1814 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1814 to Wales and its people.

← 1813 1812 1811 1810 1809 1814 in Wales → 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1814 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• 1 January - The first weekly newspaper in Welsh is published, when Seren Gomer is founded by Joseph Harris (Gomer), a Baptist minister in Swansea.[1]
• 3 January - Lampeter is granted its town charter.[2]
• February - Anthony Bushby Bacon sells his mineral rights at Cyfarthfa to Richard Crawshay for £95,000.[3]
• May - Caernarvon and Anglesey Hospital is founded.
• Summer solstice - Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morgannwg) declaims his poem "Heddwch" from the Logan Stone in the presence of the Gorsedd of Morgannwg, at the "second Assemblage"
• 10 September - The last recorded fatal duel in Wales is fought at Adpar, Newcastle Emlyn.[4] Thomas Heslop of Jamaica is killed; a local landowner, Beynon, is found guilty and fined one shilling.
• date unknown
  • Sydenham Edwards founds The Botanical Register.
  • The Admiralty re-locates from Milford Haven to Paterchurch, resulting in the founding of Pembroke Dock.[5]
  • Journalist and preacher Elijah Waring settles at Neath.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Jones - Natur a Chyneddfau Gweddi (2nd edition)[6]

Music

• Thomas William - Perl Mewn Adfyd[7]

Births

• January - George Grant Francis, philanthropist (d. 1882)
• 29 January - Edward William Thomas, composer (d. 1892)
• 5 March - Joseph Edwards, sculptor (d. 1882)
• 16 June - Robert Davies (Cyndeyrn), composer (d. 1867)[8]
• date unknown - Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist (d. 1903)

Deaths

• 12 March - Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu), printer and translator, 80?[9]
• 23 April - Richard Jones, clergyman and writer, 57[10]
• 3 May - Thomas Coke, Methodist leader, 66[11]
• 21 June - Sir Erasmus Gower, colonial governor, 71[12]
• 26 September - Owen Jones, antiquary and founder of the Gwyneddigion Society, 73
• 5 October - Thomas Charles of Bala, Bible publishing pioneer, 58
• 16 November - John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, 70

References

1. John Graham Jones (15 November 2014). The History of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-1-78316-169-0.
2. Report. 1837. p. 461.
3. Alan Birch (5 November 2013). Economic History of the British Iron and Steel Industry. Routledge. p. 81. ISBN 978-1-136-61723-2.
4. "About Adpar". Newcastle Emlyn and Adpar. Archived from the original on 8 October 2009. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
5. Charles George Harper (1905). Gloucester to Milford Haven. Chapman & Hall.
6. Catalogue of Welsh Books, Books on Wales, and Books by Welshmen, A.D. 1800-1862, at Glan Aber, Chester. 1870. p. 48.
7. "William, Thomas (1761-1844)". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. 2009. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
8. Robert David Griffith. "DAVIES, ROBERT (Cyndeyrn; 1814-1867), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
9. Thomas Isfryn Jones. "Thomas, Evan (Ieuan Fardd Ddu; 1733-1814), printer and translator". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
10. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones, Richard (1757?-1814), cleric and writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
11. John Wesley Etheridge (1860). The Life of the Rev. Thomas Coke, D.C.L. J. Mason. p. 449.
12. James Stanier Clarke; John McArthur (2 September 2010). The Naval Chronicle: Volume 32, July-December 1814. Cambridge University Press. p. 176. ISBN 978-1-108-01871-5.