This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1770–1779 to Wales and its people.

Events

1770 in Wales This article is about the particular significance of the year 1770 to Wales and its people. Incumbents *Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet *Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan of R ...

1771 in Wales This article is about the particular significance of the year 1771 to Wales and its people. Incumbents *Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet *Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan of R ...

1772 in Wales This article is about the particular significance of the year 1772 to Wales and its people. Incumbents *Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet *Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan of Rh ...

1773 in Wales This article is about the particular significance of the year 1773 to Wales and its people. Incumbents *Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet *Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of ...

1774 in Wales This article is about the particular significance of the year 1774 to Wales and its people. Incumbents *Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet *Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of D ...

1775 in Wales This article is about the particular significance of the year 1775 to Wales and its people. Incumbents *Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet *Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of D ...

1776 in Wales This article is about the significance of the year 1776 to Wales and its people. Incumbents *Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet *Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw *Lord ...

1777 in Wales 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 *Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dd ...

1778 in Wales This article is about the particular significance of the year 1778 to Wales and its people. Incumbents *Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet *Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of ...

1779 in Wales This article is about the particular significance of the year 1779 to Wales and its people. Incumbents *Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet *Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of D ...

Arts and literature

New books

Thomas Churchyard Thomas Churchyard (c. 1523 – 1604) was an English author and soldier. He is chiefly remembered for a series of autobiographical or semi-autobiographical verse collections, including ''Churchyardes Chippes'' (1575); ''Churchyard's Choise'' (157 ...

- ''The Worthines of Wales, a Poem'' (1776) *

Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) Evan Evans (20 May 1731 – 4 August 1788) (bardic name ', also known as ') was a Welsh-language poet, clergyman, antiquary and literary critic. Evans, son of Jenkin Evans, was born at Cynhawdref, in the parish of Lledrod, Cardiganshire. He ...

- ''Casgliad o Bregethau'' (1776) * Williams Evans - ''A New English-Welsh dictionary: Containing All Words Necessary for Reading an English Author'' (1771) *

Elizabeth Griffith Elizabeth Griffith (1727 – 5 January 1793) was an 18th-century Welsh-born dramatist, fiction writer, essayist and actress, who lived and worked in Ireland. Biography Elizabeth Griffith was born in Glamorgan, Wales, to Dublin theater manager ...

- ''The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated'' (1775) *

Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) ''Evan Hughes'' is an American operatic bass-baritone. Early life Evan Hughes grew up in Santa Barbara, California. His mother was a trained soprano and a voice teacher, and his father was a buildings and grounds manager at the Music Academ ...

- ''Duwdod Crist'' (1777) * Jinny Jenks - ''Tour through Wales'' (1772) * Dafydd Jones - ''Marwnad Enoch Ffransis'' (1774) * Hugh Jones (Maesglasau) **''Cydymaith yr Hwsmon'' (1774) **''Gardd y Caniadau'' (1776) * Robert Jones **''Lleferydd yr Asyn'' (1770) **''Drych i'r Anllythrennog'' (1778) *

Iolo Morganwg Edward Williams, better known by his bardic name Iolo Morganwg (; 10 March 1747 – 18 December 1826), was a Welsh antiquarian, poet and collector.Jones, Mary (2004)"Edward Williams/Iolo Morganwg/Iolo Morgannwg" From ''Jones' Celtic Encyclopedi ...

- ''Dagrau yr Awen'' (1772) * Nicholas Owen - ''British Remains'' (1777) *

Thomas Pennant Thomas Pennant (14 June Old Style, OS 172616 December 1798) was a Welsh natural history, naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian. He was born and lived his whole life at his family estate, Downing Hall near Whitford, Flintshire, in Wales ...

- ''British Zoology'', vol. 4 (1777) * David Powell (Dewi Nantbrân) - ''{{lang, cy, Allwydd y Nef. O gasgliad D.P. Off.'' (1776) * Daniel Rowland - ''Pum Pregeth ac Amryw o Hymnau'' (1772) *

Nathaniel Williams Nathaniel Williams (born 1656 or 1657 – c.1679) was a Welsh writer. Life Nathaniel Williams was the son of Thomas Williams, from Swansea in South Wales. He studied at the University of Oxford, matriculating as a member of Jesus College in ...

- ''Dialogus'' (1778) *

William Williams Pantycelyn William Williams, Pantycelyn (c. 11 February 1717 – 11 January 1791), also known as William Williams, Williams Pantycelyn, and Pantycelyn, is generally seen as Wales's premier hymnist. He is also rated among the great literary figures of Wale ...

- ''Ductor Naptiarum: Neu Gyfarwyddwr Priodas'' (1777) *Sir John Wynn - ''History of the Gwydir Family'' (posthumously published in 1770)

Music

* Dafydd Jones - ''Difyrrwch i'r Pererinion'', vol. 3

Births

*1770 **15 January - Sir John Edwards, Baronet, politician (died 1850) **14 April - John Evans, explorer (died 1799) **30 April - David Thompson, explorer (died 1857) *1772 **10 January -

William Jenkins Rees William Jenkins Rees (10 January 1772 – 18 January 1855) was a Welsh cleric and antiquary.Dictionary of ...

