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1800
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1800 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Great Britain incumbents 1800 in Great Britain#Incumbents
Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry PagetEdward 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, 5th 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 – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne (until 6 January); Thomas Johnes (from 4 July)
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan
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 – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
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 – Thomas HarleyJonathan Williams The History of Radnorshire R. Mason 1859 115
Bishop of Bangor – John Warren (until 27 January); William Cleaver (from 24 May)Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 305The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged Porter 1780 95 Fryde E. B. Handbook of British chronology New York Cambridge University Press Cambridge England 1996 9780521563505 292
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 – Lewis BagotThe Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15
Bishop of St Davids – William Stuart (until October);Guides and Handbooks Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) 1939 163 Lord George Murray (nominated)
Events
February - John Bryan begins preaching.s-BRYA-JOH-1770 Bryan, John (1776-1856), Wesleyan Methodist minister Albert Hughes Williams 10 April 2019
5 May - Missionary John Davies sets out for Tahiti.The history of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830 https://books.google.com/books?id=a85iAAAAMAAJ 1961 Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press
1 August - The Naval Temple on The Kymin at Monmouth is dedicated.https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/60739 Naval Temple Imperial War Museum 31 March 2019
August - Owen Davies and John Hughes arrive in Ruthin to superintend the Wesleyan Methodist mission to Wales.s-DAVI-OWE-1752 Davies, Owen (1752-1830), Wesleyan Methodist minister Albert Hughes Williams 10 April 2019
December - The Brecon Canal opens between Brecon and Talybont.John Norris
2007
The Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal (5th Ed.)
privately published
978-0-9517991-4-7
unknown dates
Richard Fothergill goes into partnership with Samuel Homfray at Tredegar.s-FOTH-GIL-1758 Fothergill family, iron-masters, etc. Watkin William Price 1959 11 November 2022 Jeremiah Homfray begins leasing mineral lands at Abernant, Cwmbach, and Rhigos.s-HOMF-RAY-1726 Homfray family Watkin William Price Watkin William Price 19 July 2012
Edward Charles becomes official "bard" of the Gwyneddigion Society.David Davies Bob Owen The Influence of the French Revolution on Welsh Life and Literature W. M. Evans 1926 171
Thomas Charles introduces the practice of allowing Calvinistic Methodist congregations to elect their own elders.
Richard Ellis succeeds his father, Lewis Ellis, as organist of Beaumaris Church.
William Jones establishes a grammar school at Wrexham.
William Nott joins the Bengal European Regiment in India.
Arts and literature
New books
English language
William Bingley - Tour round North WalesSimon Bainbridge Mountaineering and British Romanticism: The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 1770-1836 https://books.google.com/books?id=p8jXDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA59 16 April 2020 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-885789-1 59
John Evans - A Tour through part of North Wales in ... 1798 and at other times
John Jones - A Development of ... Events calculated to restore the Christian Religion to its ... Purity
Thomas Jones - A Cardiganshire Landlord's Advice to his TenantsAnne Kelly Knowles Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier https://archive.org/details/calvinistsincorp0000know registration February 1997 University of Chicago Press 978-0-226-44853-4 46
Richard Llwyd - Beaumaris BayAllan Ingram Joanna Fowler Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse: Order in Variety https://books.google.com/books?id=-IukCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT100 29 April 2016 Springer 978-1-137-48763-6 100
William Ouseley - Epitome of the Ancient History of Persia
Henry Wigstead - Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales: In the Year 1797Esther Moir The Discovery of Britain (Routledge Revivals): The English Tourists 1540-1840. Taylor & Francis 2013 9781136767807 177
Welsh language
Timothy Thomas - Traethiad am y Wisg-Wen Ddisglair (2nd edition)s-THOM-TIM-1720 Thomas, Timothy (1720-1768), of Maes-isaf Pencarreg Baptist minister and author Benjamin George Owens 5 February 2024
Music
"Suo Gân" (approximate first printing)Lullaby (Suo Gan) Lesley Nelson-Burns, Contemplator.com . Accessed July 2011
Births
4 March - Dr William Price, physician (d. 1893)Dean Powell Dr William Price: Wales's First Radical https://books.google.com/books?id=TUdpCAAAQBAJ&pg=PP46 15 September 2012 Amberley Publishing Limited 978-1-4456-2052-7 46
6 March - Samuel Roberts (S.R.), Radical leader (d. 1885)s-ROBE-SAM-1800 Roberts, Samuel ('S.R.'; 1800-1885), Independent minister, editor, Radical reformer Robert Ivor Parry 1959 10 November 2021
22 March - Thomas Bevan, Archdeacon of St David's (d. 1863)"Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity" Richardson, E p194: Cambridge, CUP, 2013 978-1-107-02677-3
20 June - Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (d. 1886)Robert Henry Mair The School Boards: Our Educational Parliaments https://books.google.com/books?id=OkWFEV-G_l0C&pg=RA1-PA358 1872 358
1 August - Elizabeth Randles, musical prodigy (d. 1829)Dictionary of Musicians Percy Reuben Timbs John The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 4 1824 J. Limbird https://archive.org/details/mirrorliteratur03unkngoog 2 April 2016 Select Biography. Miss Randles, the Cambrian Musical Prodigy
1 October - Williams Evans, hymnist (d. 1880)
30 October - Ernest Vaughan, 4th Earl of Lisburne, landowner and politician (d. 1873)Death of the Earl of Lisburne https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4355161/4355166/22/ 13 November 2019 Welshman 14 November 1873 5
29 November - David Griffith (Clwydfardd), poet and archdruid (d. 1894)s-GRIF-DAV-1800 Griffith, David (Clwydfardd; 1800-1894), eisteddfodic bard and arch-druid Daniel Williams 1959 24 November 2021
date unknown
James James (Iago Emlyn), minister and poet (d. 1879)James Davies s-DAVI-JAM-1800 Williams Griffith John 6 June 2017
David Morris, politician (d. 1864)Edward Walford The County Families of the United Kingdom: Or, Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland https://archive.org/details/countyfamiliesof06walf 1871 Robert Hardwicke 706
Deaths
6 January
William Jones of Neyland, clergyman and author, 73Jones, William (1726-1800)
Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne, politician, 71Vaughan, Wilmot, 4th Viscount Lisburne
27 January - John Warren, Bishop of St David's and later of BangorGeorge Lewis SMYTH Biographical Illustrations of Westminster Abbey https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.94105 1843 211
14 March - Daines Barrington, antiquary and naturalist, 72Englishmen Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham https://archive.org/details/liveseminentand10englgoog 1836 291
May - Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr), clergyman and author, age unknowns-HUGH-EVA-1800 Hughes, Evan ('Hughes Fawr'; died 1800), cleric and author Robert (Bob) Owen 5 February 2024
14 July - Basil Feilding, 6th Earl of Denbigh, 81George Kearsley Kearsley's Complete Peerage, of England, Scotland and Ireland; together with an extinct peerage, etc https://books.google.com/books?id=Sh9YAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA79 1804 79
References
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