# 1766 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1766 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 – Howell Gwynne (until 12 July); Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (from 16 July)
* Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton
* Bishop of Llandaff – John Ewer
* Bishop of St Asaph – Richard Newcome
* Bishop of St Davids – Samuel Squire (until 7 May); Robert Lowth (from 14 June); Charles Moss (from 30 November)

## Events

* 19 February - Thomas Kymer is granted an Act of Parliament allowing him to construct the Kidwelly and Llanelly Canal.
* 12 May - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet, marries Margaret, daughter of Rev Hugh Wynn and heiress to the Bodysgallen estate.
* July - Maurice Morgann becomes an under-secretary to the Earl of Shelburne, then Secretary of State for the South. In November he is made secretary of the Province of New Jersey.
* 12 November - John, Lord Mountstuart marries Charlotte Jane, granddaughter of Thomas Windsor, 1st Viscount Windsor.
* unknown date - The Welsh-language periodical Yr Awstralydd is launched by William Meirion Evans in Australia.

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

* Evan Lloyd - The Powers of the Pen
* Anna Williams - Miscellanies in Prose and Verse

#### Welsh language

* David Jones of Trefriw (ed.) - Cydymaith Diddan
* Dafydd Jones - Salmau Dafydd
* Lloffion Prydyddiaeth … Mr. Rees Prichard
* John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) - Drych y Cristion
* William Williams Pantycelyn - Ffarwel Weledig, part 2

### Music

* Elis Roberts - Oliffernes a Jiwdath

### Paintings

* Richard Wilson - Meleager and Atalanta

## Births

* March - William Turner, industrialist (died 1853)
* 10 November - John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors), satirical poet and radical pamphleteer (died 1821)
* 6 December - Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), poet (died 1850)
* 18 December - Charles Lloyd, dissenting minister and schoolmaster (died 1829)
* 25 December - Christmas Evans, preacher (died 1838)
* unknown date
** Martha Llwyd, hymnodist (died 1845)
** Henry Parry, clergyman and antiquarian (died 1854)

## Deaths

* 1 January - James Francis Edward Stuart, 77, nominally Prince of Wales from his birth until 1701
* 19 January - Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne, landowner
* 30 January - John Jeffreys, 59, politician
* June - Evan Edwards, 32, harpist
* 7 May - Samuel Squire, 51/52, Bishop of St Davids
* 17 November - Morgan Morgan, 78, Welsh-born American colonist (in America)
* date unknown - Milbourn Bloom, independent minister