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1740s File:1740s montage.jpg, 420x420px, From top left, clockwise: The War of Jenkins' Ear, a conflict between the British and Spanish Empires lasting from 1739 to 1748. The War of the Austrian Succession from 1740 to 1748, caused by the death of Emperor ...

1760s File:1760s montage.png, 420x420px, From top left, clockwise: English Explorer James Cook commenced his first voyage around the world and becoming the first known Europeans to reach the east coast of Australia; victory at the Battle of Buxar and ...

, Other years in Wales , - , , Other events of the decade This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1750–1759 to Wales and its people.

Events

1750 in Wales Events from the year 1750 in Wales. Incumbents *Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley *Lord Lieutenant of Gl ...

1751 in Wales Events from the year 1751 in Wales. Incumbents *Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley *Lord Lieutenant of Gl ...

1752 in Wales Events from the year 1752 in Wales. Incumbents *Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley *Lord Lieutenant of Gl ...

1753 in Wales Events from the year 1753 in Wales. Incumbents *Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley *Lord Lieutenant of Gl ...

1754 in Wales Events from the year 1754 in Wales. Incumbents *Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley *Lord Lieutenant of Gl ...

1755 in Wales Events from the year 1755 in Wales. Incumbents *Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley *Lord Lieutenant of Gl ...

1756 in Wales Events from the year 1756 in Wales. Incumbents *Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire, Caernarvonshire, Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire, Flintshire, Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire, Merio ...

1757 in Wales Events from the year 1757 in Wales. Incumbents *Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley *Lord Lieutenant of Gl ...

: 1758 in Wales : 1759 in Wales

Arts and literature

New books

1750 *

Griffith Hughes The Reverend Griffith Hughes (1707 – c.1758), FRS, was a Welsh naturalist, clergyman, and author. Hughes wrote ''The Natural History of Barbados,'' which included the first description of the grapefruit (also known as "The Forbidden Fruit"). ...

- ''Natural History of Barbados'' * Daniel Rowland - ''Ymddiddan rhwng Methodist Uniawngred ac un Cyfeiliornus'' 1752 *

Theophilus Evans Theophilus Evans (February 1693 – 11 September 1767) was a Welsh clergyman and historian. Life Evans' father was from Pen-y-wenallt and he was christened in the church in Llandygwydd in Cardiganshire in 1693. Evans served curacies in Brecknock ...

- ''A History of Modern Enthusiasm'' 1757 *

John Dyer John Dyer (1699 – 15 December 1757) was a painter and Welsh poet who became a priest in the Church of England.Shaw, Thomas B. ''A Complete Manual of English Literature''. Ed. William Smith. New York: Sheldon & Co., 1872. 372. Print. He was m ...

- ''The Fleece'' *

Elizabeth Griffith Elizabeth Griffith (1727 – 5 January 1793) was an 18th-century Welsh-born dramatist, fiction writer, essayist and actress, who lived and worked in Ireland. Biography Elizabeth Griffith was born in Glamorgan, Wales, to Dublin theater manager ...

- ''A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances'' * Joseph Harris - ''An Essay Upon Money and Coins'' *

Joshua Thomas Joshua Thomas (1719–1797) was a Welsh writer and Particular Baptist minister, known for his history of Welsh Baptists. Life He was the eldest son of Morgan Thomas of Tyhên in the parish of Caio, Carmarthenshire, where he was born on 22 Febr ...

- ''Tystiolaeth y Credadyn''

Music

1751 *

William Williams (Pantycelyn) William Williams, Pantycelyn (c. 11 February 1717 – 11 January 1791), also known as William Williams, Williams Pantycelyn, and Pantycelyn, is generally seen as Wales's premier hymnist. He is also rated among the great literary figures of Wa ...

- ''Hosanna i Fab Dafydd'', part 1 1754 *

- ''Hosanna i Fab Dafydd'', part 2 1755 *

Morgan Rhys Morgan Rhys (1 April 1716 – 9 August 1779) was a Welsh hymn-writer. Rhys was born in Cilycwm as one of six or seven children of Rhys and Anne Lewis. At first one of Griffith Jones's travelling schoolmasters, he afterwards kept school on his ...

- ''Golwg o Ben Nebo, ar Wlad yr Addewid'' (hymns) 1756 *

Elis Roberts Elis or Ilia ( el, Ηλεία, ''Ileia'') is a historic region in the western part of the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. It is administered as a regional unit of the modern region of Western Greece. Its capital is Pyrgos. Until 2011 it was ...

- "Argulus" 1757 *

- "Jeils" 1759 *

- ''Rhai Hymnau a Chaniadau Duwiol''

Births

1750 *June - William Morgan, actuary (d. 1833) 1751 *22 January -

David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) David Richards (22 January 1751 – 12 May 1827), better-known by his bardic name Dafydd Ionawr, was a Welsh-language poet, born at Glanyrafon near Bryn-crug in the parish of Tywyn in Merionethshire (now Gwynedd), north-west Wales. He took an ...

