1810 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1810 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick
Events
- January - Novelist Thomas Love Peacock first visits Maentwrog where he will settle for a time.
- 3 March - Launch of the Carmarthen Journal, the oldest surviving newspaper in Wales.[1]
- 14 April - James Cotton, precentor of Bangor Cathedral, marries Mary Anne, daughter of Henry Majendie, Bishop of Bangor.
- 27 September - Thomas Picton serves with distinction under Wellington at the Battle of Bussaco.[2]
- 24 October - The foundation stone of the Moel Famau Jubilee Tower is laid.[3]
- date unknown
- Walter Coffin takes a mining lease on land at Dinas Rhondda.
- Hafod Copperworks opens in the Lower Swansea valley.[4]
- Etcher Charles Norris settles in Tenby.
- Jonesville, North Carolina, is founded as Martinsborough; the name is later changed in honour of Hardy Jones (1747–1819).
Arts and literature
New books
- The Beauties of England and Wales, vol. XI
- Corff y Gainc (anthology)
- Dafydd Ddu Eryri - Corph y Gaingc
- Richard Fenton - Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire
- Ann Hatton - Cambrian Pictures
Births
- 3 January - John Orlando Parry, actor, musician and songwriter (d. 1879)[5]
- 12 January - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (d. 1882)[6]
- 15 January - John Evan Thomas, sculptor (died 1873)[7]
- 19 January - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect (died 1869)[8]
- 24 January - Thomas Jones, Methodist missionary (died 1849)[9]
- 4 August - Dan Jones, Mormon missionary (died 1862 in Utah)
- date unknown - Thomas Jones, librarian (died 1875)[10]
Deaths
- 10 March - George Morgan, American merchant of Welsh parentage, 67[11]
- April - Isaac Davis, advisor to the Hawaiian royal family[12]
- 3 April - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), poet and dramatist, 71[13]
- 27 June - Richard Crawshay, industrialist, 70[14]
- 12 August - David Jones, Church of England priest who was supportive of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism, 74[15]
- 27 September - John Williams, barrister, 53[16]
References
- ^ William Spurrell (1860). Carmarthen and its neighbourhood. p. 98.
- ^ René Chartrand (20 March 2013). Bussaco 1810: Wellington defeats Napoleon's Marshals. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-4728-0312-2.
- ^ Lois York (30 September 2010). "Booklet unveils past of Jubilee Tower on Moel Famau". Daily Post. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
- ^ Engineering and Mining Journal. Western & Company. 1882. p. 261.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Parry, John Orlando". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Morris, Richard Leslie (2004). "Llewelyn, John Dillwyn". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/45563. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Thomas, John Evan (1810-1873), sculptor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ David Gwenallt Jones. "Jones, John (Talhaiarn; 1810-1869), architect and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones, Thomas (1810-1849), the first Calvinistic Methodist missionary on the Khasia Hills (Assam)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ Sutton, C. W.; Crosby, Alan G. (2004). "Jones, Thomas (1810–1875)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 27 January 2009.
- ^ Obituary Col. George Morgan, The Pittsburgh Gazette, 6 Apr 1810, Friday, p. 2. Archived
- ^ Robert C. Schmitt (2000). "The Cemetery for Foreigners". Hawaiian Journal of History. Vol. 34. Hawaiian Historical Society. pp. 63–67. hdl:10524/238.
- ^ Parry, Sir Thomas. "Edwards, Thomas (Twm o'r Nant; 1739–1810)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.
- ^ Price, Watkin William. "Crawshay family, of Cyfarthfa, Glamorganshire, industrialists". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
- ^ Roberts, Gomer Morgan. "Jones, David (1736-1810), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
