1777 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1777 to Wales and its people.

← 1776 1775 1774 1773 1772 1777 in Wales → 1778 1779 1780 1781 1782
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1777 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• 1 March - David Samwell, at sea between New Zealand and Tahiti with Captain Cook, writes a pennillion.
• 22 July - The business partnership between Anthony Bacon and William Brownrigg is dissolved.
• Thomas Pennant marries Anne Mostyn, daughter of Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet.
• Francis Towne and John White go on a painting tour of North Wales.

Arts and literature

New books

• Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Duwdod Crist
• Nicholas Owen - British Remains
• Thomas Pennant - British Zoology, vol. 4
• William Williams Pantycelyn - Ductor Naptiarum: Neu Gyfarwyddwr Priodas

Music

• Harpist Edward Jones performs at Covent Garden.[1]

Births

• 15 June - David Daniel Davis, royal obstetrician (died 1841)[2]
• 29 August - John James, hymn-writer (died 1848)[3]
• 15 September - John Jones of Ystrad, MP (died 1842)[4]
• 7 November - Richard Bassett, Methodist minister (died 1852)[5]
• date unknown
  • William Camden Edwards, engraver (died 1855)
  • Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (died 1864)

Deaths

• 4 March - Edward Richard, teacher and poet, 62[6]
• 5 April - Thomas Lewis, politician, 86[7]
• April - John Hodges, Methodist, 77
• 19 May - Button Gwinnett, American political leader of Welsh parentage, 41 (killed in duel)[8]
• 1 July - Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet, 64
• 30 August - Dafydd Jones, hymn-writer, 66
• 18 December - William Lloyd, translator, 60

References

1. Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1982). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Hough to Keyse. SIU Press. pp. 231–. ISBN 978-0-8093-0919-1.
2. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Davis, David Daniel (1777-1841), physician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
3. Benjamin George Owens. "James, John (1777-1848), Baptist minister, hymn writer, bookbinder, and printer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
4. David Williams. "Jones, John (1777-1841), 'of Ystrad', politician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
5. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Bassett, Richard (1777-1852), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
6. David Gwenallt Jones. "RICHARD, EDWARD (1714-1777), schoolmaster, scholar, and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
7. "LEWIS, Thomas (1690-1777), of Harpton Court, nr. Radnor". History of Parliament Online (1754-1790). Retrieved 1 January 2019.
8. "Button Gwinnett". Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Retrieved 5 October 2018.