1816 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1816 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1816 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of AngleseyEdward 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 (until 23 April) 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 Crichton-Stuart, 2nd 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 292Thomas 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 Watson (until 4 July)John Henry James A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff Western Mail 1898 16 Herbert Marsh (from 25 August) Marsh, Herbert 36 Venables Edmund Edmund Venables 211-215 1 Bishop of St Asaph – John LuxmooreThe 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 BurgessThomas 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 10 February - Pembroke Dock's first Royal Navy ships are launched: HMS Ariadne and HMS Valorous.Alan Phillips Defending Wales: The Coast and Sea Lanes in Wartime https://books.google.com/books?id=u1-oAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT11 15 May 2010 Amberley Publishing Limited 978-1-4456-2032-9 11 7 May - Hay Railway opens throughout.Ernest Frank Carter Britain's Railway Liveries: Colours, Crests and Linings, 1825-1948 https://books.google.com/books?id=jvgHAAAAMAAJ 1952 Burke 24 July - Old Wye Bridge, Chepstow (rebuilt in cast iron), is opened across the River Wye.Rough Guides The Rough Guide to Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=eNZtBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT104 2 March 2015 Apa Publications 978-0-241-20625-6 104 9 October - Fanny Imlay, half-sister of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, takes a room at the Mackworth Arms in Swansea, and instructs the maid not to disturb her. The following day she is found dead, having taken a fatal dose of laudanum.Pollin B. R. Fanny Godwin's Suicide Re-examined Études Anglaises 18 3 1965 258–68 Nantyglo Round Towers built.Jeffrey L. Thomas Nantyglo Round Towers http://www.thomasgenweb.com/nantyglo_round_towers.html 2004 2014-07-09 Taliesin Williams, son of Iolo Morganwg, opens a school at Merthyr Tydfil. Arts and literature New books English language Ann Hatton - Chronicles of an Illustrious House Samuel Johnson - A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774 Welsh language Jane Ellis - Cerddi (first published Welsh language book by a woman)Jane Ellis Rhiannon Ifans Cyfres Clasuron Honno: Cerddi Jane Ellis. Honno Welsh Women's Press 2010 cy 9781906784188 Joseph Harris (Gomer) - Traethawd ar Briodol Dduwdod ein Harglwydd Iesu Grist Music John Ellis - Mawl yr Arglwydd (collection of hymns)Phyllis Kinney Welsh Traditional Music https://books.google.com/books?id=SUyuBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA174 15 April 2011 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-2358-8 174 Births 11 January - Henry Robertson, Scots engineer responsible for building the North Wales Mineral Railway (d. 1888) 7 March - Huw Derfel Hughes, poet and historian (d. 1890) 3 June - John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech, politician (d. 1876)Charles Mosley Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition 2 1792 Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd 2003 11 June - Thomas William Davids, ecclesiastical historian (d. 1884) 16 August - Charles John Vaughan, dean of Llandaff and co-founder of University of Wales, Cardiff28124 Vaughan, Charles John John Roach date unknown Edward Edwards (Pencerdd Ceredigion), musician (d. 1897) Edward Meredith Price, composer (d. 1898)Maggie Humphreys Robert Evans Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=WSLUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA270 1 January 1997 A&C Black 978-0-7201-2330-2 270 Deaths 23 April - Thomas Johnes, landowner and politician, 67Lewis Namier John Brooke The House of Commons 1754-1790 https://books.google.com/books?id=Taw7DVGrbRcC&pg=RA1-PA683 1985 Boydell & Brewer 978-0-436-30420-0 683 18 June - Thomas Henry, apothecary, 81 29 June - David Williams, Enlightenment philosopher, 78s-WILL-DAV-1738 Williams, David (1738-1816), littérateur and political pamphleteer David Williams David Williams (historian) National Library of Wales 23 January 2020 4 July - Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, 78WT754R Watson, Richard 17 July - John Lewis, missionary, about 24 (fever)s-LEWI-JOH-1792 Davies, David (1792?-1816), Wesleyan missionary Evan Lewis Evans National Library of Wales 23 January 2020 10 October - Fanny Imlay, half-sister of Mary Shelley, 22 (committed suicide at the Mackworth Arms in Swansea)John Cordy Jeaffreson The Real Shelley https://books.google.com/books?id=ldlvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA271 20 September 2018 BoD – Books on Demand 978-3-7340-1053-8 271 date unknown Benjamin Davies, first Baptist minister at Haverfordwest (age unknown)s-DAVI-DAV-1800 Davies, David (1800-1856), Baptist minister and college tutor Robert Thomas Jenkins National Library of Wales 23 January 2020 David Jones, barrister ("the Welsh Freeholder"), c.51Jones, David (1765-1816) See also 1816 in Ireland References Wales Category:1816 in Europe Category:1810s in Wales