1772 in Wales

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

1772
in
Wales

Centuries:
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
Decades:
  • 1750s
  • 1760s
  • 1770s
  • 1780s
  • 1790s
See also:
1772 in
Great Britain
Ireland
Scotland

Incumbents

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.

Arts and literature

English language

  • Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) - The Love of our Country[1]
  • Williams Evans - A New English-Welsh dictionary: Containing All Words Necessary for Reading an English Author[1]
  • Jinny Jenks - Tour through Wales
  • Richard Price - Appeal … on the National Debt[2]

Welsh language

Music

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Evan Evans (1772). The love of our country. Printed by H. Humphreys. pp. 28–.
  2. Llewelyn Gwyn Chambers. "PRICE, RICHARD (1723-1791), philosopher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  3. "Full text of "A manual of Welsh literature, containing a brief survey of ..." Archive.org. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  4. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). "Rees, William Jenkins" . Dictionary of National Biography. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  5. "Hans Busk, Radnorshire squire". Radnorshire Society Transactions. Cylchgronau Cymru (Welsh Journals online). 8: 47–50. 1938. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  6. The House of Commons. Boydell & Brewer. 1986. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-436-52101-0.
  7. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Page 3209.
  8. rev. William Betham (1801). The baronetage of England, or, The history of the English baronets, and such baronets of Scotland, as are of English families. pp. 236.
  9. Francis Green (1918). West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales. W. Spurrell and son.
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