1760s in Wales
# 1760s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1760 - 1769 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Prince of Wales - George (to October 25, 1760) (became George III)
* Prince of Wales - George (from 1762) (later George IV)
* Princess of Wales - vacant

## Events

* 1760 in Wales
* 1761 in Wales
* 1762 in Wales
* 1763 in Wales
* 1764 in Wales
* 1765 in Wales
* 1766 in Wales
* 1767 in Wales
* 1768 in Wales
* 1769 in Wales

## Arts and literature

### New books

* 1762
   * Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Tri Chydymaith Dyn
   * Oliver Goldsmith - The Life of Richard Nash
* 1763
   * Goronwy Owen et al. - Diddanwch Teuluaidd
* 1764
   * Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) - Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards
* 1766
   * David Jones of Trefriw (ed.) - Cydymaith Diddan
   * John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) - Drych y Cristion
   * Anna Williams - Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
* 1767
   * Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu) - Traethawd ar Fywyd Ffydd
* 1768
   * Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Y Farddoneg Fabilonaidd

## Births

* 1760
   * 6 July - Thomas Phillips, surgeon and educational benefactor (d. 1851)
   * 8 December - Morgan John Rhys, minister and author (d. 1804)
* 1761
   * 15 July - Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), writer (d. 1849)
   * 11 October - David Charles, hymn-writer (d. 1834)
* 1762
   * 12 August - George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV (d. 1830)
* 1763
   * August - Peter Bailey Williams, clergyman and author (d. 1836)
* 1764
   * 29 April - Julia Ann Hatton, novelist (d. 1838)
   * 20 June - Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi), first Unitarian minister in Wales (d. 1833)
   * date unknown - Robert Waithman, lord mayor of London (d. 1833)
* 1766
   * March William Turner, industrialist (d. 1853)
   * 6 December - Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), poet (d. 1850)
   * 25 December - Christmas Evans, preacher (d. 1838)
* 1768
   * August - Sydenham Teak Edwards, botanical artist (d. 1819)
   * 17 September - Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn (d. 1854)
   * 24 September - Sharon Turner, historian (d. 1847)

## Deaths

* 1760
   * April - David Lewis, poet
   * 25 October - King George II of Great Britain, former Prince of Wales, 76
* 1761
   * 8 April - Griffith Jones Llanddowror, pioneer in education, 77
* 1762
   * 3 February - Beau Nash, leader of fashion, 87
* 1763
   * 25 November - Richard Morris, father of the noted Morris brothers ("Morrisiaid Môn"), 89
* 1764
   * 18 June - Christmas Samuel, minister and writer, 90
   * 22 June - Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, 63
   * 26 September - Joseph Harris, Assay-master of the Royal Mint, 60
* 1765
   * 10 April - Edward Heylyn, porcelain manufacturer, 70?
   * 11 April - Lewis Morris, hydrographer and writer, eldest of the Morris brothers of Anglesey, 64
* 1767
   * 11 September - Theophilus Evans, clergyman and historian, 74
   * 17 September - Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, second son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, 28
* 1768
   * 26 March - Humphrey Owen, academic, 65
* 1769
   * July - Goronwy Owen, poet, 46
