1809 in Wales

Updated on Dec 14, 2023

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1809 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)

Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

9 February - South Stack Lighthouse off Anglesey first illuminated.

10 May - Stapleton Cotton plays a prominent role in the Battle of Grijó.

David Hughes, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, donates £105 towards scholarships to give South Wales the same level of support as North Wales.

Hawarden Castle is enlarged.

John Rice Jones begins lead mining across the Mississippi in the future state of Missouri.

Jeremiah Homfray opens a level at Richard Griffiths' lease in Trehafod in the Rhondda; the first full scale attempt to mine coal in the area.

Edward Davies - The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids

Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) - An English-Welsh Dictionary neu Eir-Lyfr Saesneg a Chymraeg

Theophilus Jones - History of the County of Brecknock, vol. 2

18 January - John Gwyn Jeffreys, conchologist (died 1885)

15 February - Owen Jones, architect (died 1874)

17 April - Thomas Brigstocke, painter (died 1881)

24 May - William Chambers, politician (died 1882)

26 May - G. T. Clark, engineer (died 1885)

11 August - Robert Thomas (Ap Vychan), writer (died 1880)

20 August - Morris Williams (Nicander), writer (died 1874)

27 October - Lewis Edwards, Nonconformist minister and educator (died 1887)

22 December - John Hanmer, 1st Baron Hanmer, politician (died 1882)

date unknown - Evan James, lyricist of the Welsh national anthem (died 1878)

April - Charles Francis Greville, founder of Milford Haven, 59

October 28 - Hugh Pugh, Independent minister, 29

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