1816 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1816 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey ^{[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 (until 23 April) ^[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 Crichton-Stuart, 2nd 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 (until 4 July) ^[16] Herbert Marsh (from 25 August) ^[17]
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore ^{[18] [19] [20]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess ^{[20] [21] [22] [23]}

Events

• 10 February - Pembroke Dock's first Royal Navy ships are launched: HMS Ariadne and HMS Valorous. ^[24]
• 7 May - Hay Railway opens throughout. ^[25]
• 24 July - Old Wye Bridge, Chepstow (rebuilt in cast iron), is opened across the River Wye. ^[26]
• 9 October - Fanny Imlay, half-sister of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, takes a room at the Mackworth Arms in Swansea, and instructs the maid not to disturb her. The following day she is found dead, having taken a fatal dose of laudanum. ^[27]
• Nantyglo Round Towers built. ^[28]
• Taliesin Williams, son of Iolo Morganwg, opens a school at Merthyr Tydfil.

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Ann Hatton - Chronicles of an Illustrious House
• Samuel Johnson - A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774

Welsh language

• Jane Ellis - Cerddi (first published Welsh language book by a woman) ^[29]
• Joseph Harris (Gomer) - Traethawd ar Briodol Dduwdod ein Harglwydd Iesu Grist

Music

• John Ellis - Mawl yr Arglwydd (collection of hymns) ^[30]

Births

• 11 January - Henry Robertson, Scots engineer responsible for building the North Wales Mineral Railway (d. 1888)
• 7 March - Huw Derfel Hughes, poet and historian (d. 1890)
• 3 June - John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech, politician (d. 1876) ^[31]
• 11 June - Thomas William Davids, ecclesiastical historian (d. 1884)
• 16 August - Charles John Vaughan, dean of Llandaff and co-founder of University of Wales, Cardiff ^[32]
• date unknown
  • Edward Edwards (Pencerdd Ceredigion), musician (d. 1897)
  • Edward Meredith Price, composer (d. 1898) ^[33]

Deaths

• 23 April - Thomas Johnes, landowner and politician, 67 ^[34]
• 18 June - Thomas Henry, apothecary, 81
• 29 June - David Williams, Enlightenment philosopher, 78 ^[35]
• 4 July - Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, 78 ^[36]
• 17 July - John Lewis, missionary, about 24 (fever) ^[37]
• 10 October - Fanny Imlay, half-sister of Mary Shelley, 22 (committed suicide at the Mackworth Arms in Swansea) ^[38]
• date unknown
  • Benjamin Davies, first Baptist minister at Haverfordwest (age unknown) ^[39]
  • David Jones, barrister ("the Welsh Freeholder"), c.51 ^[40]

See also

• 1816 in Ireland

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