1758 in Wales

1758 in Wales

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1758 in: Great Britain • Ireland

Other events of 1758

Events from the year 1758 in Wales.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George, Prince of Wales
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• April - Goronwy Owen becomes headmaster of the grammar school attached to William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia.
• July 13 - Josiah Tucker becomes Dean of Gloucester.
• 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.^[1]

Arts and literature

New books

• Peter Williams - Blodau i Blant

Music

• John Thomas - Caniadau Sion, vol. 1

Births

• August - Sir Thomas Picton, soldier (died 1815)
• 18 October - Theophilus Jones, lawyer and historian (died 1812)
• probable - Isaac Davis, advisor to Kamehameha I of Hawaii (died 1810)

Deaths

• January 24 - William Wogan, religious writer, 79
• March 18 - Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury and former Bishop of Bangor, 65
• March 24 - Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet, 53

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