1764 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales; 1764 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Events from the year 1764 in Wales.

Incumbent[]

Monarch – George III

Events[]

January - Anthony Bacon succeeds John Wilkes as MP for Aylesbury.^[1]
February - Thomas Nowell, the new principal of St Mary Hall, Oxford, marries Sarah Munday, daughter of the Mayor of Oxford.^[2]
21 June - Humphrey Edwards begins a voyage round the world as physician on the frigate Tamar.^[3]

Arts and literature[]

New books[]

English language[]

Rowland Jones - The Origin of Language and Nations^[4]
Gabriel Powell - Survey of Gower^[5]

Welsh language[]

Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) - Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards^[6]
David Powell - Sail yr Athrawiaeth Gatholic^[7]
Morgan Rhys - Golwg o Ben Nebo^[8]

Music[]

31 March - "Jones" performs on the Welsh harp at a benefit concert in Dublin, "in the true Spirit and Taste peculiar to the Genius of his Country".^[9]

Births[]

29 April - Ann Hatton ("Ann of Swansea"), English novelist (d. 1838)^[10]
20 June - Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi), first Unitarian minister in Wales (d. 1833)^[11]
20 July - Sir Robert Williams, 9th Baronet, politician (died 1830)^[12]
27 July - John Thelwall, English-born orator, writer, political reformer, journalist and poet (died 1834)^[13]
date unknown
- William Crawshay I, ironmaster (d. 1834)^[14]
- Robert Waithman, lord mayor of London (d. 1833)^[15]

Deaths[]

17 March - Uvedale Tomkins Price, politician, Steward of the Courts for Denbigh, 78^[16]
18 June - Christmas Samuel, minister and writer, 90^[17]
22 June - Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, 63^[18]
26 September - Joseph Harris, Assay-master of the Royal Mint, 60^[19]
October - Richard Lathrop, bookseller and printer, age unknown^[20]
date unknown - John Richards, preacher and poet, about 44^[21]

References[]

^ "BACON, Anthony (c.1717-86), of Woodford, Essex, and Copthall Court, Throgmorton St., London". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
^ "Sir Thomas Munday (c.1696–1772)". Oxford History: Mayors & Lord Mayors. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
^ Griffith Thomas Roberts. "Edwards, Humphrey (1730-1788), physician and apothecary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
^ William Rowlands. "Jones, Rowland (1722-1764), philologist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
^ Joan Thirsk (1967). The Agrarian History of England and Wales: 1500-1640, edited by Joan Thirsk. Cambridge University Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-521-06617-4.
^ Evan Evans (1764). Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards. R. and J. Dodsley.
^ Sail yr Athrawiaeth Gatholic, gynnwysedig mewn Profess Ffydd a gyhoeddwyd gan Bâb Piws y Bedwerydd, ar wedd holiad. R. Balfe. 1764.
^ Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Rhys, Morgan (1716-1779), circulating schoolmaster, and hymn-writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
^ John C. Greene (1 December 2011). Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances. Lehigh University Press. p. 895. ISBN 978-1-61146-111-4.
^ Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1982). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & and Other Stage Personnel in London: 1660-1800. SIU Press. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-8093-0918-4.
^ John Dyfnallt Owen. "Evans, Thomas ('Tomos Glyn Cothi'; 1764-1833), Unitarian minister [the first specifically Unitarian minister in Wales]". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
^ Stephen West WILLIAMS (1847). The Genealogy and History of the Family of Williams in America, More Particularly of the Descendants of Robert Williams of Roxburg. Merriam Mirick. p. 406.
^ David Jenkins. "Thelwall, John (1764-1834), reformer, lecturer and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
^ Watkin William Price. "CRAWSHAY family, of Cyfarthfa, Glamorganshire, industrialists". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
^ David Williams. "Waithman, Robert (1764-1833), lord mayor of London". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
^ Robinson, Rev. Charles John (1873). A History of the Mansions and Manors of Herefordshire. Longman & Co.
^ John Dyfnallt Owen. "Samuel, Christmas (1674-1764), Independent minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
^ "PHILIPPS, John (1700-64), of Picton Castle, Pemb". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
^ Thomas Mardy Rees (1912). Welsh Painters, Engravers, Sculptors (1527-1911). Welsh Publishing Company. p. 71.
^ William Llewelyn Davies. "Lathrop, Richard (died 1764), bookseller and printer at Shrewsbury". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Richard(s), John (1720-1764), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.

[1] "BACON, Anthony (c.1717-86), of Woodford, Essex, and Copthall Court, Throgmorton St., London". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 28 September 2019.

[2] "Sir Thomas Munday (c.1696–1772)". Oxford History: Mayors & Lord Mayors. Retrieved 28 September 2019.

[3] Griffith Thomas Roberts. "Edwards, Humphrey (1730-1788), physician and apothecary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 September 2019.

[4] William Rowlands. "Jones, Rowland (1722-1764), philologist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.

[5] Joan Thirsk (1967). The Agrarian History of England and Wales: 1500-1640, edited by Joan Thirsk. Cambridge University Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-521-06617-4.

[6] Evan Evans (1764). Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards. R. and J. Dodsley.

[7] Sail yr Athrawiaeth Gatholic, gynnwysedig mewn Profess Ffydd a gyhoeddwyd gan Bâb Piws y Bedwerydd, ar wedd holiad. R. Balfe. 1764.

[8] Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Rhys, Morgan (1716-1779), circulating schoolmaster, and hymn-writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.

[9] John C. Greene (1 December 2011). Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances. Lehigh University Press. p. 895. ISBN 978-1-61146-111-4.

[10] Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1982). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & and Other Stage Personnel in London: 1660-1800. SIU Press. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-8093-0918-4.

[11] John Dyfnallt Owen. "Evans, Thomas ('Tomos Glyn Cothi'; 1764-1833), Unitarian minister [the first specifically Unitarian minister in Wales]". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 September 2019.

[12] Stephen West WILLIAMS (1847). The Genealogy and History of the Family of Williams in America, More Particularly of the Descendants of Robert Williams of Roxburg. Merriam Mirick. p. 406.

[13] David Jenkins. "Thelwall, John (1764-1834), reformer, lecturer and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.

[14] Watkin William Price. "CRAWSHAY family, of Cyfarthfa, Glamorganshire, industrialists". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 September 2019.

[15] David Williams. "Waithman, Robert (1764-1833), lord mayor of London". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 September 2019.

[16] Robinson, Rev. Charles John (1873). A History of the Mansions and Manors of Herefordshire. Longman & Co.

[17] John Dyfnallt Owen. "Samuel, Christmas (1674-1764), Independent minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 September 2019.

[18] "PHILIPPS, John (1700-64), of Picton Castle, Pemb". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 10 May 2014.

[19] Thomas Mardy Rees (1912). Welsh Painters, Engravers, Sculptors (1527-1911). Welsh Publishing Company. p. 71.

[20] William Llewelyn Davies. "Lathrop, Richard (died 1764), bookseller and printer at Shrewsbury". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.

[21] Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Richard(s), John (1720-1764), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.

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