1765 in Wales

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Events from the year 1765 in Wales.

Incumbents

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

Events

• Cyfarthfa Ironworks is founded by Anthony Bacon.
• The Penrhyn estate comes into the possession of the Pennant family, through the marriage of Richard Pennant with the heiress of the Warburton family.[1]
• Richard Price becomes a Fellow of the Royal Society.
• Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis, resigns from his position as Treasurer of the Household when his former party, the Whigs, are returned to power.[2]

Arts and literature

New books

• John Jones - Catholic Faith and Practice[3]

Music

• 12 August - The Royal Shepherd, by Richard Rolt, is performed in Dublin to celebrate the birthday of the Prince of Wales.[4]

Births

• 4 May - Hopkin Bevan, minister and writer (died 1839)[5]
• 23 August - James Davies, schoolmaster[6]
• 13 October - J. R. Jones (Ramoth), Baptist minister (died 1822)
• date unknown - David Jones, barrister (died 1816)[7]

Deaths

• 10 April - Edward Heylyn, porcelain manufacturer, 69/70[8]
• 11 April - Lewis Morris, hydrographer and writer, eldest of the Morris brothers of Anglesey, 64
• 16 May - William Wynne, lawyer and author, about 73[9]
• 16 December - Thomas William, Methodist exhorter, 48
• 29 December - Prince Frederick William of Wales, son of the former Prince and Princess of Wales, 15

References

1. Raphael Samuel (1977). Miners, quarrymen, and saltworkers. Routledge & K. Paul. ISBN 978-0-7100-8353-1.
2. Evan David Jones. "HERBERT family, (earls of POWIS)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
3. Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology. J.B. Lippincott and Company. 1870. pp. 289.
4. John C. Greene (2011). Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 990. ISBN 978-1-61146-110-7.
5. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Bevan, Hopkin (1765-1839), Calvinistic Methodist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
6. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Davies, James (1765-1849), 'the schoolmaster of Devauden'". Dictionary of Welsh biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
7. "Jones, David (1765-1816)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
8.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Heylyn, John". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
9. Turner, Roger (January 2008). "Wynne, William (bap. 1692, d. 1765)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 10 February 2009.