This article is about the particular significance of the year 1759 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents edit
- Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley[1][2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth[3]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice[4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Howell Gwynne[5][1]
- Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton[6]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Newcome[7]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond[8]
- Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys[9]
Events edit
- 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.[10]
Arts and literature edit
New books edit
- Blodeu-gerdd Cymry (ed. Dafydd Jones)[11]
- Mathias Maurice – Social Religion Exemplify'd[12]
- John Wesley – Primitive Physick, translated by John Evans of Bala
Births edit
- 1 January – Joseph Foster-Barham, owner of the Trecŵn estate (died 1832)[13]
- 11 February – John Rice Jones, Welsh-born American politician (died 1824)[14]
- 16 March – Sir John Nicholl, politician and judge (died 1838)
- 7 August – William Owen Pughe, lexicographer (died 1835)[15]
- 10 September – George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke (died 1827)
- 18 October – Theophilus Jones, historian (died 1812)[16]
- date unknown -
- William Aubrey, engineer (died 1827)[17]
- David Thomas ("Dafydd Ddu Eryri"), (died 1822)
Deaths edit
- 11 August – John Heylyn, Welsh-descended clergyman, 74[18]
- 27 September – Isaac Maddox, Bishop of St Asaph, 62[19]
- 2 November – Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist, 50[20]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Namier, Lewis. "Gwynne, Howell (1718-80), of Garth in Llanleonfel, Brec". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
- ^ John McClintock; James Strong (1981). Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Baker Book House. p. 324.
- ^ "Newcome, Richard (NWCM718R2)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Davies, Evan (1694?-1770), Independent minister and tutor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
- ^ Sally Harper (2005). "An Elizabethan Tune List from Lleweni Hall". Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle (38). Taylor & Francis, Ltd: 45–98.
- ^ Gwilym Lleyn (1869). Cambrian Bibliography: Containing an Account of the Books Printed in the Welsh Language, Or Relating to Wales, from the Year 1546 to the End of the Eighteenth Century; with Biographical Notices. Printed and pub. by J. Pryse. pp. 455.
- ^ Bertie George Charles. "Barham family, of Trecŵn, Pembrokeshire". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
- ^ Messages and letters of William Henry Harrison Volume 1. Best Books on. 1922. p. 296.
- ^ Griffith John Williams. "Pughe, William Owen (1759-1835), lexicographer, grammarian, editor, antiquary, and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones, Theophilus (1759-1812), the historian of Brecknock". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
- ^ "William Aubrey". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.
- ^ The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource: . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Browne Willis (1801). Willis' Survey of St. Asaph, considerably enlarged and brought down to the present time. By E. Edwards. p. 152.
- ^ Stewart, Mary Margaret. "Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29488. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)