1815 in Wales

Updated on Oct 19, 2023

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1815 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)

Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

23 January - John Scandrett Harford inherits the family estates on the death of his father.

28 March - Opening of the British School for boys at Newport.

12 April - Admiral Thomas Foley is knighted.

23 May - John Luxmore replaces William Cleaver as Bishop of St Asaph.

May or June - Bryn Oer Tramway opens in South Wales.

18 June - Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, famously loses a leg at the Battle of Waterloo. General Thomas Picton is killed in the same battle.

A twice-weekly boat service between Cardiff and Bristol is established.

Walter Davies - General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of South Wales

Richard Fenton - Memoirs of an Old Wig

Thomas Love Peacock - Headlong Hall (anonymous; dated 1816)

David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) - Barddoniaeth Gristianogawl

24 January - Thomas Gee, publisher (died 1898)

16 April - Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (died 1895)

May - William Lucas Collins, author (died 1887)

2 June - John Deffett Francis, painter and art collector (died 1901)

21 November - John Bowen, Bishop of Sierra Leone (died 1859)

13 December - Thomas Rees, Congregational minister (died 1885)

date unknown - Thomas Gruffydd, harpist (died 1887)

5 March - Sir Stephen Glynne, 8th Baronet, 34

24 April - John Lloyd, naturalist, 65

18 June - Thomas Picton, soldier, 56

date unknown - Edward Edwards, Royal Navy officer of Welsh parentage, 73

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