1812 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1812 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, Earl of Uxbridge (until 13 March); Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (from 28 April)^{[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]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess^{[19] [20] [21] [22]}

Events

• 20 June - Creation of The Kidwelly and Llanelli Canal and Tramroad Company.^[23]
• Summer - Percy Bysshe Shelley stays at Nantgwyllt in the Elan Valley with his wife Harriet.
• September - Rioting occurs at Nefyn over enclosures.^[24]
• 17 September - The celebration of the completion of the embankment, later known as the 'Cob' in Porthmadog
• 30 December - A brig, the Fortune, is wrecked on The Smalls, Pembrokeshire, with the loss of 10 or 11 lives.^[25]
• 1 October - Balloonist James Sadler flies over the north Wales coastline in an unsuccessful attempt to cross the Irish Sea.^[26]
• Opening of:
  • Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal between Newport and Brecon.^[27]
  • Aberdare branch of Glamorganshire Canal.

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Felicia Hemans - The Domestic Affections and Other Poems^[28]
• Benjamin Millingchamp - A Sermon preached at St. Peter's Church, Carmarthen, on Thursday, July 4, 1811^[29]
• The New Flora Britannica (with illustrations by Sydenham Teak Edwards)

Welsh language

• Lewis Hopkin - Y Fêl Gafod
• Hugh Jones - Arwyrain Amaethyddiaeth

Music

• Owen Dafydd - Ballad of the Brynmorgan Explosion

Births

• 6 January - Catherine Glynne, future wife of William Ewart Gladstone (d. 1900)^[30]
• 3 February - Robert Elis (Cynddelw), poet and lexicographer (d. 1875)
• 3 April - Henry Richard, pacifist politician (d. 1888)^[31]
• 19 May - Lady Charlotte Guest, translator and philanthropist (d. 1895)^[32]

Deaths

• 15 January - Theophilus Jones, historian, 52^[33]
• 13 March - Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, 77^[34]
• May - Thomas Owen, clergyman and translator, 62
• 27 November (bur.) - Jane Cave, poet, c. 58

See also

• 1812 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 24.
2. Book: J.C. Sainty . John Sainty (civil servant) . List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 . Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd . London . 1979.
3. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 695.
4. Book: Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. 169.
5. Book: Edwin Poole. 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. 1886. 378.
6. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 26.
7. Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. not known. William Retlaw Williams. "Old Wales" Office. 1907. 3. 106.
8. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 612.
9. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 29.
10. Web site: R. G. Thorne. Clive, Edward, 2nd Baron Clive (1754-1839), of Walcot, Salop. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820. 1986. 13 November 2021.
11. s-PHIL-PIC-1491. Philipps family, of Picton. Bertie George Charles. 1959. 19 October 2021.
12. Book: Jonathan Williams. The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. 1859. 115.
13. Book: William Stockdale. Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom. 1833. 86.
14. Book: Fryde, E. B. . Handbook of British chronology . New York Cambridge University Press . Cambridge England . 1996 . 9780521563505 . 292.
15. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 305.
16. Book: John Henry James. A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff. Western Mail. 1898. 16.
17. Book: The Church of the people and free church penny magazine. 1859. 179.
18. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
19. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 307.
20. Book: The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. 95.
21. Book: The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3. George III (King of Great Britain). University Press. 1967. 434.
22. Web site: Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas . The Royal Society . 30 October 2020.
23. Book: Wood, Andy . Abandoned & vanished canals of Ireland, Scotland and Wales . Amberley Publishing . Stroud England . 2015 . 9781445648699 .
24. Book: Caernarvonshire (Wales). County Record Office. Caernarvonshire records: the Caernarvonshire Record Office, twenty-one years 1947-1968: a catalogue of an exhibition held at Caernarvon, 19-26 October 1968. 1968. County Record Office (County Archivist). 9780901337009 .
25. News: NAVAL INTELLIGENCE . Liverpool Mercury etc . 8 January 1813 . 80 .
26. Mark Davies: King of all balloons : the adventurous life of James Sadler, the first English aeronaut, Stroud, Gloucestershire : Amberley [2015],
27. Book: Charles Hadfield. Introducing Canals: A Guide to British Waterways Today. 1955. Benn.
28. Tricia Lootens. Hemans and Home: Victorianism, Feminine "Internal Enemies", and the Domestication of National Identity. PMLA. 109. Modern Language Association. 2. March 1994. 238–253. 463119. 10.2307/463119.
29. Book: Benjamin Millingchamp. A Sermon Preached at St. Peter's Church, Carmarthen, on Thursday, July the 4th, 1811y. 1812. Printed and sold, by order of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Church Union in the Diocese of St. David's, by Jonathan Harris.
30. Book: Shkolnik, Esther . Leading ladies: a study of eight late Victorian and Edwardian political wives . Garland . New York . 1987 . 9780824078324 . 69.
31. Book: D. Ben Rees. Vehicles of Grace and Hope: Welsh Missionaries in India, 1800-1970. 2002. William Carey Library. 978-0-87808-505-7. 185.
32. Schreiber, Lady Charlotte Elizabeth.
33. Encyclopedia: Brynley F. . Roberts . Brynley F. Roberts . Jones, Theophilus (1759–1812) . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press . 2004 . online . 10.1093/ref:odnb/15085 .
34. Book: Griffith, John . Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire families, with their collateral branches in Denbighshire, Merionethshire, and other parts . Bridge Books . Wrexham, Clwyd . 1985 . 9780950828558 . 57.