1759 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1759 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George III)
- Princess of Wales - vacant
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.[1]
Arts and literature
New books
- Blodeu-gerdd Cymry (ed. Dafydd Jones)
- Mathias Maurice - Social Religion Exemplify'd[2]
- John Wesley - Primitive Physick, translated by John Evans of Bala
Music
- William Williams (Pantycelyn) - Rhai Hymnau a Chaniadau Duwiol
Births
- 1 January - Joseph Foster-Barham, owner of the Trecŵn estate (died 1832)[3]
- 11 February - John Rice Jones, Welsh-born American politician (died 1824)
- 16 March - Sir John Nicholl, politician and judge (died 1838)
- 7 August - William Owen Pughe, lexicographer (died 1835)
- 10 September - George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke (died 1827)
- 18 October - Theophilus Jones, historian (died 1812)
- date unknown -
- William Aubrey, engineer (died 1827)[4]
- David Thomas ("Dafydd Ddu Eryri"), (died 1822)
Deaths
- 11 August - John Heylyn, Welsh-descended clergyman, 74[5]
- 27 September - Isaac Maddox, Bishop of St Asaph, 62[6]
- 2 November - Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist, 50[7]
References
- Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Davies, Evan (1694?-1770), Independent minister and tutor". Welsh Biography Online. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
- Gwilym Lleyn (1869). 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. Printed and pub. by J. Pryse. pp. 455.
- Welsh Biography Online. Accessed 28 May 2014
- "William Aubrey". The National Library of Wales - Dictionary of Welsh Biography.
- The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource: . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- Browne Willis (1801). Willis' Survey of St. Asaph, considerably enlarged and brought down to the present time. By E. Edwards. p. 152.
- Stewart, Mary Margaret. "Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29488. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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