Incumbents

• Prince of Wales
  Prince of Wales
  Prince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
  
   - George, Prince of Wales
  George IV of the United Kingdom
  George IV was the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and also of Hanover from the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later...
  
  
• Princess of Wales
  Princess of Wales
  Princess of Wales is a British courtesy title held by the wife of The Prince of Wales since the first "English" Prince of Wales in 1283.Although there have been considerably more than ten male heirs to the throne, there have been only ten Princesses of Wales. The majority of Princes of Wales...
  
   - vacant

Events

• 1770 in Wales
  1770 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1770 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:...
  
  
• 1771 in Wales
  1771 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1771 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:*December...
  
  
• 1772 in Wales
  1772 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1772 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:...
  
  
• 1773 in Wales
  1773 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1773 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:...
  
  
• 1774 in Wales
  1774 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1774 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:...
  
  
• 1775 in Wales
  1775 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1775 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:*September 8 - An earthquake measuring 5.1 is felt in Swansea....
  
  
• 1776 in Wales
  1776 in Wales
  This article is about the significance of the year 1776 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:...
  
  
• 1777 in Wales
  1777 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1777 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Princess of Wales - George, Princess Regent*Prince of Wales - vacant-Events:...
  
  
• 1778 in Wales
  1778 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1778 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:...
  
  
• 1779 in Wales
  1779 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1779 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:...
  
  

New books

• Thomas Churchyard
  Thomas Churchyard
  Thomas Churchyard , English author, was born at Shrewsbury, the son of a farmer.-Life:Churchyard received a good education, and, having speedily dissipated at court the money with which his father provided him, he entered the household of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey...
  
   - The Worthines of Wales, a Poem (1776)
• Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) - Casgliad o Bregethau (1776)
• Williams Evans - A New English-Welsh dictionary: Containing All Words Necessary for Reading an English Author (1771)
• Elizabeth Griffith
  Elizabeth Griffith
  Elizabeth Griffith , sometimes also credited Elizabeth Griffiths, was an 18th-century Irish dramatist, fiction writer, essayist and actress, best known for her edition of Shakespeare's comedies published in 1775.- Biography :Griffith was born in Glamorgan, Glamorganshire, Wales to Dublin theatre...
  
   - The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated (1775)
• Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Duwdod Crist (1777)
• Jinny Jenks - Tour through Wales (1772)
• Dafydd Jones
  Dafydd Jones
  Dafydd Jones is a retired Welsh rugby union footballer, who played in the back row for the Llanelli Scarlets in the Magners League. He has also played for Wales...
  
   - Marwnad Enoch Ffransis (1774)
• Hugh Jones (Maesglasau)
  • Cydymaith yr Hwsmon (1774)
  • Gardd y Caniadau (1776)
• Robert Jones
  • Lleferydd yr Asyn (1770)
  • Drych i'r Anllythrennog (1778)
• Iolo Morganwg
  Iolo Morganwg
  Edward Williams, better known by his bardic name Iolo Morganwg , was an influential Welsh antiquarian, poet, collector, and literary forger. He was widely considered a leading collector and expert on medieval Welsh literature in his day, but after his death it was revealed that he had forged a...
  
   - Dagrau yr Awen (1772)
• Nicholas Owen
  Nicholas Owen
  Nicholas David Arundel Owen is a British journalist and television presenter. He now works for the BBC, presenting on the BBC News channel and BBC One.-Biography:...
  
   - British Remains (1777)
• Thomas Pennant
  Thomas Pennant
  Thomas Pennant was a Welsh naturalist and antiquary.The Pennants were a Welsh gentry family from the parish of Whitford, Flintshire, who had built up a modest estate at Bychton by the seventeenth century...
  
   - British Zoology, vol. 4 (1777)
• David Powell (Dewi Nantbrân) - Allwydd y Nef. O gasgliad D.P. Off. (1776)
• Daniel Rowland
  Daniel Rowland
  Daniel Rowland —sometimes spelt as Rowlands—was one of the foremost leaders of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist revival along with Howell Harris and William Williams. For most of his life he served as curate in the parishes of Nantcwnlle and Llangeitho, Ceredigion...
  
