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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1782 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet (until 1 August) Henry Paget (from 1 August)
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw
- 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 – 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 (until 27 August); Richard Watson (from 20 October)
- Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley
- Bishop of St Davids – John Warren
Events
- March - Lloyd Kenyon is appointed Attorney-General.
- 12 April - 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.
- 27 September - 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 (Castellhywel) settles in Castellhywel.
Arts and literature
New books
- William Gilpin - Observations on the River Wye and several parts of South Wales, etc. relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; made in the summer of the year 1770
- Thomas Pennant - Journey to Snowdon, volume 1
- John Walters - Translated Specimens of Welsh Poetry
Music
- William Williams Pantycelyn - Rhai Hymnau Newyddion (second in a series of hymn collections)
Births
- 20 January - Sir William Nott, military leader (died 1845)
- 29 December - Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer (died 1857)
- unknown date - William Morgan, evangelical clergyman (died 1858)
Deaths
- March - John Evans, anti-Methodist clergyman, 79
- 27 April - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, politician, 71
- 15 May - Richard Wilson, landscape painter, 54
- 25 August - Lady Catherine Hamilton, formerly Catherine Barlow of Colby, heiress to an estate in south Pembrokeshire which passed to her nephew Charles Francis Greville
- November - John Parry, harpist, 72?
- 9 December - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet, Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, 73
References
- Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
- Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
- ^ J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
- Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
- Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
- Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
- Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
- Tobias Smollett, ed. (1775). The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature. R. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row. p. 159.
- "Barrington, Shute (at Llandaff) (CCEd Appointment ID 275358)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
- John Henry James (1898). A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff. Western Mail. p. 16.
- The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
- Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
- The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
- Michael Levey; Sir Thomas Lawrence; National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) (1979). Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1769-1830. National Portrait Gallery.
- William Stewart (9 September 2009). Admirals of the World: A Biographical Dictionary, 1500 to the Present. McFarland. pp. 131–. ISBN 978-0-7864-8288-7.
- "Davis, David, Dafis Castellhywel (1745-1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 1959. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- William Gilpin (2005). Observations on the River Wye. Pallas Athene. ISBN 978-1-84368-004-8.
- "The Printed Works of William Williams, Pantycelyn". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
- Sir William Nott (1854). Memoirs and correspondence of Major-General Sir William Nott. Hurst and Blackett. pp. 297–.
- Robert Thomas Jenkins (1959). "Evans, John (1702-1782), cleric and anti-Methodist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- John Debrett (1814). England: 1. G. Woodfall. p. 281.
- William George Constable (1953). Richard Wilson. Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 15.
- Thomas M. McCoog (2003). Promising Hope: Essays on the Suppression and Restoration of the English Province of the Society of Jesus. Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu. ISBN 978-88-7041-597-1.
- Peter D.G. Thomas (1964). "Bayly, Sir Nicholas, 2nd Bt. (1709-82), of Plas Newydd, Anglesey". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790. Retrieved 26 October 2021.