1762 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1762 to Wales and its people.

← 1761 1760 1759 1758 1757 1762 in Wales → 1763 1764 1765 1766 1767
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1762 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (from August) (later George IV)
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis, leaves the Whig party.[1]
• Silvanus Bevan is elected a member of the Cymmrodorion.[2]

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 Byd[3]

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.[4] (died 1846)
  • John Williams, evangelical cleric (died 1802)

Deaths

• 3 February - Beau Nash, leader of fashion, 87
• 2 May - John Salusbury, diarist, 54[5]
• 2 May - Margaret Lloyd, Moravian worker and activist, 53

References

1. Evan David Jones. "HERBERT family, (earls of POWIS)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
2. "Bevan, Silvanus". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales. 1959. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
3. E. Wyn James. "Welsh ballads and American slavery (2007). First published in The Welsh Journal of Religious History, 2 (2007), 59–86. ISSN 1753-9595". Retrieved 13 March 2018.
4. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Jones, William (1762-1846)" . Dictionary of National Biography. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
5. Rompkey, Ronald (1974). "Salusbury, John". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. III (1741–1770) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.