1780s in Wales
# 1780s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1780 - 1789 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
* Princess of Wales - vacant

## Events

* 1780
* 1781
* 1782
* 1783
* 1784
* 1785
* 1786
* 1787
* 1788
* 1789

## Arts and literature

### New books

1780

* John Walters - Poems with Notes

1781

* Thomas Pennant - Tours in Wales, volume 2

1782

* Thomas Pennant - Journey to Snowdon, volume 1

1783

* Julia Ann Hatton - Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects

1784

* Richard Price - Importance of the American Revolution

1785

* Nathaniel Williams - Darllen Dwfr a Meddyginiaeth

1786

* David Samwell - A Narrative of the Death of Captain James Cook
* Hester Lynch Piozzi - Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., during the last twenty years of his life

1788

* Hester Lynch Piozzi - Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson

1789

* Richard Price - Love for our Country

### Music

1781

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

1783

* Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Rhai Hymnau Newyddion o Fawl i'r Oen

1784

* Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards

1787

* Nathaniel Williams - Ychydig o Hymnau Newyddion

## Births

* 1780
   * 10 February - James Henry Cotton, Dean of Bangor (died 1862)
   * 14 May - Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, politician (died 1855)
   * 7 October - Wyndham Lewis, MP (died 1838)
* 1781
* 1782
   * 20 January - Sir William Nott, military leader (died 1845)
   * 29 December - Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer (died 1857)
* 1783
   * May - Cadwaladr Jones, minister and literary editor (died 1867)
* 1784
   * 17 January - Joseph Tregelles Price, ironmaster (died 1854)
   * date unknown - Walter Coffin, coal-owner (died 1867)
* 1785
   * December - Richard Jones (Gwyndaf Eryri), poet (died 1848)
   * 24 December - William Bruce Knight, clergyman and scholar (died 1845)
   * date unknown - William Owen, historian (died 1864)
* 1786
* 1787
   * 2 October - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), historian (died 1848)
* 1788
   * 12 February - William Williams, MP (died 1865)
   * 3 October - John Montgomery Traherne, antiquary (died 1860)
* 1789
   * 22 April - Richard Roberts, engineer (died 1864)
   * 24 May - Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse (died 1860)

## Deaths

* 1780
   * 6 March - Sir John Meredith, lawyer, 65
   * 1 April - Sir Stephen Glynne, 7th Baronet, 35
   * date unknown - Richard Thomas, priest and antiquarian, 46
* 1781
   * 4 April - Henry Thrale, brewer
   * 12 October - David Powell (Dewi Nantbrân), Franciscan friar and author
* 1782
   * 15 May - Richard Wilson, landscape painter, 54
   * November - John Parry, harpist
* 1783
   * 7 August - Thomas Llewellyn, Baptist minister and writer, 63?
   * 6 September - Anna Williams, friend of Dr Johnson, 77?
* 1784
   * 5 April - David Williams, minister and schoolmaster, 74?
* 1785
   * 2 February - John Guest, industrialist, 63
   * 20 October - David Jones of Trefriw, poet, 77?
* 1789
   * 24 July - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, politician, 39
   * 7 August - William Edwards, minister and bridge-builder, 70
   * 26 November - Elizabeth Baker, diarist, 70?
