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1810s in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1810 - 1819 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
  • Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

    • Events

  • 1810
  • 1811
  • 1812
  • 1813
  • 1814
  • 1815
  • 1816
  • 1817
  • 1818
  • 1819

    • New books

  • Thomas Charles - Biblical Dictionary, vol. 4 (1811)
  • Dafydd Ddu Eryri - Corph y Gaingc (1810)
  • Richard Fenton
  • A Tour in Quest of Genealogy (1811)
  • Memoirs of an Old Wig (1815)
  • Joseph Harris (Gomer) - Traethawd ar Briodol Dduwdod ein Harglwydd Iesu Grist (1816)
  • Ann Hatton
  • Cambrian Pictures (1810)
  • Chronicles of an Illustrious House (1816)
  • Samuel Johnson - A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774 (1816)
  • Thomas Jones (Dinbych) - Hanes Diwigwyr, Merthyron, a Chyffeswyr Eglwys Loegr (1813)
  • William Owen Pughe - Coll Gwynfa (translation of Milton's Paradise Lost) (1819)
  • David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) - Barddoniaeth Gristianogawl (1815)
  • John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd) - Annerch Plant a Rhieni oddi ar farwolaeth William Thomas mab Lewis Thomas, Llanrwst (1817)

    • Music

  • 1811
  • John James - Pigion o Hymnau
  • 1817
  • Robert Williams - Llanfair (hymn tune, formerly named Bethel); Williams recorded that the tune was composed on 14 July of this year.

    • Births

  • 1810
  • January 12 - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (d. 1882)
  • January 15 - John Evan Thomas, sculptor (d. 1873)
  • January 19 - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect (d. 1869)
  • January 24 - Thomas Jones, missionary (d. 1849)
  • 1811
  • January 14 - Rowland Prichard, musician (d. 1887)
  • January 26 - Roger Edwards, minister (d. 1886)
  • March 11 - Thomas Jones (Glan Alun), poet (d. 1866)
  • July 11 - William Robert Grove, inventor (d. 1896)
  • date unknown - John Williams (Ab Ithel), antiquary (d. 1862)
  • 1812
  • January 6 - Catherine Glynne, future wife of William Ewart Gladstone (d. 1900)
  • February 3 - Robert Elis (Cynddelw), poet and lexicographer (d. 1875)
  • April 3 - Henry Richard, pacifist politician (d. 1888)
  • May 19 - Lady Charlotte Guest, translator and philanthropist (d. 1895)
  • 1813
  • June 30 - Thomas Briscoe, translator (d. 1895)
  • August 1 - William Ambrose (Emrys), poet (d. 1873)
  • October 10 - William Adams, mining engineer (d. 1886)
  • date unknown - John Edwards (Meiriadog), poet (d. 1906)
  • 1814
  • March 5 - Joseph Edwards, sculptor (d. 1882)
  • date unknown - Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist (d. 1903)
  • 1815
  • January 24 - Thomas Gee, publisher (d. 1898)
  • April 16 - Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (d. 1895)
  • May - William Lucas Collins, author (d. 1887)
  • November 21 - John Bowen, Bishop of Sierra Leone (d. 1859)
  • December 13 - Thomas Rees, Congregational minister (d. 1885)
  • 1816
  • June 3 - John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech, politician (d. 1876)
  • June 11 - Thomas William Davids, ecclesiastical historian (d. 1884)
  • August 16 - Charles John Vaughan, dean of Llandaff and co-founder of University of Wales, Cardiff
  • date unknown
  • Huw Derfel, poet and historian (d. 1890)
  • Edward Edwards (Pencerdd Ceredigion), musician (d. 1897)
  • Henry Robertson, Scots engineer responsible for building the North Wales Mineral Railway (d. 1888)
  • 1817
  • August 16 - Rowland Williams, theologian and academic
  • November 1 - Henry Brinley Richards, composer (d. 1885)
  • 1818
  • January 11 - Daniel Silvan Evans, lexicographer (d. 1903)
  • December 18 - David Davies (Llandinam), industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1890)
  • 1819
  • November 4 - Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor (d. 1894)
  • November 15 - Arthur Wynn Williams, physician (d. 1886)

    • Deaths

  • 1810
  • April 3 - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), poet and dramatist (b. 1739)
  • June 27 - Richard Crawshay, industrialist (b. 1729)
  • 1811
  • September 25 - Joshua Eddowes, printer and bookseller (b. 1724)
  • 1812
  • March 13 - Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge (b. 1744)
  • 1813
  • March 23 - Princess Augusta, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales and mother of Caroline, the Princess of Wales (b. 1737)
  • April 17 - Thomas Edwards (Yr Hwntw Mawr), murderer
  • date unknown - Jane Cave, poet (b. 1754)
  • 1814
  • March 12 - Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu), printer and translator (b. 1733)
  • June 21 - Sir Erasmus Gower, colonial governor (b. 1742)
  • October 5 - Thomas Charles of Bala, Welsh Bible pioneer (b. 1755)
  • 1815
  • 1816
  • June 29 - David Williams, Enlightenment philosopher (b. 1738)
  • 1817
  • January 16 - General Vaughan Lloyd, commander of the Woolwich Arsenal (b. 1736)
  • March 27 - Josiah Boydell, artist (b. 1752)
  • July 17 - William Williams of Llandygly (b. 1738)
  • July 31 - Benjamin Hall, industrialist (b. 1778)
  • date unknown - David Hughes, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
  • 1818
  • September 12 - John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd), poet (b. 1742)
  • 1819
  • January 31 - Thomas Bevan, missionary (b.c.1796)
  • February 8 - Sydenham Teak Edwards, botanist (b. 1768)
  • June 25 - John Abel, minister (b. 1770)
  • November 6 - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (b. 1796)

    • References

    1810s in Wales Wikipedia
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