   - Pum Pregeth ac Amryw o Hymnau (1772)
• Nathaniel Williams
  Nathaniel Williams
  -Life:Nathaniel Williams was the son of Thomas Williams, from Swansea in south Wales. Nathaniel Williams studied at the University of Oxford, matriculating as a member of Jesus College in 1672 and obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1676. He wrote two books: A Pindaric Elegy on the famous...
  
   - Dialogus (1778)
• William Williams Pantycelyn
  William Williams Pantycelyn
  William Williams Pantycelyn , also known as Williams Pantycelyn and Pantycelyn, is generally acknowledged as Wales' most famous hymn writer. He was also one of the key leaders of the 18th century Welsh Methodist revival, along with Daniel Rowland and Howell Harris. As a poet and prose writer he is...
  
   - Ductor Naptiarum: Neu Gyfarwyddwr Priodas (1777)
• Sir John Wynn
  Sir John Wynn, 1st Baronet
  Sir John Wynn, 1st Baronet , Welsh baronet, Member of Parliament and antiquary, was the son of Morys Wynn ap John. He claimed to be directly descended from the princes of Gwynedd through Rhodri ab Owain son of Owain Gwynedd. However, this claim is disputed in a publication of 1884 entitled...
  
   - History of the Gwydir Family (posthumously published in 1770)

Births

• 1770
  • January 15 - Sir John Edwards, Baronet, politician (died 1850)
  • April 14 - John Evans
    John Evans (explorer)
    John Thomas Evans was a Welsh explorer who produced an early map of the Missouri River.John Evans was born in Waunfawr, near Caernarfon...
    
    , explorer (died 1799)
  • April 30 - David Thompson
    David Thompson (explorer)
    David Thompson was an English-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native peoples as "Koo-Koo-Sint" or "the Stargazer"...
    
    , explorer (died 1857)
• 1772
  • January 10 - William Jenkins Rees, antiquary (died 1855)
  • July - Edward Hughes (Y Dryw), bard (died 1850)
  • October 25 - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
    Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
    Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1794 to 1840....
    
     (died 1840)
• 1773
  • November 14 - Stapleton Stapleton-Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere, military leader (died 1865)
• 1774
  • May - John Elias
    John Elias
    John Elias was a Christian preacher in Wales in the first half of the 19th century, as part of the Welsh Methodist revival. His preaching was noted as being exceptionally powerful, "as if talking fire down from heaven". On one occasion it is said he preached to a crowd of 10,000 people. He was a...
    
    , preacher (died 1841)
  • June 24 - Azariah Shadrach, writer (died 1844)
• 1775
  • November 25 - Charles Kemble
    Charles Kemble
    Charles Kemble was a British actor.-Life:The youngest son of Roger Kemble, and younger brother of John Philip Kemble, Stephen Kemble and Sarah Siddons, he was born at Brecon, South Wales. Like John Philip, he was educated at Douai...
    
    , actor (died 1854)
• 1776
  • April - Ann Griffiths
    Ann Griffiths
    Ann Griffiths was a Welsh poet and writer of Methodist Christian hymns.-Biography:Ann was born in April 1776 near the village of Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa, six miles from the market town of Llanfyllin in Powys...
    
    , hymn-writer (died 1805)
  • August 2 - Thomas Assheton Smith
    Thomas Assheton Smith
    Thomas Assheton Smith was an English landowner and all-round sportsman who played a major part in the development of the Welsh slate industry....
    
    , industrialist and politician (died 1858)
• 1777
  • June 15 - David Daniel Davis
    David Daniel Davis
    David Daniel Davis M.D. F.R.C.P. was a British physician.Born David Davies in Llandyfaelog in Wales, he received his M.D. from the University of Glasgow in 1801. He set up his practice as a physician in Sheffield, living in Paradise Square from 1803 to 1812...
    
