1762 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1762 to Wales and its people.

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, 3rd Viscount Lisburne (until 27 July); Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne (from 27 July)
 * 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 – 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

 * Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis, leaves the Whig party.
 * Silvanus Bevan is elected a member of the Cymmrodorion.

New books

 * Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) – Tri Chydymaith Dyn
 * Oliver Goldsmith – The Life of Richard Nash
 * William Williams Pantycelyn – Pantheologia, neu Hanes Holl Grefyddau’r Byd

Music

 * William Williams Pantycelyn – Mor o Wydr (including "Gweddi am Nerth i fyned trwy anialwch y Byd", the Welsh original of the hymn "Cwm Rhondda")

Births

 * 12 August – George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV (died 1830)
 * 11 October – David Charles, hymn-writer (died 1834)
 * date unknown
 * Samuel Homfray, iron-master (died 1822)
 * William Jones, bookseller, religious writer, and member of the Scotch Baptist church in Finsbury, London. (died 1846)
 * John Williams, evangelical cleric (died 1802)

Deaths

 * 3 February – Beau Nash, leader of fashion, 87
 * 2 May – John Salusbury, diarist, 54
 * 2 May – Margaret Lloyd, Moravian worker and activist, 53