• Source: 1781 in Wales

      • This article is about the particular significance of the year 1781 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 (until 27 December); Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley (from 27 December)
      Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne
      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
      Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet
      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 – John Warren


      Events


      June - The Chancery court agrees the sale of the Kinmel estate to a London buyer.
      Richard Price is made an honorary LL.D. by Yale University, in the company of George Washington.


      Arts and literature




      = New books

      =
      Thomas Pennant - Tours in Wales, volume 2


      = Music

      =
      John Parry (harpist) - British Harmony, being a Collection of Antient Welsh Airs


      Births


      11 March (baptised) – Lucy Thomas, colliery owner ('The Mother of the Welsh Steam Coal Trade') (d. 1847)
      ?November - William Williams of Wern, Independent minister (d. 1840)
      1 November – Robert Thomas, newspaper proprietor (died 1860 in Australia)
      28 November – Love Jones-Parry, soldier, politician and High Sheriff of Anglesey (d. 1853)


      Deaths


      4 April – Henry Thrale, brewer, 556-57
      7 May – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet of Orielton, politician, 84
      30 June – John Pettingall, Anglican clergyman and antiquarian, about 73
      12 October – David Powell (Dewi Nantbrân), Franciscan friar and author


      References

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