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

Births

• January - David Saunders (Dafydd Glan Teifi), poet (died 1840)
• 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

1. John Wesley (1829). The works of Rev. John Wesley, A. M. John Mason. p. 374.
2. 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.
3. John Bell (1797). Bell's British Theatre: Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays. Cawthorn. pp. 2–.
4. Ramage, Helen Myfanwy (2007). "Thomas, John (1736–1769), cleric and antiquary". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 31 March 2009.
5. Thomas Jackson (1841). The Life of the Rev. Charles Wesley. Mason. p. 542.
6. David Gwenallt Jones. "Owen, Goronwy (1723-1769)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
7. 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)