1802 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1802 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick
Events
- August - Sir William and Lady Hamilton visit Milford Haven, along with Admiral Horatio Nelson.[1] Nelson subsequently visits Monmouth[2] and the Naval Temple on The Kymin. Also on his Welsh expedition he visits Cyfarthfa Ironworks, in recognition of its contribution to the war effort.
- 8 October - A Unitarian Association is formed in South Wales, with Josiah Rees and Iolo Morganwg among its leaders.
- North Wales Baptist Association is launched by Christmas Evans.
- Sir John Nicholl is elected to Parliament for the first time.
- Sir Robert Williames Vaughan marries Anna Maria Mostyn, daughter of Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet.
Arts and literature
New books
- Thomas Charles - The Welsh Methodists Vindicated
- Abraham Rees - The New Cyclopaedia, vol. 1
Music
- Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, vol. 2[3]
Sport
- Royal Anglesey Yacht Club founded at Beaumaris.
Births
- 15 July - James Allen, Bishop of St David's (d. 1897)[4]
- August - Ebenezer Thomas, poet (d. 1863)
- 24 August - William Rowlands (Gwilym Lleyn) (d. 1865)
- 26 August - George Wightwick, architect working in south west England and pioneer architectural journalist (d. 1872)
- 8 November
- Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover (d. 1867)[5]
- William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog), poet and author (d. 1883)[6]
- 4 December - Calvert Jones, pioneer photographer (d. 1877)[7]
- 12 December
- John Ryland Harris, printer (d. 1823)[8]
- Isaac Williams, poet (d. 1865)
- date unknown - Thomas Robert Jones, founder of The Philanthropic Order of True Ivorites (d. 1856)[9]
Deaths
- 3 April - John Williams, evangelical clergyman, about 40[10]
- 4 April - Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, politician and barrister, 69[11]
- 26 May - Joseph Hoare, academic (b. 1709)[12]
- 6 July - Daniel Morgan, American pioneer, soldier, and politician of Welsh parentage, 66[13]
- 28 November - Robert Roberts, preacher, 40[14]
- 30 November - Thomas Williams of Llanidan, industrialist, 65[15]
- 6 December - Roger Kemble, travelling theatre manager, father of Sarah Siddons, 81[16]
- 31 December - Francis Lewis, signatory of the Declaration of American Independence, 80
- date unknown - Abraham Elliot Griffiths, co-founder of Sierra Leone, age unknown[17]
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References
- Maxwell Fraser (1952). Wales. Hale. p. 312.
- Leonard W. Cowie (September 1990). Lord Nelson, 1758-1805: A Bibliography. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-313-28082-5.
- Edward Jones (1802). Musical, Poetical, and Historical Relicks of The Welsh Bards and Druids: Drawn from Authentic Documents of Remote Antiquity ... ; to these national melodies are added new basses, with variations for the harp, or harpsichord, violin or flute. Strahan.
- THE LATE DEAN OF ST. DAVID'S. Liverpool Mercury (Liverpool, England), Tuesday, June 29, 1897; Issue 15443.
- Marion Löffler. "Hall, Benjamin, Lord Llanover (1802-1867), politician and reformer". Retrieved 30 December 2019.
- Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (1914). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. p. 186.
- Iwan Meical Jones. "Jones, Calvert Richard (1802-1877), pioneer photographer, artist and priest". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
- William Joseph Rhys. "Harris, John Ryland". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
- Huw Walters. "Jones, Thomas Robert". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
- Jenkins, Robert Thomas (2007). "Williams, John (1762–1802), Evangelical cleric". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 April 2009.
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 748–749. .
- James Peller Malcolm (1802). Londinium Redivivum Or an Antient History and Modern Description of London: Compiled from Parochial Records, Archives of Various Foundations, the Harleian Mss. and Other Authentic Sources. Nichols and Son. p. 438.
- Higginbotham, Don. Daniel Morgan: Revolutionary Rifleman. University of North Carolina Press, 1961. ISBN 0-8078-1386-9
- Richard Thomas. "Roberts, Robert (1762-1802), Calvinistic Methodist preacher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- "WILLIAMS, Thomas (1737-1802), of Llanidan, Anglesey and Temple House, Berks". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
- Philip H. Highfill, Kalman A. Burnim, Edward A. Langhans, A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, v. 8, Hough to Keyse: Actresses ..., 1982, p. 387
- Pybus, Cassandra (2006). Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty. Boston: Beacon Press.
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