Incumbents

• Prince of Wales
  Prince of Wales
  Prince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
  
  
  • Frederick, Prince of Wales
    Frederick, Prince of Wales
    Frederick, Prince of Wales was a member of the House of Hanover and therefore of the Hanoverian and later British Royal Family, the eldest son of George II and father of George III, as well as the great-grandfather of Queen Victoria...
    
     (to March 31, 1751)
  • George, Prince of Wales
    George III of the United Kingdom
    George III was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of these two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death...
    
     (from April 20, 1751)
• Princess of Wales
  Princess of Wales
  Princess of Wales is a British courtesy title held by the wife of The Prince of Wales since the first "English" Prince of Wales in 1283.Although there have been considerably more than ten male heirs to the throne, there have been only ten Princesses of Wales. The majority of Princes of Wales...
  
   - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
  Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
  Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg was Princess of Wales between 1736 and 1751, and Dowager Princess of Wales thereafter. She was one of only three Princesses of Wales who never became queen consort...
  
   (to March 31, 1751) (afterwards Dowager Princess of Wales)

Events

1750 in Wales

1750 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1750 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales**Frederick, Prince of Wales*Princess of Wales**Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Events:...

1751 in Wales

1751 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1751 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales**Frederick, Prince of Wales **George, Prince of Wales...

1752 in Wales

1752 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1752 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:* Prince of Wales - George, Prince of Wales* Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:* November 9 - Richard Trevor becomes Bishop of Durham....

1753 in Wales

1753 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1753 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince of Wales*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:...

1754 in Wales

1754 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1754 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince of Wales*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:...

1755 in Wales

1755 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1755 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince of Wales*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:...

1756 in Wales

1756 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1756 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince of Wales*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:*Lewis Morris loses his post as collector of tolls at Aberdovey....

1757 in Wales

1757 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1757 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince of Wales*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:...

1758 in Wales

1758 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1758 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince of Wales*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:...

1759 in Wales

1759 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1759 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince of Wales*Princess of Wales - vacant-Births:*March 16 - John Nicholl, politician and judge...

New books

• Griffith Hughes
  Griffith Hughes
  The Reverend Griffith Hughes , FRS, was a naturalist and author. Hughes wrote The Natural History of Barbados, which included the first description of the grapefruit...
  
   - Natural History of Barbados
• Daniel Rowland
  Daniel Rowland
  Daniel Rowland —sometimes spelt as Rowlands—was one of the foremost leaders of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist revival along with Howell Harris and William Williams. For most of his life he served as curate in the parishes of Nantcwnlle and Llangeitho, Ceredigion...
  
   - Ymddiddan rhwng Methodist Uniawngred ac un Cyfeiliornus

• Theophilus Evans
  Theophilus Evans
  Theophilus Evans was a Welsh clergyman and historian.Originally from Cardiganshire, Evans served curacies in Brecknockshire and incumbencies in both counties...
  
   - A History of Modern Enthusiasm

• John Dyer
  John Dyer
  John Dyer was a painter and Welsh poet turned clergyman of the Church of England who maintained an interest in his Welsh ancestry...
  
   - The Fleece
• Elizabeth Griffith
  Elizabeth Griffith
  Elizabeth Griffith , sometimes also credited Elizabeth Griffiths, was an 18th-century Irish dramatist, fiction writer, essayist and actress, best known for her edition of Shakespeare's comedies published in 1775.- Biography :Griffith was born in Glamorgan, Glamorganshire, Wales to Dublin theatre...
  
   - A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances
• Joseph Harris
  Joseph Harris
  Joseph Vikram "Joe" Harris is an Indian-born Canadian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-hand off-break bowler....
  
   - An Essay Upon Money and Coins
• Joshua Thomas - Tystiolaeth y Credadyn

Music

• William Williams (Pantycelyn) - Hosanna i Fab Dafydd, part 1

• William Williams (Pantycelyn) - Hosanna i Fab Dafydd, part 2

• Morgan Rhys - Golwg o Ben Nebo, ar Wlad yr Addewid (hymns)

• Elis Roberts - "Argulus"

• Elis Roberts - "Jeils"

• William Williams (Pantycelyn) - Rhai Hymnau a Chaniadau Duwiol

Births

• June - William Morgan
  William Morgan (scientist)
  William Morgan, FRS was a Welsh physician, physicist and statistician, who is considered the father of modern actuarial science....
  
