1759 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1759 to Wales and its people.

← 1758 1757 1756 1755 1754 1759 in Wales → 1760 1761 1762 1763 1764
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1759 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• 19 September - The Dowlais Iron Company is formed.
• date unknown - Evan Davies resigns as head of the Welsh Academy, following a rift between the Presbyterian and Congregational Fund Boards.[1]

Arts and literature

New books

• Blodeu-gerdd Cymry (ed. Dafydd Jones)
• Mathias Maurice - Social Religion Exemplify'd[2]
• John Wesley - Primitive Physick, translated by John Evans of Bala

Music

• William Williams (Pantycelyn) - Rhai Hymnau a Chaniadau Duwiol

Births

• 1 January - Joseph Foster-Barham, owner of the Trecŵn estate (died 1832)[3]
• 11 February - John Rice Jones, Welsh-born American politician (died 1824)
• 16 March - Sir John Nicholl, politician and judge (died 1838)
• 7 August - William Owen Pughe, lexicographer (died 1835)
• 10 September - George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke (died 1827)
• 18 October - Theophilus Jones, historian (died 1812)
• date unknown -
  • William Aubrey, engineer (died 1827)[4]
  • David Thomas ("Dafydd Ddu Eryri"), (died 1822)

Deaths

• 11 August - John Heylyn, Welsh-descended clergyman, 74[5]
• 27 September - Isaac Maddox, Bishop of St Asaph, 62[6]
• 2 November - Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist, 50[7]

References

1. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Davies, Evan (1694?-1770), Independent minister and tutor". Welsh Biography Online. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
2. Gwilym Lleyn (1869). Cambrian Bibliography: Containing an Account of the Books Printed in the Welsh Language, Or Relating to Wales, from the Year 1546 to the End of the Eighteenth Century; with Biographical Notices. Printed and pub. by J. Pryse. pp. 455.
3. Welsh Biography Online. Accessed 28 May 2014
4. "William Aubrey". The National Library of Wales - Dictionary of Welsh Biography.
5. The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource: "Heylyn, John" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
6. Browne Willis (1801). Willis' Survey of St. Asaph, considerably enlarged and brought down to the present time. By E. Edwards. p. 152.
7. Stewart, Mary Margaret. "Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29488. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)