Events from the year 1764 in Wales.
Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Wynn Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – William Vaughan Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Howell Gwynne Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton Bishop of Llandaff – John Ewer Bishop of St Asaph – Richard Newcome Bishop of St Davids – Samuel Squire
Events January – South Wales industrialist Anthony Bacon succeeds John Wilkes as MP for Aylesbury. February – Thomas Nowell, the new principal of St Mary Hall, Oxford, marries Sarah Munday, daughter of the Mayor of Oxford. 21 June – Humphrey Edwards, physician, begins a voyage round the world as physician on .
Arts and literature New books English language Rowland Jones – The Origin of Language and Nations Gabriel Powell – Survey of Gower
Welsh language Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) – Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards David Powell – Sail yr Athrawiaeth Gatholic Morgan Rhys – Golwg o Ben Nebo
Music 31 March – "Jones" performs on the Welsh harp at a benefit concert in Dublin, "in the true Spirit and Taste peculiar to the Genius of his Country".
Births 29 April – Ann Hatton ("Ann of Swansea"), English novelist (d. 1838) 20 June – Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi), first Unitarian minister in Wales (d. 1833) 20 July – Sir Robert Williams, 9th Baronet, politician (died 1830) 27 July – John Thelwall, English-born orator, writer, political reformer, journalist and poet (died 1834) date unknown William Crawshay I, ironmaster (d. 1834) Robert Waithman, lord mayor of London (d. 1833)
Deaths 17 March – Uvedale Tomkins Price, politician, Steward of the Courts for Denbigh, 78Robinson, Rev. Charles John (1873). A History of the Mansions and Manors of Herefordshire. Longman & Co. 18 June – Christmas Samuel, minister and writer, 90 22 June – Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, 63 26 September – Joseph Harris, Assay-master of the Royal Mint, 60 October – Richard Lathrop, bookseller and printer, age unknown date unknown – John Richards, preacher and poet, about 44
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