1768 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1768 to Wales and its people..

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet^[1][2][3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Wynn^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - William Vaughan^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer^[10][2]

• Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton^[11]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Ewer^[12]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Richard Newcome^[13]
• Bishop of St Davids – Charles Moss (from 30 November)^[14]

Events

• 2 March - Rowland Pugh, a local miner, discovers the "Great Lode" of copper on Parys Mountain^[15] and is rewarded with a bottle of whisky and a rent-free house for his lifetime.
• By May - Kymer's Canal opens.^[16]
• 16 May - Evan Lloyd is fined £50 after being found guilty of libel against William Price.^[17]
• 24 August - A seminary is founded at Trefeca-isaf for the training of evangelical preachers, with financial assistance from Selina, Countess of Huntingdon.^[18]
• 10 December - Richard Wilson is a founder member of the Royal Academy of Arts.^[19]
• Oldest Jews' burial ground in Wales established at Swansea.
• The Ladies of Llangollen meet for the first time in Ireland.
• Controversial Bishop of Bangor John Egerton is translated to the see of Lichfield in England.

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• John Griffith - Some Brief Remarks upon Sundry Important Subjects … principally addressed to the … Quakers … ^[20]

Welsh language

• Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Y Farddoneg Fabilonaidd
• William Williams Pantycelyn - Tri Wyr o Sodom^[21]

Music

• 14 May - In Dublin, a concert takes place for the benefit of "Jones", a resident of Britain Street, where music will be performed on "that most admired instrument, the Welsh Harp".^[22]

Births

• 29 March - Sir Robert Vaughan, 2nd Baronet, landowner (died 1843)^[23]
• 17 May (in Brunswick, Germany) - Caroline of Brunswick, future Princess of Wales (died 1821)^[24]
• 5 August - Sydenham Edwards, botanical artist (died 1819)^[25]
• 17 September - Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn (died 1854)^[26](died 1854)^[27]
• 22 November - William Williams (Gwilym Twrog), poet (died 1836)^[28]
• date unknown
  • John Bird, landscape artist (died 1829)^[29]
  • Thomas Parry, merchant (died 1824)

Deaths

• 14 March - Owen Rees, Calvinist minister, 50/51^[30]
• 26 March - Humphrey Owen, academic, 65^[31]
• 13 May - Princess Louisa, daughter of the former Prince and Princess of Wales, 19 (consumption)^[32]
• 31 August - Henrietta Nevill, Baroness Bergavenny, 38^[33]
• date unknown
  • Robert Morris, industrialist^[34]
  • Hannah Pritchard, actress

References

1. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
2. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
3. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
4. Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
5. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
6. "Rice, George" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
7. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
8. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
9. George Grenville (1962). Additional Grenville Papers 1763-1765. Manchester University Press. p. 176.
10. Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
11. John McClintock; James Strong (1981). Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Baker Book House. p. 324.
12. "Ewer, John (EWR723J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
13. The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
14. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
15. Charles Frederick Cliffe (1851). The book of North Wales. Hamilton, Adams. p. 123.
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21. John Edward Horatio Steegman; Iorwerth Peate. "WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1717-1791), Methodist cleric, author, and hymn-writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
22. John C. Greene (2011). Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 1150–. ISBN 978-1-61146-110-7.
23. "Vaughan, Sir Robert Williames, 2nd Bt. (1768-1843), of Nannau Hall, nr. Dolgellau, Merion". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
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25. Megan Ellis. "Edwards, Sydenham Teast (1768-1819), botanical and animal draughtsman". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
26. "LLOYD, Sir Edward Pryce, 2nd Bt. (1768-1854), of Pengwern, Flints. and Bodfach, Mont". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
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29. Thomas Mardy Rees. "Bird, John (1768-1829), landscape painter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
30. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Rees, Owen (1717-1768), Independent minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
31. Jenkins, Robert Thomas. "Owen, Humphrey (1702–1768), principal of Jesus College, Oxford, and Bodley's librarian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2007.
32. Peter Cunningham, ed. (1877). The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. Bickers and son. p. 100.
33. G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant (reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 42.
34. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "MORRIS, ROBERT (d. 1768), industrialist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 March 2018.