1769 in Wales
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Events from the year 1769 in Wales.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - vacant
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.[1]
- 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.[2]
- 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)[3]
- William Williams (Pantycelyn) - Ffarwel Weledig, vol. 3
Music
- Elis Roberts - Gras a Natur[citation needed]
Births
- January - David Saunders (Dafydd Glan Teifi), poet (died 1840)[citation needed]
- 2 February - Griffith Williams (Gutyn Peris), poet (died 1838)
- 23 March - Benjamin Heath Malkin, antiquary and author (died 1842)
- 6 December - Thomas Morgan, naval chaplain (died 1851)
Deaths
- 27 March - John Thomas, Anglican priest and antiquarian, 32[4]
- April - Marmaduke Gwynne, father-in-law of Charles Wesley, 77/78[5]
- 12 April - Thomas Morgan, politician and lawyer, 66
- July - Goronwy Owen, poet, 46[6]
- 19 August - Sir Herbert Lloyd, 1st Baronet, politician, 49[7]
References
- ^ John Wesley (1829). The works of Rev. John Wesley, A. M. John Mason. p. 374.
- ^ Dee E. Andrews (31 March 2002). The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture. Princeton University Press. p. 40. ISBN 0-691-09298-2.
- ^ John Bell (1797). Bell's British Theatre: Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays. Cawthorn. pp. 2–.
- ^ Ramage, Helen Myfanwy (2007). "Thomas, John (1736–1769), cleric and antiquary". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 31 March 2009.
- ^ Thomas Jackson (1841). The Life of the Rev. Charles Wesley. Mason. p. 542.
- ^ David Gwenallt Jones. "Owen, Goronwy (1723-1769)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
- ^ Phillips, Bethan (2004). "Lloyd, Sir Herbert, first baronet (1720–1769)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/62906. Retrieved 15 July 2015. (subscription or UK public library membership required)