1809 in Wales

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West Front of Tintern Abbey

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1809 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 (until 9 August); ^[14] Henry Majendie (from 5 October) ^[15]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson ^[16]
• Bishop of St Asaph – William Cleaver ^{[17] [18] [19]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess ^{[19] [20] [21] [22]}

Events

• 9 February - South Stack Lighthouse off Anglesey first illuminated. ^[23]
• 10 May - Stapleton Cotton plays a prominent role in the Battle of Grijó. ^[24]
• date unknown
  • David Hughes, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, donates £105 towards scholarships to give South Wales the same level of support as North Wales.
  • Hawarden Castle is enlarged. ^[25]
  • Restoration of Brecon Castle as a hotel begins. ^[26]
  • John Rice Jones begins lead mining across the Mississippi in the future state of Missouri.
  • Jeremiah Homfray opens a level at Richard Griffiths' lease in Trehafod in the Rhondda; the first full scale attempt to mine coal in the area.

Arts and literature

New books

• Edward Davies - The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids ^[27]
• Zaccheus Davies - Cân am y Farn ^[28]
• Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) - An English-Welsh Dictionary neu Eir-Lyfr Saesneg a Chymraeg
• Theophilus Jones - History of the County of Brecknock, vol. 2
• Henry Parry (editor) Grammatica Britannica, 2nd edition (1st edition by John Davies of Mallwyd) ^[29]

Music

• George Thomson - A Selected Collection of Original Welsh Airs (1st edition) ^[30]

Births

• 18 January - John Gwyn Jeffreys, conchologist (died 1885) ^[31]
• 15 February - Owen Jones, architect (died 1874) ^[32]
• 17 April - Thomas Brigstocke, painter (died 1881) ^[33]
• 24 May - William Chambers, politician (died 1882) ^[34]
• 26 May - G. T. Clark, engineer (died 1885)
• 12 July - David Williams (Alaw Goch), coal owner (died 1863) ^[35]
• 11 August - Robert Thomas (Ap Vychan), writer (died 1880)
• 20 August - Morris Williams (Nicander), writer (died 1874) ^[36]
• 27 October - Lewis Edwards, Nonconformist minister and educator (died 1887)
• 22 December - John Hanmer, 1st Baron Hanmer, politician (died 1882) ^[37]
• 18 January - Evan James, weaver and mill-owner, lyricist of the Welsh national anthem (died 1878)
• unknown date - David Price, Independent minister (died 1887) ^[38]

Deaths

• 23 January - Hugh Barlow, politician, 79/80 ^[39]
• 10 February - Hugh Bold, lawyer, 77/78 ^[40]
• April - Charles Francis Greville, founder of Milford Haven, 59 ^[41]
• October 28 - Hugh Pugh, Independent minister, 29

See also

• 1809 in Ireland

References

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