1808 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1808 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick
Events
- 5 January - First issue of The North Wales Gazette is printed at Bangor.
- 20 September - The White Book of Hergest is destroyed in a fire at Covent Garden.[1]
- 30 October - William Lort Mansel is consecrated Bishop of Bristol.[2]
- 19 November - The naval frigate HMS Owen Glendower is launched.
- date unknown
- Construction of the Horseshoe Falls on the River Dee by Thomas Telford.[3]
- The publishing house Gwasg Gee is founded.[4]
- St Katherine's Church, Milford Haven, built by Charles Francis Greville, is consecrated.[5]
- Benjamin Hall is given the Abercarn estate by his father-in-law, Richard Crawshay.
- The Ruabon Brook Tramway is extended from Acrefair to the Plas Madoc Colliery in Plasbennion.[6]
- Twelve-year-old Charles Nice Davies goes to serve in India as an ensign.
Arts and literature
New books
English language
- Felicia Hemans - Juvenile Poems[7]
Welsh language
- Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn) - Ieithiadur neu Ramadeg Cymraeg[8]
- Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Bannau y Byd[9]
- Titus Lewis - Llyfr Rhyfeddodau[10]
Music
- Hymnau o Fawl i Dduw a'r Oen (hymns by Ann Griffiths, posthumously published)
Births
- 30 January - Sir John Henry Scourfield, author (died 1876)
- 6 March - William Williams (Carw Coch), man of letters and eisteddfodwr (died 1872)
- 13 May - Thomas Aubrey, Wesleyan leader (died 1867)
- date unknown
- Dic Penderyn, labourer executed for his part in the Merthyr Rising (died 1831)[11]
- William Roos, artist and engraver (died 1878)[12]
Deaths
- 21 January - Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, 70?[13]
- 12 September - Charles Herbert, Royal Navy officer, son of the Earl of Carnarvon, 34 (drowned)[14]
- 30 November - Watkin Williams, politician, 66?[15]
- 28 December - Griffith Roberts, physician and collector of manuscripts, 73
References
- ^ David D. DANA (1858). The Fireman. James French&Company. pp. 351.
- ^ A Sermon preached ... at the consecration of ... W. L. Mansel ... Bishop of Bristol, etc. F. C. & J. Rivington. 1808. p. 1.
- ^ Hadfield, Charles (1985). The Canals of the West Midlands. David and Charles. p. 178. ISBN 0-7153-8644-1.
- ^ Information Today, Inc; Sally Wecksler (2004). International Literary Market Place. R.R. Bowker Company. p. 1157.
- ^ Edouard A. Stackpole (1972). Whales & destiny: the rivalry between America, France, and Britain for control of the southern whale fishery, 1785-1825. University of Massachusetts Press. p. 244.
- ^ Jowett, Alan (1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas. Patrick Stephens Limited. pp. 57, 59. ISBN 1-85260-086-1.
- ^ Mrs. Hemans (1856). The Poetical Works of Felicia Hemans: Complete in One Volume, with a Critical Preface, and a Biographical Memoir. Lippincott. p. 550.
- ^ Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 136.
- ^ Mary-Ann Constantine; Dafydd R. Johnston (15 April 2013). Footsteps of 'Liberty and Revolt': Essays on Wales and the French Revolution. University of Wales Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-7083-2591-9.
- ^ Glyn M. Ashton (1988). Rhyddiaith Gymraeg: y drydedd gyfrol 1750-1850 (in Welsh). Gwasg Prifysfol Cymru. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-7083-0975-9.
- ^ "Dic Penderyn (Richard Lewis)". 100 Welsh Heroes. Retrieved 21 August 2006.
- ^ Lloyd, John Edward; Jenkins, R.T. (1958). The Dictionary of Welsh Biography, Down to 1940. Cardiff: William Lewis. p. 890.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 44. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ "HERBERT, Hon. Charles (1774-1808)". History of Parliament Online (1790-1820). Retrieved 7 October 2017.
- ^ "WILLIAMS, Watkin (1742-1808), of Penbedw, Denb. and Erbistock, Flints". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 16 May 2016.