1777 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1777 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 – 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^{[10] [2]}
• Bishop of Bangor – John Moore^[11]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington
• Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley^[12]
• Bishop of St Davids – James Yorke^[13]

Events

• 1 March - David Samwell, at sea between New Zealand and Tahiti with Captain Cook, writes a pennillion.
• 22 July - The business partnership between Anthony Bacon and William Brownrigg is dissolved.
• Thomas Pennant marries, as his second wife, Anne Mostyn, daughter of Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet.^[14]
• Francis Towne and John White go on a painting tour of North Wales.

Arts and literature

New books

• Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Duwdod Crist
• Nicholas Owen - British Remains
• Thomas Pennant - British Zoology, vol. 4
• William Williams Pantycelyn - Ductor Naptiarum: Neu Gyfarwyddwr Priodas^[15]

Music

• Harpist Edward Jones performs at Covent Garden.^[16]

Births

• 15 June - David Daniel Davis, royal obstetrician (died 1841)^[17]
• 29 August - John James, hymn-writer (died 1848)^[18]
• 15 September - John Jones of Ystrad, MP (died 1842)^[19]
• 7 November - Richard Bassett, Methodist minister (died 1852)^[20]
• date unknown
  • William Camden Edwards, engraver (died 1855)^[21]
  • Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (died 1864)^[22]

Deaths

• 4 March - Edward Richard, teacher and poet, 62^[23]
• 5 April - Thomas Lewis, politician, 86^[24]
• April - John Hodges, Methodist, 77
• 19 May - Button Gwinnett, American political leader of Welsh parentage, 41 (killed in duel)^[25]
• 28 June - Chase Price, lawyer and politician, 45/6^[26]
• 1 July - Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet, 64^[27]
• 30 August - Dafydd Jones, hymn-writer, 66
• 18 December - William Lloyd, translator, 60
• 23 December - Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, architect who worked in the borders of Wales and England, about 54^[28]

Notes and References

1. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 24.
2. Book: J.C. Sainty . John Sainty (civil servant) . List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 . Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd . London . 1979.
3. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 695.
4. Book: Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. 169.
5. Book: Edwin Poole. 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. 1886. 378.
6. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 26.
7. Rice, George.
8. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 612.
9. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 29.
10. Book: Jonathan Williams. The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. 1859. 115.
11. Book: The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature. R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row. Tobias Smollett. 1775. 159.
12. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
13. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 305.
14. Book: Pennant, David F. . Pennant Notes . 1996 . 66–67 .
15. s-WILL-WIL-1717. Williams, William (1717-1791). Gomer Morgan Roberts. 24 October 2021.
16. Book: Philip H. Highfill. Kalman A. Burnim. Edward A. Langhans. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Hough to Keyse. 1982. SIU Press. 978-0-8093-0919-1. 231–.
17. s-DAVI-DAN-1777. Davis, David Daniel (1777-1841), physician. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 12 June 2019.
18. s-JAME-JOH-1777. James, John (1777-1848), Baptist minister, hymn writer, bookbinder, and printer. Benjamin George Owens. yes. 12 June 2019.
19. s1-JONE-JOH-1777. Jones, John (1777-1841), ‘of Ystrad’, politician. David Williams. yes. 12 June 2019.
20. s-BASS-RIC-1777. Bassett, Richard (1777-1852), Methodist cleric. Gomer Morgan Roberts. yes. 12 June 2019.
21. Book: Leslie Stephen. Sir Sidney Lee. Dictionary of National Biography. 1889. Smith, Elder, & Company. 131.
22. Rees, Thomas (1777-1864).
23. s-RICH-EDW-1714. Richard, Edward (1714-1777), schoolmaster, scholar, and poet. David Gwenallt Jones. David Gwenallt Jones. yes. 5 October 2018.
24. Web site: LEWIS, Thomas (1690-1777), of Harpton Court, nr. Radnor . History of Parliament Online (1754-1790). 1 January 2019.
25. Web site: Button Gwinnett. Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. 5 October 2018.
26. Web site: PRICE, Chase (?1731-77), of Knighton, Rad.. History of Parliament Online. 1 February 2021.
27. Dr. David. Jenkins. Glynne family, of Hawarden, Flints.. s-GLYN-PEN-1603. 1 February 2021.
28. Leach, Peter, ‘Pritchard, Thomas Farnolls (bap. 1723, d.1798)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37866, accessed 1 September 2008