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, 50The History of Parliament: WINDSOR, Hon. Herbert (1707-58). Originally published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970 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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