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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1761 to Wales and its people.

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet (from 25 November)^[1][2][3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire- Thomas Wynn (from 4 July)^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet (from 10 July)
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – vacant
• Montgomeryshire – Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis (from 4 July)
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Howell Gwynne^[8][2]
• Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton^[9]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Newcome (until 9 July);^[10] John Ewer (from 28 December)^[11]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond (until June)^[12] Richard Newcome (from 9 July)
• Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys (until 16 January)^[13] Samuel Squire (from 24 March)

• Edward Allgood II (1712–1801) establishes a japannery at Usk.^[14]
• Goronwy Owen takes up his position as a rector in Virginia, and his salary is agreed.^[15]

• Thomas Pennant – British Zoology, volume 1
• John Wesley – Rules of the United Societies, translated into Welsh by John Evans of Bala.^[16]

• John Parry – A Collection of Welsh, English and Scotch Airs^[17]

• 16 February – Priscilla Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, Welsh-descended noblewoman and Baroness Gwydyr (died 1828)
• 15 July – Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), writer (died 1849)
• 11 October – David Charles, hymn-writer (died 1834)
• date unknown
  • Charles Heath, Radical printer and writer, twice Mayor of Monmouth, in Worcestershire (died 1831)
  • Elizabeth Whitlock, sister of Sarah Siddons and Julia Ann Hatton
  • Helen Maria Williams, novelist and poet, in Scotland (died 1827)^[18]

• 16 January – Anthony Ellys, Bishop of St Davids, 70^[13]
• 4 February – Samuel Davies, Welsh-descended evangelist in America, 37 (pneumonia)
• 8 April – Griffith Jones Llanddowror, pioneer in education, 77^[19]
• 27 April – Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Clapton, Welsh-descended politician, ?31