1810s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1810 - 1819 to Wales and its people.

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Incumbents

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

Events

• 1810
• 1811
• 1812
• 1813
• 1814
• 1815
• 1816
• 1817
• 1818
• 1819

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Charles - Biblical Dictionary, vol. 4 (1811)
• Dafydd Ddu Eryri - Corph y Gaingc (1810)
• Richard Fenton
  • A Tour in Quest of Genealogy (1811)
  • Memoirs of an Old Wig (1815)
• Joseph Harris (Gomer) - Traethawd ar Briodol Dduwdod ein Harglwydd Iesu Grist (1816)
• Ann Hatton
  • Cambrian Pictures (1810)
  • Chronicles of an Illustrious House (1816)
• Samuel Johnson - A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774 (1816)
• Thomas Jones (Dinbych) - Hanes Diwigwyr, Merthyron, a Chyffeswyr Eglwys Loegr (1813)
• William Owen Pughe - Coll Gwynfa (translation of Milton's Paradise Lost) (1819)
• David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) - Barddoniaeth Gristianogawl (1815)
• John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd) - Annerch Plant a Rhieni oddi ar farwolaeth William Thomas mab Lewis Thomas, Llanrwst (1817)

Music

• 1811
  • John James - Pigion o Hymnau
• 1817
  • Robert Williams - Llanfair (hymn tune, formerly named Bethel); Williams recorded that the tune was composed on 14 July of this year.

Births

• 1810
  • 12 January - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (d. 1882)
  • 15 January - John Evan Thomas, sculptor (d. 1873)
  • 19 January - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect (d. 1869)
  • 24 January - Thomas Jones, missionary (d. 1849)
• 1811
  • 14 January - Rowland Prichard, musician (d. 1887)
  • 26 January - Roger Edwards, minister (d. 1886)
  • 11 March - Thomas Jones (Glan Alun), poet (d. 1866)
  • 11 July - William Robert Grove, inventor (d. 1896)
  • date unknown - John Williams (Ab Ithel), antiquary (d. 1862)
• 1812
  • 6 January - Catherine Glynne, future wife of William Ewart Gladstone (d. 1900)
  • 3 February - Robert Elis (Cynddelw), poet and lexicographer (d. 1875)
  • 3 April - Henry Richard, pacifist politician (d. 1888)
  • 19 May - Lady Charlotte Guest, translator and philanthropist (d. 1895)
• 1813
  • 30 June - Thomas Briscoe, translator (d. 1895)
  • 1 August - William Ambrose (Emrys), poet (d. 1873)
  • 10 October - William Adams, mining engineer (d. 1886)
  • date unknown - John Edwards (Meiriadog), poet (d. 1906)
• 1814
  • 5 March - Joseph Edwards, sculptor (d. 1882)
  • date unknown - Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist (d. 1903)
• 1815
  • 24 January - Thomas Gee, publisher (d. 1898)
  • 16 April - Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (d. 1895)
  • May - William Lucas Collins, author (d. 1887)
  • 21 November - John Bowen, Bishop of Sierra Leone (d. 1859)
  • 13 December - Thomas Rees, Congregational minister (d. 1885)
• 1816
  • 3 June - John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech, politician (d. 1876)
  • 11 June - Thomas William Davids, ecclesiastical historian (d. 1884)
  • 16 August - Charles John Vaughan, dean of Llandaff and co-founder of University of Wales, Cardiff
  • date unknown
    • Huw Derfel, poet and historian (d. 1890)
    • Edward Edwards (Pencerdd Ceredigion), musician (d. 1897)
    • Henry Robertson, Scots engineer responsible for building the North Wales Mineral Railway (d. 1888)
• 1817
  • 16 August - Rowland Williams, theologian and academic
  • 1 November - Henry Brinley Richards, composer (d. 1885)
• 1818
  • 11 January - Daniel Silvan Evans, lexicographer (d. 1903)
  • 18 December - David Davies (Llandinam), industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1890)
• 1819
  • 4 November - Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor (d. 1894)
  • 15 November - Arthur Wynn Williams, physician (d. 1886)

Deaths

• 1810
  • 3 April - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), poet and dramatist (b. 1739)
  • 27 June - Richard Crawshay, industrialist (b. 1729)
• 1811
  • 25 September - Joshua Eddowes, printer and bookseller (b. 1724)
• 1812
  • 13 March - Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge (b. 1744)
• 1813
  • 23 March - Princess Augusta, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales and mother of Caroline, the Princess of Wales (b. 1737)
  • 17 April - Thomas Edwards (Yr Hwntw Mawr), murderer
  • date unknown - Jane Cave, poet (b. 1754)
• 1814
  • 12 March - Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu), printer and translator (b. 1733)
  • 21 June - Sir Erasmus Gower, colonial governor (b. 1742)
  • 5 October - Thomas Charles of Bala, Welsh Bible pioneer (b. 1755)
• 1815
• 1816
  • 29 June - David Williams, Enlightenment philosopher (b. 1738)
• 1817
  • 16 January - General Vaughan Lloyd, commander of the Woolwich Arsenal (b. 1736)
  • 27 March - Josiah Boydell, artist (b. 1752)
  • 17 July - William Williams of Llandygly (b. 1738)
  • 31 July - Benjamin Hall, industrialist (b. 1778)
  • date unknown - David Hughes, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
• 1818
  • 12 September - John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd), poet (b. 1742)
• 1819
  • 31 January - Thomas Bevan, missionary (b.c.1796)
  • 8 February - Sydenham Teak Edwards, botanist (b. 1768)
  • 25 June - John Abel, minister (b. 1770)
  • 6 November - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (b. 1796)