1776 in Wales

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See also:| List of years in Wales
Timeline of Welsh history

1776 in
Great Britain

Scotland
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This article is about the significance of the year 1776 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

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* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey \- Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet[1][2][3][4]
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw[5]
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire \- Thomas Wynn[6]
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne[2]
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice[7]
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire \- Richard Myddelton
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire \- Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart[8]
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire \- Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (from 10 June)[9]
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford (until 21 November); George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (from 21 November)[2]
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet[2]
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer[10][2]

* Bishop of Bangor – John Moore[11]
* Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington[12]
* Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley[13]
* Bishop of St Davids – James Yorke[14]

## Events

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* 4 July – United States Declaration of Independence signed in Philadelphia. Sixteen of the 56 signatories are of Welsh descent, Francis Lewis having been born in Llandaff.[15][16]
* 22 July – Sir Richard Philipps, 7th Baronet, is created 1st Baron Milford in the peerage of Ireland.[17]
* 24 August – Herbert Mackworth is created a baronet.[18]
* dates unknown
* John, Lord Mountstuart is created Baron Cardiff of Cardiff Castle.
* Sir Thomas Wynn, 3rd Baronet, is created Baron Newborough in the Peerage of Ireland.[19]

## Arts and literature

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### New books

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* Thomas Churchyard – The Worthines of Wales, a Poem[20]
* Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) – Casgliad o Bregethau
* Hugh Jones (Maesglasau) – Gardd y Caniadau
* David Powell (Dewi Nantbrân) – Allwydd y Nef. O gasgliad D.P. Off.[21]

### Music

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* Aaron Williams \- Collection of hymn-tunes[22]

## Births

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* 18 February – John Parry, composer (d. 1851)[23]
* April (baptized 21 April) – Ann Griffiths, hymn-writer (d. 1805)[24]
* 2 August – Thomas Assheton Smith II, landowner, industrialist, politician, and sportsman (d. 1858)
* 20 October – Sir Thomas Mostyn, 6th Baronet, politician (d. 1831)
* dates unknown
* John Bryan (died 1856)[25]
* William Henry Scourfield, Member of Parliament (d. 1843)[26]

## Deaths

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* 26 January – Evan Lloyd, poet, 41[27]
* 6 April – Hugh Hughes ("Y Bardd Coch"), poet, 83[28]
* 4 July – Sir John Powell Pryce, 6th Baronet (in debtors' prison)[29][30]
* 6 September – Joshua Parry, Nonconformist minister and writer, 67[31]
* 1 November – Miles Harry, Baptist minister, 76[32]
* December – John Edwards ("Sion y Potiau"), poet, 76/77[33]
* 10 December – Robert Hay Drummond, Bishop of St Asaph 1748–1761, 65[34]
* dates unknown
* William Evans, lexicographer, age unknown[35]
* Aaron Williams, composer, about 45[36]

## References

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1. ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
2. ^ 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.
3. ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695\. ISBN 9780806313146.
4. ^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
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. ^ "Rice, George" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
8. ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612\. ISBN 9780806313146.
9. ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
10. ^ Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
11. ^ Tobias Smollett, ed. (1775). The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature. R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row. p. 159.
12. ^ "Barrington, Shute (at Llandaff)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. CCEd Appointment ID 275358. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
13. ^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
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. ^ "Welsh in the New World". A Brief History of Wales. GoBritannia!. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
16. ^ Williams, David (Summer 1942). "The Contribution of Wales to the United States of America". National Library of Wales Journal. 2 (3/4). GENUKI. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
17. ^ Lewis Namier; John Brooke (1985). The House of Commons, 1754-1790. History of Parliament Trust. p. 275.
18. ^ "No. 11694". The London Gazette. 24 August 1776. p. 2.
19. ^ "WYNN, Thomas (1736-1807), of Glynnllivon, Caern. ". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
20. ^ Bibliotheca Boswelliana, a catalogue of the entire library of ... James Boswell... 1825\. p. 18.
21. ^ John Hughes; John Fisher (1929). Allwedd neu agoriad Paradwys i'r Cymry (in Welsh). Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. p. xiii.
22. ^ Bye-gones: Relating to Wales and the Border Counties. Caxton workd. 1892. p. 427.
23. ^ Frederick James Crowest (1895). The Dictionary of British Musicians: From the Earliest Times to the Present. Jarrold and Sons. p. 85.
24. ^ James, E. Wyn. "Introduction to the life and work of Ann Griffiths". gwefan Ann Griffiths website. Cardiff University. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
25. ^ Williams, Albert Hughes. "Bryan, John (1776-1856), Wesleyan Methodist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
26. ^ Thorne, R.G. "Scourfield, William Henry (1776–1843), of Robeston Hall, Robeston West and New Moat, Pemb". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
27. ^ Cecil John Layton Price. "Lloyd, Evan (1734-1776), cleric and writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
28. ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Hughes, Hugh (1693-1776)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28\. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
29. ^ John Davies Knatchbull Lloyd. "PRYCE family, of Newtown Hall, Montgomeryshire". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
30. ^ Burke, John (1977). A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 430\. ISBN 9780806307398.
31. ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins; Emyr Wyn Jones (1959). "Parry, Joshua (1719-1776), Nonconformist minister, and writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.
32. ^ Edward William Price Evans. "Harry, Miles (1700-1776), Baptist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
33. ^ Garfield Hopkin Hughes. "EDWARDS, JOHN ('Siôn y Potiau'; 1699?-1776); translator and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
34. ^  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Drummond, Robert Hay". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
35. ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Evans, William(fl. 1768-1776), Presbyterian minister, and lexicographer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
36. ^ Cymmrodorion Society; Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England). (1931). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. p. 98.