1767 in Wales

Events from the year 1767 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 – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (from 16 July)

• Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Ewer
• Bishop of St Asaph – Richard Newcome
• Bishop of St Davids – Charles Moss (from 30 November)

Events

• 30 April - John Guest of Broseley becomes manager of Dowlais Ironworks.
• 29 August - John Wesley begins a two-week evangelical tour of South Wales.
• Autumn - Cyfarthfa Ironworks probably first comes into blast.
• date unknown - On the death of Daniel Lewis, another local Baptist, Rachel Lewis, hosts meetings of multiple denominations in her home at Merthyr Tydfil.

Arts and literature

New books

• Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu) - Traethawd ar Fywyd Ffydd

Painting

• Thomas Jones is awarded a premium for landscape painting by the Society of Arts.

Births

• 25 February - John Roberts, theologian (died 1834)
• 2 October - John Evans, Baptist minister and writer (died 1827)
• date unknown - Hugh Evans (Hywel Eryri), poet (died c.1841)
• probable - James Davies, Baptist minister (died 1860)

Deaths

• 29 April - Sir John Morgan, 4th Baronet, of Llangattock, politician, 56
• 8 May - Emanuel Bowen, map engraver, 72
• 11 September - Theophilus Evans, clergyman and historian, 74
• 17 September - Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, second son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, 28
• date unknown - Richard Nanney, evangelist, 75/76

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