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1772 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1772 to Wales and its people.

Contents

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.

    • New books

  • Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) - The Love of our Country
  • Jinny Jenks - Tour through Wales
  • Iolo Morganwg - Dagrau yr Awen
  • 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)
  • July - Edward Hughes (Y Dryw), bard (died 1850)
  • 25 October - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet (died 1840)

    • Deaths

  • 11 September - Henry Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis,
  • 16 October - Richard Farrington, antiquary, 71

    • References

    1772 in Wales Wikipedia
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