1759 in Wales

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
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Howell Gwynne
• Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Newcome
• Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond
• Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys

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.

Arts and literature

New books

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

Births

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

Deaths

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

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