1778 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1778 to Wales and its people.

← 1777 1776 1775 1774 1773 1778 in Wales → 1779 1780 1781 1782 1783
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1778 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• date unknown
  • A furnace is built at Sirhowy by Thomas Atkinson and William Barrow of London. This is the first stage of the Tredegar ironworks.[1]
  • Elizabeth Baker leaves her job as secretary to Hugh Vaughan at Hengwrt to live in the adjoining house of Doluwcheogryd.[2]

Arts and literature

New books

• Robert Jones - Drych i'r Anllythrennog
• Thomas Pennant - Tour in Wales[3]
• Nathaniel Williams - Dialogus

Music

• Blind harpist John Parry and his son David play Handel's choruses on two Welsh harps at the court of King George III of Great Britain.[4]

Births

• 21 August - Lewis Weston Dillwyn, porcelain manufacturer, naturalist and politician (died 1855)[5]
• September - William Howels, preacher (died 1832)[6]
• 29 September - Benjamin Hall, industrialist and politician (died 1817)[7]
• 20 November - Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morgannwg), poet (died 1835)[8]
• 24 November - Salusbury Pryce Humphreys, admiral (died 1845)[9]
• date unknown - David Rowlands, naval surgeon (died 1846)

Deaths

• 25 April - James Relly, Methodist minister, 56?[10]
• 6 October - William Worthington, priest and author, 74
• date unknown - William Owen, Royal Navy officer, 40/41[11]

References

1. "Sirhowy Iron Works". Grace's Guide to British Industrial History. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
2. William Llewelyn Davies. "Baker, Elizabeth (c.1720-1789), diarist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
3. "Thomas Pennant, A tour in Wales". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
4. Phyllis Kinney (15 April 2011). Welsh Traditional Music. University of Wales Press. pp. 28–. ISBN 978-1-78316-299-4.
5. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Dillwyn family". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
6. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Howells, William" . Dictionary of National Biography. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
7. David Williams. "Hall, Benjamin (1778-1817), industrialist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
8. Thomas John Morgan. "Williams, Thomas (Gwilym Morgannwg; 1778-1835), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
9. O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Davenport, Salusbury Pryce" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.
10. "Relly, James" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
11. Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society. 1914. p. 104.