1769 in Wales

Events from the year 1769 in Wales.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan (until 12 April)
• 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 (until 10 January); John Ewer
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Ewer (until 10 January); Jonathan Shipley (12 February - 8 September); Shute Barrington (from 1 October)
• Bishop of St Asaph – Richard Newcome (until 3 June); Jonathan Shipley (from September)
• Bishop of St Davids – Charles Moss (from 30 November)

Events

• August
• John Wesley is turned away from Welshpool Town Hall by the bailiff when he attempts to preach there during his tour of Wales.
• Wesley speaks at Newtown, Montgomeryshire, and Llanidloes.
• August/September - Robert Williams, a Welsh travelling preacher, arrives in America, the first licensed preacher to obtain permission from John Wesley to address the Methodist societies there.
• 16 November - Henry Bayley succeeds to the barony of Beaudesert and takes the surname Paget.
• date unknown
• Daniel Rowland turns down the living of Newport, Pembrokeshire, to stay with his congregation at Llangeitho.
• Thomas Pennant employs Moses Griffith to illustrate his books of tours.

Arts and literature

New books

• Elizabeth Griffith - The School for Rakes (play)
• William Williams (Pantycelyn) - Ffarwel Weledig, vol. 3

Births

• 2 February - Griffith Williams (Gutyn Peris), poet (died 1838)
• 23 March - Benjamin Heath Malkin, antiquary and author (died 1842)
• 3 May - John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Lisburne, politician (died 1831)
• 6 December - Thomas Morgan, naval chaplain (died 1851)

Deaths

• 27 March - John Thomas, Anglican priest and antiquarian, 32
• April - Marmaduke Gwynne, father-in-law of Charles Wesley, 77/78
• 12 April - Thomas Morgan, politician and lawyer, 66
• 3 June - Richard Newcome, Bishop of St Asaph, 67/68
• July - Goronwy Owen, poet, 46
• 19 August - Sir Herbert Lloyd, 1st Baronet, politician, 49
• 26 December - Edward Yardley, Archdeacon of St David's, 71

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