1778 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1778 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 ^[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

• 9 September - Benjamin Millingchamp, is appointed chaplain on board the flagship of Admiral Sir Edward Hughes. ^[15]
• date unknown
  • A furnace is built at Sirhowy by Thomas Atkinson and William Barrow of London. This is the first stage of the Tredegar ironworks. ^[16]
  • Elizabeth Baker leaves her job as secretary to Hugh Vaughan at Hengwrt to live in the adjoining house of Doluwcheogryd. ^[17]
  • Claiming himself as a prophet, watchmaker James Birch founds his own religious sect, the "Birchites", in Pembrokeshire. ^[18]

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Jones - Traethiadau ar Gatecism Eglwys Loegr: gyda phregeth ar Gonffirmasiwn (translation) ^[19]
• Thomas Pennant - Tour in Wales ^[20]
• David William - Gorfoledd ym Mhebyll Seion ^[21]
• Nathaniel Williams - Dialogus

Music

• Blind harpist John Parry and his son David play Handel's choruses on two Welsh harps at the court of King George III of Great Britain. ^[22]

Births

• 28 July - Jacob Owen, architect, (died 1870) ^[23]
• 21 August - Lewis Weston Dillwyn, porcelain manufacturer, naturalist and politician (died 1855) ^[24]
• September - William Howels, preacher (died 1832) ^[25]
• 29 September - Benjamin Hall, industrialist and politician (died 1817) ^[26]
• 20 November - Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morgannwg), poet (died 1835) ^[27]
• 24 November - Salusbury Pryce Humphreys, admiral (died 1845) ^[28]
• date unknown - David Rowlands, naval surgeon (died 1846)

Deaths

• 25 April - James Relly, Methodist minister, 56? ^[29]
• 6 October - William Worthington, priest and author, 74 ^[30]
• date unknown - William Owen, Royal Navy officer, 40/41 ^[31]

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)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835 . CCEd Appointment ID 275358. 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. William Llewelyn Davies. "Millingchamp, Benjamin (1756-1829), naval chaplain and collector of Oriental manuscripts". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 25 October 2021.
16. "Sirhowy Iron Works". Grace's Guide to British Industrial History. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
17. William Llewelyn Davies. "Baker, Elizabeth (c.1720-1789), diarist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 21 January 2020.
18. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Birch, James (died 1795?), watchmaker and sectary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 25 October 2021.
19. Elwyn Evans. "Jones, Thomas (1720?-1790), cleric and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 25 October 2021.
20. "Thomas Pennant, A tour in Wales". National Library of Wales . Retrieved 4 October 2018.
21. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "William, David (1720-1794), hymn-writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 25 October 2021.
22. Phyllis Kinney (15 April 2011). Welsh Traditional Music. University of Wales Press. pp. 28–. ISBN   978-1-78316-299-4.
23. "OWEN, JACOB - Dictionary of Irish Architects". www.dia.ie. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
24. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Dillwyn family". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
25. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Howells, William"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
26. David Williams. "Hall, Benjamin (1778-1817), industrialist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
27. Thomas John Morgan. "Williams, Thomas (Gwilym Morgannwg; 1778-1835), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
28. O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Davenport, Salusbury Pryce"  . A Naval Biographical Dictionary  . John Murray – via Wikisource.
29. "Relly, James"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
30. Cooper, Thompson; Major, Emma (January 2008). "Worthington, William (1703–1778)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press . Retrieved 28 January 2009.
31. Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society. 1914. p. 104.