1762 in Wales

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1740s; 1750s; 1760s; 1770s; 1780s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1762 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

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

gollark: ························ no you utter triskaidecagonal idiot.

gollark: Anyway, checksumming potatOS files on bootup would be good, except potatOS doesn't really have versions as such and there's no build process which could generate a hash.

gollark: This is not just some fun thing you can trifle with. Unfriendly AI threatens literally all humanity.

gollark: Ah yes, obviously if something is true in some video game it must be true in reality...

gollark: We're just lucky it got caught when it did.

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). "Jones, William (1762-1846)" . Dictionary of National Biography. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Rompkey, Ronald (1974). "Salusbury, John". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. III (1741–1770) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[1] Evan David Jones. "HERBERT family, (earls of POWIS)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.

[2] "Bevan, Silvanus". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales. 1959. Retrieved 24 March 2018.

[3] 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.

[DNB-4] Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Jones, William (1762-1846)" . Dictionary of National Biography. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[5] Rompkey, Ronald (1974). "Salusbury, John". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. III (1741–1770) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.