1782 in Wales

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1760s; 1770s; 1780s; 1790s; 1800s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; Timeline of Welsh history 1782 in Great Britain Scotland Elsewhere

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

Incumbents

Bishop of Bangor – John Moore^[10]
Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington (until 27 August);^[11] Richard Watson (from 20 October)^[12]
Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley^[13]
Bishop of St Davids – John Warren^[14]^[15]

Events

March - Lloyd Kenyon is appointed Attorney-General.^[16]
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.^[17]
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 (Castellhywel) settles in Castellhywel.^[18]

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^[19]
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)^[20]

Births

20 January - Sir William Nott, military leader (died 1845)^[21]
29 December - Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer (died 1857)
unknown date - William Morgan, evangelical clergyman (died 1858)

Deaths

March - John Evans, anti-Methodist clergyman, 79^[22]
27 April - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, politician, 71^[23]
15 May - Richard Wilson, landscape painter, 54^[24]
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^[25]
November - John Parry, harpist, 72?
9 December - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet, Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, 73^[26]

References

^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
^ Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
^ Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
^ Tobias Smollett, ed. (1775). The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature. R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row. p. 159.
^ "Barrington, Shute (at Llandaff) (CCEd Appointment ID 275358)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
^ John Henry James (1898). A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff. Western Mail. p. 16.
^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
^ Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
^ The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
^ 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.
^ "Davis, David, Dafis Castellhywel (1745-1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 1959. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
^ 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–.
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins (1959). "Evans, John (1702-1782), cleric and anti-Methodist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
^ 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.
^ Peter D.G. Thomas (1964). "Bayly, Sir Nicholas, 2nd Bt. (1709-82), of Plas Newydd, Anglesey". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790. Retrieved 26 October 2021.

[1] Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.

[2] Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.

[3] Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.

[Sainty-4] J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.

[5] Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.

[6] Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.

[7] Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.

[8] Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.

[9] Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.

[10] Tobias Smollett, ed. (1775). The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature. R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row. p. 159.

[11] "Barrington, Shute (at Llandaff) (CCEd Appointment ID 275358)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 4 September 2014.

[12] John Henry James (1898). A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff. Western Mail. p. 16.

[13] The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.

[Fasti305-14] Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.

[15] The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.

[16] Michael Levey; Sir Thomas Lawrence; National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) (1979). Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1769-1830. National Portrait Gallery.

[17] 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.

[18] "Davis, David, Dafis Castellhywel (1745-1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 1959. Retrieved 26 October 2021.

[19] William Gilpin (2005). Observations on the River Wye. Pallas Athene. ISBN 978-1-84368-004-8.

[20] "The Printed Works of William Williams, Pantycelyn". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 October 2018.

[21] Sir William Nott (1854). Memoirs and correspondence of Major-General Sir William Nott. Hurst and Blackett. pp. 297–.

[22] Robert Thomas Jenkins (1959). "Evans, John (1702-1782), cleric and anti-Methodist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 October 2021.

[23] John Debrett (1814). England: 1. G. Woodfall. p. 281.

[24] William George Constable (1953). Richard Wilson. Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 15.

[25] 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.

[26] Peter D.G. Thomas (1964). "Bayly, Sir Nicholas, 2nd Bt. (1709-82), of Plas Newydd, Anglesey". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790. Retrieved 26 October 2021.

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