1782 in Wales explained

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

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); Richard Watson (from 20 October)^[11]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley^[12]
• Bishop of St Davids – John Warren^{[13] [14]}

Events

• March - Lloyd Kenyon is appointed Attorney-General.^[15]
• 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.^[16]
• 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.^[17]

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^[18]
• 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)^[19]

Births

• 20 January - Sir William Nott, military leader (died 1845)^[20]
• 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^[21]
• 27 April - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, politician, 71^[22]
• 15 May - Richard Wilson, landscape painter, 54^[23]
• 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^[24]
• November - John Parry, harpist, 72?
• 9 December - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet, Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, 73^[25]

Notes and References

1. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 695.
2. Book: Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. 169.
3. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 24.
4. 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.
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. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 612.
8. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 29.
9. Book: Jonathan Williams. The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. 1859. 115.
10. Book: The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature. R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row. Tobias Smollett. 1775. 159.
11. Book: John Henry James. A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff. Western Mail. 1898. 16.
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: The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. 95.
15. Book: Michael Levey. Sir Thomas Lawrence. National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain). Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1769-1830. 1979. National Portrait Gallery.
16. Book: William Stewart. Admirals of the World: A Biographical Dictionary, 1500 to the Present. 9 September 2009. McFarland. 978-0-7864-8288-7. 131–.
17. s-DAVI-DAV-1745. Davis, David, Dafis Castellhywel (1745-1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster. 1959. 26 October 2021.
18. Book: William Gilpin. Observations on the River Wye. 2005. Pallas Athene. 978-1-84368-004-8.
19. Web site: The Printed Works of William Williams, Pantycelyn. National Library of Wales. 22 October 2018.
20. Book: Sir William Nott. Memoirs and correspondence of Major-General Sir William Nott. 1854. Hurst and Blackett. 297–.
21. s-EVAN-JOH-1702. Evans, John (1702-1782), cleric and anti-Methodist. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 1959. 26 October 2021.
22. Book: John Debrett. England: 1. 1814. G. Woodfall. 281.
23. Book: William George Constable. Richard Wilson. 1953. Routledge & Kegan Paul. 15.
24. Book: Thomas M. McCoog. Promising Hope: Essays on the Suppression and Restoration of the English Province of the Society of Jesus. 2003. Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu. 978-88-7041-597-1.
25. Web site: Peter D.G. Thomas. Bayly, Sir Nicholas, 2nd Bt. (1709-82), of Plas Newydd, Anglesey. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790. 1964. 26 October 2021.