1810 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1810 to Wales and its people.

← 1809 1808 1807 1806 1805 1810 in Wales → 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1810 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• 3 March - Launch of the Carmarthen Journal, the oldest surviving newspaper in Wales.[1]
• 14 April - James Henry Cotton marries Mary Anne, daughter of Bishop Majendie.
• 27 September - Thomas Picton serves with distinction under Wellington at the Battle of Bussaco.[2]
• 24 October - The foundation stone of the Moel Famau Jubilee Tower is laid.[3]
• date unknown
  • Walter Coffin takes a mining lease on land at Dinas Rhondda.
  • Hafod Copperworks opens in the Lower Swansea valley.[4]
  • Artist Charles Norris settles in Tenby.
  • Writer Thomas Love Peacock settles in Maentwrog.
  • Jonesville, North Carolina, is founded as Martinsborough; the name is later changed in honour of Hardy Jones (1747–1819).

Arts and literature

New books

• 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

• 3 January - John Orlando Parry, actor, musician and songwriter (d. 1879)[5]
• 12 January - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (d. 1882)[6]
• 15 January - John Evan Thomas, sculptor (d. 1873)[7]
• 19 January - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect (d. 1869)[8]
• 24 January - Thomas Jones, Methodist missionary (d. 1849 in India)[9]
• 4 August - Dan Jones, Mormon missionary (d. 1862 in Utah)
• Thomas Jones, librarian (d. 1875)

Deaths

• 10 March - George Morgan, American merchant of Welsh parentage, 67[10]
• April - Isaac Davis, advisor to the Hawaiian royal family[11]
• 3 April - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), poet and dramatist, 71[12]
• 27 June - Richard Crawshay, industrialist, 70[13]
• 12 August - David Jones, Church of England priest who was supportive of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism, 74[14]

References

1. William Spurrell (1860). Carmarthen and its neighbourhood. p. 98.
2. René Chartrand (20 March 2013). Bussaco 1810: Wellington defeats Napoleon's Marshals. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-4728-0312-2.
3. Lois York (30 September 2010). "Booklet unveils past of Jubilee Tower on Moel Famau". Daily Post. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
4. Engineering and Mining Journal. Western & Company. 1882. p. 261.
5.  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.
6. 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.
7. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Thomas, John Evan (1810-1873), sculptor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
8. David Gwenallt Jones. "Jones, John (Talhaiarn; 1810-1869), architect and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
9. 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.
10. Obituary Col. George Morgan, The Pittsburgh Gazette, 6 Apr 1810, Friday, p. 2. Archived
11. Robert C. Schmitt (2000). "The Cemetery for Foreigners". Hawaiian Journal of History. 34. Hawaiian Historical Society. pp. 63–67. hdl:10524/238.
12. Parry, Sir Thomas. "Edwards, Thomas (Twm o'r Nant; 1739–1810)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.
13. Price, Watkin William. "Crawshay family, of Cyfarthfa, Glamorganshire, industrialists". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
14. Roberts, Gomer Morgan. "Jones, David (1736-1810), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 August 2019.