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September 2019
1810
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1810 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 – 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 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 – 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 – 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 CleaverThe 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
January - Novelist Thomas Love Peacock first visits Maentwrog where he will settle for a time.
3 March - Launch of the Carmarthen Journal, the oldest surviving newspaper in Wales.William Spurrell Carmarthen and its neighbourhood https://books.google.com/books?id=qLkHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA98 1860 98
14 April - James Cotton, precentor of Bangor Cathedral, marries Mary Anne, daughter of Henry Majendie, Bishop of Bangor.
27 September - Thomas Picton serves with distinction under Wellington at the Battle of Bussaco.René Chartrand Bussaco 1810: Wellington defeats Napoleon's Marshals https://books.google.com/books?id=0oGHCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT33 20 March 2013 Bloomsbury Publishing 978-1-4728-0312-2 33
24 October - The foundation stone of the Moel Famau Jubilee Tower is laid.https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/booklet-unveils-past-jubilee-tower-2747176 Booklet unveils past of Jubilee Tower on Moel Famau Daily Post 30 September 2010 Lois York 22 May 2018
date unknown
Walter Coffin takes a mining lease on land at Dinas Rhondda.
Hafod Copperworks opens in the Lower Swansea valley.Engineering and Mining Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=hkfnAAAAMAAJ 1882 Western & Company 261
Etcher Charles Norris settles in Tenby.
Jonesville, North Carolina, is founded as Martinsborough; the name is later changed in honour of Hardy Jones (1747–1819).
Arts and literature
New books
English language
The Beauties of England and Wales, vol. XI
Richard Fenton - Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire
Ann Hatton - Cambrian Pictureshttps://orieldavies.org/shop/products/cambrian-pictures Cambrian Pictures Oriel Davies Gallery 16 January 2025
Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - History and Antiquities of the County of Cardigan
Welsh language
Dafydd Ddu Eryri - Corff y Gaincs-THOM-DAV-1759 Thomas, David (Dafydd Ddu Eryri; 1759-1822), man of letters and poet Griffith Thomas Roberts 16 January 2025
Births
3 January - John Orlando Parry, actor, musician and songwriter (d. 1879)Parry, John Orlando
12 January - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (d. 1882) Morris
Richard Leslie
Llewelyn, John Dillwyn
2004
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford University Press
Oxford, England
10.1093/ref:odnb/45563
4 November 2015
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/45563
15 January - John Evan Thomas, sculptor (died 1873)s-THOM-EVA-1810 Thomas, John Evan (1810-1873), sculptor Robert Thomas Jenkins 8 March 2019
19 January - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect (died 1869)s-JONE-JOH-1810 Jones, John (Talhaiarn; 1810-1869), architect and poet David Gwenallt Jones 8 March 2019
24 January - Thomas Jones, Methodist missionary (died 1849)s-JONE-THO-1810 Jones, Thomas (1810-1849), the first Calvinistic Methodist missionary on the Khasia Hills (Assam) Robert Thomas Jenkins 8 March 2019
4 August - Dan Jones, Mormon missionary (died 1862 in Utah)
date unknown - Thomas Jones, librarian (died 1875)http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15097 Jones, Thomas (1810–1875) Sutton C. W. Crosby, Alan G. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 2009-01-27
Deaths
10 March - George Morgan, American merchant of Welsh parentage, 67Obituary Col. George Morgan, The Pittsburgh Gazette, 6 Apr 1810, Friday, p. 2. Archived
April - Isaac Davis, advisor to the Hawaiian royal familyHawaiian Journal of History 10524/238 The Cemetery for Foreigners 2000 34 Hawaiian Historical Society 63–67 Robert C. Schmitt
3 April - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), poet and dramatist, 71Parry Sir Thomas Thomas Parry (author) Edwards, Thomas (Twm o'r Nant; 1739–1810) s-EDWA-THO-1739
27 June - Richard Crawshay, industrialist, 70Price Watkin William Crawshay family, of Cyfarthfa, Glamorganshire, industrialists s-CRAW-CYF-1739 29 August 2019
12 August - David Jones, Church of England priest who was supportive of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism, 74Roberts Gomer Morgan Jones, David (1736-1810), Methodist cleric s-JONE-DAV-1736 29 August 2019
27 September - John Williams, barrister, 53Williams, John (1757-1810)
See also
1810 in Ireland
References
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