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1758 in Wales
Events from the year
1758 in
Wales
.
Incumbents
Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (
Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey
,
Caernarvonshire
,
Flintshire
,
Merionethshire
,
Montgomeryshire
) âÂÂ
George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan
âÂÂ
Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire
and
Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire
âÂÂ
Thomas Morgan
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire
âÂÂ
Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire
âÂÂ
George Rice
Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire
âÂÂ
Richard Myddelton
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire
âÂÂ
Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire
âÂÂ
Howell Gwynne
Bishop of Bangor
âÂÂ
John Egerton
Bishop of Llandaff
âÂÂ
Richard Newcome
Bishop of St Asaph
âÂÂ
Robert Hay Drummond
Bishop of St Davids
âÂÂ
Anthony Ellys
Events
April âÂÂ
Goronwy Owen
becomes headmaster of the grammar school attached to the
College of William & Mary
,
Williamsburg, Virginia
.
13 July
âÂÂ
Josiah Tucker
becomes Dean of Gloucester.
October âÂÂ
Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd)
becomes curate of Llanllechid.
December â The
Llangibby
estate passes into the hands of the Addams-Williams family when the original Williams line dies out.
date unknown
â The
Welsh Charity School
becomes co-educational.
Arts and literature
New books
Peter Williams âÂÂ
Blodau i Blant
Music
John Thomas âÂÂ
Caniadau Siôn
, vol. 1
Births
3 May
âÂÂ
Stephen Kemble
, Herefordshire-born actor, brother of
Sarah Siddons
(died
1822
)
24
(or
20
) August â Sir
Thomas Picton
, soldier (died 1815)
3 September
âÂÂ
Henrietta Clive, Countess of Powis
(died
1822
)
18 October
âÂÂ
Theophilus Jones
, lawyer and historian (died 1830)
date unknown
âÂÂ
Richard Fothergill
, ironmaster (died
1821
)
probable
âÂÂ
Isaac Davis
, advisor to Kamehameha I of Hawaii (died 1810)
Deaths
24 January
âÂÂ
William Wogan
, religious writer, 79
25 January
âÂÂ
Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor
, 50
18 March
âÂÂ
Matthew Hutton
, Archbishop of Canterbury and former Bishop of Bangor, 65
24 March
âÂÂ
Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet
, 53
December â Sir Leonard Williams, 5th Baronet
References