1776 in Wales

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

← 1775 1774 1773 1772 1771 1776 in Wales → 1777 1778 1779 1780 1781
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1776 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• 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.[1][2]
• 22 July – Sir Richard Philipps, 7th Baronet, is created 1st Baron Milford in the peerage of Ireland.
• dates unknown –
  • Herbert Mackworth is created a baronet.
  • John, Lord Mountstuart is created Baron Cardiff of Cardiff Castle.
  • Sir Thomas Wynn, 3rd Baronet, is created Baron Newborough in the Peerage of Ireland.[3]

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Churchyard – The Worthines of Wales, a Poem
• 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.

Music

Births

• April (baptized 21 April) – Ann Griffiths, hymn-writer (d. 1805)
• 2 August – Thomas Assheton Smith II, landowner, industrialist, politician, and sportsman (d. 1858)
• 20 October – Sir Thomas Mostyn, 6th Baronet, politician (d. 1831)
• date unknown –
  • William Henry Scourfield, Member of Parliament (d. 1843)

Deaths

• 26 January – Evan Lloyd, poet, 41[4]
• 6 April – Hugh Hughes ("Y Bardd Coch"), poet, 83[5]
• 1 November – Miles Harry, Baptist minister, 76[6]
• December – John Edwards ("Sion y Potiau"), poet, 76/77[7]
• dates unknown –
  • Sir John Powell Pryce, 6th Baronet (in debtors' prison)[8]
  • William Evans, lexicographer, age unknown[9]
  • Aaron Williams, composer, about 45[10]

References

1. "Welsh in the New World". A Brief History of Wales. GoBritannia!. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
2. Williams, David (Summer 1942). "The Contribution of Wales to the United States of America". National Library of Wales Journal. GENUKI. 2 (3/4). Archived from the original on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
3. "WYNN, Thomas (1736-1807), of Glynnllivon, Caern. ". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
4. Cecil John Layton Price. "LLOYD, EVAN (1734-1776), cleric and writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
5. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Hughes, Hugh (1693-1776)" . Dictionary of National Biography. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
6. Edward William Price Evans. "HARRY, MILES (1700-1776), Baptist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
7. 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.
8. John Davies Knatchbull Lloyd. "PRYCE family, of Newtown Hall, Montgomeryshire". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
9. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Evans, William(fl. 1768-1776), Presbyterian minister, and lexicographer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
10. Cymmrodorion Society; Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England). (1931). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. p. 98.