1760s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1760 - 1769 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - George, Prince of Wales (to October 25, 1760)
*Prince of Wales - George, Prince of Wales (from 1762)
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"

Events

1760
*October 25 - The Prince of Wales succeeds his father, King George II, on the throne of Great Britain.
1762
*Henry Arthur Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis, leaves the Whig party.
1763
*January 26 - Herbert Lloyd, MP for Cardigan Boroughs, is created a baronet.
*October 11 - Hester Lynch Salusbury marries Henry Thrale, against her family's wishes.
1764
*June 21 - Humphrey Edwards begins a voyage round the world as physician on the frigate "Tamar".
*Anthony Bacon succeeds John Wilkes as MP for Aylesbury.
*Thomas Nowell becomes principal of St Mary Hall, Oxford.
1766
*February 19 - Thomas Kymer is granted an Act of Parliament allowing him to construct the Kidwelly and Llanelli Canal.
*May 12 - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet, marries Margaret, daughter of Rev Hugh Wynn and heiress to the Bodysgallen estate.
*John, Lord Mountstuart marries Charlotte Jane, granddaughter of Thomas Windsor, 1st Viscount Windsor.
1767
*John Guest becomes manager of Dowlais Ironworks.
1768
*Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, finances the building of a seminary at Trefeca-isaf for the training of evangelical preachers.
*Richard Wilson is a founder member of the Royal Academy.

Arts and literature

New books

*1762
**Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - "Tri Chydymaith Dyn"
*1763
**Goronwy Owen et al - "Diddanwch Teuluaidd"
*1764
**Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) - "Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards"
*1766
**David Jones of Trefriw (ed.) - "Cydymaith Diddan"
**John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) - "Drych y Cristion"
**Anna Williams - "Miscellanies in Prose and Verse"
*1767
**Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu) - "Traethawd ar Fywyd Ffydd"
*1768
**Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - "Y Farddoneg Fabilonaidd"

Music

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Births

*1760
**July 6 - Thomas Phillips, surgeon and educational benefactor (d. 1851)
**December 8 - Morgan John Rhys, minister and author (d. 1804)
*1761
**July 15 - Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), writer (d. 1849)
**October 11 - David Charles, hymn-writer (d. 1834)
*1762
**August 12 - George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV (d. 1830)
*1763
**August - Peter Bailey Williams, clergyman and author (d. 1836)
*1764
**April 29 - Julia Ann Hatton, novelist (d. 1838)
**June 20 - Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi), first Unitarian minister in Wales (d. 1833)
**"date unknown" - Robert Waithman, lord mayor of London (d. 1833)
*1766
**March William Turner, industrialist (d. 1853)
**December 6 - Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), poet (d. 1850)
**December 25 - Christmas Evans, preacher (d. 1838)
*1768
**August - Sydenham Teak Edwards, botanical artist (d. 1819)
**September 17 - Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn (d. 1854)
**September 24 - Sharon Turner, historian (d. 1847)

Deaths

*1760
**October 25 - King George II of Great Britain, former Prince of Wales, 76
*1761
**April 8 - Griffith Jones Llanddowror, pioneer in education, 77
*1762
**February 3 - Beau Nash, leader of fashion, 87
*1763
**November 25 - Richard Morris, father of the noted Morris brothers ("Morrisiaid Môn"), 89
*1764
**June 18 - Christmas Samuel, minister and writer, 90
**June 22 - Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, 63
**September 26 - Joseph Harris, Assay-master of the Royal Mint, 60
*1765
**April 10 - Edward Heylyn, porcelain manufacturer, 70?
**April 11 - Lewis Morris, hydrographer and writer, eldest of the Morris brothers of Anglesey, 64
*1767
**September 11 - Theophilus Evans, clergyman and historian, 74
**September 17 - Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, second son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, 28
*1768
**March 26 - Humphrey Owen, academic, 65
*1769
**July - Goronwy Owen, poet, 46