1776 in Wales

This article is about the significance of the year 1776 to Wales and its people.

← 1775 1774 1773 1772 1771 1776 in Wales → 1777 1778 1779 1780 1781
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1776 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• 4 July – United States Declaration of Independence signed in Philadelphia. Sixteen of the 56 signatories are of Welsh descent, Francis Lewis having been born in Llandaff.[1][2]
• 22 July – Sir Richard Philipps, 7th Baronet, is created 1st Baron Milford in the peerage of Ireland.
• 24 August – Herbert Mackworth is created a baronet.[3]
• dates unknown
  • John, Lord Mountstuart is created Baron Cardiff of Cardiff Castle.
  • Sir Thomas Wynn, 3rd Baronet, is created Baron Newborough in the Peerage of Ireland.[4]

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Churchyard – The Worthines of Wales, a Poem[5]
• Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) – Casgliad o Bregethau
• Hugh Jones (Maesglasau) – Gardd y Caniadau
• David Powell (Dewi Nantbrân) – Allwydd y Nef. O gasgliad D.P. Off.

Music

Births

• April (baptized 21 April) – Ann Griffiths, hymn-writer (d. 1805)
• 2 August – Thomas Assheton Smith II, landowner, industrialist, politician, and sportsman (d. 1858)
• 20 October – Sir Thomas Mostyn, 6th Baronet, politician (d. 1831)
• date unknown – William Henry Scourfield, Member of Parliament (d. 1843)[6]

Deaths

• 26 January – Evan Lloyd, poet, 41[7]
• 6 April – Hugh Hughes ("Y Bardd Coch"), poet, 83[8]
• 1 November – Miles Harry, Baptist minister, 76[9]
• December – John Edwards ("Sion y Potiau"), poet, 76/77[10]
• dates unknown
  • Sir John Powell Pryce, 6th Baronet (in debtors' prison)[11]
  • William Evans, lexicographer, age unknown[12]
  • Aaron Williams, composer, about 45[13]

References

1. "Welsh in the New World". A Brief History of Wales. GoBritannia!. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
2. Williams, David (Summer 1942). "The Contribution of Wales to the United States of America". National Library of Wales Journal. GENUKI. 2 (3/4). Archived from the original on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
3. "No. 11694". The London Gazette. 24 August 1776. p. 2.
4. "WYNN, Thomas (1736-1807), of Glynnllivon, Caern. ". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
5. Bibliotheca Boswelliana, a catalogue of the entire library of ... James Boswell... 1825. p. 18.
6. Thorne, R.G. "Scourfield, William Henry (1776–1843), of Robeston Hall, Robeston West and New Moat, Pemb". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
7. Cecil John Layton Price. "LLOYD, EVAN (1734-1776), cleric and writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
8. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Hughes, Hugh (1693-1776)" . Dictionary of National Biography. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
9. Edward William Price Evans. "HARRY, MILES (1700-1776), Baptist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
10. Garfield Hopkin Hughes. "EDWARDS, JOHN ('Siôn y Potiau'; 1699?-1776); translator and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
11. John Davies Knatchbull Lloyd. "PRYCE family, of Newtown Hall, Montgomeryshire". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
12. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Evans, William(fl. 1768-1776), Presbyterian minister, and lexicographer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
13. Cymmrodorion Society; Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England). (1931). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. p. 98.