1762 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1762 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, 3rd Viscount Lisburne (until 27 July); Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne (from 27 July) ^[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
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet ^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Howell Gwynne ^{[9] [2]}
• Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton ^[10]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Newcome (until 9 July); ^[11] John Ewer (from 28 December) ^[12]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond (until June) ^[13] Richard Newcome (from 9 July)
• Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys (until 16 January) ^[14] Samuel Squire (from 24 March)

Events

• Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis, leaves the Whig party. ^[15]
• Silvanus Bevan is elected a member of the Cymmrodorion. ^[16]

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) – Tri Chydymaith Dyn
• Oliver Goldsmith – The Life of Richard Nash
• William Williams Pantycelyn – Pantheologia, neu Hanes Holl Grefyddau’r Byd ^[17]

Music

• William Williams Pantycelyn – Mor o Wydr (including "Gweddi am Nerth i fyned trwy anialwch y Byd", the Welsh original of the hymn "Cwm Rhondda")

Births

• 12 August – George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV (died 1830)
• 11 October – David Charles, hymn-writer (died 1834)
• date unknown
  • Samuel Homfray, iron-master (died 1822)
  • William Jones, bookseller, religious writer, and member of the Scotch Baptist church in Finsbury, London. ^[18] (died 1846)
  • John Williams, evangelical cleric (died 1802)

Deaths

• 3 February – Beau Nash, leader of fashion, 87 ^[19]
• 2 May – John Salusbury, diarist, 54 ^[20]
• 2 May – Margaret Lloyd, Moravian worker and activist, 53 ^[21]

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. Namier, Lewis. "Gwynne, Howell (1718-80), of Garth in Llanleonfel, Brec". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
10. John McClintock; James Strong (1981). Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Baker Book House. p. 324.
11. "Newcome, Richard (NWCM718R2)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
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. "Ellys, Anthony"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
15. Evan David Jones. "HERBERT family, (earls of POWIS)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 29 March 2019.
16. "Bevan, Silvanus". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 1959. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
17. E. Wyn James. "Welsh ballads and American slavery (2007). First published in The Welsh Journal of Religious History, 2 (2007), 59–86. ISSN 1753-9595" . Retrieved 13 March 2018.
18. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Jones, William (1762–1846)"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
19. Black, William (2011), "The Citizen of the World.—Beau Nash", Goldsmith, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 50–66, doi:10.1017/cbo9781139083973.007, ISBN   978-1-139-08397-3
20. Rompkey, Ronald (1974). "Salusbury, John". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography . Vol. III (1741–1770) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
21. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Lloyd (later Moore), Margaret (1709-1762), one of the original members of the Moravian congregation in London". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 October 2021.