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, as his second wife, Anne Mostyn, daughter of Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet.[1]
• 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.[2]

Births

• 15 June - David Daniel Davis, royal obstetrician (died 1841)[3]
• 29 August - John James, hymn-writer (died 1848)[4]
• 15 September - John Jones of Ystrad, MP (died 1842)[5]
• 7 November - Richard Bassett, Methodist minister (died 1852)[6]
• date unknown
  • William Camden Edwards, engraver (died 1855)[7]
  • Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (died 1864)
  • November - Mary Lane

Deaths

• 4 March - Edward Richard, teacher and poet, 62[8]
• 5 April - Thomas Lewis, politician, 86[9]
• April - John Hodges, Methodist, 77
• 19 May - Button Gwinnett, American political leader of Welsh parentage, 41 (killed in duel)[10]
• 28 June - Chase Price, lawyer and politician, 45/6[11]
• 1 July - Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet, 64[12]
• 30 August - Dafydd Jones, hymn-writer, 66
• 18 December - William Lloyd, translator, 60
• 23 December - Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, architect who worked in the borders of Wales and England, about 54[13]

References

1. Pennant, David F. (1996). Pennant Notes. pp. 66–67.
2. 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.
3. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Davis, David Daniel (1777-1841), physician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
4. 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.
5. David Williams. "Jones, John (1777-1841), 'of Ystrad', politician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
6. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Bassett, Richard (1777-1852), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
7. Leslie Stephen; Sir Sidney Lee (1889). Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, & Company. p. 131.
8. David Gwenallt Jones. "RICHARD, EDWARD (1714-1777), schoolmaster, scholar, and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
9. "LEWIS, Thomas (1690-1777), of Harpton Court, nr. Radnor". History of Parliament Online (1754-1790). Retrieved 1 January 2019.
10. "Button Gwinnett". Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
11. "PRICE, Chase (?1731-77), of Knighton, Rad". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
12. Jenkins, Dr. David. "Glynne family, of Hawarden, Flints.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
13. Leach, Peter, ‘Pritchard, Thomas Farnolls (bap. 1723, d.1798)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 , accessed 1 September 2008