1761 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1761 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - vacant
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- Edward Allgood II (1712–1801) establishes a japannery at Usk .
- Goronwy Owen takes up his position as a rector in Virginia, and his salary is agreed.[1]
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.[2]
Music
- John Parry - A Collection of Welsh, English and Scotch Airs[3]
Births
February: Lady Willoughby de Eresby
- 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)[4]
Deaths
- 4 February - Samuel Davies, Welsh-descended evangelist in America, 37 (pneumonia)
- 8 April - Griffith Jones Llanddowror, pioneer in education, 77[5]
- 27 April - Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Clapton, Welsh-descended politician, ?31
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References
- Goronwy Owen (1876). The Poetical Works of the Rev. Goronwy Owen (Goronwy Ddu O Fon): With His Life and Correspondence. Longmans, Green. p. 11.
- Welsh Biography Online
- Phyllis Kinney (15 April 2011). Welsh Traditional Music. University of Wales Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-7083-2358-8.
- Author and Book Info.com
- Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1982. p. 449.
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