Incumbents

• Prince of Wales
  Prince of Wales
  Prince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
  
   - George, Prince Regent
  George IV of the United Kingdom
  George IV was the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and also of Hanover from the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later...
  
  
• Princess of Wales
  Princess of Wales
  Princess of Wales is a British courtesy title held by the wife of The Prince of Wales since the first "English" Prince of Wales in 1283.Although there have been considerably more than ten male heirs to the throne, there have been only ten Princesses of Wales. The majority of Princes of Wales...
  
   - Caroline of Brunswick
  Caroline of Brunswick
  Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was the Queen consort of King George IV of the United Kingdom from 29 January 1820 until her death...
  
  

Events

• 1810
  1810 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1810 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick-Events:...
  
  
• 1811
  1811 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1811 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick-Events:*January 5 - The Prince of Wales becomes Prince Regent....
  
  
• 1812
  1812 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1812 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick-Events:...
  
  
• 1813
  1813 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1813 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick-Events:...
  
  
• 1814
  1814 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1814 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick-Events:...
  
  
• 1815
  1815 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1815 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick-Events:...
  
  
• 1816
  1816 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1816 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick-Events:...
  
  
• 1817
  1817 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1817 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick-Events:*January - Riots break out in Amlwch over food prices....
  
  
• 1818
  1818 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1818 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick-Events:...
  
  
• 1819
  1819 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1819 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick-Events:...
  
  

New books

• Thomas Charles
  Thomas Charles
  Thomas Charles was a Welsh Nonconformist clergyman of considerable importance in the history of modern Wales.-Early life:...
  
   - Biblical Dictionary, vol. 4 (1811)
• Dafydd Ddu Eryri - Corph y Gaingc (1810)
• Richard Fenton
  Richard Fenton
  -Life:Fenton was born at St. David's, Pembrokeshire, received his education in the cathedral school there, and at an early age obtained a situation in London in the custom house...
  
  
  • A Tour in Quest of Genealogy (1811)
  • Memoirs of an Old Wig (1815)
• Joseph Harris (Gomer)
  Joseph Harris (Gomer)
  Joseph Harris was a Welsh Baptist minister, author, and journal editor. A Welsh language poet, he took the Biblical name of Gomer as his bardic name. On 1 January 1814 he launched the first Welsh-language weekly Seren Gomer in Swansea.Gomer was born on a farm in Wolf's Castle, Pembrokeshire...
  
   - Traethawd ar Briodol Dduwdod ein Harglwydd Iesu Grist (1816)
• Ann Hatton
  Ann Hatton
  Ann Julia Hatton , was a popular novelist in Britain in the early 19th century.-Biography:...
  
  
  • Cambrian Pictures (1810)
  • Chronicles of an Illustrious House (1816)
• Samuel Johnson
  Samuel Johnson
  Samuel Johnson , often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer...
  
   - A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774 (1816)
• Thomas Jones (Dinbych) - Hanes Diwigwyr, Merthyron, a Chyffeswyr Eglwys Loegr (1813)
• William Owen Pughe
  William Owen Pughe
  William Owen Pughe was a Welsh antiquarian and grammarian best known for his Welsh and English Dictionary, published in 1803, but also known for his grammar books and 'Pughisms' ....
  
   - Coll Gwynfa (translation of Milton's Paradise Lost) (1819)
• David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr)
  David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr)
  David Richards , better-known by his bardic name Dafydd Ionawr, was a Welsh-language poet, born near Tywyn in Gwynedd, north-west Wales....
  
   - Barddoniaeth Gristianogawl (1815)
• John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd) - Annerch Plant a Rhieni oddi ar farwolaeth William Thomas mab Lewis Thomas, Llanrwst (1817)

Music

• 1811
  • John James - Pigion o Hymnau
• 1817
  • Robert Williams - Llanfair (hymn tune
    Hymn tune
    A hymn tune is the melody of a musical composition to which a hymn text is sung. Musically speaking, a hymn is generally understood to have four-part harmony, a fast harmonic rhythm , and no refrain or chorus....
    
    , formerly named Bethel); Williams recorded that the tune was composed on 14 July of this year.

Births

• 1810
  • January 12 - John Dillwyn Llewelyn
    John Dillwyn Llewelyn
    John Dillwyn Llewelyn was a botanist and pioneer photographer.-Early life:He was born in Swansea, Wales, the eldest son of Lewis Weston Dillwyn and Mary Dillwyn, née Adams, the natural daughter of Col. John Llewelyn of Penllergare and Ynysygerwn...
    
