1800 in Wales

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

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne (until 6 January); Thomas Johnes (from 4 July)
• 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
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Harley

• Bishop of Bangor – John Warren (until 27 January); William Cleaver (from 24 May)
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
• Bishop of St Asaph – Lewis Bagot
• Bishop of St Davids – William Stuart (until October); Lord George Murray (nominated)

Events

• February - John Bryan begins preaching.
• 5 May - Missionary John Davies sets out for Tahiti.
• 1 August - The Naval Temple on The Kymin at Monmouth is dedicated.
• August - Owen Davies and John Hughes arrive in Ruthin to superintend the Wesleyan Methodist mission to Wales.
• December - The Brecon Canal opens between Brecon and Talybont.
• unknown dates
• Richard Fothergill goes into partnership with Samuel Homfray at Tredegar. Jeremiah Homfray begins leasing mineral lands at Abernant, Cwmbach, and Rhigos.
• Edward Charles becomes official "bard" of the Gwyneddigion Society.
• 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
• 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
• Richard Llwyd - Beaumaris Bay
• William Ouseley - Epitome of the Ancient History of Persia
• Henry Wigstead - Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales: In the Year 1797

Welsh language

• Timothy Thomas - Traethiad am y Wisg-Wen Ddisglair (2nd edition)

Music

• "Suo Gân" (approximate first printing)

Births

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

Deaths

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

References