1759 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1759 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
[edit | edit source]- Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley[1][2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth[3]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice[4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Howell Gwynne[5][1]
- Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton[6]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Newcome[7]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond[8]
- Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys[9]
Events
[edit | edit source]- 19 September – The Dowlais Iron Company is formed.
- date unknown – Evan Davies resigns as head of the Welsh Academy, following a rift between the Presbyterian and Congregational Fund Boards.[10]
Arts and literature
[edit | edit source]New books
[edit | edit source]- Blodeu-gerdd Cymry (ed. Dafydd Jones)[11]
- Mathias Maurice – Social Religion Exemplify'd[12]
- John Wesley – Primitive Physick, translated by John Evans of Bala
Births
[edit | edit source]- 1 January – Joseph Foster-Barham, owner of the Trecŵn estate (died 1832)[13]
- 11 February – John Rice Jones, Welsh-born American politician (died 1824)[14]
- 16 March – Sir John Nicholl, politician and judge (died 1838)
- 7 August – William Owen Pughe, lexicographer (died 1835)[15]
- 10 September – George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke (died 1827)
- 18 October – Theophilus Jones, historian (died 1812)[16]
- date unknown -
- William Aubrey, engineer (died 1827)[17]
- David Thomas ("Dafydd Ddu Eryri"), (died 1822)
Deaths
[edit | edit source]- 11 August – John Heylyn, Welsh-descended clergyman, 74[18]
- 27 September – Isaac Maddox, Bishop of St Asaph, 62[19]
- 2 November – Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist, 50[20]
References
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