    , botanist and pioneer photographer (d. 1882)
  • January 15 - John Evan Thomas
    John Evan Thomas (Welsh sculptor)
    John Evan Thomas, FSA was a Welsh sculptor, notable for many sculptures both in Wales and elsewhere in the UK, such as his portrait sculptures in London...
    
    , sculptor (d. 1873)
  • January 19 - John Jones (Talhaiarn)
    John Jones (Talhaiarn)
    John Jones , known by his bardic name of Talhaiarn, was a Welsh poet and architect.He was born at the Harp Inn in Llanfair Talhaearn, Denbighshire. Apprenticed to an architect, he served with ecclesiastical architects in London, and was employed by Sir Joseph Paxton to oversee the building of the...
    
    , poet and architect (d. 1869)
  • January 24 - Thomas Jones
    Thomas Jones (missionary)
    Thomas Jones was a Welsh missionary, best remembered for his work in recording the Khasi language in Roman script...
    
    , missionary (d. 1849)
• 1811
  • January 14 - Rowland Prichard
    Rowland Prichard
    Rowland Huw Prichard was a Welsh musician. A native of Graienyn, near Bala, he lived most of his life in the area, serving for a time as a loom tender's assistant in Holywell, where he died...
    
    , musician (d. 1887)
  • January 26 - Roger Edwards
    Roger Edwards (Calvinist)
    Roger Edwards D.D. was a Welsh Calvinistic methodist.Edwards was born in 1811, the year in which the Calvinistic methodists first assumed the power to ordain their own ministers; and he grew up amid the controversy over Calvin's five great points Ebenezer Morris, John Elias, etc., were then...
    
    , minister (d. 1886)
  • March 11 - Thomas Jones (Glan Alun), poet (d. 1866)
  • July 11 - William Robert Grove
    William Robert Grove
    Sir William Robert Grove PC QC FRS was a judge and physical scientist. He anticipated the general theory of the conservation of energy, and was a pioneer of fuel cell technology.-Early life:...
    
    , inventor (d. 1896)
  • date unknown - John Williams (Ab Ithel), antiquary (d. 1862)
• 1812
  • January 6 - Catherine Glynne
    Catherine Gladstone
    Catherine Glynne Gladstone was the wife of British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone for 59 years, until his death in 1898.-Family:...
    
    , future wife of William Ewart Gladstone
    William Ewart Gladstone
    William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS was a British Liberal statesman. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times , more than any other person. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister, 84 years old when he resigned for the last time...
    
     (d. 1900)
  • February 3 - Robert Elis (Cynddelw), poet and lexicographer (d. 1875)
  • April 3 - Henry Richard
    Henry Richard
    Rev. Henry Richard MP , "the Apostle of Peace", was a Congregational minister and Welsh Member of Parliament, 1868-88. The son of the Rev...
    
    , pacifist politician (d. 1888)
  • May 19 - Lady Charlotte Guest
    Lady Charlotte Guest
    Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Guest, , later Lady Charlotte Schreiber, was an English businesswoman and translator...
    
    , translator and philanthropist (d. 1895)
• 1813
  • June 30 - Thomas Briscoe
    Thomas Briscoe
    Thomas Briscoe was a Welsh priest and scholar, who was a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford for 25 years and Vicar of Holyhead for 37 years. He also translated the New Testament, and some books of the Old Testament, into Welsh.-Life:Briscoe was born in Wrexham, Wales and educated at Ruthin School...
    
    , translator (d. 1895)
  • August 1 - William Ambrose (Emrys)
    William Ambrose (Emrys)
    William Ambrose , bardic name Emrys, was a 19th-century Welsh language poet born at Bangor, Caernarfonshire , north Wales. -References:...
    
    , poet (d. 1873)
  • October 10 - William Adams, mining engineer (d. 1886)
  • date unknown - John Edwards (Meiriadog), poet (d. 1906)
• 1814
  • March 5 - Joseph Edwards, sculptor (d. 1882)
  • date unknown - Eliezer Pugh
    Eliezer Pugh
    Eliezer Pugh was a Welsh cotton merchant and philanthropist.Born in Dolgellau, Merionethshire , in north-west Wales, he moved to the seaport of Liverpool, England in 1827 to improve his educational opportunities. He spent the rest of his life by the River Mersey, becoming a very successful cotton...
    
