1810s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1810 - 1819 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent
*Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

Events

*1810
*1811
*1812
*1813
*1814
*1815
*1816
*1817
*1818
*1819

Arts and literature

New books

*Thomas Charles - "Biblical Dictionary", vol. 4 (1811)
*Dafydd Ddu Eryri - "Corph y Gaingc" (1810)
*Richard Fenton
**"A Tour in Quest of Genealogy" (1811)
**"Memoirs of an Old Wig" (1815)
*Joseph Harris (Gomer) - "Traethawd ar Briodol Dduwdod ein Harglwydd Iesu Grist" (1816)
*Ann Hatton
**"Cambrian Pictures" (1810)
**"Chronicles of an Illustrious House" (1816)
*Samuel Johnson - "A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774" (1816)
*Thomas Jones (Dinbych) - "Hanes Diwigwyr, Merthyron, a Chyffeswyr Eglwys Loegr" (1813)
*William Owen Pughe - "Coll Gwynfa" (translation of Milton's "Paradise Lost") (1819)
*David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) - "Barddoniaeth Gristianogawl" (1815)
*John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd) - "Annerch Plant a Rhieni oddi ar farwolaeth William Thomas mab Lewis Thomas, Llanrwst" (1817)

Music

*1811
**John James - "Pigion o Hymnau"
*14 July 1817 - Robert Williams - "Llanfair" (hymn tune, formerly named "Bethel")

Births

*1810
**January 12 - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (d. 1882)
**January 15 - John Evan Thomas, sculptor (d. 1873)
**January 19 - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect (d. 1869)
**January 24 - Thomas Jones, missionary (d. 1849)
*1811
**January 14 - Rowland Prichard, musician (d. 1887)
**January 26 - Roger Edwards, minister (d. 1886)
**March 11 - Thomas Jones (Glan Alun), poet (d. 1866)
**July 11 - William Robert Grove, inventor (d. 1896)
**"date unknown" - John Williams (Ab Ithel), antiquary (d. 1862)
*1812
**January 6 - Catherine Glynne, future wife of William Gladstone (d. 1900)
**February 3 - Robert Elis (Cynddelw), poet and lexicographer (d. 1875)
**April 3 - Henry Richard, pacifist politician (d. 1888)
**May 19 - Lady Charlotte Guest, translator and philanthropist (d. 1895)
*1813
**June 30 - Thomas Briscoe, translator (d. 1895)
**August 1 - William Ambrose (Emrys), poet (d. 1873)
**October 10 - William Adams, mining engineer (d. 1886)
**"date unknown" - John Edwards (Meiriadog), poet (d. 1906)
*1814
**March 5 - Joseph Edwards, sculptor (d. 1882)
**"date unknown" - Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist (d. 1903)
*1815
**January 24 - Thomas Gee, publisher (d. 1898)
**April 16 - Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (d. 1895)
**May - William Lucas Collins, author (d. 1887)
**November 21 - John Bowen, Bishop of Sierra Leone (d. 1859)
**December 13 - Thomas Rees, Congregational minister (d. 1885)
*1816
**June 3 - John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech, politician (d. 1876)
**June 11 - Thomas William Davids, ecclesiastical historian (d. 1884)
**August 16 - Charles John Vaughan, dean of Llandaff and co-founder of University of Wales, Cardiff
**"date unknown"
***Huw Derfel, poet and historian (d. 1890)
***Edward Edwards (Pencerdd Ceredigion), musician (d. 1897)
***Henry Robertson, Scots engineer responsible for building the North Wales Mineral Railway (d. 1888)
*1817
**August 16 - Rowland Williams, theologian and academic
**November 1 - Henry Brinley Richards, composer (d. 1885)
*1818
**January 11 - Daniel Silvan Evans, lexicographer (d. 1903)
**December 18 - David Davies (Llandinam), industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1890)
*1819
**November 4 - Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor (d. 1894)
**November 15 - Arthur Wynn Williams, physician (d. 1886)

Deaths

*1810
**April 3 - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), poet and dramatist (b. 1739)
**June 27 - Richard Crawshay, industrialist (b. 1729)
*1811
**September 25 - Joshua Eddowes, printer and bookseller (b. 1724)
*1812
**March 13 - Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge (b. 1744)
*1813
**March 23 - Princess Augusta Charlotte of Wales, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales and mother of Caroline, the Princess of Wales (b. 1737)
**April 17 - Thomas Edwards (Yr Hwntw Mawr), murderer
**"date unknown" - Jane Cave, poet (b. 1754)
*1814
**March 12 - Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu), printer and translator (b. 1733)
**June 21 - Sir Erasmus Gower, colonial governor (b. 1742)
**October 5 - Thomas Charles of Bala, Welsh Bible pioneer (b. 1755)
*1815
*1816
**June 29 - David Williams, Enlightenment philosopher (b. 1738)
*1817
**January 16 - General Vaughan Lloyd, commander of the Woolwich Arsenal (b. 1736)
**March 27 - Josiah Boydell, artist (b. 1752)
**July 17 - William Williams of Llandygly (b. 1738)
**July 31 - Benjamin Hall, industrialist (b. 1778)
**"date unknown" - David Hughes, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
*1818
**September 12 - John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd), poet (b. 1742)
*1819
**January 31 - Thomas Bevan, missionary (b.c.1796)
**February 8 - Sydenham Teak Edwards, botanist (b. 1768)
**June 25 - John Abel, minister (b. 1770)
**November 6 - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (b. 1796)