1782 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1782 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- March - Lloyd Kenyon is appointed Attorney-General.[1]
- 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.[2]
- 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.
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[3]
- 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)[4]
Births
- 20 January - Sir William Nott, military leader (died 1845)[5]
- 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[6]
- 15 May - Richard Wilson, landscape painter, 54[7]
- 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[8]
- November - John Parry, harpist, 72?
References
- Michael Levey; Sir Thomas Lawrence; National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) (1979). Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1769-1830. National Portrait Gallery.
- William Stewart (9 September 2009). Admirals of the World: A Biographical Dictionary, 1500 to the Present. McFarland. pp. 131–. ISBN 978-0-7864-8288-7.
- William Gilpin (2005). Observations on the River Wye. Pallas Athene. ISBN 978-1-84368-004-8.
- "The Printed Works of William Williams, Pantycelyn". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
- Sir William Nott (1854). Memoirs and correspondence of Major-General Sir William Nott. Hurst and Blackett. pp. 297–.
- John Debrett (1814). England: 1. G. Woodfall. p. 281.
- William George Constable (1953). Richard Wilson. Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 15.
- Thomas M. McCoog (2003). Promising Hope: Essays on the Suppression and Restoration of the English Province of the Society of Jesus. Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu. ISBN 978-88-7041-597-1.
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