1768 in Wales

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Events from the year 1768 in Wales.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 2 March - Rowland Pugh, a local miner, discovers the "Great Lode" of copper on Parys Mountain[1] and is rewarded with a bottle of whisky and a rent-free house for his lifetime.
• By May - Kymer's Canal opens.[2]
• 16 May - Evan Lloyd is fined £50 after being found guilty of libel against William Price.[3]
• 24 August - A seminary is founded at Trefeca-isaf for the training of evangelical preachers, with financial assistance from Selina, Countess of Huntingdon.[4]
• 10 December - Richard Wilson is a founder member of the Royal Academy of Arts.[5]
• Oldest Jews' burial ground in Wales established at Swansea.
• The Ladies of Llangollen meet for the first time in Ireland.
• Controversial Bishop of Bangor John Egerton is translated to the see of Lichfield in England.

Arts and literature

English language

• John Griffith - Some Brief Remarks upon Sundry Important Subjects … principally addressed to the … Quakers … [6]

Welsh language

• Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Y Farddoneg Fabilonaidd
• William Williams Pantycelyn - Tri Wyr o Sodom[7]

Music

• 14 May - In Dublin, a concert takes place for the benefit of "Jones", a resident of Britain Street, where music will be performed on "that most admired instrument, the Welsh Harp".[8]

Births

• 29 March - Sir Robert Vaughan, 2nd Baronet, landowner (died 1843)
• 17 May (in Brunswick, Germany) - Caroline of Brunswick, future Princess of Wales (died 1821)
• August - Sydenham Teak Edwards, botanical artist (died 1819)
• 17 September - Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn (died 1854)
• 24 September - Sharon Turner, historian (died 1847)
• date unknown - Thomas Parry, merchant (died 1824)

Deaths

• 26 March - Humphrey Owen, academic, 65[9]
• 31 August - Henrietta Nevill, Baroness Bergavenny, 38[10]
• date unknown
  • Robert Morris, industrialist[11]
  • Hannah Pritchard, actress

References

1. Charles Frederick Cliffe (1851). The book of North Wales. Hamilton, Adams. p. 123.
2. "Kymer's Canal, Kidwelly". Retrieved 31 March 2020.
3. Cecil John Layton Price. "Lloyd, Evan (1734-1776), cleric and writer". Welsh Biography Online. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
4. "The City of Cambridge: Theological Colleges". British History Online.
5. Roberts, Gomer Morgan. "Wilson, Richard (1713-1782), landscape painter". Welsh Biography Online. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
6. Robert (Bob) Owen. "Griffith, John (1713-1776), Quaker". Welsh Biography Online. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
7. John Edward Horatio Steegman; Iorwerth Peate. "WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1717-1791), Methodist cleric, author, and hymn-writer". Welsh Biography Online. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
8. John C. Greene (2011). Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 1150–. ISBN 978-1-61146-110-7.
9. Jenkins, Robert Thomas. "Owen, Humphrey (1702–1768), principal of Jesus College, Oxford, and Bodley's librarian". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2007.
10. G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant (reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 42.
11. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "MORRIS, ROBERT (d. 1768), industrialist". Welsh Biography Online. Retrieved 13 March 2018.