1769 in Wales

Events from the year 1769 in Wales.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan (until 12 April)
 * 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 – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer


 * Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton (until 10 January); John Ewer
 * Bishop of Llandaff – John Ewer (until 10 January); Jonathan Shipley (12 February - 8 September); Shute Barrington (from 1 October)
 * Bishop of St Asaph – Richard Newcome (until 3 June); Jonathan Shipley (from September)
 * Bishop of St Davids – Charles Moss (from 30 November)

Events

 * August
 * John Wesley is turned away from Welshpool Town Hall by the bailiff when he attempts to preach there during his tour of Wales.
 * Wesley speaks at Newtown, Montgomeryshire, and Llanidloes.
 * August/September - Robert Williams, a Welsh travelling preacher, arrives in America, the first licensed preacher to obtain permission from John Wesley to address the Methodist societies there.
 * 16 November - Henry Bayley succeeds to the barony of Beaudesert and takes the surname Paget.
 * date unknown
 * Daniel Rowland turns down the living of Newport, Pembrokeshire, to stay with his congregation at Llangeitho.
 * Thomas Pennant employs Moses Griffith to illustrate his books of tours.

New books

 * Elizabeth Griffith - The School for Rakes (play)
 * William Williams (Pantycelyn) - Ffarwel Weledig, vol. 3

Births

 * 2 February - Griffith Williams (Gutyn Peris), poet (died 1838)
 * 23 March - Benjamin Heath Malkin, antiquary and author (died 1842)
 * 3 May - John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Lisburne, politician (died 1831)
 * 6 December - Thomas Morgan, naval chaplain (died 1851)

Deaths

 * 27 March - John Thomas, Anglican priest and antiquarian, 32
 * April - Marmaduke Gwynne, father-in-law of Charles Wesley, 77/78
 * 12 April - Thomas Morgan, politician and lawyer, 66
 * 3 June - Richard Newcome, Bishop of St Asaph, 67/68
 * July - Goronwy Owen, poet, 46
 * 19 August - Sir Herbert Lloyd, 1st Baronet, politician, 49
 * 26 December - Edward Yardley, Archdeacon of St David's, 71