1818 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1818 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 – William Edward Powell^[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 – Herbert Marsh
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore^{[16] [17]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess^{[18] [19] [20] [21]}

Events

• 31 March - Joseph Tregelles Price and his partners take out a new lease on Neath Abbey ironworks.^[22]
• June - In the United Kingdom general election:
  • Samuel Homfray becomes MP for Stafford.
  • John Jones of Ystrad fails to win Carmarthen.^[23]
  • Berkeley Thomas Paget, MP for Anglesey, retires from Parliament.
  • John Edwards becomes MP for Glamorganshire.
• August - John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri), parson of Kerry, and Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's, agree "to make an attempt to rekindle the bardic skill and ingenuity of the principality ... by holding eisteddfodau in different places in the four provinces".^[24]
• date unknown
  • Richard Fothergill retires from his role in managing the Tredegar ironworks with Samuel Homfray.^[25] The Sirhowy Ironworks, previously run by Fothergill, is leased to Messrs. Harford of Ebbw Vale.
  • The first slate quarry on the site of what will become Oakeley quarry in Blaenau Ffestiniog (which will be the world's largest underground slate mine) is begun when Samuel Holland, a Liverpool merchant, leases land near Rhiwbryfdir farm from the landlords, the Oakeley family of Plas Tan y Bwlch.^[26]
  • Joseph Harris (Gomer) re-founds the periodical Seren Gomer.^[27]
  • John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) becomes landlord of the King's Head in Ludgate Street, London. His tavern becomes a meeting place for the London Welsh.^[28]

Arts and literature

• Poet Felicia Hemans effectively separates from her husband, who goes to live in Rome for his health.^[29]

Awards

• Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd) wins the chair at an eisteddfod in St Asaph.

New books

• Nicholas Carlisle - A Concise Description of the Endowed Grammar Schools in England and Wales^[30]
• Charles Norris - A Historical Account of Tenby^[31]

Music

• Owen Williams - Egwyddorion Canu

Births

• 11 January - Daniel Silvan Evans, lexicographer (d. 1903)^[32]
• 10 February - David Lloyd Isaac, author (d. 1876)
• 27 February - Joseph Jenkins, the "Welsh Swagman", poet and diarist (d. 1898)^[33]
• 5 November - Edward James Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis (d. 1891)^[34]
• 16 November - Evan Lewis, Dean of Bangor (d. 1901)^[35]
• 29 November - Richard Davies, MP (d. 1896)
• 18 December - David Davies (Llandinam), industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1890)^[36]
• date unknown - George Augustus Frederick Paget, politician

Deaths

• 21 March - Charles Morgan, Commander-in-Chief of British forces in India, 76^[37]
• 15 July - Robert Williams, hymn-writer, 35
• 12 September - John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd), poet, 76^[38]
• 13 September - William Richards, minister^[39]
• 17 September - Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey, father of Lady Charlotte Guest, 74

See also

• 1818 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: The Church of the people and free church penny magazine. 1859. 179.
17. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
18. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 307.
19. Book: The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. 95.
20. Book: The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3. George III (King of Great Britain). University Press. 1967. 434.
21. Web site: Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas . The Royal Society . 30 October 2020.
22. Book: Laurence Ince. The South Wales Iron Industry, 1750-1885. 1993. Ferric. 978-0-9518165-1-6. 92.
23. Book: The Canada Law Journal. 1869. W.C. Chewett & Company. 172.
24. s-JENK-JOH-1770. Jenkins, John (Ifor Ceri; 1770-1829), cleric and antiquary. David Gwenallt Jones. 30 December 2018.
25. Book: Arthur Clark. The Story of Monmouthshire. 1962. C. Davies. 978-0-9506618-0-3.
26. Book: Jones, R. Merfyn. 1981. The North Wales Quarrymen, 1874–1922. Studies in Welsh history, 4. University of Wales Press. Cardiff. 0-7083-0776-0.
27. Book: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. 1982. The Society. 30ff.
28. s-JONE-JOH-1766. Jones, John (‘Jac Glan-y-gors’: 1766-1821), satirical poet. David Rowland Hughes. 1 January 2019.
29. Book: Mrs. Hemans. Lydia Howard Sigourney. Memoir of the Life and Writings of Felicia Hemans. 1855. C. S. Francis. 55.
30. Book: Nicholas Carlisle. Concise Description of the Endowed Gammmar Schools in England and Wales. 1818. Baldwin, Crodock and Joy.
31. Book: Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru: The National Library of Wales Journal. 1970. Council of the National Library of Wales. 20.
32. s-EVAN-SIL-1818. EVANS, DANIEL SILVAN (1818 - 1903), cleric, translator, editor, and lexicographer. Richard Edmund Hughes. 1 January 2019.
33. Jones, Bill. Jenkins, Joseph (1818–1898) in online Australian Dictionary of Biography
34. News: Weyman. Henry T.. Shropshire M.P.s - Memoirs. Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society (T.S.A.S.), Series 4, Volume XII. 1929. 27.
35. Web site: Lewis, Evan (1818–1901). Thomas. D. L.. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access). Oxford University Press. 26 April 2008.
36. Bulmer-Thomas. Ivor. David Davis, Llandinam (1818-1890), industrialist and Member of Parliament. s-DAVI-DAV-1818. 1959. 17 October 2022.
37. Deaths Register. The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany. 1819. Archibald Constable and Company. 83. 480.
38. s-THOM-JOH-1742. Thomas, John (Eos Gwynedd; 1742-1818), poet. Robert (Bob) Owen. 1959. 22 November 2021.
39. Richards, William (1749-1818). 48.