  , actuary (d. 1833)

• January 22 - David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr)
  David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr)
  David Richards , better-known by his bardic name Dafydd Ionawr, was a Welsh-language poet, born near Tywyn in Gwynedd, north-west Wales....
  
  , poet (d. 1827)
• October 15 - David Samwell
  David Samwell
  David Samwell was a Welsh naval surgeon and poet. He was an important supporter of Welsh cultural organisations and was known by the pseudonym Dafydd Ddu Feddyg.-Personal history:...
  
  , naval surgeon and companion of Captain Cook (d. 1798)

• January 2 - Nicholas Owen
  Nicholas Owen (clergyman)
  Nicholas Owen was a Welsh Anglican priest and antiquarian.-Life:Owen, who was born in Llandyfrydog, Anglesey on 2 January 1752 , was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, obtaining his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1773 and his Master of Arts degree in 1776...
  
  , clergyman and antiquary (d. 1811)
• January 18 - Josiah Boydell
  Josiah Boydell
  Josiah Boydell was a British publisher and painter, whose main achievement was the establishment of the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery with his uncle, John Boydell.-Biography:...
  
  , painter (d. 1817)
• March - Edward Jones
  Edward Jones (harpist)
  Edward Jones was a Welsh harpist, bard, performer, composer, arranger, and collector of music. He was commonly known by the bardic name of "Bardd y Brenin", which he took in 1820, when King George IV, his patron, came to the throne....
  
   (Bardd y Brenin), harpist (d. 1824)
• date unknown
  • Richard Llwyd
    Richard Llwyd
    Richard Llwyd, also known as The Bard of Snowdon , was a Welsh author, poet and expert on Welsh heraldry and genealogy. His most notable work is the poem Beaumaris Bay, which was published in 1800.-Life history:...
    
    , poet and writer (d. 1835)
  • Thomas Assheton Smith I, industrialist (d. 1828)

• date unknown - Charles Hassall, surveyor (d. 1814)

• February 22 - Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny
  Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny
  Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny KT MA was a British peer, styled Viscount Nevill from 1784 to 1785...
  
   (d. 1843)
• July 5 - Sarah Siddons
  Sarah Siddons
  Sarah Siddons was a Welsh actress, the best-known tragedienne of the 18th century. She was the elder sister of John Philip Kemble, Charles Kemble, Stephen Kemble, Ann Hatton and Elizabeth Whitlock, and the aunt of Fanny Kemble. She was most famous for her portrayal of the Shakespearean character,...
  
  , actress (d. 1831)
• October 14 - Thomas Charles
  Thomas Charles
  Thomas Charles was a Welsh Nonconformist clergyman of considerable importance in the history of modern Wales.-Early life:...
  
   of Bala, clergyman (d. 1814)

• June 7 - Edward Davies ("Celtic" Davies), writer (d. 1831)
• June 23 - Thomas Jones
  Thomas Jones (mathematician)
  Thomas Jones was Head Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge for twenty years and an outstanding teacher of mathematics. He is notable as a mentor of Adam Sedgwick....
  
  , mathematician (d. 1807)
• date unknown - Thomas Jones of Denbigh
  Thomas Jones of Denbigh
  Thomas Jones , called "Thomas Jones of Denbigh" to differentiate him from namesakes, was a Welsh minister and author.-Life history:...
  
  , minister and author (d. 1820)

• date unknown - Sir Thomas Foley, admiral (d. 1833)

• August - Sir Thomas Picton
  Thomas Picton
  Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Picton GCB was a Welsh British Army officer who fought in a number of campaigns for Britain, and rose to the rank of lieutenant general...
  
  , soldier (d. 1815)

• March 16 - John Nicholl
  John Nicholl
  Sir John Nicholl was a Welsh Member of Parliament and judge. As a judge he was noted 'for inflexible impartiality and great strength and soundness of judgement'.-Early history:...
  
  , politician and judge (d. 1838)
• August 7 - William Owen Pughe
  William Owen Pughe
  William Owen Pughe was a Welsh antiquarian and grammarian best known for his Welsh and English Dictionary, published in 1803, but also known for his grammar books and 'Pughisms' ....
  
