1787 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1787 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw (until 24 May); Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (from 8 June)
• 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 – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer

• Bishop of Bangor – John Warren
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
• Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley
• Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell

Events

• March - Hester Piozzi returns from Italy with her second husband.
• November - Richard Crawshay uses puddling at the Cyfarthfa ironworks.
• December - Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), shortly before his death, sells his manuscript collection.
• date unknown
• Thomas Charles opens his first Sunday school, at Hengoed.
• The first Cymmrodorion Society is disbanded.
• Iolo Morganwg spends time as a prisoner in Cardiff jail.
• Construction of Margam orangery begins.
• The Baptist Association endorses the "pocket Bible" published by David Jones and Peter Williams.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Thelwall - Poems upon various subjects

Music

• Elis Roberts - Pedwar Chwarter y Flwyddyn
• Nathaniel Williams - Ychydig o Hymnau Newyddion
• William Williams Pantycelyn - Rhai Hymnau Newyddion

Sport

• 27 February - Royal British Bowmen, an archery society, formed in Wrexham.

Births

• 26 May - Richard Jones, printer (died 1855)
• 8 June - William Conybeare, geologist (died 1857)
• 9 July - Taliesin Williams, poet and author (died 1847)
• 2 October - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), historian (died 1848)

Deaths

• 3 February - Philip David, Independent minister, 77
• 24 May - Charles Morgan of Dderw, politician, 50
• 18 June - John Egerton, controversial Bishop of Bangor 1756–1768, 65.
• 3 November - Robert Lowth, Bishop of St David's 1766, 76
• date unknown - William Elias, poet, 79

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