# 1768 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1768 to Wales and its people..

## 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 – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
* Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton
* Bishop of Llandaff – John Ewer
* Bishop of St Asaph – Richard Newcome
* Bishop of St Davids – Charles Moss (from 30 November)

## Events

* 2 March - Rowland Pugh, a local miner, discovers the "Great Lode" of copper on Parys Mountain and is rewarded with a bottle of whisky and a rent-free house for his lifetime.
* By May - Kymer's Canal opens.
* 16 May - Evan Lloyd is fined £50 after being found guilty of libel against William Price.
* 24 August - A seminary is founded at Trefeca-isaf for the training of evangelical preachers, with financial assistance from Selina, Countess of Huntingdon.
* 10 December - Richard Wilson is a founder member of the Royal Academy of Arts.
* Oldest Jews' burial ground in Wales established at Swansea.
* The Ladies of Llangollen meet for the first time in Ireland.
* Controversial Bishop of Bangor John Egerton is translated to the see of Lichfield in England.

## Arts and literature
### New books
#### English language

* John Griffith - Some Brief Remarks upon Sundry Important Subjects … principally addressed to the … Quakers …

#### Welsh language

* Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Y Farddoneg Fabilonaidd
* William Williams Pantycelyn - Tri Wyr o Sodom

### Music

* 14 May - In Dublin, a concert takes place for the benefit of "Jones", a resident of Britain Street, where music will be performed on "that most admired instrument, the Welsh Harp".

## Births

* 29 March - Sir Robert Vaughan, 2nd Baronet, landowner (died 1843)
* 17 May (in Brunswick, Germany) - Caroline of Brunswick, future Princess of Wales (died 1821)
* 5 August - Sydenham Edwards, botanical artist (died 1819)
* 17 September - Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn (died 1854)(died 1854)
* 22 November - William Williams (Gwilym Twrog), poet (died 1836)
* date unknown
** John Bird, landscape artist (died 1829)
** Thomas Parry, merchant (died 1824)

## Deaths

* 14 March - Owen Rees, Calvinist minister, 50/51
* 26 March - Humphrey Owen, academic, 65
* 13 May - Princess Louisa, daughter of the former Prince and Princess of Wales, 19 (consumption)
* 31 August - Henrietta Nevill, Baroness Bergavenny, 38
* date unknown
** Robert Morris, industrialist
** Hannah Pritchard, actress