• Source: 1787 in Wales

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




Incumbents


Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw (until 24 May); Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (from 8 June)
Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley
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 – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Bishop of Bangor – John Warren
Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley
Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell




Events


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




Arts and literature






= New books

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John Thelwall - Poems upon various subjects




= Music

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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.




Births


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




Deaths


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




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