1776 in Wales

This article is about the significance of the year 1776 to Wales and its people.

← 1775 1774 1773 1772 1771 1776 in Wales → 1777 1778 1779 1780 1781
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s
See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1776 in Great Britain Scotland Elsewhere

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) – Allwydd y Nef. O gasgliad D.P. Off.^[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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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) (CCEd Appointment ID 275358)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. 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.
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20. Bibliotheca Boswelliana, a catalogue of the entire library of ... James Boswell... 1825. p. 18.
21. John Hughes; John Fisher (1929). Allwedd neu agoriad Paradwys i'r Cymry (in Welsh). Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. p. xiii.
22. Bye-gones: Relating to Wales and the Border Counties. Caxton workd. 1892. p. 427.
23. Frederick James Crowest (1895). The Dictionary of British Musicians: From the Earliest Times to the Present. Jarrold and Sons. p. 85.
24. James, E. Wyn. "Introduction to the life and work of Ann Griffiths". gwefan Ann Griffiths website. Cardiff University. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
25. Williams, Albert Hughes. "Bryan, John (1776-1856), Wesleyan Methodist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
26. Thorne, R.G. "Scourfield, William Henry (1776–1843), of Robeston Hall, Robeston West and New Moat, Pemb". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
27. Cecil John Layton Price. "Lloyd, Evan (1734-1776), cleric and writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
28. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Hughes, Hugh (1693-1776)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
29. John Davies Knatchbull Lloyd. "PRYCE family, of Newtown Hall, Montgomeryshire". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
30. Burke, John (1977). A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 430. ISBN 9780806307398.
31. Robert Thomas Jenkins; Emyr Wyn Jones (1959). "Parry, Joshua (1719-1776), Nonconformist minister, and writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.
32. Edward William Price Evans. "Harry, Miles (1700-1776), Baptist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
33. Garfield Hopkin Hughes. "EDWARDS, JOHN ('Siôn y Potiau'; 1699?-1776); translator and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
34.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Drummond, Robert Hay". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
35. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Evans, William(fl. 1768-1776), Presbyterian minister, and lexicographer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
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