1800 in Wales

← 1799 1798 1797 1796 1795 1800 in Wales → 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805
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See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1800 in Great Britain Scotland Elsewhere

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1800 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

For Great Britain incumbents, see 1800 in Great Britain § Incumbents.

• 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

• 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

New books

English language

• 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

• Timothy Thomas - Traethiad am y Wisg-Wen Ddisglair (2nd edition) ^[30]

Music

• "Suo Gân" (approximate first printing) ^[31]

Births

• 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

• 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]

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2. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
3. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN   9780806313146.
4. Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
5. 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.
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7. "not known". Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. "Old Wales" Office. 3: 106. 1907.
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16. The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
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