1813 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1813 to Wales and its people.

← 1812 1811 1810 1809 1808 1813 in Wales → 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1813 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• January - Sir Joseph Bailey sells his 25% share in Cyfarthfa ironworks for £20,000.[1]
• April - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) moves to Crickhowell to take over several parishes in the vicinity.
• 30 September - Sir Jeremiah Homfray is forced to sell his house at Cwm Rhondda to settle his debts.[2]
• 2 November - Richard Parry Price, heir to the Puleston estates, is created a baronet.[3]
• date unknown
  • Anthony Hill and his two brothers go into partnership at the Plymouth ironworks.
  • The "Branwen ferch Llŷr" sepulchral urn is discovered on the banks of the river Alaw in Anglesey (later placed in the British Museum by Richard Llwyd).
  • The first permanent military barracks in Wales are opened at Brecon.
  • An Independent minister, David Davies, is forced to leave his teaching post at Carmarthen Academy after charges of "immorality" are made against him.[4]
  • David Daniel Davis is appointed a physician at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in London.
  • Charles James Apperley becomes agent for his brother-in-law's estates in Caernarvonshire, taking up residence at Tŷ Gwyn, Llanbeblig.
  • Diana Noel, 2nd Baroness Barham, settles at Fairy Hill, Gower.[5]
  • Thomas Charles of Bala publishes his "rules" for the conduct of Sunday schools.
  • Elijah Waring founds a new periodical, The Cambrian Visitor: a Monthly Miscellany, which fails after eight months.

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Hugh Davies - Welsh Botanology … A Systematic Catalogue of the Native Plants of Anglesey, in Latin, English, and Welsh
• Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) - General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of North Wales
• M. Surrey - Llewellyn, Prince of Wales, or Gellert the Faithful Dog (play)[6]

Welsh language

• William Owen - Lloffion o Faes Boaz[7]
• William Williams (Gwilym Peris) - Awengerdd Peris

Music

Births

• 30 January - Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, Biblical scholar (d. 1875)
• 2 May - Mordecai Jones, industrialist (d. 1880)
• 30 June - Thomas Briscoe, translator (d. 1895)
• 1 August - William Ambrose (Emrys), poet (d. 1873)
• 12 September - Daniel Jones, missionary (d. 1846)
• 10 October - William Adams, mining engineer (d. 1886)
• date unknown - John Edwards (Meiriadog), poet (d. 1906)[8]

Deaths

• 23 March - Princess Augusta of Great Britain, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales and mother of Caroline, later Princess of Wales, 75[9]
• 17 April - Thomas Edwards (Yr Hwntw Mawr), murderer
• 11 August (or 12 August) - John Price, librarian, 78
• date unknown - Edward Pugh, artist[10]

References

1. Alan Birch (5 November 2013). Economic HIstory of the British Iron and Steel Industry. Routledge. p. 80. ISBN 978-1-136-61723-2.
2. Great Britain (1814). The London Gazette. T. Neuman. p. 380.
3. William Williams Mortimer (1847). The history of the hundred of Wirral: with a sketch of the city and county of Chester. Whittaker & Co. pp. 321.
4. The Welsh Church from Reformation to Disestablishment, 1603-1920. University of Wales Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-7083-1877-5.
5. "Sir Gerard Noel Noel 2nd Bart". Legacies of British Slave-ownership database. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
6. A History of Early Nineteenth Century Drama 1800-1850. CUP Archive. pp. 289–. GGKEY:02TQBKU1SAT.
7. Catalogue of Welsh Books, Books on Wales, and Books by Welshmen, A.D. 1800-1862, at Glan Aber, Chester. 1870. p. 44.
8. Bye-gones, Relating to Wales and the Border Counties. 1905.
9. Edmund Lodge (1838). The genealogy of the existing British peerage. Saunders and Otley. pp. 6.
10. John Barrell (2013). Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763-1813: 'a Native Artist'. University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-2566-7.