1814 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1814 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 (until 16 November)^[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

• 1 January - The first weekly newspaper in Welsh is published, when Seren Gomer is founded by Joseph Harris (Gomer), a Baptist minister in Swansea.^[23]
• 3 January - Lampeter is granted its town charter.^[24]
• February - Anthony Bushby Bacon sells his mineral rights at Cyfarthfa to Richard Crawshay for £95,000.^[25]
• May - Caernarvon and Anglesey Hospital is founded.
• Summer solstice - Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morgannwg) declaims his poem "Heddwch" from the Logan Stone in the presence of the Gorsedd of Morgannwg, at the "second Assemblage"
• 10 September - The last recorded fatal duel in Wales is fought at Adpar, Newcastle Emlyn.^[26] Thomas Heslop of Jamaica is killed; a local landowner, Beynon, is found guilty and fined one shilling.
• date unknown
  • Sydenham Edwards founds The Botanical Register.
  • The Admiralty re-locates from Milford Haven to Paterchurch, resulting in the founding of Pembroke Dock.^[27]
  • Journalist and preacher Elijah Waring settles at Neath.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Jones - Natur a Chyneddfau Gweddi (2nd edition)^[28]

Music

• Thomas William - Perl Mewn Adfyd^[29]

Births

• January - George Grant Francis, philanthropist (d. 1882)
• 29 January - Edward William Thomas, composer (d. 1892)
• 5 March - Joseph Edwards, sculptor (d. 1882)
• 16 June - Robert Davies (Cyndeyrn), composer (d. 1867)^[30]
• date unknown - Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist (d. 1903)

Deaths

• 12 March - Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu), printer and translator, 80?^[31]
• 23 April - Richard Jones, clergyman and writer, 57^[32]
• 3 May - Thomas Coke, Methodist leader, 66^[33]
• 21 June - Sir Erasmus Gower, colonial governor, 71^[34]
• 26 September - Owen Jones, antiquary and founder of the Gwyneddigion Society, 73
• 5 October - Thomas Charles of Bala, Bible publishing pioneer, 58^[35]
• 16 November - John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, 70^[36]

See also

• 1814 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: John Graham Jones. The History of Wales. 15 November 2014. University of Wales Press. 978-1-78316-169-0. 128.
24. Book: Report. 1837. 461.
25. Book: Alan Birch. Economic History of the British Iron and Steel Industry. 5 November 2013. Routledge. 978-1-136-61723-2. 81.
26. Web site: About Adpar . Newcastle Emlyn and Adpar . 2012-02-11 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091008070817/http://www.newcastle-emlyn.com/adpar . 2009-10-08 .
27. Book: Charles George Harper. Gloucester to Milford Haven. 1905. Chapman & Hall.
28. Book: Catalogue of Welsh Books, Books on Wales, and Books by Welshmen, A.D. 1800-1862, at Glan Aber, Chester. 1870. 48.
29. William, Thomas (1761-1844). s-WILL-THO-1761. 2012-02-11. 1959.
30. s-DAVS-ROB-1814. DAVIES, ROBERT (Cyndeyrn; 1814-1867), musician. Robert David Griffith. 23 January 2020.
31. s-THOM-EVA-1733. Thomas, Evan (Ieuan Fardd Ddu; 1733-1814), printer and translator. Thomas Isfryn Jones. 23 January 2020.
32. s1-JONE-RIC-1757. Jones, Richard (1757?-1814), cleric and writer. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 23 January 2020.
33. Book: John Wesley Etheridge. The Life of the Rev. Thomas Coke, D.C.L.. 1860. J. Mason. 449.
34. Book: James Stanier Clarke. John McArthur. The Naval Chronicle: Volume 32, July-December 1814. 2 September 2010. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-108-01871-5. 176.
35. s-CHAR-THO-1755. Charles, Thomas (1755-1814), Methodist cleric. John Roberts. 1959. 19 November 2021.
36. Roland. Thorne. Stuart, John, first marquess of Bute (1744–1814). 64138.