1758 in Wales

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Events from the year 1758 in Wales .

Incumbents

• 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

• April – Goronwy Owen becomes headmaster of the grammar school attached to the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. ^[10]
• 13 July – Josiah Tucker becomes Dean of Gloucester. ^[11]
• October – Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) becomes curate of Llanllechid.
• December – The Llangibby estate passes into the hands of the Addams-Williams family when the original Williams line dies out. ^[12]
• date unknown – The Welsh Charity School becomes co-educational. ^[13]

Arts and literature

New books

• Peter Williams – Blodau i Blant

Music

• John Thomas – Caniadau Siôn, vol. 1

Births

• 3 May – Stephen Kemble, Herefordshire-born actor, brother of Sarah Siddons (died 1822) ^[14]
• 24 (or 20) August – Sir Thomas Picton, soldier (died 1815) ^[15]
• 3 September – Henrietta Clive, Countess of Powis (died 1822) ^[16]
• 18 October – Theophilus Jones, lawyer and historian (died 1830)
• date unknown – Richard Fothergill, ironmaster (died 1821) ^[17]
• probable – Isaac Davis, advisor to Kamehameha I of Hawaii (died 1810)

Deaths

• 24 January – William Wogan, religious writer, 79 ^[18]
• 25 January – Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor, 50 ^[19]
• 18 March – Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury and former Bishop of Bangor, 65
• 24 March – Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet, 53 ^[20]
• December – Sir Leonard Williams, 5th Baronet ^[12]

References

1. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
2. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN   9780806313146.
3. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN   9780806313146.
4. "Rice, George"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
5. Namier, Lewis. "Gwynne, Howell (1718-80), of Garth in Llanleonfel, Brec". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
6. John McClintock; James Strong (1981). Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Baker Book House. p. 324.
7. "Newcome, Richard (NWCM718R2)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
8. The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
9. "Ellys, Anthony"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
10. David Gwenallt Jones. "Owen, Goronwy (1723-1769), cleric and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 6 March 2020.
11. Ruth Savage (26 April 2012). Philosophy and Religion in Enlightenment Britain: New Case Studies. OUP Oxford. p. 240. ISBN   978-0-19-922704-4.
12. Bernard Burke; John Burke (1838). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England. Scott, Webster & Geary. p. 508.
13. Jones, Emrys, ed. (2001). The Welsh in London, 1500-2000. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. pp. 63–66. ISBN   0708317103.
14. The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage ... proprietors. 1807. p. 227.
15. Havard, Robert (1996). Wellington's Welsh general: a life of Sir Thomas Picton. London: Aurum. ISBN   1854104020.
16. John Chaloner Smith (1879). British Mezzotinto Portraits. H. Sotheran & Company. p. 562.
17. Watkin William Price. "Fothergill family, ironmasters". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
18. Notes and Queries. Oxford University Press. 1855. p. 245.
19. The History of Parliament: WINDSOR, Hon. Herbert (1707-58). Originally published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970
20. "(Bangor) Mostyn Manuscripts". Jisc Archives Hub. Retrieved 29 March 2019.