1813 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1813 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^[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

• January - Sir Joseph Bailey sells his 25% share in Cyfarthfa ironworks for £20,000.^[23]
• April - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) moves to Crickhowell to take over several parishes in the vicinity.
• 30 September - Sir Jeremiah Homfray is forced to sell his house at Cwm Rhondda to settle his debts.^[24]
• 2 November - Richard Parry Price, heir to the Puleston estates, is created a baronet.^[25]
• date unknown
  • Anthony Hill and his two brothers go into partnership at the Plymouth ironworks.
  • The "Branwen ferch Llŷr" sepulchral urn is discovered on the banks of the river Alaw in Anglesey (later placed in the British Museum by Richard Llwyd).
  • The first permanent military barracks in Wales are opened at Brecon.
  • An Independent minister, David Davies, is forced to leave his teaching post at Carmarthen Academy after charges of "immorality" are made against him.^[26]
  • David Daniel Davis is appointed a physician at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in London.
  • Charles James Apperley becomes agent for his brother-in-law's estates in Caernarvonshire, taking up residence at Tŷ Gwyn, Llanbeblig.
  • Diana Noel, 2nd Baroness Barham, settles at Fairy Hill, Gower.^[27]
  • Thomas Charles of Bala publishes his "rules" for the conduct of Sunday schools.
  • Elijah Waring founds a new periodical, The Cambrian Visitor: a Monthly Miscellany, which fails after eight months.

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Hugh Davies - Welsh Botanology … A Systematic Catalogue of the Native Plants of Anglesey, in Latin, English, and Welsh
• Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) - General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of North Wales
• M. Surrey - Llewellyn, Prince of Wales, or Gellert the Faithful Dog (play)^[28]

Welsh language

• William Owen - Lloffion o Faes Boaz^[29]
• William Williams (Gwilym Peris) - Awengerdd Peris

Music

Births

• 30 January - Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, Biblical scholar (d. 1875)^[30]
• 2 May - Mordecai Jones, industrialist (d. 1880)
• 30 June - Thomas Briscoe, translator (d. 1895)
• 1 August - William Ambrose (Emrys), poet (d. 1873)^[31]
• 12 September - Daniel Jones, missionary (d. 1846)
• 10 October - William Adams, mining engineer (d. 1886)
• date unknown - John Edwards (Meiriadog), poet (d. 1906)^[32]

Deaths

• 9 March - Edward Williams, minister and theologian, 62^[33]
• 23 March - Princess Augusta of Great Britain, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and mother of Caroline of Brunswick, later Princess of Wales, 75^[34]
• 17 April - Thomas Edwards (Yr Hwntw Mawr), murderer^[35]
• 28 July - John Randolph, former Bishop of Bangor, 64
• 11 August (or 12 August) - John Price, librarian, 78^[36]
• date unknown - Edward Pugh, artist^[37]

See also

• 1813 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: Alan Birch. Economic History of the British Iron and Steel Industry. 5 November 2013. Routledge. 978-1-136-61723-2. 80.
24. Book: Great Britain. The London Gazette. 1814. T. Neuman. 380.
25. Book: William Williams Mortimer. The history of the hundred of Wirral: with a sketch of the city and county of Chester. 1847. Whittaker & Co.. 321.
26. Book: The Welsh Church from Reformation to Disestablishment, 1603-1920. 2007. University of Wales Press. 978-0-7083-1877-5.
27. Web site: Sir Gerard Noel Noel 2nd Bart. Legacies of British Slave-ownership database. 8 August 2017.
28. Book: A History of Early Nineteenth Century Drama 1800-1850. CUP Archive. 289–. GGKEY:02TQBKU1SAT.
29. Book: Catalogue of Welsh Books, Books on Wales, and Books by Welshmen, A.D. 1800-1862, at Glan Aber, Chester. 1870. 44.
30. Tregelles, Samuel Prideaux. 57. Edgar Cardew . Marchant.
31. s-AMBR-WIL-1813. Ambrose, William (Emrys; 1813-1873), Independent minister, poet, and littérateur. William Griffith Owen. 1959. 19 November 2021.
32. Book: Bye-gones, Relating to Wales and the Border Counties. 1905.
33. s-WILL-EDW-1750. Williams, Edward (1750-1813), Independent divine and tutor. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 1959. 19 November 2021.
34. Book: Edmund Lodge. The genealogy of the existing British peerage. 1838. Saunders and Otley. 6.
35. [T. Llew Jones]
36. Web site: Price, John (1735 - 1813). Vaisey. David. David Vaisey. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2004 . 11 March 2009.
37. Book: John Barrell. Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763-1813: 'a Native Artist'. 2013. University of Wales Press. 978-0-7083-2566-7.