1782 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1782 to Wales and its people.

← 1781 1780 1779 1778 1777 1782 in Wales → 1783 1784 1785 1786 1787
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s
See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1782 in Great Britain Scotland Elsewhere

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet (until 1 August)^[1][2] Henry Paget (from 1 August)^[3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne^[4]
• 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^[4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet^[4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer^[9][4]

• Bishop of Bangor – John Moore^[10]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington (until 27 August);^[11] Richard Watson (from 20 October)^[12]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley^[13]
• Bishop of St Davids – John Warren^[14][15]

Events

• March - Lloyd Kenyon is appointed Attorney-General.^[16]
• 12 April - In the Battle of the Saintes, the British fleet defeat the French after a campaign in which Admiral Sir Thomas Foley has played a major part.^[17]
• 27 September - Francis Homfray leases a mill from Anthony Bacon of Cyfarthfa ironworks. (Under the terms of a new Parliamentary Act, Bacon, as an MP, is disqualified from holding government munitions contracts.)
• William Owen Pughe and Robert Hughes (Robin Ddu yr Ail o Fôn) meet in London.
• David Davis (Castellhywel) settles in Castellhywel.^[18]

Arts and literature

New books

• William Gilpin - Observations on the River Wye and several parts of South Wales, etc. relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; made in the summer of the year 1770^[19]
• Thomas Pennant - Journey to Snowdon, volume 1
• John Walters - Translated Specimens of Welsh Poetry

Music

• William Williams Pantycelyn - Rhai Hymnau Newyddion (second in a series of hymn collections)^[20]

Births

• 20 January - Sir William Nott, military leader (died 1845)^[21]
• 29 December - Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer (died 1857)
• unknown date - William Morgan, evangelical clergyman (died 1858)

Deaths

• March - John Evans, anti-Methodist clergyman, 79^[22]
• 27 April - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, politician, 71^[23]
• 15 May - Richard Wilson, landscape painter, 54^[24]
• 25 August - Lady Catherine Hamilton, formerly Catherine Barlow of Colby, heiress to an estate in south Pembrokeshire which passed to her nephew Charles Francis Greville^[25]
• November - John Parry, harpist, 72?
• 9 December - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet, Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, 73^[26]

References

1. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
2. Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
3. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
4. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
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. John Henry James (1898). A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff. Western Mail. p. 16.
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. The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
16. Michael Levey; Sir Thomas Lawrence; National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) (1979). Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1769-1830. National Portrait Gallery.
17. William Stewart (9 September 2009). Admirals of the World: A Biographical Dictionary, 1500 to the Present. McFarland. pp. 131–. ISBN 978-0-7864-8288-7.
18. "Davis, David, Dafis Castellhywel (1745-1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 1959. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
19. William Gilpin (2005). Observations on the River Wye. Pallas Athene. ISBN 978-1-84368-004-8.
20. "The Printed Works of William Williams, Pantycelyn". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
21. Sir William Nott (1854). Memoirs and correspondence of Major-General Sir William Nott. Hurst and Blackett. pp. 297–.
22. Robert Thomas Jenkins (1959). "Evans, John (1702-1782), cleric and anti-Methodist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
23. John Debrett (1814). England: 1. G. Woodfall. p. 281.
24. William George Constable (1953). Richard Wilson. Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 15.
25. Thomas M. McCoog (2003). Promising Hope: Essays on the Suppression and Restoration of the English Province of the Society of Jesus. Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu. ISBN 978-88-7041-597-1.
26. Peter D.G. Thomas (1964). "Bayly, Sir Nicholas, 2nd Bt. (1709-82), of Plas Newydd, Anglesey". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790. Retrieved 26 October 2021.