1777 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1777 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 - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (from 10 June) ^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis ^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet ^[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

• 1 March - David Samwell, at sea between New Zealand and Tahiti with Captain Cook, writes a pennillion.
• 22 July - The business partnership between Anthony Bacon and William Brownrigg is dissolved.
• Thomas Pennant marries, as his second wife, Anne Mostyn, daughter of Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet. ^[15]
• Francis Towne and John White go on a painting tour of North Wales.

Arts and literature

New books

• Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Duwdod Crist
• Nicholas Owen - British Remains
• Thomas Pennant - British Zoology, vol. 4
• William Williams Pantycelyn - Ductor Naptiarum: Neu Gyfarwyddwr Priodas ^[16]

Music

• Harpist Edward Jones performs at Covent Garden. ^[17]

Births

• 15 June - David Daniel Davis, royal obstetrician (died 1841) ^[18]
• 29 August - John James, hymn-writer (died 1848) ^[19]
• 15 September - John Jones of Ystrad, MP (died 1842) ^[20]
• 7 November - Richard Bassett, Methodist minister (died 1852) ^[21]
• date unknown
  • William Camden Edwards, engraver (died 1855) ^[22]
  • Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (died 1864) ^[23]

Deaths

• 4 March - Edward Richard, teacher and poet, 62 ^[24]
• 5 April - Thomas Lewis, politician, 86 ^[25]
• April - John Hodges, Methodist, 77
• 19 May - Button Gwinnett, American political leader of Welsh parentage, 41 (killed in duel) ^[26]
• 28 June - Chase Price, lawyer and politician, 45/6 ^[27]
• 1 July - Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet, 64 ^[28]
• 30 August - Dafydd Jones, hymn-writer, 66
• 18 December - William Lloyd, translator, 60
• 23 December - Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, architect who worked in the borders of Wales and England, about 54 ^[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. 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. Pennant, David F. (1996). Pennant Notes. pp. 66–67.
16. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Williams, William (1717-1791)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 24 October 2021.
17. Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1982). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Hough to Keyse. SIU Press. pp. 231–. ISBN   978-0-8093-0919-1.
18. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Davis, David Daniel (1777-1841), physician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 12 June 2019.
19. Benjamin George Owens. "James, John (1777-1848), Baptist minister, hymn writer, bookbinder, and printer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
20. David Williams. "Jones, John (1777-1841), 'of Ystrad', politician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
21. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Bassett, Richard (1777-1852), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
22. Leslie Stephen; Sir Sidney Lee (1889). Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, & Company. p. 131.
23. "Rees, Thomas (1777-1864)"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
24. David Gwenallt Jones. "Richard, Edward (1714-1777), schoolmaster, scholar, and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
25. "LEWIS, Thomas (1690-1777), of Harpton Court, nr. Radnor". History of Parliament Online (1754-1790). Retrieved 1 January 2019.
26. "Button Gwinnett". Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
27. "PRICE, Chase (?1731-77), of Knighton, Rad". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
28. Jenkins, Dr. David. "Glynne family, of Hawarden, Flints.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 1 February 2021.
29. Leach, Peter, ‘Pritchard, Thomas Farnolls (bap. 1723, d.1798)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 , accessed 1 September 2008