1815 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1815 to Wales and its people.

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

Incumbents

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

Events

• 23 January - John Scandrett Harford inherits the family estates on the death of his father.
• 28 March - Opening of the British School for boys at Newport.
• 12 April - Admiral Thomas Foley is knighted.
• 23 May - John Luxmore replaces William Cleaver as Bishop of St Asaph.
• May or June - Bryn Oer Tramway opens in South Wales.
• 18 June - Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, famously loses a leg at the Battle of Waterloo. General Thomas Picton is killed in the same battle.
• A twice-weekly boat service between Cardiff and Bristol is established.[1]

Arts and literature

New books

• Walter Davies - General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of South Wales
• Richard Fenton - Memoirs of an Old Wig
• Thomas Love Peacock - Headlong Hall (anonymous; dated 1816)
• David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) - Barddoniaeth Gristianogawl

Music

• Peter Roberts - The Cambrian Popular Antiquities of Wales [2]

Births

• 24 January - Thomas Gee, publisher (died 1898)
• 16 April - Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (died 1895)[3]
• May - William Lucas Collins, author (died 1887)
• 2 June - John Deffett Francis, painter and art collector (died 1901)[4]
• 21 November - John Bowen, Bishop of Sierra Leone (died 1859)[5]
• 13 December - Thomas Rees, Congregational minister (died 1885)
• date unknown
  • Thomas Gruffydd, harpist (died 1887)
  • Richard Kyrke Penson, architect (died 1886)[6]

Deaths

• 5 March - Sir Stephen Glynne, 8th Baronet, 34[7]
• 24 April - John Lloyd, naturalist, 65
• 18 June - Thomas Picton, soldier, 56 (killed at the Battle of Waterloo)[8]
• date unknown - Edward Edwards, Royal Navy officer of Welsh parentage, 73

References

1. Sanders, Bob. "A Cardiff & Vale of Glamorgan Chronology". Archived from the original on 30 December 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
2. Peter Roberts (1815). The Cambrian Popular Antiquities: Or, An Account of Some Traditions, Customs, and Superstitions, of Wales, with Observations as to Their Origin, &c. &c. Illustrated with Copper Plates, Coloured from Nature. E. Williams.
3. James Frederick Rees. "Bruce, Henry Austin (1815-1895), 1st baron Aberdare". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
4. Megan Ellis. "Francis, John Deffett (1815-1901), painter and collector". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
5. Church missionary society (1855). Missionary papers [afterw.] Church missionary paper [afterw.] Church missionary quarterly paper [afterw.] C.M.S. quarterly paper. p. 1.
6. A. W. Skempton; Mike Chrimes (2002). A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500-1830. Thomas Telford. p. 518. ISBN 978-0-7277-2939-2.
7. University of Oxford (1888). Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 ... Parker and Company. p. 531.
8. Janet Bromley; David Bromley (25 March 2015). Wellington's Men Remembered Volume 2: A Register of Memorials to Soldiers who Fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo. Pen and Sword. p. 179. ISBN 978-1-84884-750-7.