1776 in Wales
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Template:Short description Template:Use Welsh English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Year in Wales header This article is about the significance of the year 1776 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 – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford (until 21 November); George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (from 21 November)[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
- 4 July – United States Declaration of Independence signed in Philadelphia. Sixteen of the 56 signatories are of Welsh descent, Francis Lewis having been born in Llandaff.[15][16]
- 22 July – Sir Richard Philipps, 7th Baronet, is created 1st Baron Milford in the peerage of Ireland.[17]
- 24 August – Herbert Mackworth is created a baronet.[18]
- dates unknown
- John, Lord Mountstuart is created Baron Cardiff of Cardiff Castle.
- Sir Thomas Wynn, 3rd Baronet, is created Baron Newborough in the Peerage of Ireland.[19]
Arts and literature
New books
- Thomas Churchyard – The Worthines of Wales, a Poem[20]
- Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) – Casgliad o Bregethau
- Hugh Jones (Maesglasau) – Gardd y Caniadau
- David Powell (Dewi Nantbrân) – Script error: No such module "Lang".[21]
Music
- Aaron Williams - Collection of hymn-tunes[22]
Births
- 18 February – John Parry, composer (d. 1851)[23]
- April (baptized 21 April) – Ann Griffiths, hymn-writer (d. 1805)[24]
- 2 August – Thomas Assheton Smith II, landowner, industrialist, politician, and sportsman (d. 1858)
- 20 October – Sir Thomas Mostyn, 6th Baronet, politician (d. 1831)
- dates unknown
- John Bryan (died 1856)[25]
- William Henry Scourfield, Member of Parliament (d. 1843)[26]
Deaths
- 26 January – Evan Lloyd, poet, 41[27]
- 6 April – Hugh Hughes ("Y Bardd Coch"), poet, 83[28]
- 4 July – Sir John Powell Pryce, 6th Baronet (in debtors' prison)[29][30]
- 6 September – Joshua Parry, Nonconformist minister and writer, 67[31]
- 1 November – Miles Harry, Baptist minister, 76[32]
- December – John Edwards ("Sion y Potiau"), poet, 76/77[33]
- 10 December – Robert Hay Drummond, Bishop of St Asaph 1748–1761, 65[34]
- dates unknown
- William Evans, lexicographer, age unknown[35]
- Aaron Williams, composer, about 45[36]
References
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