1780 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1780 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• January - Admiral Sir Thomas Foley plays an important role in the relief of Gibraltar.
• 1 July - Anthony Bacon acquires the lease of the Hirwaun ironworks.
• 26 August - Edward Williames Salusbury Vaughan succeeds to the Rûg estate.^[1]
• 29 September - Sir Watkin Lewes is elected Lord Mayor of London.
• Thomas Parry Jones-Parry marries his cousin Margaret and acquires the Madryn estate.
• The Ladies of Llangollen settle at Plas Newydd.
• Richard Price devises the "Northampton Tables" for calculating actuarial valuation for assurance and pensions.
• The development of Ebbw Vale Steelworks begins.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Walters - Poems with Notes

Music

Births

• 10 February - James Henry Cotton, Dean of Bangor (died 1862)
• 15 April - Angharad Llwyd, antiquary (died 1866)
• 14 May - Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, politician (died 1855)
• 7 October - Wyndham Lewis, MP (died 1838)
• date unknown
  • Dic Aberdaron (Richard Robert Jones), traveller and linguist (died 1843)^[2]
  • Thomas Prothero, lawyer and businessman (died 1853)^[3]

Deaths

• 6 March - Sir John Meredith, lawyer, 65
• 1 April - Sir Stephen Glynne, 7th Baronet, 35
• date unknown - Richard Thomas, genealogist, 46

References

1. Welsh Biography Online. Accessed 31 March 2016
2. Humphreys, H. The Celebrated Cambrian Linguist, or the History of Dick Aberdaron (Carnarvon: H. Humphreys, 1866).
3. Welsh Biography Online, Prothero, Thomas.