Attained Distinction from the Earliest Times to the Present. Educational Publishing Company. p. 99.
17. Elizabeth Griffith (1775). The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated. T. Cadell .
18. Roberts, Gomer Morgan (1959). "Hughes, John (1775-1854), Calvinistic Methodist minister, author, and hymn-writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 23 October 2021.
19. "Kemble, Charles"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
20. Ellis, Thomas Iorwerth (1959). "Jones, John (1775-1834), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 23 October 2021.
21. Jenkins, Robert Thomas (1959). "Roberts, John (1775–1829), cleric and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 3 October 2018.
22. Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S. L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
23. "VAUGHAN, William (?1707-75), of Corsygedol, Merion". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
24. Ward, Adolphus William (1887). "Caroline Matilda". Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900. London: Smith, Elder, & Co. pp. 145–150.
25. "COTTON, Sir Lynch Salusbury, 4th Bt. (c.1705-75), of Combermere, Cheshire and Llewenny, Denb". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 October 2018.