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1819 in Wales
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1819
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1819 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 – William Edward Powell
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 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 – Herbert Marsh (until 28 April); Marsh, Herbert 36 Venables Edmund Edmund Venables 211-215 1 William Van Mildert (from 31 May)28096 Mildert, William 2004 2007 Varley Elizabeth
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 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
August – Thomas Telford begins construction of the Menai Suspension Bridge.The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=GLxBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA269 1840 William Laxton 269
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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.Proceedings of the Annual Eastern Snow Conference https://books.google.com/books?id=Cv7wAAAAMAAJ 1995 Eastern Snow Conference 184
Robert Bamford Hesketh begins construction of Gwrych Castle.John Davies Nigel Jenkins Menna Baines The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZEUAQAAIAAJ 2008 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1953-6 33
Scottish-born London India merchant John Christie purchases a substantial tract of the Great Forest of Brecknock from the Crown.Hughes Stephen 1990 The Brecon Forest Tramroads RCAHMW Aberystwyth 1-871184-05-3
John Scandrett Harford and his brothers acquire the Peterwell estate at Lampeter.David Trevor William Price A History of Saint David's University College Lampeter: to 1898 University of Wales Press 1977 9780708306062 17
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.A History of Carmarthenshire John Edward Lloyd London Carmarthenshire Society 1939 128
New books
William Owen Pughe – Coll Gwynfa (translation of Milton's Paradise Lost)John Ballinger James Ifano Jones Catalogue of Printed Literature in the Welsh Department Free libraries committee 1898 325
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)s-SALI-GIB-1819 Salisbury, Enoch Robert Gibbon (1819-1890), lawyer and bibliophile Robert Thomas Jenkins 6 November 2024
7 December – John Cambrian Rowland, painter (died 1890)John Davies Nigel Jenkins Menna Baines The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZEUAQAAIAAJ 2008 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1953-6 778
9 December – John Roose Elias, writer (died 1881)s-ELIA-ROO-1819 Elias, John Roose (Y Thesbiad; 1819-1881), poet and prose writer Idwal Lewis 6 November 2024
unknown date – Arthur Wynn Williams, physician (died 1886)s-WILL-WYN-1819 Williams, Arthur Wynn (1819-1886), physician and antiquary Hywel David Emanuel 6 November 2024
Deaths
9 January - William Parry, minister and teacher, 74Parry, William (1754-1819) 43
31 January - Thomas Bevan, missionary, about 24s-BEVA-THO-1796 Bevan, Thomas (1796?-1819), missionary in the service of the London Missionary Society Evan Lewis Evans 1959 22 November 2021
3 February - Mary Bevan, missionary, wife of Thomas Bevan, age unknown
6 February - David Davies, clergyman and author, 76James Frederick Rees Davies, David s-DAVI-DAV-1741 21 November 2021
8 February - Sydenham Teak Edwards, botanist, 51Thompson Cooper A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing Concise Notices of Eminent Persons of All Ages and Countries: and More Particularly of ... Great Britain and Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=PfIMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA524 1873 Bell 524
25 June
John Abel, minister, 49s3-ABEL-JOH-1770 Abel, John (1770-1819), Welsh Independent minister Robert Thomas Jenkins National Library of Wales 8 March 2019
Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet, industrialist, 73s-MORR-ROB-1768 Morris, Robert (died 1768), industrialist Robert Thomas Jenkins 1959 22 November 2021
11 November - Moses Griffiths, artist, 72s-GRIF-MOS-1747 Griffith, Moses (1747-1819), draughtsman and water-colour painter Megan Ellis 8 March 2019
See also
1819 in Ireland
References
Wales
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