1758 in Wales

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Events from the year 1758 in Wales.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George III)
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• April - Goronwy Owen becomes headmaster of the grammar school attached to the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.[1]
• 13 July - Josiah Tucker becomes Dean of Gloucester.[2]
• October - Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) becomes curate of Llanllechid.
• The Llangibby estate passes into the hands of the Addams-Williams family when the original Williams line dies out.
• The Welsh Charity School becomes co-educational.[3]

Arts and literature

New books

• Peter Williams - Blodau i Blant

Music

• John Thomas - Caniadau Siôn, vol. 1

Births

• 3 May - Stephen Kemble, Herefordshire-born actor, brother of Sarah Siddons (died 1822)[4]
• 24 (or 20) August - Sir Thomas Picton, soldier (died 1815)[5]
• 3 September - Henrietta Clive, Countess of Powis (died 1822)[6]
• 18 October - Theophilus Jones, lawyer and historian (died 1830)
• date unknown - Richard Fothergill, ironmaster (died 1821)[7]
• probable - Isaac Davis, advisor to Kamehameha I of Hawaii (died 1810)

Deaths

• 24 January - William Wogan, religious writer, 79[8]
• 25 January - Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor, 50[9]
• 18 March - Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury and former Bishop of Bangor, 65
• 24 March - Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet, 53[10]

References

1. David Gwenallt Jones. "Owen, Goronwy (1723-1769), cleric and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
2. Ruth Savage (26 April 2012). Philosophy and Religion in Enlightenment Britain: New Case Studies. OUP Oxford. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-19-922704-4.
3. Jones, Emrys, ed. (2001). The Welsh in London, 1500-2000. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. pp. 63–66. ISBN 0708317103.
4. The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage ... proprietors. 1807. p. 227.
5. Havard, Robert (1996). Wellington's Welsh general: a life of Sir Thomas Picton. London: Aurum. ISBN 1854104020.
6. John Chaloner Smith (1879). British Mezzotinto Portraits. H. Sotheran & Company. p. 562.
7. Watkin William Price. "Fothergill family, ironmasters". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
8. Notes and Queries. Oxford University Press. 1855. p. 245.
9. The History of Parliament: WINDSOR, Hon. Herbert (1707-58). Originally published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970
10. "(Bangor) Mostyn Manuscripts". Jisc Archives Hub. Retrieved 29 March 2019.