1772 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1772 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan of Rhiwpera (until 15 May) Charles Morgan of Dderw (from 23 December)
 * 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 (from 22 March)
 * Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - William Vaughan
 * Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis (until 11 September);
 * Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer


 * Bishop of Bangor – John Ewer
 * Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington
 * Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley
 * Bishop of St Davids – Charles Moss

Events

 * May - Walter Siddons appears on stage at Chester and joins the Kemble family troupe.
 * The Stepney family of Prendergast sell their Pembrokeshire estates.
 * Henry Herbert is promoted to general, shortly before his death.

English language

 * Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) - The Love of our Country
 * Williams Evans - A New English-Welsh dictionary: Containing All Words Necessary for Reading an English Author
 * Jinny Jenks - Tour through Wales
 * Richard Price - Appeal … on the National Debt

Welsh language

 * Iolo Morganwg - Dagrau yr Awen
 * Job Orton - Eglwys yn y Ty : neu Bregeth am Grefydd-Deuluaidd.
 * Daniel Rowland - Pum Pregeth ac Amryw o Hymnau

Music

 * William Williams Pantycelyn writes the words of the missionary hymn "O'er the Gloomy Hills of Darkness".

Births

 * 10 January - William Jenkins Rees, antiquary (died 1855)
 * 28 May - Hans Busk, poet (died 1862)
 * 11 July - John Davies, missionary (died 1855)
 * July - Edward Hughes (Y Dryw), bard (died 1850)
 * 26 October - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet (died 1840)

Deaths

 * 8 February - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Dowager Princess of Wales, 52 (throat cancer)
 * 11 September - Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis, 69
 * October - Sir Thomas Stepney, 6th Baronet,
 * 16 October - Richard Farrington, antiquary, 71