1772 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1772 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- May - Walter Siddons appears on stage at Chester and joins the Kemble family troupe.
- The Stepney family of Prendergast sell their Pembrokeshire estates.
- Henry Herbert is promoted to general, shortly before his death.
Arts and literature
New books
English language
- Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) - The Love of our Country[1]
- Williams Evans - A New English-Welsh dictionary: Containing All Words Necessary for Reading an English Author[1]
- Jinny Jenks - Tour through Wales
- Richard Price - Appeal … on the National Debt[2]
Welsh language
- Iolo Morganwg - Dagrau yr Awen
- Job Orton - Eglwys yn y Ty : neu Bregeth am Grefydd-Deuluaidd.[3]
- Daniel Rowland - Pum Pregeth ac Amryw o Hymnau
Music
- William Williams Pantycelyn writes the words of the missionary hymn "O'er the Gloomy Hills of Darkness".
Births
- 10 January - William Jenkins Rees, antiquary (died 1855)[4]
- 28 May - Hans Busk, poet (died 1862)[5]
- July - Edward Hughes (Y Dryw), bard (died 1850)
- 26 October - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet (died 1840)[6]
Deaths
- 11 September - Henry Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis, 69[7]
- October - Sir Thomas Stepney, 6th Baronet,[8][9]
- 16 October - Richard Farrington, antiquary, 71
References
- ^ a b Evan Evans (1772). The love of our country. Printed by H. Humphreys. pp. 28–.
- ^ Llewelyn Gwyn Chambers. "PRICE, RICHARD (1723-1791), philosopher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
- ^ "Full text of "A manual of Welsh literature, containing a brief survey of ..." Archive.org. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ "Hans Busk, Radnorshire squire". Radnorshire Society Transactions. 8. Cylchgronau Cymru (Welsh Journals online): 47–50. 1938. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
- ^ The House of Commons. Boydell & Brewer. 1986. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-436-52101-0.
- ^ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Page 3209.
- ^ rev. William Betham (1801). The baronetage of England, or, The history of the English baronets, and such baronets of Scotland, as are of English families. pp. 236.
- ^ Francis Green (1918). West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales. W. Spurrell and son.