1781 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1781 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 (until 27 December); Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley (from 27 December) ^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne ^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart ^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet ^[8]
• 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 ^{[9] [2]}

• Bishop of Bangor – John Moore ^[10]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington ^[11]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley ^[12]
• Bishop of St Davids – John Warren ^{[13] [14]}

Events

• June - The Chancery court agrees the sale of the Kinmel estate to a London buyer. ^[15]
• Richard Price is made an honorary LL.D. by Yale University, in the company of George Washington.

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Pennant - Tours in Wales, volume 2 ^[16]

Music

• John Parry (harpist) - British Harmony, being a Collection of Antient Welsh Airs ^[17]

Births

• 11 March (baptised) – Lucy Thomas, colliery owner ('The Mother of the Welsh Steam Coal Trade') (d. 1847)
• ?November - William Williams of Wern, Independent minister (d. 1840) ^[18]
• 1 November – Robert Thomas, newspaper proprietor (died 1860 in Australia) ^[19]
• 28 November – Love Jones-Parry, soldier, politician and High Sheriff of Anglesey (d. 1853) ^[20]

Deaths

• 4 April – Henry Thrale, brewer, 556-57 ^[21]
• 7 May – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet of Orielton, politician, 84 ^[22]
• 30 June – John Pettingall, Anglican clergyman and antiquarian, about 73 ^[23]
• 12 October – David Powell (Dewi Nantbrân), Franciscan friar and author ^[24]

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. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN   9780806313146.
8. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
9. Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
10. Tobias Smollett, ed. (1775). The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature. R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row. p. 159.
11. "Barrington, Shute (at Llandaff) (CCEd Appointment ID 275358)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835 . Retrieved 4 September 2014.
12. The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
13. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
14. The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
15. "Kinmel Manuscripts". Archives Hub. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
16. "Thomas Pennant (1726-1798)". National Museum Wales - Art Collections Online. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
17. Phyllis Kinney (15 April 2011). Welsh Traditional Music. University of Wales Press. pp. 253–. ISBN   978-0-7083-2358-8.
18. Richard Griffith Owen. "Williams, William (1781-1840), 'of Wern', Independent minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 27 May 2018.
19. Suzanne Edgar; S. Cockburn. "Robert Thomas (1781–1860)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
20. Chichester, H.M. (2004). "Oxford DNB article: Parry, Sir Love Parry Jones" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21428 . Retrieved 17 December 2008.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
21. Engell, James (1984). Johnson and his age. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. p. 72. ISBN   9780674480759.
22. "Owen, Sir William, 4th Bt. (1697-1781), of Orielton, Pemb". History of Parliament Online (1754-1790). Retrieved 26 October 2021.
23. Norgate, G. Le G.; Mercer, M. J. (2004). "Pettingall, John (1707/8–1781)" . In Mercer, M. J (ed.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22064 . Retrieved 25 February 2008.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
24. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "POWELL, DAVID (Dewi Nantbrân; d. 1781), Franciscan friar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 27 May 2018.