1804 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1804 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort ^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley ^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes ^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan (until 19 January); ^[7] George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor (from 21 April)
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster ^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute ^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet ^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – vacant until 1804
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford ^{[2] [11]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Harley (until 1 December); George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney ^{[12] [2]}

• Bishop of Bangor – William Cleaver ^{[13] [14] [15]}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson ^[16]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Samuel Horsley ^{[17] [18]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess ^{[18] [19] [20] [21]}

Events

• February 21 - The Cornishman Richard Trevithick's newly built "Penydarren" steam locomotive operates on the Merthyr Tramroad between the Penydarren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil and Abercynon, following several trials since February 13, the world's first locomotive to work on rails. ^[22] As a result of this achievement, Samuel Homfray wins a 1000 guineas wager with Richard Crawshay as to which of them could first build a steam locomotive for use in their works.
• March 7 - Inauguration of the British and Foreign Bible Society, largely at the instigation of Thomas Charles. ^[23]
• The Cambrian is the first newspaper published in Wales.

Arts and literature

New books

• Edward Davies - Celtic Researches on the Origin, Traditions and Languages of the Ancient Britons
• Richard Llwyd
  • Gayton Wake, or Mary Dod
  • Poems, Tales, Odes, Sonnets, Translations from the British
• Benjamin Heath Malkin - The Scenery, Antiquities, and Biography of South Wales
• Azariah Shadrach - Drws i'r Meddwl Segur
• Hester Thrale - British Synonymy: or an attempt at regulating the choice of words in familiar conversation

Music

• Edward Jones - The Lyric Airs

Births

• 14 January - Sir Hugh Owen, educationist (died 1881) ^[24]
• 20 January - John Jones (Idrisyn), clergyman and author (died 1887)
• 2 March - Henry Davies, journalist (died 1890)
• 5 March - John Davies (Siôn Gymro), minister and linguist (died 1884)
• 31 March - Rice Rees, clergyman and historian (died 1839) ^[25]
• 12 April (in Indiana) - George Wallace Jones, US senator and son of Welsh lawyer John Rice Jones (died 1896) ^[26]
• date unknown - Benjamin Price, first bishop of the "Free Church of England" (died 1896)

Deaths

• 19 January - John Vaughan, politician, about 51 ^[7]
• 19 March - Philip Yorke, politician and antiquary, 60 ^[27]
• 17 May - Mary Penry, Moravian settler in Pennsylvania, 68 ^[28]
• 20 September - Josiah Rees, Unitarian minister, 59 ^[29]
• 1 December - Thomas Harley, Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire, 74
• 7 December - Morgan John Rhys, Baptist minister, 43 ^[30]

See also

• 1804 in Ireland

References

1. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
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.
6. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
7. "VAUGHAN, John (c.1752-1804), of Golden Grove, Carm". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
8. "not known". Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. "Old Wales" Office. 3: 106. 1907.
9. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN   9780806313146.
10. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
11. Bertie George Charles (1959). "Philipps family, of Picton". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 19 October 2021.
12. Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
13. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
14. The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
15. Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN   9780521563505.
16. 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.
17. The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
18. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.
19. The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
20. George III (King of Great Britain) (1967). The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3. University Press. p. 434.
21. "Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas". The Royal Society. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
22. Rattenbury, Gordon; Lewis, M. J. T. (2004). Merthyr Tydfil Tramroads and their Locomotives. Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN   0-901461-52-0.
23. "Our timeline". Bible Society. Archived from the original on 28 December 2010. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
24. "Owen, Hugh (1804-1881)"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
25. Jones, Selwyn. "REES, RICE (1804–1839), cleric and scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 26 April 2008.
26. "JONES, George Wallace, (1804 - 1896)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
27. "Yorke, Philip (1743-1804), of Erthig, Denb". History of Parliament online. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
28. Scott Paul Gordon, "Glad Passivity: Mary Penry of Lititz and the Making of Moravian Women" Journal of Moravian History 13(1)(March 2013): 1-26.
29. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Rees, Josiah (1744-1804), Unitarian minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 10 April 2019.
30. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). "Rhees, Morgan John"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 48. London: Smith, Elder & Co.