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1805 in Wales
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1805
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1805 to Wales and its people.
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, 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 – John Vaughan (until 19 January); http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/vaughan-john-1752-1804 Vaughan, John (c. 1752-1804), of Golden Grove, Carm. History of Parliament Online 1 November 2017 George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor (from 21 April)
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 – William CleaverThomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 305 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 – Samuel HorsleyThe 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
21 October - Battle of Trafalgar: A British Royal Navy fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. About 465 of the 18,000 men on the British ships were born in Wales.http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/trafalgarancestors/ Trafalgar ancestors The National Archives (United Kingdom) 2014-08-28
26 November - The Ellesmere Canal's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is opened, the tallest and longest in Britain, completing the canal's Llangollen branch.L. T. C. Rolt L. T. C. Rolt Thomas Telford https://archive.org/details/thomastelford00rolt registration London Longmans, Green 1958
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John Kenrick III develops his great-uncle's chandlery at Wrexham into a bank.The Bankers' Magazine BPC (Bankers' Magazine) Limited 1849 The Late Bank Failures at Wrexham IX 242
Alban Thomas Jones-Gwynne builds the town of Aberaeron.Thomas Lloyd Julian Orbach Robert Scourfield Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion https://books.google.com/books?id=wEkcJb2lHx8C&pg=PA391 2006 Yale University Press 0-300-10179-1 391
Arts and literature
New books
Thomas Charles - Geiriadur YsgrythyrolThomas Charles Geiriadur ysgrythawl. Geiriadur ysgrythyrol ... Yr ail argraffiad, etc https://books.google.com/books?id=o9_4vrK9shEC&pg=PP13 1819 Robert Saunderson 13
Theophilus Jones - History of the County of Brecknock, vol. 1
Titus Lewis - A Welsh — English Dictionary, Geiriadur Cymraeg a SaesnegTitus Lewis A Welsh-English dictionary. Geirlyfr Cymraeg a Saesneg, gan T. Lewis ac eraill https://books.google.com/books?id=Oe8IAAAAQAAJ 1805 J. Evans, in Priory-Street
Robert Southey - MadocMichael Gamer Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry https://books.google.com/books?id=3fURDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA157 17 February 2017 Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-15885-6 157
Music
Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) takes up residence in St James's Palace.
Visual arts
English watercolour landscape painter David Cox makes his first tour in Wales.https://www.library.wales/discover/digital-gallery/pictures/welsh-landscape/tirlun-cymru-artists Welsh Landscape - Artists National Library of Wales 24 November 2021
Births
13 December - Robert Griffiths, inventor (died 1883)s-GRIF-ROB-1805 Griffiths, Robert (1805-1883), engineer and inventor Griffith Milwyn Griffiths 1959 13 November 2021
19 December - John David Edwards, hymn-writer (died 1885)s-EDWA-DAV-1805 Edwards, John David (1805-1885), cleric and musician Robert David Griffith 10 April 2019
date unknown
Evan Davies, missionary (died 1864) Davies, Evan 14 135
Hugh Hughes (Tegai), writer (died 1864)s-HUGH-HUG-1805 Edwards, Hughes, Hugh (Tegai; 1805-1864), Independent minister and man of letters David Tecwyn Evans 10 April 2019
John William Thomas, mathematician (died 1840)
Deaths
15 April - Mary Morgan, servant, 16 (executed by hanging, for killing her newborn child)George Hardinge The miscellaneous works, in prose and verse, of George Hardinge [ed. by J. Nichols]. https://books.google.com/books?id=D18UAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA58 1818 58
August - Ann Griffiths, poet and hymn-writer, 29A. M. Allchin Ann Griffiths: The Furnace and the Fountain https://books.google.com/books?id=cD1KAAAAYAAJ 1987 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-0954-4 ii
25 November - Jonathan Hughes, poet, 84s-HUGH-JON-1721 Hughes, Jonathan (1721-1805), poet Thomas Parry 26 November 2020
See also
1805 in Ireland
References
1805
Wales
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