1772 in Wales

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1772
in
Wales

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

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

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[]

New books[]

English language[]

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

Welsh language[]

Music[]

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • 11 September - Henry Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis, 69[7]
  • October - Sir Thomas Stepney, 6th Baronet,[8][9]
  • 16 October - Richard Farrington, antiquary, 71

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b 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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