1787 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1787 to Wales and its people.

← 1786 1785 1784 1783 1782 1787 in Wales → 1788 1789 1790 1791 1792
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1787 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• March - Hester Piozzi returns from Italy with her second husband.
• November - Richard Crawshay uses puddling at the Cyfarthfa ironworks.[1]
• December - Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), shortly before his death, sells his manuscript collection.
• date unknown
  • Thomas Charles opens his first Sunday school, at Hengoed.[2]
  • The first Cymmrodorion Society is disbanded.[3]
  • Iolo Morganwg spends time as a prisoner in Cardiff jail.[4]
  • Construction of Margam orangery begins.[5]

Arts and literature

New books

• John Thelwall - Poems upon various subjects

Music

• Elis Roberts - Pedwar Chwarter y Flwyddyn
• Nathaniel Williams - Ychydig o Hymnau Newyddion
• William Williams Pantycelyn - Rhai Hymnau Newyddion

Sport

• 27 February - Royal British Bowmen, an archery society, formed in Wrexham.[6]

Births

• 26 May - Richard Jones, printer (died 1855)
• 8 June - William Conybeare, geologist (died 1857)
• 9 July - Taliesin Williams, poet and author (died 1847)
• 2 October - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), historian (died 1848)[7]

Deaths

• 3 February - Philip David, Independent minister, 77[8]
• 24 May - Charles Morgan of Dderw, politician, 50[9]
• 18 June - John Egerton, controversial Bishop of Bangor 1756–1768, 65[10]
• 3 November - Robert Lowth, Bishop of St David's 1766, 76[11]
• date unknown
  • William Elias, poet, 79

References

1. Charles K. Hyde (12 March 2019). Technological Change and the British Iron Industry, 1700-1870. Princeton University Press. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-691-65634-2.
2. James Comper GRAY (1871). Sunday School World: an encyclopædia of facts ... on Sunday-School Matters. Edited by J. C. G. p. 11.
3. Emrys Jones; Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (21 September 2001). The Welsh in London, 1500-2000. University of Wales Press on behalf of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-7083-1697-9.
4. Unitarian Historical Society, London (1959). Transactions. p. 99.
5. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales (1976). An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan. RCAHMW. p. 323. ISBN 978-0-11-700754-3.
6. Multiple Contributors (21 April 2018). Regulations of the Society of Royal British Bowmen. Established, February 27th. 1787. Creative Media Partners, LLC. ISBN 978-1-385-06773-4.
7. DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY. 1896.
8. Williams, Griffith John. "Philip David". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
9. Lewis Namier; John Brooke (1985). The House of Commons 1754-1790. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 165–. ISBN 978-0-436-30420-0.
10. "John Egerton", Dictionary of National Biography (1885-1900), Volume 17
11. The Royal Kalendar, Or, Complete and Correct Annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the Year ... J. Debrett. 1817. p. 3.