1810s in Wales

none December 2025 1800s | 1820s | Other years in Wales Other events of the decade This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1810–1819 to Wales and its people. Events 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 Arts and literature New books Thomas Charles - Biblical Dictionary, vol. 4 (1811). Charles, Thomas 5 Jenkins D.E. 937-938 1 Dafydd Ddu Eryri - cy Corph y Gaingc (1810) Richard Fenton A Tour in Quest of Genealogy (1811) Memoirs of an Old Wig (1815) Joseph Harris (Gomer) - cy Traethawd ar Briodol Dduwdod ein Harglwydd Iesu Grist (1816) Ann Hatton Cambrian Pictures (1810) Chronicles of an Illustrious House (1816) Samuel Johnson - A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774 (1816) Thomas Jones (Dinbych) - cy Hanes Diwigwyr, Merthyron, a Chyffeswyr Eglwys Loegr (1813) William Owen Pughe - cy Coll Gwynfa (translation of Milton's Paradise Lost) (1819) David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) - cy Barddoniaeth Gristianogawl (1815) John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd) - cy Annerch Plant a Rhieni oddi ar farwolaeth William Thomas mab Lewis Thomas, Llanrwst (1817) Music 1811 John James - cy Pigion o Hymnau 1817 Robert Williams - cy Llanfair (hymn tune, formerly named Bethel); Williams recorded that the tune was composed on 14 July of this year. Births 1810 12 January - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (d. 1882) 15 January - John Evan Thomas, sculptor (d. 1873) 19 January - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect (d. 1869) 24 January - Thomas Jones, missionary (d. 1849) 1811 14 January - Rowland Prichard, musician (d. 1887) 26 January - Roger Edwards, minister (d. 1886) 11 March - Thomas Jones (Glan Alun), poet (d. 1866) 11 July - William Robert Grove, inventor (d. 1896) date unknown - John Williams (Ab Ithel), antiquary (d. 1862) 1812 6 January - Catherine Glynne, future wife of William Ewart Gladstone (d. 1900) 3 February - Robert Elis (Cynddelw), poet and lexicographer (d. 1875) 3 April - Henry Richard, pacifist politician (d. 1888) 19 May - Lady Charlotte Guest, translator and philanthropist (d. 1895) 1813 30 June - Thomas Briscoe, translator (d. 1895) 1 August - William Ambrose (Emrys), poet (d. 1873) 10 October - William Adams, mining engineer (d. 1886) date unknown - John Edwards (Meiriadog), poet (d. 1906) 1814 5 March - Joseph Edwards, sculptor (d. 1882) date unknown - Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist (d. 1903) 1815 24 January - Thomas Gee, publisher (d. 1898) 16 April - Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (d. 1895) May - William Lucas Collins, author (d. 1887) 21 November - John Bowen, Bishop of Sierra Leone (d. 1859) 13 December - Thomas Rees, Congregational minister (d. 1885) 1816 3 June - John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech, politician (d. 1876) 11 June - Thomas William Davids, ecclesiastical historian (d. 1884) 16 August - Charles John Vaughan, dean of Llandaff and co-founder of University of Wales, Cardiff date unknown Huw Derfel, poet and historian (d. 1890) Edward Edwards (Pencerdd Ceredigion), musician (d. 1897) Henry Robertson, Scots engineer responsible for building the North Wales Mineral Railway (d. 1888) 1817 16 August - Rowland Williams, theologian and academic 1 November - Henry Brinley Richards, composer (d. 1885) 1818 11 January - Daniel Silvan Evans, lexicographer (d. 1903) 18 December - David Davies (Llandinam), industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1890) 1819 4 November - Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor (d. 1894) 15 November - Arthur Wynn Williams, physician (d. 1886) Deaths 1810 3 April - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), poet and dramatist (b. 1739) 27 June - Richard Crawshay, industrialist (b. 1729) 1811 25 September - Joshua Eddowes, printer and bookseller (b. 1724) 1812 13 March - Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge (b. 1744) 1813 23 March - Princess Augusta, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales and mother of Caroline, the Princess of Wales (b. 1737) 17 April - Thomas Edwards (Yr Hwntw Mawr), murderer date unknown - Jane Cave, poet (b. 1754) 1814 12 March - Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu), printer and translator (b. 1733) 21 June - Sir Erasmus Gower, colonial governor (b. 1742) 5 October - Thomas Charles of Bala, Welsh Bible pioneer (b. 1755) 1815 1816 29 June - David Williams, Enlightenment philosopher (b. 1738) 1817 16 January - General Vaughan Lloyd, commander of the Woolwich Arsenal (b. 1736) 27 March - Josiah Boydell, artist (b. 1752) 17 July - William Williams of Llandygly (b. 1738) 31 July - Benjamin Hall, industrialist (b. 1778) date unknown - David Hughes, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford 1818 12 September - John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd), poet (b. 1742) 1819 31 January - Thomas Bevan, missionary (b.c.1796) 8 February - Sydenham Teak Edwards, botanist (b. 1768) 25 June - John Abel, minister (b. 1770) 6 November - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (b. 1796) References Category:19th century in Wales Wales Wales Category:Decades in Wales