1758 in Wales

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1730s; 1740s; 1750s; 1760s; 1770s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1758 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Events from the year 1758 in Wales.

Incumbent[]

April - Goronwy Owen becomes headmaster of the grammar school attached to the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.^[1]
13 July - Josiah Tucker becomes Dean of Gloucester.^[2]
October - Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) becomes curate of Llanllechid.
The Llangibby estate passes into the hands of the Addams-Williams family when the original Williams line dies out.
The Welsh Charity School becomes co-educational.^[3]

3 May - Stephen Kemble, Herefordshire-born actor, brother of Sarah Siddons (died 1822)^[4]
24 (or 20) August - Sir Thomas Picton, soldier (died 1815)^[5]
3 September - Henrietta Clive, Countess of Powis (died 1822)^[6]
18 October - Theophilus Jones, lawyer and historian (died 1830)
date unknown - Richard Fothergill, ironmaster (died 1821)^[7]
probable - Isaac Davis, advisor to Kamehameha I of Hawaii (died 1810)

24 January - William Wogan, religious writer, 79^[8]
25 January - Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor, 50^[9]
18 March - Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury and former Bishop of Bangor, 65
24 March - Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet, 53^[10]

^ David Gwenallt Jones. "Owen, Goronwy (1723-1769), cleric and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
^ Ruth Savage (26 April 2012). Philosophy and Religion in Enlightenment Britain: New Case Studies. OUP Oxford. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-19-922704-4.
^ Jones, Emrys, ed. (2001). The Welsh in London, 1500-2000. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. pp. 63–66. ISBN 0708317103.
^ The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage ... proprietors. 1807. p. 227.
^ Havard, Robert (1996). Wellington's Welsh general: a life of Sir Thomas Picton. London: Aurum. ISBN 1854104020.
^ John Chaloner Smith (1879). British Mezzotinto Portraits. H. Sotheran & Company. p. 562.
^ Watkin William Price. "Fothergill family, ironmasters". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
^ Notes and Queries. Oxford University Press. 1855. p. 245.
^ The History of Parliament: WINDSOR, Hon. Herbert (1707-58). Originally published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970
^ "(Bangor) Mostyn Manuscripts". Jisc Archives Hub. Retrieved 29 March 2019.