1764 in Wales

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Events from the year 1764 in Wales.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• January - Anthony Bacon succeeds John Wilkes as MP for Aylesbury.[1]
• February - Thomas Nowell, the new principal of St Mary Hall, Oxford, marries Sarah Munday, daughter of the Mayor of Oxford.[2]
• 21 June - Humphrey Edwards begins a voyage round the world as physician on the frigate Tamar.[3]

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Rowland Jones - The Origin of Language and Nations[4]
• Gabriel Powell - Survey of Gower[5]

Welsh language

• Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) - Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards[6]
• David Powell - Sail yr Athrawiaeth Gatholic[7]
• Morgan Rhys - Golwg o Ben Nebo[8]

Music

• 31 March - "Jones" performs on the Welsh harp at a benefit concert in Dublin, "in the true Spirit and Taste peculiar to the Genius of his Country".[9]

Births

• 29 April - Ann Hatton ("Ann of Swansea"), English novelist (d. 1838)[10]
• 20 June - Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi), first Unitarian minister in Wales (d. 1833)[11]
• 20 July - Sir Robert Williams, 9th Baronet, politician (died 1830)[12]
• 27 July - John Thelwall, English-born orator, writer, political reformer, journalist and poet (died 1834)[13]
• date unknown
  • William Crawshay I, ironmaster (d. 1834)[14]
  • Robert Waithman, lord mayor of London (d. 1833)[15]

Deaths

• 17 March - Uvedale Tomkins Price, politician, Steward of the Courts for Denbigh, 78[16]
• 18 June - Christmas Samuel, minister and writer, 90[17]
• 22 June - Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, 63[18]
• 26 September - Joseph Harris, Assay-master of the Royal Mint, 60[19]
• October - Richard Lathrop, bookseller and printer, age unknown[20]
• date unknown - John Richards, preacher and poet, about 44[21]

References

1. "BACON, Anthony (c.1717-86), of Woodford, Essex, and Copthall Court, Throgmorton St., London". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
2. "Sir Thomas Munday (c.1696–1772)". Oxford History: Mayors & Lord Mayors. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
3. Griffith Thomas Roberts. "Edwards, Humphrey (1730-1788), physician and apothecary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
4. William Rowlands. "Jones, Rowland (1722-1764), philologist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
5. Joan Thirsk (1967). The Agrarian History of England and Wales: 1500-1640, edited by Joan Thirsk. Cambridge University Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-521-06617-4.
6. Evan Evans (1764). Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards. R. and J. Dodsley.
7. Sail yr Athrawiaeth Gatholic, gynnwysedig mewn Profess Ffydd a gyhoeddwyd gan Bâb Piws y Bedwerydd, ar wedd holiad. R. Balfe. 1764.
8. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Rhys, Morgan (1716-1779), circulating schoolmaster, and hymn-writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
9. John C. Greene (1 December 2011). Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances. Lehigh University Press. p. 895. ISBN 978-1-61146-111-4.
10. Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1982). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & and Other Stage Personnel in London: 1660-1800. SIU Press. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-8093-0918-4.
11. John Dyfnallt Owen. "Evans, Thomas ('Tomos Glyn Cothi'; 1764-1833), Unitarian minister [the first specifically Unitarian minister in Wales]". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
12. Stephen West WILLIAMS (1847). The Genealogy and History of the Family of Williams in America, More Particularly of the Descendants of Robert Williams of Roxburg. Merriam Mirick. p. 406.
13. David Jenkins. "Thelwall, John (1764-1834), reformer, lecturer and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
14. Watkin William Price. "CRAWSHAY family, of Cyfarthfa, Glamorganshire, industrialists". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
15. David Williams. "Waithman, Robert (1764-1833), lord mayor of London". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
16. Robinson, Rev. Charles John (1873). A History of the Mansions and Manors of Herefordshire. Longman & Co.
17. John Dyfnallt Owen. "Samuel, Christmas (1674-1764), Independent minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
18. "PHILIPPS, John (1700-64), of Picton Castle, Pemb". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
19. Thomas Mardy Rees (1912). Welsh Painters, Engravers, Sculptors (1527-1911). Welsh Publishing Company. p. 71.
20. William Llewelyn Davies. "Lathrop, Richard (died 1764), bookseller and printer at Shrewsbury". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
21. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Richard(s), John (1720-1764), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.