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- Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of South Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire) – Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke[1][2]
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- 21 January – Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort, politician, 70/71[16]
- 15 March – Hugh Owen, independent minister[17]
- 11 July – Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Gray's Inn, 65/66[18]
- 19 July – John Evans, Puritan clergyman and teacher, 51/52
- 15 September – Sir John Aubrey, 2nd Baronet, about 50 (injuries from a fall)[19]
- 16 December – Thomas Morgan (of Dderw), politician, 36 (smallpox)[20]
- probable – Owen Wynne, lawyer and civil servant, about 48[21]
J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
Brown, Richard (1991). Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850. London England New York, NY: Routledge. p. 25. ISBN 9781134982707.
Charles John Abbey (1887). The English Church and Its Bishops 1700-1800. Longmans, Green. pp. 357–359.
T. A. Glenn, Merion in the Welsh Tract with sketches of the townships of Haverford and Radnor : historical and genealogical collections concerning the Welsh barony in the province of Pennsylvania, settled by the Cymric Quakers in 1682; published 1896.
Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. Vol. I (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 248.