1759 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1759 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of North Wales – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Howell Gwynne
- Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton
- Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Newcome
- Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond
- Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys
Events
- 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.
Arts and literature
New books
- Blodeu-gerdd Cymry
- Mathias Maurice – Social Religion Exemplify'd
- John Wesley – Primitive Physick, translated by John Evans of Bala
Births
- 1 January – Joseph Foster-Barham, owner of the Trecŵn estate
- 11 February – John Rice Jones, Welsh-born American politician
- 16 March – Sir John Nicholl, politician and judge
- 7 August – William Owen Pughe, lexicographer
- 10 September – George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke
- 18 October – Theophilus Jones, historian
- date unknown -
- *William Aubrey, engineer
- *David Thomas,
Deaths
- 11 August – John Heylyn, Welsh-descended clergyman, 74
- 27 September – Isaac Maddox, Bishop of St Asaph, 62
- 2 November – Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist, 50