1761 in Wales
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Template:Short description Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Year in Wales header This article is about the particular significance of the year 1761 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet (from 25 November)[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire- Thomas Wynn (from 4 July)[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet (from 10 July)
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – vacant
- Montgomeryshire – Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis (from 4 July)
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Howell Gwynne[8][2]
- Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton[9]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Newcome (until 9 July);[10] John Ewer (from 28 December)[11]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond (until June)[12] Richard Newcome (from 9 July)
- Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys (until 16 January)[13] Samuel Squire (from 24 March)
Events
- Edward Allgood II (1712–1801) establishes a japannery at Usk.[14]
- Goronwy Owen takes up his position as a rector in Virginia, and his salary is agreed.[15]
Arts and literature
New books
- Thomas Pennant – British Zoology, volume 1
- John Wesley – Rules of the United Societies, translated into Welsh by John Evans of Bala.[16]
Music
- John Parry – A Collection of Welsh, English and Scotch Airs[17]
Births
- 16 February – Priscilla Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, Welsh-descended noblewoman and Baroness Gwydyr (died 1828)
- 15 July – Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), writer (died 1849)
- 11 October – David Charles, hymn-writer (died 1834)
- date unknown
- Charles Heath, Radical printer and writer, twice Mayor of Monmouth, in Worcestershire (died 1831)
- Elizabeth Whitlock, sister of Sarah Siddons and Julia Ann Hatton
- Helen Maria Williams, novelist and poet, in Scotland (died 1827)[18]
Deaths
- 16 January – Anthony Ellys, Bishop of St Davids, 70[13]
- 4 February – Samuel Davies, Welsh-descended evangelist in America, 37 (pneumonia)
- 8 April – Griffith Jones Llanddowror, pioneer in education, 77[19]
- 27 April – Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Clapton, Welsh-descended politician, ?31
References
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