Incumbents

Events

April – Goronwy Owen becomes headmaster of the grammar school attached to the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.^[10]
13 July – Josiah Tucker becomes Dean of Gloucester.^[11]
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.^[12]
date unknown – The Welsh Charity School becomes co-educational.^[13]

3 May – Stephen Kemble, Herefordshire-born actor, brother of Sarah Siddons (died 1822)^[14]
24 (or 20) August – Sir Thomas Picton, soldier (died 1815)^[15]
3 September – Henrietta Clive, Countess of Powis (died 1822)^[16]
18 October – Theophilus Jones, lawyer and historian (died 1830)
date unknown – Richard Fothergill, ironmaster (died 1821)^[17]
probable – Isaac Davis, advisor to Kamehameha I of Hawaii (died 1810)

24 January – William Wogan, religious writer, 79^[18]
25 January – Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor, 50^[19]
18 March – Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury and former Bishop of Bangor, 65
24 March – Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet, 53^[20]
December – Sir Leonard Williams, 5th Baronet^[12]