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1782 in Wales

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

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
  • Princess of Wales - vacant

    • Events

  • March - Lloyd Kenyon is appointed Attorney-General.
  • 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.
  • 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 (Dafis Castellhywel) settles in Castellhywel.

    • 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
  • 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)

    • Births

  • 20 January - Sir William Nott, military leader (died 1845)
  • 29 December - Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer (died 1857)

    • Deaths

  • March - John Evans, anti-Methodist clergyman, 79
  • 27 April - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, politician, 71
  • 15 May - Richard Wilson, landscape painter, 54
  • November - John Parry, harpist, 72?
  • date unknown - Lady Catherine Hamilton, formerly Catherine Barlow of Colby, heiress to an estate in south Pembrokeshire which passed to her nephew Charles Francis Greville.

    • References

    1782 in Wales Wikipedia
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