1782 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1782 to Wales and its people.
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[edit] Incumbents
[edit] Events
- March - Lloyd Kenyon is appointed Attorney-General.
- April 12 - In the Battle of the Saintes, the British fleet defeat the French after a campaign in which Admiral Sir Thomas Foley has played a major part.
- September 27 - Francis Homfray leases a mill from Anthony Bacon of Cyfarthfa ironworks. (Under the terms of a new Parliamentary Act, Bacon, as an MP, is disqualified from holding government munitions contracts.)
- William Owen Pughe and Robert Hughes (Robin Ddu yr Ail o Fôn) meet in London.
- David Davis (Dafis Castellhywel) settles in Castellhywel.
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] New books
- Thomas Pennant - Journey to Snowdon, volume 1
[edit] Music
- William Williams Pantycelyn - Rhai Hymnau Newyddion (second in a series of hymn collections)
[edit] Births
- January 20 - Sir William Nott, military leader (died 1845)
- December 29 - Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer (died 1857)
[edit] Deaths
- May 15 - Richard Wilson, landscape painter, 54
- November - John Parry, harpist, 72?
- date unknown - Lady Catherine Hamilton, formerly Catherine Barlow of Colby, heiress to an estate in south Pembrokeshire which passed to her nephew Charles Francis Greville.
