Events from the year 1758 in Wales. Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Howell Gwynne Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Newcome Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys Events April - Goronwy Owen becomes headmaster of the grammar school attached to the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. 13 July - Josiah Tucker becomes Dean of Gloucester. October - Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) becomes curate of Llanllechid. December - The Llangibby estate passes into the hands of the Addams-Williams family when the original Williams line dies out. date unknown - The Welsh Charity School becomes co-educational. Arts and literature New books Peter Williams - Blodau i Blant Music John Thomas - Caniadau Siôn, vol. 1 Births 3 May - Stephen Kemble, Herefordshire-born actor, brother of Sarah Siddons (died 1822) 24 (or 20) August - Sir Thomas Picton, soldier (died 1815) 3 September - Henrietta Clive, Countess of Powis (died 1822) 18 October - Theophilus Jones, lawyer and historian (died 1830) date unknown - Richard Fothergill, ironmaster (died 1821) probable - Isaac Davis, advisor to Kamehameha I of Hawaii (died 1810) Deaths 24 January - William Wogan, religious writer, 79 25 January - Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor, 50 18 March - Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury and former Bishop of Bangor, 65 24 March - Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet, 53 December - Sir Leonard Williams, 5th Baronet References Wales Wales