1759 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1759 to Wales and its people.

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

• 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.^[9]

Arts and literature

New books

• Blodeu-gerdd Cymry (ed. Dafydd Jones)^[10]
• Mathias Maurice – Social Religion Exemplify'd^[11]
• John Wesley – Primitive Physick, translated by John Evans of Bala

Births

• 1 January – Joseph Foster-Barham, owner of the Trecŵn estate (died 1832)^[12]
• 11 February – John Rice Jones, Welsh-born American politician (died 1824)^[13]
• 16 March – Sir John Nicholl, politician and judge (died 1838)
• 7 August – William Owen Pughe, lexicographer (died 1835)^[14]
• 10 September – George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke (died 1827)
• 18 October – Theophilus Jones, historian (died 1812)^[15]
• date unknown -
  • William Aubrey, engineer (died 1827)^[16]
  • David Thomas ("Dafydd Ddu Eryri"), (died 1822)

Deaths

• 11 August – John Heylyn, Welsh-descended clergyman, 74
• 27 September – Isaac Maddox, Bishop of St Asaph, 62^[17]
• 2 November – Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist, 50^[18]

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-DAVI-EVA-1694. Davies, Evan (1694?-1770), Independent minister and tutor. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 30 March 2020.
10. An Elizabethan Tune List from Lleweni Hall. Sally Harper. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle. 38. 2005. 45–98. Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
11. Book: Gwilym Lleyn. 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. 1869. Printed and pub. by J. Pryse. 455.
12. s-BARH-TRE-1700. Barham family, of Trecŵn, Pembrokeshire. Bertie George Charles. yes. 14 October 2021.
13. Book: Messages and letters of William Henry Harrison Volume 1. Best Books on. 1922. 296.
14. s-PUGH-OWE-1759. Pughe, William Owen (1759-1835), lexicographer, grammarian, editor, antiquary, and poet. Griffith John Williams. yes. 14 October 2021.
15. s-JONE-THE-1759. Jones, Theophilus (1759-1812), the historian of Brecknock. Robert Thomas Jenkins. yes. 14 October 2021.
16. William Aubrey. s-AUBR-WIL-1759. yes.
17. Book: Browne Willis. Willis' Survey of St. Asaph, considerably enlarged and brought down to the present time. By E. Edwards. 1801. 152.
18. 29488 . Mary Margaret . Stewart . Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury.