This article is about the particular significance of the year 1800 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
edit- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne (until 6 January); Thomas Johnes (from 4 July)[2]
- 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 Westminster[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford[2][10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Harley[11][2]
- Bishop of Bangor – John Warren (until 27 January); William Cleaver (from 24 May)[12][13][14]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson[15]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Lewis Bagot[16][12]
- Bishop of St Davids – William Stuart (until October);[17] Lord George Murray (nominated)
Events
edit- February - John Bryan begins preaching.[18]
- 5 May - Missionary John Davies sets out for Tahiti.[19]
- 1 August - The Naval Temple on The Kymin at Monmouth is dedicated.[20]
- August - Owen Davies and John Hughes arrive in Ruthin to superintend the Wesleyan Methodist mission to Wales.[21]
- December - The Brecon Canal opens between Brecon and Talybont.[22]
- unknown dates
- Richard Fothergill goes into partnership with Samuel Homfray at Tredegar.[23] Jeremiah Homfray begins leasing mineral lands at Abernant, Cwmbach, and Rhigos.[24]
- Edward Charles becomes official "bard" of the Gwyneddigion Society.[25]
- 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
editNew books
editEnglish language
edit- William Bingley - Tour round North Wales[26]
- 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 Tenants[27]
- Richard Llwyd - Beaumaris Bay[28]
- William Ouseley - Epitome of the Ancient History of Persia
- Henry Wigstead - Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales: In the Year 1797[29]
Welsh language
edit- Timothy Thomas - Traethiad am y Wisg-Wen Ddisglair (2nd edition)[30]
Music
editBirths
edit- 4 March - Dr William Price, physician (d. 1893)[32]
- 6 March - Samuel Roberts (S.R.), Radical leader (d. 1885)[33]
- 22 March - Thomas Bevan, Archdeacon of St David's (d. 1863)[34]
- 20 June - Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (d. 1886)[35]
- 1 August - Elizabeth Randles, musical prodigy (d. 1829)[36]
- 1 October - Williams Evans, hymnist (d. 1880)
- 30 October - Ernest Vaughan, 4th Earl of Lisburne, landowner and politician (d. 1873)[37]
- 29 November - David Griffith (Clwydfardd), poet and archdruid (d. 1894)[38]
- date unknown
- James James (Iago Emlyn), minister and poet (d. 1879)[39]
- David Morris, politician (d. 1864)[40]
Deaths
edit- 6 January
- William Jones of Neyland, clergyman and author, 73[41]
- Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne, politician, 71[42]
- 27 January - John Warren, Bishop of St David's and later of Bangor[43][14]
- 14 March - Daines Barrington, antiquary and naturalist, 72[44]
- May - Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr), clergyman and author, age unknown[45]
- 14 July - Basil Feilding, 6th Earl of Denbigh, 81[46]
References
edit- ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
- ^ a b c d e J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
- ^ Edwin Poole (1886). 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. p. 378.
- ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
- ^ "not known". Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. 3. "Old Wales" Office: 106. 1907.
- ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
- ^ Bertie George Charles (1959). "Philipps family, of Picton". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
- ^ a b Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
- ^ The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
- ^ a b Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780521563505.
- ^ John Henry James (1898). A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff. Western Mail. p. 16.
- ^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
- ^ Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 163.
- ^ Albert Hughes Williams. "Bryan, John (1776-1856), Wesleyan Methodist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ^ The history of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830. Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press. 1961.
- ^ "Naval Temple". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
- ^ Albert Hughes Williams. "Davies, Owen (1752-1830), Wesleyan Methodist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ^ Norris, John (2007). The Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal (5th Ed.). privately published. ISBN 978-0-9517991-4-7.
- ^ Watkin William Price (1959). "Fothergill family, iron-masters, etc.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
- ^ Price, Watkin William. "Homfray family". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 July 2012.
- ^ David Davies; Bob Owen (1926). The Influence of the French Revolution on Welsh Life and Literature. W. M. Evans. p. 171.
- ^ Simon Bainbridge (16 April 2020). Mountaineering and British Romanticism: The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 1770-1836. Oxford University Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-19-885789-1.
- ^ Anne Kelly Knowles (February 1997). Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier. University of Chicago Press. pp. 46. ISBN 978-0-226-44853-4.
- ^ Allan Ingram; Joanna Fowler (29 April 2016). Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse: Order in Variety. Springer. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-137-48763-6.
- ^ Esther Moir (2013). The Discovery of Britain (Routledge Revivals): The English Tourists 1540-1840. Taylor & Francis. p. 177. ISBN 9781136767807.
- ^ Benjamin George Owens. "Thomas, Timothy (1720-1768), of Maes-isaf Pencarreg Baptist minister and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ Lullaby (Suo Gan) Lesley Nelson-Burns, Contemplator.com . Accessed July 2011
- ^ Dean Powell (15 September 2012). Dr William Price: Wales's First Radical. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 46. ISBN 978-1-4456-2052-7.
- ^ Robert Ivor Parry (1959). "Roberts, Samuel ('S.R.'; 1800-1885), Independent minister, editor, Radical reformer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
- ^ "Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity" Richardson,E p194: Cambridge, CUP, 2013 ISBN 978-1-107-02677-3
- ^ Robert Henry Mair (1872). The School Boards: Our Educational Parliaments. p. 358.
- ^ Dictionary of Musicians (1824). "Select Biography. Miss Randles, the Cambrian Musical Prodigy". In Percy, Reuben; Timbs, John (eds.). The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 4. J. Limbird. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ "Death of the Earl of Lisburne". Welshman. 14 November 1873. p. 5. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
- ^ Daniel Williams (1959). "Griffith, David (Clwydfardd; 1800-1894), eisteddfodic bard and arch-druid". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
- ^ Williams, Griffith John. "James Davies". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ Edward Walford (1871). The County Families of the United Kingdom: Or, Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. Robert Hardwicke. pp. 706.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ George Lewis SMYTH (1843). Biographical Illustrations of Westminster Abbey. pp. 211.
- ^ Englishmen (1836). Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham. pp. 291.
- ^ Robert (Bob) Owen. "Hughes, Evan ('Hughes Fawr'; died 1800), cleric and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ George Kearsley (1804). Kearsley's Complete Peerage, of England, Scotland and Ireland; together with an extinct peerage, etc. p. 79.