1808 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1808 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 – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
• 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 – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis ^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford ^{[2] [11]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney ^{[12] [2] [13]}

• Bishop of Bangor – John Randolph ^{[14] [15] [16]}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson ^[17]
• Bishop of St Asaph – William Cleaver ^{[18] [19] [20]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess ^{[20] [21] [22] [23]}

Events

5 January: First edition of the North Wales Gazette

• 5 January - The first issue of The North Wales Gazette is printed at Bangor.
• 20 September - The White Book of Hergest is destroyed in a fire at Covent Garden. ^[24]
• 30 October - William Lort Mansel is consecrated Bishop of Bristol. ^[25]
• 19 November - The naval frigate HMS Owen Glendower is launched.
• date unknown
  • Construction of the Horseshoe Falls on the River Dee by Thomas Telford. ^[26]
  • The publishing house Gwasg Gee is founded. ^[27]
  • St Katherine's Church, Milford Haven, built by Charles Francis Greville, is consecrated. ^[28]
  • Benjamin Hall is given the Abercarn estate by his father-in-law, Richard Crawshay.
  • The Ruabon Brook Tramway is extended from Acrefair to the Plas Madoc Colliery in Plasbennion. ^[29]
  • Twelve-year-old Charles Nice Davies goes to serve in India as an ensign.

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Felicia Hemans - Juvenile Poems ^[30]

Welsh language

• Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn) - Ieithiadur neu Ramadeg Cymraeg ^[31]
• Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Bannau y Byd ^[32]
• Titus Lewis - Llyfr Rhyfeddodau ^[33]

Music

• Hymnau o Fawl i Dduw a'r Oen (hymns by Ann Griffiths, posthumously published)

Births

• 30 January - Sir John Henry Scourfield, author (died 1876) ^[34]
• 6 March - William Williams (Carw Coch), man of letters and eisteddfodwr (died 1872) ^[35]
• 13 May - Thomas Aubrey, Wesleyan leader (died 1867)
• date unknown
  • Dic Penderyn, labourer executed for his part in the Merthyr Rising (died 1831) ^[36]
  • William Roos, artist and engraver (died 1878) ^[37]

Deaths

• 21 January – Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, about 70 ^[38]
• 12 February – Anna Maria Bennett, novelist, about 70 ^[39]
• 12 September – Charles Herbert, Royal Navy officer, son of the Earl of Carnarvon, 34 (drowned) ^[40]
• 30 November – Watkin Williams, politician, 66? ^[41]
• 28 December – Griffith Roberts, physician and collector of manuscripts, 73 ^[42]

See also

• 1808 in Ireland

References

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