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1813 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1813 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • January - Sir Joseph Bailey sells his 25% share in Cyfarthfa ironworks for £20,000.
  • April - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) moves to Crickhowell to take over several parishes in the vicinity.
  • November - Sir Jeremiah Homfray is forced to sell his house at Cwm Rhondda to settle his debts.
  • Anthony Hill and his two brothers go into partnership at the Plymouth ironworks.
  • The "Branwen ferch Llŷr" sepulchral urn is discovered on the banks of the river Alaw in Anglesey (later placed in the British Museum by Richard Llwyd).
  • The first permanent military barracks in Wales are opened at Brecon.
  • An Independent minister, David Davies, is forced to leave his teaching post at Carmarthen Academy after charges of "immorality" are made against him.
  • David Daniel Davis is appointed a physician at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in London.
  • Charles James Apperley becomes agent for his brother-in-law's estates in Caernarvonshire, taking up residence at Tŷ Gwyn, Llanbeblig.
  • Diana Barham, Baroness Barham, settles in Gower.
  • Thomas Charles of Bala publishes his "rules" for the conduct of Sunday schools.
  • Richard Parry Price, heir to the Puleston estates, is created a baronet.
  • Elijah Waring founds a new periodical, The Cambrian Visitor: a Monthly Miscellany, which fails after eight months.

    • New books

  • Hugh Davies - Welsh Botanology … A Systematic Catalogue of the Native Plants of Anglesey, in Latin, English, and Welsh
  • Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) - General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of North Wales
  • William Owen - Lloffion o Faes Boaz
  • William Williams (Gwilym Peris) - Awengerdd Peris

    • Births

  • 30 January - Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, Biblical scholar (d. 1875)
  • 2 May - Mordecai Jones, industrialist (d. 1880)
  • 30 June - Thomas Briscoe, translator (d. 1895)
  • 1 August - William Ambrose (Emrys), poet (d. 1873)
  • 12 September - Daniel Jones, missionary (d. 1846)
  • 10 October - William Adams, mining engineer (d. 1886)
  • date unknown - John Edwards (Meiriadog), poet (d. 1906)

    • Deaths

  • 23 March - Princess Augusta of Great Britain, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales and mother of Caroline, later Princess of Wales (b. 1737)
  • 17 April - Thomas Edwards (Yr Hwntw Mawr), murderer
  • 11 August (or 12 August) - John Price, librarian, 78

    • References

    1813 in Wales Wikipedia
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