This article is about the particular significance of the year 1777 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Wynn Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (from 10 June) Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Bishop of Bangor – John Moore Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley Bishop of St Davids – James Yorke
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. 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.
Births 15 June - David Daniel Davis, royal obstetrician (died 1841) 29 August - John James, hymn-writer (died 1848) 15 September - John Jones of Ystrad, MP (died 1842) 7 November - Richard Bassett, Methodist minister (died 1852) date unknown William Camden Edwards, engraver (died 1855) Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (died 1864)
Deaths 4 March - Edward Richard, teacher and poet, 62 5 April - Thomas Lewis, politician, 86 April - John Hodges, Methodist, 77 19 May - Button Gwinnett, American political leader of Welsh parentage, 41 (killed in duel) 28 June - Chase Price, lawyer and politician, 45/6 1 July - Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet, 64 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 54Leach, 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
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