1766 in Wales
List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1766 to Wales and its people .
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
New books
English language
Welsh language
Music
Elis Roberts - Oliffernes a Jiwdath [ 27]
Paintings
Births
Deaths
1 January - James Francis Edward Stuart , 77, nominally Prince of Wales from his birth until 1701[ 34]
19 January - Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne , landowner[ 35]
30 January - John Jeffreys , 59, politician[ 36]
June - Evan Edwards, 32, harpist[ 37]
7 May - Samuel Squire , 51/52, Bishop of St Davids[ 15]
17 November - Morgan Morgan , 78, Welsh-born American colonist (in America)[ 38]
date unknown - Milbourn Bloom , independent minister[ 39]
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^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru . University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth . p. 26.
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^ George Grenville (1962). Additional Grenville Papers 1763-1765 . Manchester University Press. p. 176.
^ Namier, Lewis. "Gwynne, Howell (1718-80), of Garth in Llanleonfel, Brec" . History of Parliament Online . Retrieved 7 October 2017 .
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^ John McClintock; James Strong (1981). Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature . Baker Book House. p. 324.
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^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England . James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
^ a b Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.. . University Press. p. 305.
^ Joseph Priestley (1831). Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways of Great Britain: As a Reference to Nichols, Priestley & Walker's New Map of Inland Navigation . Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green. pp. 365 .
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^ James Jupp; Director Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies James Jupp (October 2001). The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins . Cambridge University Press. p. 740. ISBN 978-0-521-80789-0 .
^ Cecil John Layton Price. "Lloyd, Evan (1734-1776), cleric and writer" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 11 June 2024 .
^ Teresa Barnard (15 April 2016). Anna Seward: A Constructed Life: A Critical Biography . Routledge. p. 152. ISBN 978-1-317-18067-8 .
^ Ffion Mair Jones (14 June 2010). 'The Bard is a Very Singular Character': Iolo Morganwg, Marginalia and Print Culture . University of Wales Press. p. 422. ISBN 978-1-78316-407-3 .
^ Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Jones, Dafydd (1711-1777), hymn-writer" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 11 June 2024 .
^ William Llewelyn Davies. "Eddowes, Joshua (1724-1811), printer and bookseller at Shrewsbury" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 11 June 2024 .
^ Thomas Isfryn Jones. "ROBERTS, John (Siôn Robert Lewis; 1731-1806), author, almanack-maker, and hymn-writer" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 30 September 2019 .
^ Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Williams, William (1717-1791), Methodist cleric, author, and hymn-writer" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 11 June 2024 .
^ Gruffydd Glyn Evans. "ROBERTS, ELIS (d. 1789), cooper, ballad-writer, and composer of interludes" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018 .
^ David Rowland Hughes. "Jones, John ('Jac Glan-y-gors': 1766-1821), satirical poet" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 October 2021 .
^ Stephen Joseph Williams. "WILLIAMS, ROBERT (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu; 1766-1850), poet" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018 .
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Lloyd, Charles (1766-1829), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 11 June 2024 .
^ D. Densil Morgan (2008). Wales and the Word: Historical Perspectives on Religion and Welsh Identity . University of Wales Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-7083-2121-8 .
^ "Merched y gân" . BBC Cymru Fyw (in Welsh). 30 May 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2021 .
^ William Llewelyn Davies. "Parry, Henry (1766?-1854), cleric and antiquary" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 11 June 2024 .
^ Deborah C. Fisher (2006). Princes of Wales . University of Wales Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-7083-2003-7 .
^ Morgan, Gerald (1993). "The Trawsgoed inheritance" . Ceredigion . XII (1): 33.
^ "JEFFREYS, John (1706–66), of the Priory, Brecon, and Sheen, Surr" . The History of Parliament (1715-1754). Retrieved 3 April 2016 .
^ Robert David Griffith. "EDWARDS, EVAN (1734-1766), harpist" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018 .
^ Callahan, James Morton (1912). Butcher, Bernard Lee (ed.). Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia . Vol. 3. Lewis Historical Publishers. p. 950 .
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Bloom, Milbourn (died 1766), Independent minister" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 11 June 2024 .