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Events from the year 1764 in Wales.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Wynn
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – William Vaughan
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Howell Gwynne
- Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton
- Bishop of Llandaff – John Ewer
- Bishop of St Asaph – Richard Newcome
- Bishop of St Davids – Samuel Squire
Events
- January – South Wales industrialist Anthony Bacon succeeds John Wilkes as MP for Aylesbury.
- February – Thomas Nowell, the new principal of St Mary Hall, Oxford, marries Sarah Munday, daughter of the Mayor of Oxford.
- 21 June – Humphrey Edwards, physician, begins a voyage round the world as physician on the HMS Tamar.
Arts and literature
New books
English language
- Rowland Jones – The Origin of Language and Nations
- Gabriel Powell – Survey of Gower
Welsh language
- Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) – Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards
- David Powell – Sail yr Athrawiaeth Gatholic
- Morgan Rhys – Golwg o Ben Nebo
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".
Births
- 29 April – Ann Hatton ("Ann of Swansea"), English novelist (d. 1838)
- 20 June – Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi), first Unitarian minister in Wales (d. 1833)
- 20 July – Sir Robert Williams, 9th Baronet, politician (died 1830)
- 27 July – John Thelwall, English-born orator, writer, political reformer, journalist and poet (died 1834)
- date unknown
- William Crawshay I, ironmaster (d. 1834)
- Robert Waithman, lord mayor of London (d. 1833)
Deaths
- 17 March – Uvedale Tomkins Price, politician, Steward of the Courts for Denbigh, 78
- 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
- October – Richard Lathrop, bookseller and printer, age unknown
- date unknown – John Richards, preacher and poet, about 44
References
- Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
- ^ J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
- Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
- "Rice, George" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
- Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
- Namier, Lewis. "Gwynne, Howell (1718-80), of Garth in Llanleonfel, Brec". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
- John McClintock; James Strong (1981). Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Baker Book House. p. 324.
- "Ewer, John (EWR723J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
- "Squire, Samuel (SKR730S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- "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.