1759 in Wales
Introduction This article is about the particular significance of the year '''1759''' to Wales and its people.
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 *19 September – The Dowlais Iron Company is formed. *''date unknown'' – Evan Davies resigns as head of the Welsh Academy, following a rift between the Presbyterian and Congregational Fund Boards.
Arts and literature ===New books===*''Blodeu-gerdd Cymry'' (ed. Dafydd Jones)*Mathias Maurice – ''Social Religion Exemplify'd''*John Wesley – ''Primitive Physick'', translated by John Evans of Bala
Births *1 January – Joseph Foster-Barham, owner of the Trecŵn estate (died 1832)*11 February – John Rice Jones, Welsh-born American politician (died 1824)*16 March – Sir John Nicholl, politician and judge (died 1838)*7 August – William Owen Pughe, lexicographer (died 1835)*10 September – George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke (died 1827)*18 October – Theophilus Jones, historian (died 1812)*''date unknown'' -**William Aubrey, engineer (died 1827)**David Thomas ("Dafydd Ddu Eryri"), (died 1822)
Deaths *11 August – John Heylyn, Welsh-descended clergyman, 74*27 September – Isaac Maddox, Bishop of St Asaph, 62*2 November – Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist, 50
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