1763 in Wales

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Events from the year 1763 in Wales.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• 26 January - Herbert Lloyd, MP for Cardigan Boroughs, is created a baronet.
• 11 October - Hester Lynch Salusbury marries Henry Thrale, against her family's wishes.[1]
• 5 December - Charles Morgan replaces Thomas Morgan (of Rhiwpera) as MP for Brecon.
• Plymouth Ironworks at Merthyr Tydfil established.
• Richard Penrhyn is created Baron Penrhyn

Arts and literature

New books

• Goronwy Owen, Lewis Morris et al. - Diddanwch Teuluaidd[2]
• Tomshone Catty's Tricks[3]

Music

• Aaron Williams - The Universal Psalmodist[4]

Births

• 1 April - John Wynne Griffith, politician (died 1834)
• 13 April - Robert Nicholl Carne, landowner (died 1849)[5]
• August - Peter Bailey Williams, clergyman and author (died 1836)

Deaths

• 18 May - Robert Williams, politician, about 68[6]
• 16 July - William Morgan (of Tredegar, younger), politician, 38[7]
• 25 November - Richard Morris, father of the noted Morris brothers ("Morrisiaid Môn"), 89[8]

References

1. John Tearle (1991). Mrs. Piozzi's Tall Young Beau, William Augustus Conway. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-8386-3402-8.
2. Joseph Falaky Nagy; Celtic Studies Association of North America (2006). Memory and the modern in Celtic literatures. Four Courts Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-85182-982-8.
3. Helen Phillips (2008). Bandit Territories: British Outlaw Traditions. University of Wales Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-7083-1985-7.
4. The London Chronicle. 1763. p. 280.
5. Sylvanus, Urban (1849). "Clergy deceased". The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Vol. 32. London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son. p. 662-663.
6. "WILLIAMS, Robert (?1695-1763), of Erbistock, Denb". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
7. Walter Thomas Morgan. "Morgan family, of Tredegar Park". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
8. John Humphreys Davies (1909). The Letters of Lewis, Richard, William and John Morris of Anglesey, (Morrisiaid Mon) 1728-1765. Published privately by the editor and printed for him by Fox, Jones.