1765 in Wales

Events from the year 1765 in Wales.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Wynn
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – William Vaughan
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Howell Gwynne
• Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Ewer
• Bishop of St Asaph – Richard Newcome
• Bishop of St Davids – Samuel Squire

Events

• July – Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis, resigns from his position as Treasurer of the Household when his former party, the Whigs, are returned to power.
• 6 December – The Penrhyn estate comes into the possession of the Pennant family, through the marriage of Richard Pennant with the heiress of the Warburton family.
• unknown dates
• Cyfarthfa Ironworks is founded by Anthony Bacon.
• Richard Price becomes a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Jones – Catholic Faith and Practice

Music

• 12 August – The Royal Shepherd, by Richard Rolt, is performed in Dublin to celebrate the birthday of the Prince of Wales.

Births

• 4 May – Hopkin Bevan, minister and writer (died 1839)
• 23 August – James Davies, schoolmaster
• 8 October – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor, politician (died 1852)
• 13 October – J. R. Jones (Ramoth), Baptist minister (died 1822)
• date unknown – David Jones, barrister (died 1816)

Deaths

• 10 April – Edward Heylyn, porcelain manufacturer, 69/70
• 11 April – Lewis Morris, hydrographer and writer, eldest of the Morris brothers of Anglesey, 64
• 16 May – William Wynne, lawyer and author, about 73
• 8 June – Silvanus Bevan, apothecary, 73/74
• 16 December – Thomas William, Methodist exhorter, 48
• 29 December – Prince Frederick William of Wales, son of the former Prince and Princess of Wales, 15

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