1815 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1815 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1815 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 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 (from 2 June) 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 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 Cleaver (until 15 May); Fryde E. B. Handbook of British chronology New York Cambridge University Press Cambridge England 1996 9780521563505 297 John Luxmoore (from 8 June)The 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 23 January - John Scandrett Harford inherits the family estates on the death of his father. 28 March - Opening of the British School for boys at Newport. 12 April - Admiral Thomas Foley is knighted. 23 May - John Luxmoore replaces William Cleaver as Bishop of St Asaph. May or June - Bryn Oer Tramway opens in South Wales.293027 Blaen-dyffryn Crawnon, Bryn Oer Tramroad 30 September 2021 18 June - Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, famously loses a leg at the Battle of Waterloo. General Thomas Picton is killed in the same battle. A twice-weekly boat service between Cardiff and Bristol is established.http://www.glamorganfamilyhistory.co.uk/CDFF2.html Bob Sanders A Cardiff & Vale of Glamorgan Chronology 2014-12-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20141126234925/http://www.glamorganfamilyhistory.co.uk/CDFF2.html 2014-11-26 live Arts and literature New books English language Walter Davies - General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of South Wales Richard Fenton - Memoirs of an Old Wig Thomas Love Peacock - Headlong Hall (anonymous; dated 1816) Welsh language David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) - Barddoniaeth Gristianogawl Stephens Meic The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales Oxford University Press Oxford Oxfordshire New York 1986 9780192115867 523 Music Peter Roberts - The Cambrian Popular Antiquities of Wales Peter Roberts The Cambrian Popular Antiquities: Or, An Account of Some Traditions, Customs, and Superstitions, of Wales, with Observations as to Their Origin, &c. &c. Illustrated with Copper Plates, Coloured from Nature https://books.google.com/books?id=7-QuAAAAMAAJ 1815 E. Williams Births 24 January - Thomas Gee, publisher (died 1898) 16 April - Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (died 1895)https://biography.wales/article/s-BRUC-AUS-1815 Bruce, Henry Austin (1815-1895), 1st baron Aberdare James Frederick Rees Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 13 March 2019 May - William Lucas Collins, author (died 1887) 2 June - John Deffett Francis, painter and art collector (died 1901)https://biography.wales/article/s-FRAN-DEF-1815 Francis, John Deffett (1815-1901), painter and collector Megan Ellis Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 13 March 2019 21 November - John Bowen, Bishop of Sierra Leone (died 1859)Church missionary society Missionary papers [afterw.] Church missionary paper [afterw.] Church missionary quarterly paper [afterw.] C.M.S. quarterly paper https://books.google.com/books?id=wCsEAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PR175-IA1 1855 1 13 December - Thomas Rees, Congregational minister (died 1885) date unknown Thomas Gruffydd, harpist (died 1887) Richard Kyrke Penson, architect (died 1886)A. W. Skempton Mike Chrimes A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500-1830 https://books.google.com/books?id=jeOMfpYMOtYC&pg=PA518 2002 Thomas Telford 978-0-7277-2939-2 518 Deaths 5 March - Sir Stephen Glynne, 8th Baronet, 34University of Oxford Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 ... https://books.google.com/books?id=nf2L1j0dH4sC 1888 Parker and Company 531 24 April - John Lloyd, naturalist and politician, 65 http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/lloyd-john-1750-1815 Lloyd, John (1750-1815), of Hafodunos and Wigfair, Denb. and Tyddyn, Flint. History of Parliament Online 18 May 2016 15 May - William Cleaver, Bishop of St Asaph, 72/73 18 June - Thomas Picton, soldier, 56 (killed at the Battle of Waterloo)Janet Bromley David Bromley Wellington's Men Remembered Volume 2: A Register of Memorials to Soldiers who Fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo https://books.google.com/books?id=n0euCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA179 25 March 2015 Pen and Sword 978-1-84884-750-7 179 August - Robert Williams, farmer and poet, 70/71s-WILL-ROB-1744 William(s), Robert (1744-1815), poet, and farmer Robert Thomas Jenkins 1959 20 November 2021 date unknown - Edward Edwards, Royal Navy officer of Welsh parentage, 73 See also 1815 in Ireland References Wales Category:1815 in Europe Category:1810s in Wales