    , royal obstetrician (died 1841)
  • August 29 - John James, hymn-writer (died 1848)
  • September 15 - John Jones of Ystrad
    John Jones of Ystrad
    John Jones "of Ystrad" , was a Welsh politician, MP for Carmarthen from 1821 to 1832.He was born in King Street, Carmarthen, the son of a solicitor. Educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, he went on to Lincoln's Inn to qualify as a barrister...
    
    , MP (died 1842)
• 1778
  • September 29 - Benjamin Hall
    Benjamin Hall (ironmaster)
    Benjamin Hall, FRS was an industrialist and a prominent figure in South Wales.- Background, Education & Connections :...
    
    , industrialist and politician (died 1817)
• 1779
  • August 24 - Charles Norris
    Charles Norris
    Charles Norris was an English topographical etcher and writer who is best known for his landscape work of the Welsh countryside, especially the area around Tenby....
    
    , artist (died 1858)

Deaths

• 1771
  • May 15 - Thomas Morgan (of Rhiwpera)
    Thomas Morgan (of Rhiwpera)
    Thomas Morgan was a Welsh politician, of the family of Morgan of Tredegar. He was the eldest son of Thomas Morgan and his wife Jane Colchester.Morgan represented Brecon in the House of Commons from 1754 until 1763...
    
    , politician, 43
  • date unknown
    • Lewis Hopkin, poet
    • Alban Thomas
      Alban Thomas
      Alban Thomas was a Welsh doctor, librarian and antiquarian, who followed in his father's footsteps in supporting Welsh literature, being particularly associated with efforts by Moses Williams to publish Welsh-language manuscripts.-Life:...
      
      , doctor, librarian and antiquarian
    • Richard Trevor
      Richard Trevor (bishop)
      Richard Trevor was an English prelate, Bishop of St David's from 1744 to 1752 and Bishop of Durham from 1752 until his death.-Life:...
      
      , former bishop of St David's
• 1772
  • October 16 - Richard Farrington
    Richard Farrington
    Richard Farrington was a Welsh Anglican priest and antiquarian.-Life:Farrington was born in 1702 and was educated at the University of Oxford, matriculating from Jesus College, Oxford in 1720 and obtaining his BA in 1724...
    
    , antiquary, 71
• 1773
  • July 21 - Howell Harris
    Howell Harris
    Hywel Harris was one of the main leaders of the Welsh Methodist revival in the 18th century, along with Daniel Rowland and William Williams Pantycelyn.-Life:...
    
    , Methodist leader, 59
• 1774
  • date unknown - Dafydd Nicolas, poet
• 1775
  • August 14 - Sir Lynch Cotton, 4th Baronet
    Sir Lynch Cotton, 4th Baronet
    Sir Lynch Salusbury Cotton was a politician in Great Britain. He was Member of Parliament for Denbighshire from 1749 to 1774....
    
    
• 1776
  • November 1 - Miles Harry, Baptist minister, 76
  • date unknown - Sir John Powell Pryce, 6th Baronet (in debtors' prison)
• 1777
  • March 4 - Edward Richard, teacher and poet, 62
  • April - John Hodges, Methodist, 77
  • July 1 - Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet
    Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet
    Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet was a Welsh politician and landowner.Glynne was the third son of Sir Stephen Glynne, 4th Baronet, and succeeded to the baronetcy after the successive deaths of his father and elder brothers in 1729 and 1730...
    
    , 64
  • August 30 - Dafydd Jones
    Dafydd Jones
    Dafydd Jones is a retired Welsh rugby union footballer, who played in the back row for the Llanelli Scarlets in the Magners League. He has also played for Wales...
    
    , hymn-writer, 66
  • December 18 - William Lloyd, translator, 60
• 1778
  • October 6 - William Worthington
    William Worthington
    William Worthington may refer to:* William Worthington American silent film actor and director* William Worthington , Anglican priest and theological writer...
    
    , clergyman and author, 74
• 1779
  • December 11 - "Madam" Bridget Bevan
    Bridget Bevan
    Bridget Bevan , also known as Madam Bevan, was a Welsh educationalist and public benefactor...
    
    , philanthropist, 81