1759 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1759 to Wales and its people.

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

• 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

New books

• 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

• 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

• 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

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. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Davies, Evan (1694?-1770), Independent minister and tutor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 30 March 2020.
11. Sally Harper (2005). "An Elizabethan Tune List from Lleweni Hall". Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle. Taylor & Francis, Ltd (38): 45–98.
12. Gwilym Lleyn (1869). Cambrian Bibliography: Containing an Account of the Books Printed in the Welsh Language, Or Relating to Wales, from the Year 1546 to the End of the Eighteenth Century; with Biographical Notices. Printed and pub. by J. Pryse. pp.  455.
13. Bertie George Charles. "Barham family, of Trecŵn, Pembrokeshire". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
14. Messages and letters of William Henry Harrison Volume 1. Best Books on. 1922. p. 296.
15. Griffith John Williams. "Pughe, William Owen (1759-1835), lexicographer, grammarian, editor, antiquary, and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
16. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones, Theophilus (1759-1812), the historian of Brecknock". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
17. "William Aubrey". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.
18. The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource:  "Heylyn, John"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
19. Browne Willis (1801). Willis' Survey of St. Asaph, considerably enlarged and brought down to the present time. By E. Edwards. p. 152.
20. Stewart, Mary Margaret. "Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29488.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)