1758 in Wales explained

Events from the year 1758 in Wales.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley^{[1] [2]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth^[3]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice^[4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Howell Gwynne^{[5] [1]}
• Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton^[6]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Newcome
• Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond^[7]
• Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys^[8]

Events

• April – Goronwy Owen becomes headmaster of the grammar school attached to the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.^[9]
• 13 July – Josiah Tucker becomes Dean of Gloucester.^[10]
• October – Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) becomes curate of Llanllechid.
• December – The Llangibby estate passes into the hands of the Addams-Williams family when the original Williams line dies out.
• date unknown – The Welsh Charity School becomes co-educational.^[11]

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)^[12]
• 24 (or 20) August – Sir Thomas Picton, soldier (died 1815)^[13]
• 3 September – Henrietta Clive, Countess of Powis (died 1822)^[14]
• 18 October – Theophilus Jones, lawyer and historian (died 1830)
• date unknown – Richard Fothergill, ironmaster (died 1821)^[15]
• probable – Isaac Davis, advisor to Kamehameha I of Hawaii (died 1810)

Deaths

• 24 January – William Wogan, religious writer, 79^[16]
• 25 January – Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor, 50^[17]
• 18 March – Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury and former Bishop of Bangor, 65
• 24 March – Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet, 53^[18]
• December – Sir Leonard Williams, 5th Baronet^[19]

Notes and References

1. Book: J.C. Sainty . John Sainty (civil servant) . List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 . Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd . London . 1979.
2. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 695.
3. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 612.
4. Rice, George.
5. Web site: Gwynne, Howell (1718-80), of Garth in Llanleonfel, Brec.. Namier. Lewis. History of Parliament Online. 7 October 2017.
6. Book: John McClintock. James Strong. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Baker Book House. 1981. 324.
7. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
8. Ellys, Anthony.
9. s-OWEN-GOR-1723. Owen, Goronwy (1723-1769), cleric and poet. David Gwenallt Jones. 6 March 2020.
10. Book: Ruth Savage. Philosophy and Religion in Enlightenment Britain: New Case Studies. 26 April 2012. OUP Oxford. 978-0-19-922704-4. 240.
11. Book: Emrys . Jones . Emrys Jones (geographer) . The Welsh in London, 1500-2000 . Cardiff . University of Wales Press . 2001 . 0708317103 . 63–66 .
12. Book: The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage .... 1807. proprietors. 227.
13. Book: Havard, Robert . Wellington's Welsh general: a life of Sir Thomas Picton . London . Aurum . 1996 . 1854104020 .
14. Book: John Chaloner Smith. British Mezzotinto Portraits. 1879. H. Sotheran & Company. 562.
15. s-FOTH-GIL-1758. Fothergill family, ironmasters. Watkin William Price. yes. 6 March 2020.
16. Book: Notes and Queries. 1855. Oxford University Press. 245.
17. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/windsor-hon-herbert-1707-58 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
18. Web site: (Bangor) Mostyn Manuscripts. Jisc Archives Hub. 29 March 2019.
19. Book: Bernard Burke. John Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England. Scott, Webster & Geary. 1838. 508.