1772 in Wales

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

← 1771 1770 1769 1768 1767 1772 in Wales → 1773 1774 1775 1776 1777
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1772 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
• Princess of Wales - vacant

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]
• 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

• Iolo Morganwg - Dagrau yr Awen
• Job Orton - Eglwys yn y Ty : neu Bregeth am Grefydd-Deuluaidd.[3]
• Daniel Rowland - Pum Pregeth ac Amryw o Hymnau

Music

• William Williams Pantycelyn writes the words of the missionary hymn "O'er the Gloomy Hills of Darkness".

Births

• 10 January - William Jenkins Rees, antiquary (died 1855)[4]
• 28 May - Hans Busk, poet (died 1862)[5]
• July - Edward Hughes (Y Dryw), bard (died 1850)
• 26 October - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet (died 1840)[6]

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. 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.