1779 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1779 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 (until 3 August) ^[7] Thomas Johnes (from 7 September) ^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart ^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet ^[10]
• 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 ^{[11] [2]}

• Bishop of Bangor – John Moore ^[12]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington ^[13]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley ^[14]
• Bishop of St Davids – James Yorke (until 2 August); John Warren (from 19 September) ^{[15] [16]}

Events

• February - Ship's surgeon David Samwell witnesses the death of Captain James Cook in Hawaii. ^[17]
• June - Valentine Morris, governor of St Vincent, negotiates unfavourable surrender terms with the French. ^[18]
• unknown dates
  • New bridges are built over the River Wye at Builth Wells and River Towy at Llandeilo.
  • Haverfordwest prison is built on the site of the former castle.
  • Baptist Assembly at Glynceiriog.
  • Robert Jones, Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, preaches in London.

Arts and literature

New books

• David William - Joy in the Tents of Zion (English edition) ^[19]

Music

• Richard Morris creates a list of "Henwau Mesurau Cerdd Dafod a Thant a arferir yn gyffredinol gan y Prydyddion a'r Telynorion yng Nghymru. ^[20]

Births

• 14 March - William Ormsby-Gore, politician (died 1860)
• 24 August - Charles Norris, artist (died 1858)

Deaths

• June/July - Hugh Williams, Anglican clergyman and writer ^[21]
• 3 August - George Rice, Lord Lieutenant and MP for Carmarthenshire, 55 ^[7]
• 9 August - Morgan Rhys, hymn-writer, 63 ^[22]
• 11 December - "Madam" Bridget Bevan, philanthropist, 81 ^[23]
• December - Richard Morris, collector of folk songs, 76 ^[24]
• date unknown - Edward Jones, composer, 49/50 ^[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. "JOHNES, Thomas (c.1721-80), of Croft Castle, Herefs". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
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. Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
12. Tobias Smollett, ed. (1775). The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature. R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row. p. 159.
13. "Barrington, Shute (at Llandaff) (CCEd Appointment ID 275358)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835 . Retrieved 4 September 2014.
14. The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
15. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
16. The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
17. David Samwell (2007). The Death of Captain Cook and Other Writings. University of Wales Press. ISBN   978-0-7083-2073-0.
18. Clodfelter, Micheal (2017). Warfare and armed conflicts : a statistical encyclopedia of casualty and other figures, 1492-2015. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 129. ISBN   9780786474707.
19. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "WILLIAM, DAVID (1720-1794), hymn-writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 5 October 2018.
20. Phyllis Kinney (15 April 2011). Welsh Traditional Music. University of Wales Press. pp. 38–. ISBN   978-0-7083-2358-8.
21. Robert Thomas Jenkins (1959). "Williams, Hugh (1722?-1779), cleric and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 2 November 2021.
22. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Rhys, Morgan (1716-1794), hymn-writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
23. Mary Clement. "Bevan, Bridget ('Madam Bevan'; 1698-1779), philanthropist and educationist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
24. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "MORRIS, RICHARD (1703-1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
25. Robert Evans; Maggie Humphreys (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 189. ISBN   978-1-4411-3796-8.