1762 in Wales

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1740s; 1750s; 1760s; 1770s; 1780s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1762 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1762 to Wales and its people.

Incumbent[]

Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Tri Chydymaith Dyn
Oliver Goldsmith - The Life of Richard Nash
William Williams Pantycelyn - Pantheologia, neu Hanes Holl Grefyddau’r Byd^[3]

William Williams Pantycelyn - Mor o Wydr (including "Gweddi am Nerth i fyned trwy anialwch y Byd", the Welsh original of the hymn "Cwm Rhondda")

12 August - George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV (died 1830)
11 October - David Charles, hymn-writer (died 1834)
date unknown
- Samuel Homfray, iron-master (died 1822)
- William Jones, bookseller, religious writer, and member of the Scotch Baptist church in Finsbury, London.^[4] (died 1846)
- John Williams, evangelical cleric (died 1802)

^ Evan David Jones. "HERBERT family, (earls of POWIS)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
^ "Bevan, Silvanus". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales. 1959. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
^ E. Wyn James. "Welsh ballads and American slavery (2007). First published in The Welsh Journal of Religious History, 2 (2007), 59–86. ISSN 1753-9595". Retrieved 13 March 2018.
^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Jones, William (1762-1846)" . Dictionary of National Biography. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ Rompkey, Ronald (1974). "Salusbury, John". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. III (1741–1770) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.