1816 in Wales explained

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)
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore^{[17] [18]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess^{[19] [20] [21] [22]}

Events

• 10 February - Pembroke Dock's first Royal Navy ships are launched: HMS Ariadne and HMS Valorous.^[23]
• 7 May - Hay Railway opens throughout.^[24]
• 24 July - Old Wye Bridge, Chepstow (rebuilt in cast iron), is opened across the River Wye.^[25]
• 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.^[26]
• Nantyglo Round Towers built.^[27]
• 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)^[28]
• Joseph Harris (Gomer) - Traethawd ar Briodol Dduwdod ein Harglwydd Iesu Grist

Music

• John Ellis - Mawl yr Arglwydd (collection of hymns)^[29]

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)^[30]
• 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 date unknown
  • Edward Edwards (Pencerdd Ceredigion), musician (d. 1897)
  • Edward Meredith Price, composer (d. 1898)^[31]

Deaths

• 23 April - Thomas Johnes, landowner and politician, 67^[32]
• 18 June - Thomas Henry, apothecary, 81
• 29 June - David Williams, Enlightenment philosopher, 78
• 4 July - Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, 78
• 17 July - John Lewis, missionary, about 24 (fever)^[33]
• 10 October - Fanny Imlay, half-sister of Mary Shelley, 22 (committed suicide at the Mackworth Arms in Swansea)^[34]
• date unknown
  • Benjamin Davies, first Baptist minister at Haverfordwest (age unknown)^[35]
  • David Jones, barrister ("the Welsh Freeholder"), c.51^[36]

See also

• 1816 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 Phillips. Defending Wales: The Coast and Sea Lanes in Wartime. 15 May 2010. Amberley Publishing Limited. 978-1-4456-2032-9. 11.
24. Book: Ernest Frank Carter. Britain's Railway Liveries: Colours, Crests and Linings, 1825-1948. 1952. Burke.
25. Book: Rough Guides. The Rough Guide to Wales. 2 March 2015. Apa Publications. 978-0-241-20625-6. 104.
26. Pollin. B. R.. Fanny Godwin's Suicide Re-examined. Études Anglaises. 18. 3. 1965. 258–68.
27. Web site: Jeffrey L.. Thomas. Nantyglo Round Towers. 2004. 2014-07-09.
28. Book: Jane Ellis. Rhiannon Ifans. Cyfres Clasuron Honno: Cerddi Jane Ellis.. Honno Welsh Women's Press. 2010. cy. 9781906784188.
29. Book: Phyllis Kinney. Welsh Traditional Music. 15 April 2011. University of Wales Press. 978-0-7083-2358-8. 174.
30. Book: Charles Mosley. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition. 2. 1792. Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. 2003.
31. Book: Maggie Humphreys. Robert Evans. Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. 1 January 1997. A&C Black. 978-0-7201-2330-2. 270.
32. Book: Lewis Namier. John Brooke. The House of Commons 1754-1790. 1985. Boydell & Brewer. 978-0-436-30420-0. 683.
33. s-LEWI-JOH-1792. Davies, David (1792?-1816), Wesleyan missionary. Evan Lewis Evans. National Library of Wales. 23 January 2020.
34. Book: John Cordy Jeaffreson. The Real Shelley. 20 September 2018. BoD – Books on Demand. 978-3-7340-1053-8. 271.
35. s-DAVI-DAV-1800. Davies, David (1800-1856), Baptist minister and college tutor. Robert Thomas Jenkins. National Library of Wales. 23 January 2020.
36. Jones, David (1765-1816).