, poet (d. 1827) *15 October -

David Samwell David Samwell (15 October 1751 – 23 November 1798) was a Welsh naval surgeon and poet. He was an important supporter of Welsh cultural organisations and was known by the pseudonym Dafydd Ddu Feddyg. Personal history Samwell was born in Nan ...

, naval surgeon and companion of Captain Cook (d. 1798) 1752 *2 January - Nicholas Owen, priest and antiquary (d. 1811) *18 January -

Josiah Boydell Josiah Boydell (18 January 1752 – 27 March 1817) was a British publisher and painter, whose main achievement was the establishment of the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery with his uncle, John Boydell. Biography Boydell was born in Hawarden, Fl ...

, painter (d. 1817) *March - Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin), harpist (d. 1824) *''date unknown'' **

Richard Llwyd Richard Llwyd, also known as The Bard of Snowdon (1752 – 29 December 1835), was a Welsh author, poet and expert on Welsh heraldry and genealogy. His most notable work is the poem ''Beaumaris Bay'', which was published in 1800. Life history Llw ...

, poet and writer (d. 1835) **

Thomas Assheton Smith I Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Ap ...

, industrialist (d. 1828) 1754 *''date unknown'' - Charles Hassall, surveyor (d. 1814) 1755 *22 February - Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny (d. 1843) *5 July - Sarah Siddons, actress (d. 1831) *14 October - Thomas Charles of Bala, priest (d. 1814) 1756 *7 June - Edward Davies ("Celtic" Davies), writer (d. 1831) *23 June - Thomas Jones, mathematician (d. 1807) *''date unknown'' -

Thomas Jones of Denbigh Thomas Jones (1756 in Wales, 1756 – 16 June 1820 in Wales, 1820), called "Thomas Jones of Denbigh" (in Welsh, "Thomas Jones o Ddinbych") to differentiate him from namesakes, was a Welsh Methodist clergyman, writer, editor and poet, active ...

, minister and author (d. 1820) 1757 *''date unknown'' - Sir Thomas Foley, admiral (d. 1833) 1758 *August - Sir Thomas Picton, soldier (d. 1815) 1759 *16 March -

Sir John Nicholl Sir John Nicholl (16 March 1759 – 26 August 1838) was a Welsh Member of Parliament and judge. As a judge he was noted "for inflexible impartiality and great strength and soundness of judgement". Early history Nicholl was born in 1759, the sec ...

, politician and judge (d. 1838) *7 August -

William Owen Pughe William Owen Pughe (7 August 1759 – 4 June 1835) was a Welsh antiquarian and grammarian best known for his ''Welsh and English Dictionary'', published in 1803, but also known for his grammar books and "Pughisms" (neologisms)."The Inventio ...

, lexicographer (d. 1835) *18 October - Theophilus Jones, historian (d. 1812)

Deaths

1750 *9 January - Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, 56 *29 November - Bussy Mansel, 4th Baron Mansel *''date unknown'' - Sir

Samuel Pennant Sir Samuel Pennant (died May 1750) was a Lord Mayor of London. He was appointed a Sheriff of London for 1745, knighted in the same year, and then elected Lord Mayor for 1749 but died the following year in office, one of a large number of dignitar ...

, Lord Mayor of London 1751 *31 March - Frederick, Prince of Wales, 44 *''date unknown'' - Thomas Mathews, admiral, 75 1752 *31 May - "Madam" Sidney Griffith, Methodist supporter 1754 *10 January - Erasmus Lewis, writer and civil servant, 83 *March - Henry Vaughan, Radnorshire landowner, 33 (murdered) *12 July -

Zachariah Williams Zechariah most often refers to: * Zechariah (Hebrew prophet), author of the Book of Zechariah * Zechariah (New Testament figure), father of John the Baptist Zechariah or its many variant forms and spellings may also refer to: People * Zechari ...

, inventor, 81 1755 *30 June - Edward Wynne, lawyer and landowner 1756 *''date unknown'' - Lewis Evans, surveyor, 56? 1757 *December -

, poet, 56 1758 *24 January - William Wogan, religious writer, 79 *18 March - Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury and former Bishop of Bangor, 65 *24 March -

Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet (26 April 1704 – 1758), of Mostyn, Flintshire, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1734 and 1758. Early life Mostyn was the eldest son of Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baro ...

, 53 1759 *11 August - John Heylyn, Welsh-descended priest, 74 *2 November - Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist, 50 *''date unknown'' - Isaac Maddox, Bishop of St Asaph, 62 18th century in Wales Wales Wales Decades in Wales