:1772 in Wales

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=24}}{{cite book | author=J.C. Sainty | author-link=John Sainty (civil servant) | title=List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 | publisher=Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd | location=London | year=1979}}{{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=695}}{{cite book|title=Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru|publisher=University of Wales Press|year=1992|page=169}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan of Rhiwpera (until 15 May){{cite web| url = https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/morgan-thomas-1727-71 | title=MORGAN, Thomas (1727-71), of Tredegar, Mon. | publisher= History of Parliament Online (1754-1790)| access-date = 19 October 2021}} Charles Morgan of Dderw (from 23 December){{cite book| author=Edwin Poole|title=The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions|publisher=Edwin Poole|year=1886|page=378}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Wynn{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=26}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice{{cite DNB|wstitle=Rice, George}}
• 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){{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=612}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - William Vaughan{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=29}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis (until 11 September);{{cite book|author=George Grenville|title=Additional Grenville Papers 1763-1765|publisher=Manchester University Press|year=1962|page=176}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer{{cite book|author=Jonathan Williams|title=The History of Radnorshire|publisher=R. Mason|year=1859|page=115}}

• Bishop of Bangor – John Ewer{{cite book|author1=John McClintock|author2=James Strong|title=Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature|publisher=Baker Book House|year=1981|page=324}}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington{{CCEd |type=appointment |id=275358 |name=Barrington, Shute |location=Llandaff |accessed=4 September 2014 }}
• Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley{{cite book|title=The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England|publisher=James Parkes and Company|year=1866|page=15}}
• Bishop of St Davids – Charles Moss{{cite book|author=Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher=University Press|year=1854|page=305}}

• 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.

• 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{{cite book|author=Evan Evans|title=The love of our country|url=https://archive.org/details/loveourcountrya01evangoog|year=1772|publisher=Printed by H. Humphreys|pages=[https://archive.org/details/loveourcountrya01evangoog/page/n34 28]–}}
• Jinny Jenks - Tour through Wales
• Richard Price - Appeal … on the National Debt{{cite DWB|id=s-PRIC-RIC-1723|title=PRICE, RICHARD (1723-1791), philosopher|author=Llewelyn Gwyn Chambers|access-date=3 October 2018}}

• Iolo Morganwg - Dagrau yr Awen
• Job Orton - Eglwys yn y Ty : neu Bregeth am Grefydd-Deuluaidd.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/catalogueprinte01jonegoog/catalogueprinte01jonegoog_djvu.txt|title=Full text of "A manual of Welsh literature, containing a brief survey of ...|website=Archive.org|access-date=29 April 2019}}
• Daniel Rowland - Pum Pregeth ac Amryw o Hymnau

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

• 10 January - William Jenkins Rees, antiquary (died 1855){{cite DNB|wstitle=Rees, William Jenkins|volume=47}}
• 28 May - Hans Busk, poet (died 1862){{cite journal|journal=Radnorshire Society Transactions|volume=8|year=1938|pages=47–50|title=Hans Busk, Radnorshire squire|url=http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewpage/llgc-id:1191402/llgc-id:1191946/llgc-id:1191995/get650|publisher=Cylchgronau Cymru (Welsh Journals online)|access-date=29 April 2019}}
• 11 July - John Davies, missionary (died 1855){{cite DWB|year=1959|id=s-DAVI-JOH-1772|title=Davies, John (1772-1855), school teacher and missionary|first=Evan Lewis|last=Evans|fewer-links=yes}}
• July - Edward Hughes (Y Dryw), bard (died 1850)
• 26 October - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet (died 1840){{cite book|title=The House of Commons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j0AsmWc5zYwC&pg=RA3-PA596|year=1986|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=978-0-436-52101-0|pages=3}}

• 8 February - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Dowager Princess of Wales, 52 (throat cancer){{Cite book |title=Debrett's Kings and Queens of Britain |last=Williamson |first=David |date=1986 |publisher=Salem House |isbn=978-0-88162-213-3 |page=157}}
• 11 September - Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis, 69Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Page 3209.
• October - Sir Thomas Stepney, 6th Baronet,{{cite book|author=rev. William Betham|title=The baronetage of England, or, The history of the English baronets, and such baronets of Scotland, as are of English families|url=https://archive.org/details/baronetageengla00unkngoog|year=1801|pages=[https://archive.org/details/baronetageengla00unkngoog/page/n254 236]}}{{cite book|author=Francis Green|title=West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=07McAQAAMAAJ|year=1918|publisher=W. Spurrell and son.}}
• 16 October - Richard Farrington, antiquary, 71{{cite DWB|year=1959|id=s-FARR-RIC-1702|title=Farrington, Richard (1702-1772), cleric and antiquary|first=William Gilbert|last=Williams|fewer-links=yes}}

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