1809 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1809 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)[1]
- Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick
Events
- 9 February - South Stack Lighthouse off Anglesey first illuminated.[2]
- 10 May - Stapleton Cotton plays a prominent role in the Battle of Grijó.[3]
- date unknown
- David Hughes, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, donates £105 towards scholarships to give South Wales the same level of support as North Wales.
- Hawarden Castle is enlarged.[4]
- John Rice Jones begins lead mining across the Mississippi in the future state of Missouri.
- Jeremiah Homfray opens a level at Richard Griffiths' lease in Trehafod in the Rhondda; the first full scale attempt to mine coal in the area.
Arts and literature
New books
- Edward Davies - The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids[5]
- Zaccheus Davies - Cân am y Farn[6]
- Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) - An English-Welsh Dictionary neu Eir-Lyfr Saesneg a Chymraeg
- Theophilus Jones - History of the County of Brecknock, vol. 2
- Henry Parry (editor) Grammatica Britannica, 2nd edition (1st edition by John Davies of Mallwyd)[7]
Music
- George Thomson - A Selected Collection of Original Welsh Airs (1st edition)[8]
Births
- 18 January - John Gwyn Jeffreys, conchologist (died 1885)[9]
- 15 February - Owen Jones, architect (died 1874)
- 17 April - Thomas Brigstocke, painter (died 1881)
- 24 May - William Chambers, politician (died 1882)
- 26 May - G. T. Clark, engineer (died 1885)
- 11 August - Robert Thomas (Ap Vychan), writer (died 1880)
- 20 August - Morris Williams (Nicander), writer (died 1874)
- 27 October - Lewis Edwards, Nonconformist minister and educator (died 1887)
- 22 December - John Hanmer, 1st Baron Hanmer, politician (died 1882)[10]
- date unknown - Evan James, lyricist of the Welsh national anthem (died 1878)
Deaths
- 23 January - Hugh Barlow, politician, 79/80[11]
- 10 February - Hugh Bold, lawyer, 77/78[12]
- April - Charles Francis Greville, founder of Milford Haven, 59[13]
- October 28 - Hugh Pugh, Independent minister, 29
References
- ^ The Reigns Of George IV., William IV., And Victoria. 1820-1864. 1864. p. 45.
- ^ Roger Cragg (1997). Wales and West Central England. Thomas Telford. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-7277-2576-9.
- ^ "No. 16633". The London Gazette. 16 August 1812. p. 1633.
- ^ Daniel Paterson (1838). Paterson's Roads ... The sixteenth edition ... Remodelled, augmented, and improved ... By Edward Mogg. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans. p. 192.
- ^ Edward Davies (1809). The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids, Ascertained by National Documents... J. Booth.
- ^ Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940. Paratowyd dan nawdd Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion. Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion. 1953. p. 150.
- ^ Davies, Sir William Llewelyn. "Parry, Henry(1766?–1854), cleric and antiquary". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 October 2008.
- ^ Phyllis Kinney (15 April 2011). Welsh Traditional Music. University of Wales Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-78316-299-4.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jeffreys, John Gwyn (1709-1885), conchologist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Porter, Bertha (1890). "Hanmer, John (1809-1881)". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ "OWEN (afterwards BARLOW), Hugh (1729-1809), of Great Nash, Pemb". History of Parliament Online (1754-1790). Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Bold, Hugh (1631-1709), lawyer, of Brecon". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
