1768 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1768 to Wales and its people..

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

• 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

• 2 March - Rowland Pugh, a local miner, discovers the "Great Lode" of copper on Parys Mountain and is rewarded with a bottle of whisky and a rent-free house for his lifetime.
• By May - Kymer's Canal opens.
• 16 May - Evan Lloyd is fined £50 after being found guilty of libel against William Price.
• 24 August - A seminary is founded at Trefeca-isaf for the training of evangelical preachers, with financial assistance from Selina, Countess of Huntingdon.
• 10 December - Richard Wilson is a founder member of the Royal Academy of Arts.
• Oldest Jews' burial ground in Wales established at Swansea.
• The Ladies of Llangollen meet for the first time in Ireland.
• Controversial Bishop of Bangor John Egerton is translated to the see of Lichfield in England.

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• John Griffith - Some Brief Remarks upon Sundry Important Subjects ... principally addressed to the ... Quakers ...

Welsh language

• Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Y Farddoneg Fabilonaidd
• William Williams Pantycelyn - Tri Wyr o Sodom

Music

• 14 May - In Dublin, a concert takes place for the benefit of "Jones", a resident of Britain Street, where music will be performed on "that most admired instrument, the Welsh Harp".

Births

• 29 March - Sir Robert Vaughan, 2nd Baronet, landowner (died 1843)
• 17 May (in Brunswick, Germany) - Caroline of Brunswick, future Princess of Wales (died 1821)
• 5 August - Sydenham Edwards, botanical artist (died 1819)
• 17 September - Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn (died 1854)(died 1854)
• 22 November - William Williams (Gwilym Twrog), poet (died 1836)
• date unknown
• John Bird, landscape artist (died 1829)
• Thomas Parry, merchant (died 1824)

Deaths

• 14 March - Owen Rees, Calvinist minister, 50/51
• 26 March - Humphrey Owen, academic, 65
• 13 May - Princess Louisa, daughter of the former Prince and Princess of Wales, 19 (consumption)
• 31 August - Henrietta Nevill, Baroness Bergavenny, 38
• date unknown
• Robert Morris, industrialist
• Hannah Pritchard, actress

References