1778 in Wales

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

• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne

• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice

• 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 – James Yorke

Events

• 9 September - Benjamin Millingchamp, is appointed chaplain on board the flagship of Admiral Sir Edward Hughes.
• date unknown
  • A furnace is built at Sirhowy by Thomas Atkinson and William Barrow of London. This is the first stage of the Tredegar ironworks.
  • Elizabeth Baker leaves her job as secretary to Hugh Vaughan at Hengwrt to live in the adjoining house of Doluwcheogryd.
  • Claiming himself as a prophet, watchmaker James Birch founds his own religious sect, the "Birchites", in Pembrokeshire.

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Jones - Traethiadau ar Gatecism Eglwys Loegr: gyda phregeth ar Gonffirmasiwn (translation)
• Thomas Pennant - Tour in Wales
• David William - Gorfoledd ym Mhebyll Seion
• Nathaniel Williams - Dialogus

Music

• Blind harpist John Parry and his son David play Handel's choruses on two Welsh harps at the court of King George III of Great Britain.

Births

• 28 July - Jacob Owen, architect, (died 1870)
• 21 August - Lewis Weston Dillwyn, porcelain manufacturer, naturalist and politician (died 1855)
• September - William Howels, preacher (died 1832)
• 29 September - Benjamin Hall, industrialist and politician (died 1817)
• 20 November - Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morgannwg), poet (died 1835)
• 24 November - Salusbury Pryce Humphreys, admiral (died 1845)
• date unknown - David Rowlands, naval surgeon (died 1846)

Deaths

• 25 April - James Relly, Methodist minister, 56?
• 6 October - William Worthington, priest and author, 74
• date unknown - William Owen, Royal Navy officer, 40/41

References

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