1759 in Wales

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

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

Incumbent[]

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]

1 January - , 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)

^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Davies, Evan (1694?-1770), Independent minister and tutor". Welsh Biography Online. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
^ 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.
^ Welsh Biography Online. Accessed 28 May 2014
^ "William Aubrey". The National Library of Wales - Dictionary of Welsh Biography.
^ The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource: "Heylyn, John" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^ Browne Willis (1801). Willis' Survey of St. Asaph, considerably enlarged and brought down to the present time. By E. Edwards. p. 152.
^ 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.)