  , lexicographer (d. 1835)
• October 18 - Theophilus Jones, historian (d. 1812)

Deaths

• January 9 - Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke
  Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke
  Lt.-Gen. Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, 6th Earl of Montgomery PC FRS was the heir and eldest son of Thomas Herbert and his first wife Margaret...
  
  , 56
• November 29 - Bussy Mansel, 4th Baron Mansel
  Bussy Mansel, 4th Baron Mansel
  Bussy Mansel, 4th Baron Mansel was a Welsh peer.He succeeded his brother Christopher Mansel as Baron Mansel of Margam in 1744....
  
  
• date unknown - Sir Samuel Pennant
  Samuel Pennant
  Sir Samuel Pennant was a Lord Mayor of London.He was appointed a Sheriff of London for 1745 and then elected Lord Mayor of London for 1749 but died the following year in office, and was succeeded by John Blachford. There is a monument to him in the church of St Michael Paternoster Royal.Sir...
  
  , Lord Mayor of London

• March 31 - Frederick, Prince of Wales
  Frederick, Prince of Wales
  Frederick, Prince of Wales was a member of the House of Hanover and therefore of the Hanoverian and later British Royal Family, the eldest son of George II and father of George III, as well as the great-grandfather of Queen Victoria...
  
  , 44
• date unknown - Thomas Mathews
  Thomas Mathews
  Thomas Mathews was a British officer of the Royal Navy, who rose to the rank of admiral.Mathews joined the navy in 1690 and saw service on a number of ships, including during the Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession. He interspersed periods spent commanding ships with time at home...
  
  , admiral, 75

• May 31 - "Madam" Sidney Griffith
  Sidney Griffith
  Sidney Griffith , known in her time as "Madam" Griffith, was an important figure in the Welsh Methodist revival of the mid-18th century....
  
  , Methodist supporter

• January 10 - Erasmus Lewis, writer and civil servant, 83
• March - Henry Vaughan
  Henry Vaughan (1721-1754)
  Sir Henry Vaughan was a Radnorshire landowner. In March 1754 a warrant was issued for his arrest for committing 'unnatural and repugnant acts'...
  
  , Radnorshire landowner, 33 (murdered)
• July 12 - Zachariah Williams, inventor, 81

• June 30 - Edward Wynne
  Edward Wynne (chancellor)
  Edward Wynne was a Welsh lawyer and landowner. He was a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, an advocate at Doctors' Commons and Chancellor of the diocese of Hereford.- Life :Wynne was part of the Wynn family from Bodewryd, Anglesey...
  
  , lawyer and landowner

• date unknown - Lewis Evans
  Lewis Evans (surveyor)
  Lewis Evans , was a Welsh surveyor and geographer, working principally in British America.Lewis Evans was born in Caernarfonshire, Wales...
  
  , surveyor, 56?

• December - John Dyer
  John Dyer
  John Dyer was a painter and Welsh poet turned clergyman of the Church of England who maintained an interest in his Welsh ancestry...
  
  , poet, 56

• January 24 - William Wogan
  William Wogan (religious writer)
  William Wogan was a religious writer, the son of Ethelred Wogan, the Rector of Gumfreston and Vicar of Penally, Pembroke....
  
  , religious writer, 79
• March 18 - Matthew Hutton
  Matthew Hutton (Archbishop of Canterbury)
  Matthew Hutton was a high churchman in the Church of England, serving as Archbishop of York and Archbishop of Canterbury...
  
  , Archbishop of Canterbury and former Bishop of Bangor, 65
• March 24 - Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet, 53

• August 11 - John Heylyn
  John Heylyn
  John Heylyn was an Anglican divine, who had a major influence on religious thought in eighteenth century England. Because of his interest in mysticism he was known as the Mystic Doctor....
  
  , Welsh-descended clergyman, 74
• November 2 - Charles Hanbury Williams
  Charles Hanbury Williams
  Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, KB , diplomat, writer and satirist, son of John Hanbury, a Welsh ironmaster, assumed the name of Williams on succeeding to the estate of his godfather Charles Williams, in 1720....
  
  , diplomat and satirist, 50
• date unknown - Isaac Maddox
  Isaac Maddox
  Isaac Maddox 27th July 1697-27th September 1759) was an Anglican clergyman, successively bishop of St Asaph and of Worcester. He was a member of the Royal Society. -Life:Isaac was the son of a Dissenter, Edward Maddox, stationer of London...
  
  , Bishop of St Asaph, 62