1787 in Wales

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Devils Bridge waterfall 1787

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

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget^[1][2][3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw (until 24 May); Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (from 8 June)^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford^[2][9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer^[10][2]

• Bishop of Bangor – John Warren^[11][12]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson^[13]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley^[14]
• Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell^[15]

Events

• March - Hester Piozzi returns from Italy with her second husband.^[16]
• November - Richard Crawshay uses puddling at the Cyfarthfa ironworks.^[17]
• December - Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), shortly before his death, sells his manuscript collection.
• date unknown
  • Thomas Charles opens his first Sunday school, at Hengoed.^[18]
  • The first Cymmrodorion Society is disbanded.^[19]
  • Iolo Morganwg spends time as a prisoner in Cardiff jail.^[20]
  • Construction of Margam orangery begins.^[21]
  • The Baptist Association endorses the "pocket Bible" published by David Jones and Peter Williams.^[22]

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.^[23]

Births

• 26 May - Richard Jones, printer (died 1855)^[24]
• 8 June - William Conybeare, geologist (died 1857)^[25]
• 9 July - Taliesin Williams, poet and author (died 1847)^[26]
• 2 October - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), historian (died 1848)^[27]

Deaths

• 3 February - Philip David, Independent minister, 77^[28]
• 24 May - Charles Morgan of Dderw, politician, 50^[29]
• 18 June - John Egerton, controversial Bishop of Bangor 1756–1768, 65.^[30]
• 3 November - Robert Lowth, Bishop of St David's 1766, 76^[31]
• date unknown - William Elias, poet, 79

References

1. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
2. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
3. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
4. Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
5. Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
6. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
7. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
8. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
9. Bertie George Charles (1959). "Philipps family, of Picton". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
10. Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
11. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
12. The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
13. John Henry James (1898). A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff. Western Mail. p. 16.
14. The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
15. Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 163.
16. McCarthy, William (1985). Hester Thrale Piozzi, portrait of a literary woman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. p. 51. ISBN 9780807816592.
17. 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.
18. James Comper GRAY (1871). Sunday School World: an encyclopædia of facts ... on Sunday-School Matters. Edited by J. C. G. p. 11.
19. 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.
20. Unitarian Historical Society, London (1959). Transactions. p. 99.
21. 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.
22. Robert Thomas Jenkins (1959). "Jones, David (1741-1792), Baptist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
23. Regulations of the Society of Royal British Bowmen. Established, February 27th. 1787. Creative Media Partners, LLC. 21 April 2018. ISBN 978-1-385-06773-4.
24. William Llewelyn Davies (1959). "Jones, Richard (1787-1855?), printer and publisher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
25. Academic American Encyclopedia. Grolier Incorporated. 1996. p. 262.
26. Griffith John Williams (1959). "Williams, Taliesin (Taliesin ab Iolo; 1787-1847), poet and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
27. Brinley Rees (1959). "Price, Thomas (Carnhuanawc; 1787-1848), historian and antiquary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
28. Williams, Griffith John. "Philip David". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
29. Lewis Namier; John Brooke (1985). The House of Commons 1754-1790. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 165–. ISBN 978-0-436-30420-0.
30. Sutton, Charles William. "Egerton, John (1721-1787)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 17. pp. 158–159.
31. The Royal Kalendar, Or, Complete and Correct Annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the Year ... J. Debrett. 1817. p. 3.