    , philanthropist (d. 1903)
• 1815
  • January 24 - Thomas Gee
    Thomas Gee
    Thomas Gee , was a Welsh Nonconformist preacher, journalist and publisher.Gee was born at Denbigh. At the age of fourteen he went into his father's printing office, but continued to attend the grammar school in the afternoons.In 1837 he went to London to improve his knowledge of printing, and on...
    
    , publisher (d. 1898)
  • April 16 - Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (d. 1895)
  • May - William Lucas Collins
    William Lucas Collins
    Rev William Lucas Collins was a Church of England clergyman and author.-Life and career:Collins was born in Oxwich, Glamorgan, Wales, and educated at Rugby School and Jesus College, Oxford...
    
    , author (d. 1887)
  • November 21 - John Bowen
    John Bowen (bishop)
    John Bowen LL.D. was an Anglican bishop in Sierra Leone.Bowen, son of Thomas Bowen, captain in the 85th regiment, by his third wife, Mary, daughter of the Rev. John Evans, chaplain to the garrison at Placentia, Newfoundland, was born at Court, near Fishguard, Pembrokeshire...
    
    , Bishop of Sierra Leone (d. 1859)
  • December 13 - Thomas Rees
    Thomas Rees (Congregational minister)
    Thomas Rees was a native of Pci Pontbren, Carmarthenshire who held pastorates at Aberdare , Llanelli , Cendl , Mon. and Swansea and became chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, but died just before his term of office was to begin. He published the History of Protestant...
    
    , Congregational minister (d. 1885)
• 1816
  • June 3 - John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech
    John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech
    John Ralph Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech , was a British Conservative Member of Parliament.Harlech was the eldest son of William Ormsby-Gore and Mary Jane Ormsby. He was elected to the House of Commons for Carnarvonshire in 1837, a seat he held until 1841, and later represented North Shropshire...
    
    , politician (d. 1876)
  • June 11 - Thomas William Davids, ecclesiastical historian (d. 1884)
  • August 16 - Charles John Vaughan
    Charles John Vaughan
    Charles John Vaughan , was an English scholar and churchman.He was educated at Rugby School and Cambridge, where he was bracketed senior classic with Lord Lyttelton in 1838. In 1839 he was elected fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and for a short time studied law. He took orders in 1841, and...
    
    , dean of Llandaff and co-founder of University of Wales, Cardiff
  • date unknown
    • Huw Derfel, poet and historian (d. 1890)
    • Edward Edwards
      Edward Edwards (musician)
      Edward Edwards , also known by his bardic name of "Pencerdd Ceredigion", was a Welsh musician and composer.He was born in Aberystwyth and became a regular churchgoer at Llanbadarn Fawr, joining the choir. When the family moved to Capel Dewi, he was appointed precentor of the local chapel. Later...
      
       (Pencerdd Ceredigion), musician (d. 1897)
    • Henry Robertson
      Henry Robertson
      Henry Robertson was a Scottish industrialist and Liberal Party politician.-Career:Robertson came to Wales to pursue his industrial interests...
      
      , Scots engineer responsible for building the North Wales Mineral Railway (d. 1888)
• 1817
  • August 16 - Rowland Williams, theologian and academic
  • November 1 - Henry Brinley Richards
    Henry Brinley Richards
    Henry Brinley Richards was a Welsh composer.Richards was born in Hall Street, Carmarthen, his father being organist at St Peter's Church in the town and an organiser of local musical events. Richards won a prize at the Gwent-Morgannwg Eisteddfod of 1834, held at Cardiff, for his arrangement of...
    
    , composer (d. 1885)
• 1818
  • January 11 - Daniel Silvan Evans
    Daniel Silvan Evans
    Daniel Silvan Evans was a Welsh scholar and lexicographer.He was born at Fron Wilym Uchaf, Llanarth, Ceredigion. Having started to preach to the Independent congregation of which he was a member, Evans decided at a relatively young age, to train for the ministry...
    
    , lexicographer (d. 1903)
  • December 18 - David Davies (Llandinam)
    David Davies (industrialist)
    David Davies was a Welsh industrialist and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1874 and 1886. Davies was often known as David Davies Llandinam , in order to differentiate him from others of the same name.Davies was the son of David Davies and his wife Elizabeth...
    
    , industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1890)
• 1819
  • November 4 - Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor
    Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor
    Arthur Edwin Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor , styled as Lord Edwin Hill until 1862 and as Lord Edwin Hill-Trevor from 1862 to 1890, was a long-standing Anglo-Irish Conservative Member of Parliament....
    
     (d. 1894)
  • November 15 - Arthur Wynn Williams, physician (d. 1886)

Deaths

• 1810
  • April 3 - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), poet and dramatist (b. 1739)
  • June 27 - Richard Crawshay
    Richard Crawshay
    Richard Crawshay was a London iron merchant and then South Wales ironmaster.Richard Crawshay was born in Normanton in the West Riding of Yorkshire...
    
    , industrialist (b. 1729)
• 1811
  • September 25 - Joshua Eddowes, printer and bookseller (b. 1724)
• 1812
  • March 13 - Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge
    Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge
    Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge , known as Sir Henry Bayly, 3rd Baronet, of Plas Newydd, until 1769 and as The Lord Paget between 1769 and 1784, was a British peer.-Background:...
    
     (b. 1744)
• 1813
  • March 23 - Princess Augusta, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales
    Frederick, Prince of Wales
    Frederick, Prince of Wales was a member of the House of Hanover and therefore of the Hanoverian and later British Royal Family, the eldest son of George II and father of George III, as well as the great-grandfather of Queen Victoria...
    
     and mother of Caroline, the Princess of Wales (b. 1737)
  • April 17 - Thomas Edwards (Yr Hwntw Mawr), murderer
  • date unknown - Jane Cave, poet (b. 1754)
• 1814
  • March 12 - Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu), printer and translator (b. 1733)
  • June 21 - Sir Erasmus Gower
    Erasmus Gower
    Sir Erasmus Gower naval officer and colonial governor born Cilgerran, Wales and died Hambledon, Hampshire, England....
    
    , colonial governor (b. 1742)
  • October 5 - Thomas Charles
    Thomas Charles
    Thomas Charles was a Welsh Nonconformist clergyman of considerable importance in the history of modern Wales.-Early life:...
    
     of Bala, Welsh Bible pioneer (b. 1755)
• 1815
• 1816
  • June 29 - David Williams
    David Williams (philosopher)
    David Williams , was a Welsh philosopher of the Enlightenment period. He was an ordained minister, theologian and political polemicist, and was the founder in 1788 of the Royal Literary Fund.-Upbringing:...
    
    , Enlightenment philosopher (b. 1738)
• 1817
  • January 16 - General Vaughan Lloyd, commander of the Woolwich Arsenal (b. 1736)
  • March 27 - Josiah Boydell
    Josiah Boydell
    Josiah Boydell was a British publisher and painter, whose main achievement was the establishment of the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery with his uncle, John Boydell.-Biography:...
    
    , artist (b. 1752)
  • July 17 - William Williams of Llandygly (b. 1738)
  • July 31 - Benjamin Hall
    Benjamin Hall (ironmaster)
    Benjamin Hall, FRS was an industrialist and a prominent figure in South Wales.- Background, Education & Connections :...
    
    , industrialist (b. 1778)
  • date unknown - David Hughes
    David Hughes (college principal)
    David Hughes was Principal of Jesus College, Oxford from 1802 to 1817. He was also Rector of Besselsleigh. He donated £105 to the college in 1809 to increase the value of scholarships for those entering the college from South Wales and England, to reduce the disparity with scholarships for those...
    
    , Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
    Jesus College, Oxford
    Jesus College is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is in the centre of the city, on a site between Turl Street, Ship Street, Cornmarket Street and Market Street...
    
    
• 1818
  • September 12 - John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd), poet (b. 1742)
• 1819
  • January 31 - Thomas Bevan
    Thomas Bevan
    Thomas Bevan was, with fellow Welshman David Jones, the first Christian missionary to Madagascar, sent by the London Missionary Society.- Life and work :...
    
    , missionary (b.c.1796)
  • February 8 - Sydenham Teak Edwards, botanist (b. 1768)
  • June 25 - John Abel
    John Abel
    John Abel was an English carpenter and mason, granted the title of 'King's Carpenter', who was responsible for several notable structures in the ornamented Half-timbered construction typical of the West Midlands...
    
    , minister (b. 1770)
  • November 6 - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales
    Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales
    Princess Charlotte of Wales was the only child of George, Prince of Wales and Caroline of Brunswick...
    
    , daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (b. 1796)