1805 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1805 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 – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis ^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford ^{[2] [12]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney ^{[13] [2] [14]}

• Bishop of Bangor – William Cleaver ^{[15] [16] [17]}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson ^[18]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Samuel Horsley ^{[19] [20]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess ^{[20] [21] [22] [23]}

Events

• 21 October - Battle of Trafalgar: A British Royal Navy fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. About 465 of the 18,000 men on the British ships were born in Wales. ^[24]
• 26 November - The Ellesmere Canal's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is opened, the tallest and longest in Britain, completing the canal's Llangollen branch. ^[25]
• unknown dates
  • John Kenrick III develops his great-uncle's chandlery at Wrexham into a bank. ^[26]
  • Alban Thomas Jones-Gwynne builds the town of Aberaeron. ^[27]

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Charles - Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol ^[28]
• Theophilus Jones - History of the County of Brecknock, vol. 1
• Titus Lewis - A Welsh — English Dictionary, Geiriadur Cymraeg a Saesneg ^[29]
• Robert Southey - Madoc ^[30]

Music

• Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) takes up residence in St James's Palace.

Visual arts

• English watercolour landscape painter David Cox makes his first tour in Wales. ^[31]

Births

• 13 December - Robert Griffiths, inventor (died 1883) ^[32]
• 19 December - John David Edwards, hymn-writer (died 1885) ^[33]
• date unknown
  • Evan Davies, missionary (died 1864) ^[34]
  • Hugh Hughes (Tegai), writer (died 1864) ^[35]
  • John William Thomas, mathematician (died 1840)

Deaths

• 15 April - Mary Morgan, servant, 16 (executed by hanging, for killing her newborn child) ^[36]
• August - Ann Griffiths, poet and hymn-writer, 29 ^[37]
• 25 November - Jonathan Hughes, poet, 84 ^[38]

See also

• 1805 in Ireland

References

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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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8. "not known". Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. "Old Wales" Office. 3: 106. 1907.
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27. Thomas Lloyd; Julian Orbach; Robert Scourfield (2006). Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion. Yale University Press. p. 391. ISBN   0-300-10179-1.
28. Thomas Charles (1819). Geiriadur ysgrythawl. Geiriadur ysgrythyrol ... Yr ail argraffiad, etc. Robert Saunderson. p. 13.
29. Titus Lewis (1805). A Welsh-English dictionary. Geirlyfr Cymraeg a Saesneg, gan T. Lewis ac eraill. J. Evans, in Priory-Street.
30. Michael Gamer (17 February 2017). Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry. Cambridge University Press. p. 157. ISBN   978-1-107-15885-6.
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33. Robert David Griffith. "Edwards, John David (1805-1885), cleric and musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 10 April 2019.
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35. David Tecwyn Evans. "Edwards, Hughes, Hugh (Tegai; 1805-1864), Independent minister and man of letters". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 10 April 2019.
36. George Hardinge (1818). The miscellaneous works, in prose and verse, of George Hardinge [ed. by J. Nichols]. p. 58.
37. A. M. Allchin (1987). Ann Griffiths: The Furnace and the Fountain. University of Wales Press. p. ii. ISBN   978-0-7083-0954-4.
38. Thomas Parry. "Hughes, Jonathan (1721-1805), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 26 November 2020.