1818 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1818 to Wales and its people.

← 1817 1816 1815 1814 1813 1818 in Wales → 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1818 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• 31 March - Joseph Tregelles Price and his partners take out a new lease on Neath Abbey ironworks.[1]
• June - In the United Kingdom general election:
  • Samuel Homfray becomes MP for Stafford.
  • John Jones of Ystrad fails to win Carmarthen.[2]
  • Berkeley Thomas Paget, MP for Anglesey, retires from Parliament.
  • John Edwards becomes MP for Glamorganshire.
• August - John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri), parson of Kerry, and Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's, agree "to make an attempt to rekindle the bardic skill and ingenuity of the principality ... by holding eisteddfodau in different places in the four provinces".[3]
• date unknown
  • Richard Fothergill retires from his role in managing the Tredegar ironworks with Samuel Homfray.[4] The Sirhowy Ironworks, previously run by Fothergill, is leased to Messrs. Harford of Ebbw Vale.
  • Joseph Harris (Gomer) re-founds the periodical Seren Gomer.[5]
  • John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) becomes landlord of the King's Head in Ludgate Street, London. His tavern becomes a meeting place for the London Welsh.[6]
  • Felicia Hemans effectively separates from her husband, who goes to live in Rome for his health.[7]

Arts and literature

Awards

• Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd) wins the chair at an eisteddfod in St Asaph.

New books

• Nicholas Carlisle - A Concise Description of the Endowed Grammar Schools in England and Wales[8]
• Charles Norris - A Historical Account of Tenby[9]

Music

• Owen Williams - Egwyddorion Canu

Births

• 11 January - Daniel Silvan Evans, lexicographer (d. 1903)[10]
• 10 February - David Lloyd Isaac, author (d. 1876)
• 27 February - Joseph Jenkins, the "Welsh Swagman", poet and diarist (d. 1898)
• 5 November - Edward James Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis (d. 1891)
• 16 November - Evan Lewis, Dean of Bangor (d. 1901)
• 29 November - Richard Davies, MP (d. 1896)
• 18 December - David Davies (Llandinam), industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1890)
• date unknown - George Augustus Frederick Paget, politician

Deaths

• 21 March - Charles Morgan, Commander-in-Chief of British forces in India, 76
• 15 July - Robert Williams, hymn-writer, 35
• 12 September - John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd), poet, 76
• 17 September - Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey, father of Lady Charlotte Guest, 74

References

1. Laurence Ince (1993). The South Wales Iron Industry, 1750-1885. Ferric. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-9518165-1-6.
2. The Canada Law Journal. W.C. Chewett & Company. 1869. p. 172.
3. David Gwenallt Jones. "JENKINS, JOHN (Ifor Ceri; 1770 - 1829), cleric and antiquary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
4. Arthur Clark (1962). The Story of Monmouthshire. C. Davies. ISBN 978-0-9506618-0-3.
5. Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (1982). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. pp. 30ff.
6. David Rowland Hughes. "JONES, JOHN ('Jac Glan-y-gors': 1766 - 1821), satirical poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
7. Mrs. Hemans; Lydia Howard Sigourney (1855). Memoir of the Life and Writings of Felicia Hemans. C. S. Francis. p. 55.
8. Nicholas Carlisle (1818). Concise Description of the Endowed Gammmar Schools in England and Wales. Baldwin, Crodock and Joy.
9. Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru: The National Library of Wales Journal. Council of the National Library of Wales. 1970. p. 20.
10. Richard Edmund Hughes. "EVANS, DANIEL SILVAN (1818 - 1903), cleric, translator, editor, and lexicographer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 January 2019.