1758 in Wales
Introduction 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
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