1766 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1766 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 – Howell Gwynne (until 12 July); ^{[10] [2]} Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (from 16 July) ^[11]

• Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton ^[12]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Ewer ^[13]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Richard Newcome ^[14]
• Bishop of St Davids – Samuel Squire (until 7 May); Robert Lowth (from 14 June); Charles Moss (from 30 November) ^[15]

Events

• 19 February - Thomas Kymer is granted an Act of Parliament allowing him to construct the Kidwelly and Llanelly Canal. ^[16]
• 12 May - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet, marries Margaret, daughter of Rev Hugh Wynn and heiress to the Bodysgallen estate.
• July - Maurice Morgann becomes an under-secretary to the Earl of Shelburne, then Secretary of State for the South. In November he is made secretary of the Province of New Jersey. ^[17]
• 12 November - John, Lord Mountstuart marries Charlotte Jane, granddaughter of Thomas Windsor, 1st Viscount Windsor. ^[18]
• unknown date - The Welsh-language periodical Yr Awstralydd is launched by William Meirion Evans in Australia. ^[19]

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Evan Lloyd - The Powers of the Pen ^[20]
• Anna Williams - Miscellanies in Prose and Verse ^[21]

Welsh language

• David Jones of Trefriw (ed.) - Cydymaith Diddan ^[22]
• Dafydd Jones - Salmau Dafydd ^[23]
• Lloffion Prydyddiaeth … Mr. Rees Prichard ^[24]
• John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) - Drych y Cristion ^[25]
• William Williams Pantycelyn - Ffarwel Weledig, part 2 ^[26]

Music

• Elis Roberts - Oliffernes a Jiwdath ^[27]

Paintings

• Richard Wilson - Meleager and Atalanta

Births

• March - William Turner, industrialist (died 1853)
• 10 November - John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors), satirical poet and radical pamphleteer (died 1821) ^[28]
• 6 December - Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), poet (died 1850) ^[29]
• 18 December - Charles Lloyd, dissenting minister and schoolmaster (died 1829) ^[30]
• 25 December - Christmas Evans, preacher (died 1838) ^[31]
• unknown date
  • Martha Llwyd, hymnodist (died 1845) ^[32]
  • Henry Parry, clergyman and antiquarian (died 1854) ^[33]

Deaths

• 1 January - James Francis Edward Stuart, 77, nominally Prince of Wales from his birth until 1701 ^[34]
• 19 January - Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne, landowner ^[35]
• 30 January - John Jeffreys, 59, politician ^[36]
• June - Evan Edwards, 32, harpist ^[37]
• 7 May - Samuel Squire, 51/52, Bishop of St Davids ^[15]
• 17 November - Morgan Morgan, 78, Welsh-born American colonist (in America) ^[38]
• date unknown - Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Bloom, Milbourn (died 1766), Independent minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 11 June 2024.</ref>

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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.
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9. George Grenville (1962). Additional Grenville Papers 1763-1765. Manchester University Press. p. 176.
10. Namier, Lewis. "Gwynne, Howell (1718-80), of Garth in Llanleonfel, Brec". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
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21. Teresa Barnard (15 April 2016). Anna Seward: A Constructed Life: A Critical Biography. Routledge. p. 152. ISBN   978-1-317-18067-8.
22. Ffion Mair Jones (14 June 2010). 'The Bard is a Very Singular Character': Iolo Morganwg, Marginalia and Print Culture. University of Wales Press. p. 422. ISBN   978-1-78316-407-3.
23. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Jones, Dafydd (1711-1777), hymn-writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 11 June 2024.
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