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September 2019
September 2019
1812
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1812 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, Earl of Uxbridge (until 13 March); Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (from 28 April)Edward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 24J.C. Sainty John Sainty (civil servant) List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd London 1979 Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 695Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru University of Wales Press 1992 169
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of BeaufortEdwin Poole The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions Edwin Poole 1886 378
Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount BulkeleyEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 26
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of WestminsterOld Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders not known William Retlaw Williams "Old Wales" Office 1907 3 106
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 612
Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th BaronetEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 29
Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of PowisR. G. Thorne http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/clive-edward-1754-1839 Clive, Edward, 2nd Baron Clive (1754-1839), of Walcot, Salop The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 1986 13 November 2021 13 November 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211113165618/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/clive-edward-1754-1839 dead
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milfords-PHIL-PIC-1491 Philipps family, of Picton Bertie George Charles 1959 19 October 2021
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron RodneyJonathan Williams The History of Radnorshire R. Mason 1859 115William Stockdale Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom 1833 86
Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie Fryde E. B. Handbook of British chronology New York Cambridge University Press Cambridge England 1996 9780521563505 292 Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 305
Bishop of Llandaff – Richard WatsonJohn Henry James A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff Western Mail 1898 16
Bishop of St Asaph – William CleaverThe Church of the people and free church penny magazine 1859 179The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15
Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 307The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged Porter 1780 95The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3 George III (King of Great Britain) University Press 1967 434Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas https://catalogues.royalsociety.org/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=NA3174&pos=1 The Royal Society 30 October 2020
Events
20 June - Creation of The Kidwelly and Llanelli Canal and Tramroad Company. Wood Andy Abandoned & vanished canals of Ireland, Scotland and Wales Amberley Publishing Stroud England 2015 9781445648699
Summer - Percy Bysshe Shelley stays at Nantgwyllt in the Elan Valley with his wife Harriet.
September - Rioting occurs at Nefyn over enclosures.Caernarvonshire (Wales). County Record Office Caernarvonshire records: the Caernarvonshire Record Office, twenty-one years 1947-1968: a catalogue of an exhibition held at Caernarvon, 19-26 October 1968 https://books.google.com/books?id=CFwKAQAAMAAJ 1968 County Record Office (County Archivist) 9780901337009
17 September - The celebration of the completion of the embankment, later known as the 'Cob' in Porthmadog
30 December - A brig, the Fortune, is wrecked on The Smalls, Pembrokeshire, with the loss of 10 or 11 lives.NAVAL INTELLIGENCE Liverpool Mercury etc 8 January 1813 80
1 October - Balloonist James Sadler flies over the north Wales coastline in an unsuccessful attempt to cross the Irish Sea.Mark Davies: King of all balloons : the adventurous life of James Sadler, the first English aeronaut, Stroud, Gloucestershire : Amberley [2015], 978-1-4456-5308-2
Opening of:
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal between Newport and Brecon.Charles Hadfield Introducing Canals: A Guide to British Waterways Today https://books.google.com/books?id=mf4JAAAAMAAJ 1955 Benn
Aberdare branch of Glamorganshire Canal.
Arts and literature
New books
English language
Felicia Hemans - The Domestic Affections and Other PoemsTricia Lootens Hemans and Home: Victorianism, Feminine "Internal Enemies", and the Domestication of National Identity PMLA 109 Modern Language Association 2 March 1994 238–253 463119 10.2307/463119
Benjamin Millingchamp - A Sermon preached at St. Peter's Church, Carmarthen, on Thursday, July 4, 1811Benjamin Millingchamp A Sermon Preached at St. Peter's Church, Carmarthen, on Thursday, July the 4th, 1811y https://books.google.com/books?id=CSs4wQEACAAJ 1812 Printed and sold, by order of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Church Union in the Diocese of St. David's, by Jonathan Harris
The New Flora Britannica (with illustrations by Sydenham Teak Edwards)
Welsh language
Lewis Hopkin - Y Fêl Gafod
Hugh Jones - Arwyrain Amaethyddiaeth
Music
Owen Dafydd - Ballad of the Brynmorgan Explosion
Births
6 January - Catherine Glynne, future wife of William Ewart Gladstone (d. 1900) Shkolnik Esther Leading ladies: a study of eight late Victorian and Edwardian political wives Garland New York 1987 9780824078324 69
3 February - Robert Elis (Cynddelw), poet and lexicographer (d. 1875)
3 April - Henry Richard, pacifist politician (d. 1888)D. Ben Rees Vehicles of Grace and Hope: Welsh Missionaries in India, 1800-1970 https://books.google.com/books?id=8rMKm-Ee1dYC&pg=PA185 2002 William Carey Library 978-0-87808-505-7 185
19 May - Lady Charlotte Guest, translator and philanthropist (d. 1895)Schreiber, Lady Charlotte Elizabeth
Deaths
15 January - Theophilus Jones, historian, 52Brynley F. Roberts Brynley F. Roberts Jones, Theophilus (1759–1812) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 online 10.1093/ref:odnb/15085
13 March - Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, 77 Griffith John Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire families, with their collateral branches in Denbighshire, Merionethshire, and other parts Bridge Books Wrexham, Clwyd 1985 9780950828558 57
May - Thomas Owen, clergyman and translator, 62
27 November (bur.) - Jane Cave, poet, c. 58
See also
1812 in Ireland
References
Category:1810s in Wales
Category:1812 by country
Category:1812 in Europe
Category:Years of the 19th century in Wales
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