, antiquary (died 1855) **July - Edward Hughes (Y Dryw), bard (died 1850) **25 October -

Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet (25 October 1772 – 6 January 1840) was a Welsh landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1794 to 1840. Biography Williams-Wynn was the son of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet ...

(died 1840) *1773 **14 November -

Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere Field Marshal Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere (14 November 1773 – 21 February 1865), was a British Army officer, diplomat and politician. As a junior officer he took part in the Flanders Campaign, in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War an ...

, military leader (died 1865) *1774 **May - John Elias, preacher (died 1841) **24 June -

Azariah Shadrach Azariah Shadrach (1774–1844) was a Welsh evangelical writer and pastor. Life He was born on 24 June 1774 at Garn Deilo fach in the parish of Llanfair-Nant-y-Gôf, Pembrokeshire, the fifth son of Henry and Ann Shadrach of Nevern. As an adult and ...

, writer (died 1844) *1775 **25 November -

Charles Kemble Charles Kemble (25 November 1775 – 12 November 1854) was a Welsh-born English actor of a prominent theatre family. Life Charles Kemble was one of 13 siblings and the youngest son of English Roman Catholic theatre manager/actor Roger Kemble ...

, actor (died 1854) *1776 **April - Ann Griffiths, hymn-writer (died 1805) **2 August -

Thomas Assheton Smith I Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Ap ...

, industrialist and politician (died 1858) *1777 **15 June -

David Daniel Davis David Daniel Davis M.D. F.R.C.P. (15 June 1777 – 4 December 1841) was a British physician. Born David Davies in Llandyfaelog in Wales, he received his M.D. from the University of Glasgow in 1801. He set up his practice as a physician in Shef ...

, royal obstetrician (died 1841) **29 August - John James, hymn-writer (died 1848) **15 September -

John Jones of Ystrad John Jones "of Ystrad" (1777–1842), was a Welsh politician, MP for Carmarthen from 1821 to 1832. He was born on 15 September 1777 in King Street, Carmarthen, the son of a solicitor. Educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, he went o ...

, MP (died 1842) *1778 **29 September - Benjamin Hall, industrialist and politician (died 1817) *1779 **24 August - Charles Norris, artist (died 1858)

Deaths

*1771 **15 May -

Thomas Morgan (of Rhiwpera) Thomas Morgan (8 June 1727 – 15 May 1771) was a Welsh politician, of the Morgans of Tredegar. He was the eldest son of Thomas Morgan, Judge Advocate General of the Army, and his wife Jane Colchester. Morgan represented Brecon in the House ...

, politician, 43 **''date unknown'' ***

Lewis Hopkin Lewis Hopkin (c.1708–1771) was a Welsh craftsman and poet. Life He was the son of Lewis Hopkin (died 1756) of Peterston-super-montem, Glamorgan, and his wife Joan Thomas. A carpenter who picked up other crafts, he moved as a young man to Hendre ...

, poet ***

Alban Thomas Alban Thomas (1686–1771) was a Welsh doctor, librarian and antiquarian, who followed in his father's footsteps in supporting Welsh literature, being particularly associated with efforts by Moses Williams to publish Welsh-language manuscrip ...

, doctor, librarian and antiquarian *** Richard Trevor, former bishop of St David's *1772 **16 October - Richard Farrington, antiquary, 71 *1773 **21 July - Howell Harris, Methodist leader, 59 *1774 **''date unknown'' - Dafydd Nicolas, poet *1775 **14 August -

Sir Lynch Cotton, 4th Baronet Sir Lynch Salusbury Cotton, 4th Baronet (''c.'' 1705 – 14 August 1775) was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Denbighshire. He was the son of Sir Thomas Cotton and his wife Philadelphia Lynch. He was the younger brother of the 3rd Baronet, Robe ...

*1776 **1 November - Miles Harry, Baptist minister, 76 **''date unknown'' - Sir John Powell Pryce, 6th Baronet (in debtors' prison) *1777 **4 March - Edward Richard, teacher and poet, 62 **April -

John Hodges John Robart Hodges (11 August 1855 – 17 January 1933) was an Australian cricketer who played in the first two Test matches in 1877. Cricket career Hodges was born in Knightsbridge, London, on 11 August 1855 and is believed to have died on ...

, Methodist, 77 **1 July -

Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet (1713 – 1 July 1777) was a Welsh politician and landowner. Glynne was the third son of Sir Stephen Glynne, 3rd Baronet, and succeeded to the baronetcy after the successive deaths of his father and elder brothers in ...

, 64 **30 August - Dafydd Jones, hymn-writer, 66 **18 December - William Lloyd, translator, 60 *1778 **6 October - William Worthington, priest and author, 74 *1779 **11 December - "Madam" Bridget Bevan, philanthropist, 81 18th century in Wales

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Decades in Wales