1762 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1762 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 BaronetEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 24J.C. Sainty John Sainty (civil servant) List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd London 1979 Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 695Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru University of Wales Press 1992 169 Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire- Thomas WynnEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 26 Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne (until 27 July); Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne (from 27 July) Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George RiceRice, George 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 Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 612 Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – William VaughanEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 29 Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Howell Gwynnehttp://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/gwynne-howell-1718-80 Gwynne, Howell (1718-80), of Garth in Llanleonfel, Brec. Namier Lewis History of Parliament Online 7 October 2017 Bishop of Bangor – John EgertonJohn McClintock James Strong Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature Baker Book House 1981 324 Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Newcome (until 9 July);NWCM718R2 Newcome, Richard John Ewer (from 28 December)EWR723J Ewer, John Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond (until June)The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15 Richard Newcome (from 9 July) Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys (until 16 January)Ellys, Anthony Samuel Squire (from 24 March) Events Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis, leaves the Whig party.s-POWY-HER-1674 HERBERT family, (earls of POWIS) Evan David Jones 29 March 2019 Silvanus Bevan is elected a member of the Cymmrodorion.Bevan, Silvanus s-BEVA-SIL-1691 1959 yes 2018-03-24 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 Bydhttps://www.cardiff.ac.uk/special-collections/subject-guides/welsh-ballads/slavery Welsh ballads and American slavery (2007). First published in The Welsh Journal of Religious History, 2 (2007), 59–86. ISSN 1753-9595 E. Wyn James 13 March 2018 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.Jones, William (1762–1846) 30 (died 1846) John Williams, evangelical cleric (died 1802) Deaths 3 February – Beau Nash, leader of fashion, 87Black William The Citizen of the World.—Beau Nash Goldsmith 2011 50–66 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 10.1017/cbo9781139083973.007 978-1-139-08397-3 2 May – John Salusbury, diarist, 54Salusbury, John Ronald Rompkey 3 http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/salusbury_john_3E.html 2 May – Margaret Lloyd, Moravian worker and activist, 53s-LLOY-MAR-1709 Lloyd (later Moore), Margaret (1709-1762), one of the original members of the Moravian congregation in London Robert Thomas Jenkins yes 15 October 2021 References Category:1762 by country Category:1762 in Great Britain Category:1762 in Europe Category:1760s in Wales