1764 in Wales

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Events from the year 1764 in Wales .

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
• 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 – John Ewer ^[11]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Richard Newcome ^[12]
• Bishop of St Davids – Samuel Squire ^[13]

Events

• January – South Wales industrialist Anthony Bacon succeeds John Wilkes as MP for Aylesbury. ^[14]
• February – Thomas Nowell, the new principal of St Mary Hall, Oxford, marries Sarah Munday, daughter of the Mayor of Oxford. ^[15]
• 21 June – Humphrey Edwards, physician, begins a voyage round the world as physician on the HMS Tamar. ^[16]

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Rowland Jones – The Origin of Language and Nations ^[17]
• Gabriel Powell – Survey of Gower ^[18]

Welsh language

• Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) – Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards ^[19]
• David Powell – Sail yr Athrawiaeth Gatholic ^[20]
• Morgan Rhys – Golwg o Ben Nebo ^[21]

Music

• 31 March – "Jones" performs on the Welsh harp at a benefit concert in Dublin, "in the true Spirit and Taste peculiar to the Genius of his Country". ^[22]

Births

• 29 April – Ann Hatton ("Ann of Swansea"), English novelist (d. 1838) ^[23]
• 20 June – Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi), first Unitarian minister in Wales (d. 1833) ^[24]
• 20 July – Sir Robert Williams, 9th Baronet, politician (died 1830) ^[25]
• 27 July – John Thelwall, English-born orator, writer, political reformer, journalist and poet (died 1834) ^[26]
• date unknown
  • William Crawshay I, ironmaster (d. 1834) ^[27]
  • Robert Waithman, lord mayor of London (d. 1833) ^[28]

Deaths

• 17 March – Uvedale Tomkins Price, politician, Steward of the Courts for Denbigh, 78 ^[29]
• 18 June – Christmas Samuel, minister and writer, 90 ^[30]
• 22 June – Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, 63 ^[31]
• 26 September – Joseph Harris, Assay-master of the Royal Mint, 60 ^[32]
• October – Richard Lathrop, bookseller and printer, age unknown ^[33]
• date unknown – John Richards, preacher and poet, about 44 ^[34]

References

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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. "Ewer, John (EWR723J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
12. The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
13. "Squire, Samuel (SKR730S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
14. "Bacon, Anthony (c.1717-86), of Woodford, Essex, and Copthall Court, Throgmorton St., London". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
15. "Sir Thomas Munday (c.1696–1772)". Oxford History: Mayors & Lord Mayors. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
16. Griffith Thomas Roberts. "Edwards, Humphrey (1730-1788), physician and apothecary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 28 September 2019.
17. William Rowlands. "Jones, Rowland (1722-1764), philologist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
18. Joan Thirsk (1967). The Agrarian History of England and Wales: 1500-1640, edited by Joan Thirsk. Cambridge University Press. p. 154. ISBN   978-0-521-06617-4.
19. Evan Evans (1764). Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards. R. and J. Dodsley.
20. Sail yr Athrawiaeth Gatholic, gynnwysedig mewn Profess Ffydd a gyhoeddwyd gan Bâb Piws y Bedwerydd, ar wedd holiad. R. Balfe. 1764.
21. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Rhys, Morgan (1716-1779), circulating schoolmaster, and hymn-writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
22. John C. Greene (1 December 2011). Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances. Lehigh University Press. p. 895. ISBN   978-1-61146-111-4.
23. Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1982). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & and Other Stage Personnel in London: 1660-1800. SIU Press. p. 171. ISBN   978-0-8093-0918-4.
24. John Dyfnallt Owen. "Evans, Thomas ('Tomos Glyn Cothi'; 1764-1833), Unitarian minister [the first specifically Unitarian minister in Wales]". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
25. Stephen West WILLIAMS (1847). The Genealogy and History of the Family of Williams in America, More Particularly of the Descendants of Robert Williams of Roxburg. Merriam Mirick. p. 406.
26. David Jenkins. "Thelwall, John (1764-1834), reformer, lecturer and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
27. Watkin William Price. "CRAWSHAY family, of Cyfarthfa, Glamorganshire, industrialists". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
28. David Williams. "Waithman, Robert (1764-1833), lord mayor of London". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
29. Robinson, Rev. Charles John (1873). A History of the Mansions and Manors of Herefordshire. Longman & Co.
30. John Dyfnallt Owen. "Samuel, Christmas (1674-1764), Independent minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
31. "PHILIPPS, John (1700-64), of Picton Castle, Pemb". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
32. Thomas Mardy Rees (1912). Welsh Painters, Engravers, Sculptors (1527-1911). Welsh Publishing Company. p. 71.
33. William Llewelyn Davies. "Lathrop, Richard (died 1764), bookseller and printer at Shrewsbury". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
34. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Richard(s), John (1720-1764), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.