1810 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1810 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 – Henry Majendie ^{[14] [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

• January - Novelist Thomas Love Peacock first visits Maentwrog where he will settle for a time.
• 3 March - Launch of the Carmarthen Journal , the oldest surviving newspaper in Wales. ^[23]
• 14 April - James Cotton, precentor of Bangor Cathedral, marries Mary Anne, daughter of Henry Majendie, Bishop of Bangor.
• 27 September - Thomas Picton serves with distinction under Wellington at the Battle of Bussaco. ^[24]
• 24 October - The foundation stone of the Moel Famau Jubilee Tower is laid. ^[25]
• date unknown
  • Walter Coffin takes a mining lease on land at Dinas Rhondda.
  • Hafod Copperworks opens in the Lower Swansea valley. ^[26]
  • Etcher Charles Norris settles in Tenby.
  • Jonesville, North Carolina, is founded as Martinsborough; the name is later changed in honour of Hardy Jones (1747–1819).

Arts and literature

New books

• The Beauties of England and Wales, vol. XI
• Corff y Gainc (anthology)
• Dafydd Ddu Eryri - Corph y Gaingc
• Richard Fenton - Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire
• Ann Hatton - Cambrian Pictures

Births

• 3 January - John Orlando Parry, actor, musician and songwriter (d. 1879) ^[27]
• 12 January - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (d. 1882) ^[28]
• 15 January - John Evan Thomas, sculptor (died 1873) ^[29]
• 19 January - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect (died 1869) ^[30]
• 24 January - Thomas Jones, Methodist missionary (died 1849) ^[31]
• 4 August - Dan Jones, Mormon missionary (died 1862 in Utah)
• date unknown - Thomas Jones, librarian (died 1875) ^[32]

Deaths

• 10 March - George Morgan, American merchant of Welsh parentage, 67 ^[33]
• April - Isaac Davis, advisor to the Hawaiian royal family ^[34]
• 3 April - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), poet and dramatist, 71 ^[35]
• 27 June - Richard Crawshay, industrialist, 70 ^[36]
• 12 August - David Jones, Church of England priest who was supportive of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism, 74 ^[37]
• 27 September - John Williams, barrister, 53 ^[38]

See also

• 1810 in Ireland

References

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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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12. Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
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15. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
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24. René Chartrand (20 March 2013). Bussaco 1810: Wellington defeats Napoleon's Marshals. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 33. ISBN   978-1-4728-0312-2.
25. Lois York (30 September 2010). "Booklet unveils past of Jubilee Tower on Moel Famau". Daily Post. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
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31. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones, Thomas (1810-1849), the first Calvinistic Methodist missionary on the Khasia Hills (Assam)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 8 March 2019.
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33. Obituary Col. George Morgan, The Pittsburgh Gazette, 6 Apr 1810, Friday, p. 2. Archived
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