1759 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1759 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 CholmondeleyJ.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 695 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 Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George RiceRice, George Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton 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 NewcomeNWCM718R2 Newcome, Richard Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay DrummondThe Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15 Bishop of St Davids – Anthony EllysEllys, Anthony 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.s-DAVI-EVA-1694 Davies, Evan (1694?-1770), Independent minister and tutor Robert Thomas Jenkins 30 March 2020 Arts and literature New books Blodeu-gerdd Cymry (ed. Dafydd Jones)https://www.jstor.org/stable/25099499 Sally Harper An Elizabethan Tune List from Lleweni Hall Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 38 2005 45–98 Taylor & Francis, Ltd Mathias Maurice – Social Religion Exemplify'dGwilym Lleyn 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 https://archive.org/details/cambrianbibliog00rowlgoog 1869 Printed and pub. by J. Pryse 455 John Wesley – Primitive Physick, translated by John Evans of Bala Births 1 January – Joseph Foster-Barham, owner of the Trecŵn estate (died 1832)s-BARH-TRE-1700 Barham family, of Trecŵn, Pembrokeshire Bertie George Charles yes 14 October 2021 11 February – John Rice Jones, Welsh-born American politician (died 1824)Messages and letters of William Henry Harrison Volume 1 Best Books on 1922 296 16 March – Sir John Nicholl, politician and judge (died 1838) 7 August – William Owen Pughe, lexicographer (died 1835)s-PUGH-OWE-1759 Pughe, William Owen (1759-1835), lexicographer, grammarian, editor, antiquary, and poet Griffith John Williams yes 14 October 2021 10 September – George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke (died 1827) 18 October – Theophilus Jones, historian (died 1812)s-JONE-THE-1759 Jones, Theophilus (1759-1812), the historian of Brecknock Robert Thomas Jenkins yes 14 October 2021 date unknown - William Aubrey, engineer (died 1827)William Aubrey s-AUBR-WIL-1759 yes David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), (died 1822) Deaths 11 August – John Heylyn, Welsh-descended clergyman, 74Heylyn, John 27 September – Isaac Maddox, Bishop of St Asaph, 62Browne Willis Willis' Survey of St. Asaph, considerably enlarged and brought down to the present time. By E. Edwards https://books.google.com/books?id=LKRbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA152 1801 152 2 November – Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist, 5029488 Mary Margaret Stewart Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury References Wales Wales Category:1759 in Europe Category:1750s in Wales