1819 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1819 to Wales and its people.

← 1818 1817 1816 1815 1814 1819 in Wales → 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1819 in The United Kingdom England Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• August - Thomas Telford begins construction of the Menai Suspension Bridge.[1]
• date unknown
  • The embankment on Telford's Holyhead Road through the Nant Ffrancon Pass is completed.
  • The Welsh colony of Cardigan is established in York County, New Brunswick, Canada.[2]
  • Robert Bamford Hesketh begins construction of Gwrych Castle.[3]
  • Scottish-born London India merchant John Christie purchases a substantial tract of the Great Forest of Brecknock from the Crown.[4]
• Approximate date - John Scandrett Harford and his brothers acquire the Peterwell estate at Lampeter

Arts and literature

• Major eisteddfodau are held at Carmarthen and Denbigh. The Gorsedd tradition (begun by Iolo Morganwg) becomes formally linked with the eisteddfod at Carmarthen.

New books

• William Owen Pughe - Coll Gwynfa (translation of Milton's Paradise Lost)

Music

• "From Greenland’s Icy Mountains", a hymn by Reginald Heber, is sung for the first time, at St Giles' Church, Wrexham.

Births

• 3 March - William Ormsby-Gore, 2nd Baron Harlech (died 1904)
• 4 November - Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor (died 1894)
• 7 November - Enoch Salisbury, barrister, politician and bibliophile (died 1890)
• 15 November - Arthur Wynn Williams, physician (died 1886)
• 7 December - John Cambrian Rowland, painter (died 1890)[5]
• 9 December - John Roose Elias, writer (died 1881)

Deaths

• 31 January - Thomas Bevan, missionary (born c.1796)
• 8 February - Sydenham Teak Edwards, botanist, 51[6]
• 25 June - John Abel, minister, 49[7]
• 11 November - Moses Griffiths, artist, 72[8]

References

1. The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal. William Laxton. 1840. p. 269.
2. Proceedings of the Annual Eastern Snow Conference. Eastern Snow Conference. 1995. p. 184.
3. John Davies; Nigel Jenkins; Menna Baines (2008). The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
4. Hughes, Stephen (1990). The Brecon Forest Tramroads. Aberystwyth: RCAHMW. ISBN 1-871184-05-3.
5. John Davies; Nigel Jenkins; Menna Baines (2008). The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 778. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
6. Thompson Cooper (1873). A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing Concise Notices of Eminent Persons of All Ages and Countries: and More Particularly of ... Great Britain and Ireland. Bell. p. 524.
7. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Abel, John (1770-1819), Welsh Independent minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
8. Megan Ellis. "Griffith, Moses (1747-1819), draughtsman and water-colour painter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 8 March 2019.