1762 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1762 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (from August) (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis, leaves the Whig party.[1]
- Silvanus Bevan is elected a member of the Cymmrodorion.[2]
Arts and literature
New books
- Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Tri Chydymaith Dyn
- Oliver Goldsmith - The Life of Richard Nash
- William Williams Pantycelyn - Pantheologia, neu Hanes Holl Grefyddau’r Byd[3]
Music
- William Williams Pantycelyn - Mor o Wydr (including "Gweddi am Nerth i fyned trwy anialwch y Byd", the Welsh original of the hymn "Cwm Rhondda")
Births
- 12 August - George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV (died 1830)
- 11 October - David Charles, hymn-writer (died 1834)
- date unknown
- Samuel Homfray, iron-master (died 1822)
- William Jones, bookseller, religious writer, and member of the Scotch Baptist church in Finsbury, London.[4] (died 1846)
- John Williams, evangelical cleric (died 1802)
Deaths
- 3 February - Beau Nash, leader of fashion, 87
- 2 May - John Salusbury, diarist, 54[5]
- 2 May - Margaret Lloyd, Moravian worker and activist, 53
References
- ^ Evan David Jones. "HERBERT family, (earls of POWIS)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
- ^ "Bevan, Silvanus". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales. 1959. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
- ^ E. Wyn James. "Welsh ballads and American slavery (2007). First published in The Welsh Journal of Religious History, 2 (2007), 59–86. ISSN 1753-9595". Retrieved 13 March 2018.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Rompkey, Ronald (1974). "Salusbury, John". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. III (1741–1770) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.