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1818 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1818 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • 31 March - Joseph Tregelles Price takes out a new lease on Neath Abbey ironworks.
  • June - In the United Kingdom general election:
  • Samuel Homfray becomes MP for Stafford.
  • John Jones of Ystrad fails to win Carmarthen.
  • Berkeley Thomas Paget, MP for Anglesey, retires from Parliament.
  • John Edwards becomes MP for Glamorganshire.
  • August - John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri), parson of Kerry, and Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's, agree "to make an attempt to rekindle the bardic skill and ingenuity of the principality ... by holding eisteddfodau in different places in the four provinces".
  • The Sirhowy Ironworks, previously run by Richard Fothergill, is leased to Messrs. Harford of Ebbw Vale.
  • Joseph Harris (Gomer) re-founds the periodical Seren Gomer.
  • John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) becomes landlord of the King's Head in Ludgate Street, London.
  • Felicia Hemans separates from her husband.

    • Awards

  • Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd) wins the chair at an eisteddfod in St Asaph.

    • New books

  • Nicholas Carlisle - A Concise Description of the Endowed Grammar Schools in England and Wales
  • Charles Norris - A Historical Account of Tenby

    • Music

  • Owen Williams - Egwyddorion Canu

    • Births

  • 11 January - Daniel Silvan Evans, lexicographer (d. 1903)
  • 10 February - David Lloyd Isaac, author (d. 1876)
  • 27 February - Joseph Jenkins, the "Welsh Swagman", poet and diarist (d. 1898)
  • 5 November - Edward James Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis (d. 1891)
  • 16 November - Evan Lewis, Dean of Bangor (d. 1901)
  • 29 November - Richard Davies, MP (d. 1896)
  • 18 December - David Davies (Llandinam), industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1890)
  • date unknown - George Augustus Frederick Paget, politician

    • Deaths

  • 21 March - Charles Morgan, Commander-in-Chief of British forces in India, 76
  • 15 July - Robert Williams, hymn-writer, 35
  • 12 September - John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd), poet, 76
  • 17 September - Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey, father of Lady Charlotte Guest, 74

    • References

    1818 in Wales Wikipedia
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