1800 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1800 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne (until 6 January); Thomas Johnes (from 4 July)^[2]
  • • Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan 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 Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford^{[2] [10]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Harley^{[11] [2]}
• Bishop of Bangor – John Warren (until 27 January); William Cleaver (from 24 May)^{[12] [13] [14]}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson^[15]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Lewis Bagot^{[16] [12]}
• Bishop of St Davids – William Stuart (until October);^[17] Lord George Murray (nominated)

Events

• February - John Bryan begins preaching.^[18]
• 5 May - Missionary John Davies sets out for Tahiti.^[19]
• 1 August - The Naval Temple on The Kymin at Monmouth is dedicated.^[20]
• August - Owen Davies and John Hughes arrive in Ruthin to superintend the Wesleyan Methodist mission to Wales.^[21]
• December - The Brecon Canal opens between Brecon and Talybont.^[22]
• unknown dates
  • Richard Fothergill goes into partnership with Samuel Homfray at Tredegar.^[23] Jeremiah Homfray begins leasing mineral lands at Abernant, Cwmbach, and Rhigos.^[24]
  • Edward Charles becomes official "bard" of the Gwyneddigion Society.^[25]
  • Thomas Charles introduces the practice of allowing Calvinistic Methodist congregations to elect their own elders.
  • Richard Ellis succeeds his father, Lewis Ellis, as organist of Beaumaris Church.
  • William Jones establishes a grammar school at Wrexham.
  • William Nott joins the Bengal European Regiment in India.

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• William Bingley - Tour round North Wales^[26]
• John Evans - A Tour through part of North Wales in … 1798 and at other times
• John Jones - A Development of … Events calculated to restore the Christian Religion to its … Purity
• Thomas Jones - A Cardiganshire Landlord's Advice to his Tenants^[27]
• Richard Llwyd - Beaumaris Bay^[28]
• William Ouseley - Epitome of the Ancient History of Persia
• Henry Wigstead - Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales: In the Year 1797^[29]

Welsh language

• Timothy Thomas - Traethiad am y Wisg-Wen Ddisglair (2nd edition)^[30]

Music

• "Suo Gân" (approximate first printing)^[31]

Births

• 4 March - Dr William Price, physician (d. 1893)^[32]
• 6 March - Samuel Roberts (S.R.), Radical leader (d. 1885)^[33]
• 22 March - Thomas Bevan, Archdeacon of St David's (d. 1863)^[34]
• 20 June - Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (d. 1886)^[35]
• 1 August - Elizabeth Randles, musical prodigy (d. 1829)^[36]
• 1 October - Williams Evans, hymnist (d. 1880)
• 30 October - Ernest Vaughan, 4th Earl of Lisburne, landowner and politician (d. 1873)^[37]
• 29 November - David Griffith (Clwydfardd), poet and archdruid (d. 1894)^[38]
• date unknown
  • James James (Iago Emlyn), minister and poet (d. 1879)^[39]
  • David Morris, politician (d. 1864)^[40]

Deaths

• • • 6 January William Jones of Neyland, clergyman and author, 73^[41]
  • Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne, politician, 71
• 27 January - John Warren, Bishop of St David's and later of Bangor^{[42] [14]}
• 14 March - Daines Barrington, antiquary and naturalist, 72^[43]
• May - Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr), clergyman and author, age unknown^[44]
• 14 July - Basil Feilding, 6th Earl of Denbigh, 81^[45]

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. s-PHIL-PIC-1491. Philipps family, of Picton. Bertie George Charles. 1959. 19 October 2021.
11. Book: Jonathan Williams. The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. 1859. 115.
12. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 305.
13. Book: The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. 95.
14. Book: Fryde, E. B. . Handbook of British chronology . New York Cambridge University Press . Cambridge England . 1996 . 9780521563505 . 292.
15. 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.
16. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
17. Book: Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. 163.
18. s-BRYA-JOH-1770. Bryan, John (1776-1856), Wesleyan Methodist minister. Albert Hughes Williams. 10 April 2019.
19. Book: The history of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830. 1961. Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press.
20. Web site: Naval Temple. Imperial War Museum. 31 March 2019.
21. s-DAVI-OWE-1752. Davies, Owen (1752-1830), Wesleyan Methodist minister. Albert Hughes Williams. 10 April 2019.
22. Book: Norris , John . 2007 . The Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal (5th Ed.) . privately published . 978-0-9517991-4-7.
23. s-FOTH-GIL-1758. Fothergill family, iron-masters, etc.. Watkin William Price. 1959. 11 November 2022.
24. s-HOMF-RAY-1726. Homfray family. Watkin William. Price. Watkin William Price. 19 July 2012.
25. Book: David Davies. Bob Owen. The Influence of the French Revolution on Welsh Life and Literature. W. M. Evans. 1926. 171.
26. Book: Simon Bainbridge. Mountaineering and British Romanticism: The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 1770-1836. 16 April 2020. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-885789-1. 59.
27. Book: Anne Kelly Knowles. Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier. registration. February 1997. University of Chicago Press. 978-0-226-44853-4. 46.
28. Book: Allan Ingram. Joanna Fowler. Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse: Order in Variety. 29 April 2016. Springer. 978-1-137-48763-6. 100.
29. Book: Esther Moir. The Discovery of Britain (Routledge Revivals): The English Tourists 1540-1840.. Taylor & Francis. 2013. 9781136767807. 177.
30. s-THOM-TIM-1720. Thomas, Timothy (1720-1768), of Maes-isaf Pencarreg Baptist minister and author. Benjamin George Owens. 5 February 2024.
31. http://www.contemplator.com/wales/lullaby.html Lullaby (Suo Gan)
32. Book: Dean Powell. Dr William Price: Wales's First Radical. 15 September 2012. Amberley Publishing Limited. 978-1-4456-2052-7. 46.
33. s-ROBE-SAM-1800. Roberts, Samuel ('S.R.'; 1800-1885), Independent minister, editor, Radical reformer. Robert Ivor Parry. 1959. 10 November 2021.
34. "Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity" Richardson,E p194: Cambridge, CUP, 2013
35. Book: Robert Henry Mair. The School Boards: Our Educational Parliaments. 1872. 358.
36. Book: Dictionary of Musicians. Percy. Reuben. Timbs. John. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 4. 1824. J. Limbird. 2 April 2016. Select Biography. Miss Randles, the Cambrian Musical Prodigy.
37. News: Death of the Earl of Lisburne . 13 November 2019 . Welshman . 14 November 1873 . 5.
38. s-GRIF-DAV-1800. Griffith, David (Clwydfardd; 1800-1894), eisteddfodic bard and arch-druid. Daniel Williams. 1959. 24 November 2021.
39. James Davies. s-DAVI-JAM-1800. Williams. Griffith John. 6 June 2017.
40. Book: Edward Walford. The County Families of the United Kingdom: Or, Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. 1871. Robert Hardwicke. 706.
41. Jones, William (1726-1800).
42. Book: George Lewis SMYTH. Biographical Illustrations of Westminster Abbey. 1843. 211.
43. Book: Englishmen. Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham. 1836. 291.
44. s-HUGH-EVA-1800. Hughes, Evan ('Hughes Fawr'; died 1800), cleric and author. Robert (Bob) Owen. 5 February 2024.
45. Book: George Kearsley. Kearsley's Complete Peerage, of England, Scotland and Ireland; together with an extinct peerage, etc. 1804. 79.