1761 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1761 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet (from 25 November)
 * Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire- Thomas Wynn (from 4 July)
 * Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
 * Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet (from 10 July)
 * Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – vacant
 * Montgomeryshire – Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis (from 4 July)
 * 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 Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Howell Gwynne
 * Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton
 * Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Newcome (until 9 July); John Ewer (from 28 December)
 * Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond (until June) Richard Newcome (from 9 July)
 * Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys (until 16 January) Samuel Squire (from 24 March)

Events

 * Edward Allgood II (1712–1801) establishes a japannery at Usk.
 * Goronwy Owen takes up his position as a rector in Virginia, and his salary is agreed.

New books

 * Thomas Pennant – British Zoology, volume 1
 * John Wesley – Rules of the United Societies, translated into Welsh by John Evans of Bala.

Music

 * John Parry – A Collection of Welsh, English and Scotch Airs

Births

 * 16 February – Priscilla Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, Welsh-descended noblewoman and Baroness Gwydyr (died 1828)
 * 15 July – Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), writer (died 1849)
 * 11 October – David Charles, hymn-writer (died 1834)
 * date unknown
 * Charles Heath, Radical printer and writer, twice Mayor of Monmouth, in Worcestershire (died 1831)
 * Elizabeth Whitlock, sister of Sarah Siddons and Julia Ann Hatton
 * Helen Maria Williams, novelist and poet, in Scotland (died 1827)

Deaths

 * 16 January – Anthony Ellys, Bishop of St Davids, 70
 * 4 February – Samuel Davies, Welsh-descended evangelist in America, 37 (pneumonia)
 * 8 April – Griffith Jones Llanddowror, pioneer in education, 77
 * 27 April – Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Clapton, Welsh-descended politician, ?31