1810 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1810 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
[edit]- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford[2][11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney[12][2][13]
- Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie[14][15]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson[16]
- Bishop of St Asaph – William Cleaver[17][18][19]
- Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess[19][20][21][22]
Events
[edit]- January - Novelist Thomas Love Peacock first visits Maentwrog where he will settle for a time.
- 3 March - Launch of the Carmarthen Journal, the oldest surviving newspaper in Wales.[23]
- 14 April - James Cotton, precentor of Bangor Cathedral, marries Mary Anne, daughter of Henry Majendie, Bishop of Bangor.
- 27 September - Thomas Picton serves with distinction under Wellington at the Battle of Bussaco.[24]
- 24 October - The foundation stone of the Moel Famau Jubilee Tower is laid.[25]
- date unknown
- Walter Coffin takes a mining lease on land at Dinas Rhondda.
- Hafod Copperworks opens in the Lower Swansea valley.[26]
- Etcher Charles Norris settles in Tenby.
- Jonesville, North Carolina, is founded as Martinsborough; the name is later changed in honour of Hardy Jones (1747–1819).
Arts and literature
[edit]New books
[edit]- The Beauties of England and Wales, vol. XI
- Corff y Gainc (anthology)
- Dafydd Ddu Eryri - Corph y Gaingc
- Richard Fenton - Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire
- Ann Hatton - Cambrian Pictures
Births
[edit]- 3 January - John Orlando Parry, actor, musician and songwriter (d. 1879)[27]
- 12 January - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (d. 1882)[28]
- 15 January - John Evan Thomas, sculptor (died 1873)[29]
- 19 January - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect (died 1869)[30]
- 24 January - Thomas Jones, Methodist missionary (died 1849)[31]
- 4 August - Dan Jones, Mormon missionary (died 1862 in Utah)
- date unknown - Thomas Jones, librarian (died 1875)[32]
Deaths
[edit]- 10 March - George Morgan, American merchant of Welsh parentage, 67[33]
- April - Isaac Davis, advisor to the Hawaiian royal family[34]
- 3 April - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), poet and dramatist, 71[35]
- 27 June - Richard Crawshay, industrialist, 70[36]
- 12 August - David Jones, Church of England priest who was supportive of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism, 74[37]
- 27 September - John Williams, barrister, 53[38]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
- ^ a b c d J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
- ^ Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
- ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
- ^ "not known". Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. 3. "Old Wales" Office: 106. 1907.
- ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
- ^ R. G. Thorne (1986). "Clive, Edward, 2nd Baron Clive (1754-1839), of Walcot, Salop". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ Bertie George Charles (1959). "Philipps family, of Picton". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
- ^ William Stockdale (1833). Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom. p. 86.
- ^ Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780521563505.
- ^ Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
- ^ John Henry James (1898). A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff. Western Mail. p. 16.
- ^ The Church of the people and free church penny magazine. 1859. p. 179.
- ^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
- ^ a b Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.
- ^ The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
- ^ George III (King of Great Britain) (1967). The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3. University Press. p. 434.
- ^ "Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas". The Royal Society. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ William Spurrell (1860). Carmarthen and its neighbourhood. p. 98.
- ^ René Chartrand (20 March 2013). Bussaco 1810: Wellington defeats Napoleon's Marshals. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-4728-0312-2.
- ^ Lois York (30 September 2010). "Booklet unveils past of Jubilee Tower on Moel Famau". Daily Post. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
- ^ Engineering and Mining Journal. Western & Company. 1882. p. 261.
- ^
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Parry, John Orlando". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. - ^ Morris, Richard Leslie (2004). "Llewelyn, John Dillwyn". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/45563. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Thomas, John Evan (1810-1873), sculptor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ David Gwenallt Jones. "Jones, John (Talhaiarn; 1810-1869), architect and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones, Thomas (1810-1849), the first Calvinistic Methodist missionary on the Khasia Hills (Assam)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ Sutton, C. W.; Crosby, Alan G. (2004). "Jones, Thomas (1810–1875)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 27 January 2009.
- ^ Obituary Col. George Morgan, The Pittsburgh Gazette, 6 Apr 1810, Friday, p. 2. Archived
- ^ Robert C. Schmitt (2000). "The Cemetery for Foreigners". Hawaiian Journal of History. Vol. 34. Hawaiian Historical Society. pp. 63–67. hdl:10524/238.
- ^ Parry, Sir Thomas. "Edwards, Thomas (Twm o'r Nant; 1739–1810)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.
- ^ Price, Watkin William. "Crawshay family, of Cyfarthfa, Glamorganshire, industrialists". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
- ^ Roberts, Gomer Morgan. "Jones, David (1736-1810), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
