1809 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1809 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
• 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 – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney

• Bishop of Bangor – John Randolph (until 9 August); Henry Majendie (from 5 October)
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
• Bishop of St Asaph – William Cleaver
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess

Events

• 9 February - South Stack Lighthouse off Anglesey first illuminated.
• 10 May - Stapleton Cotton plays a prominent role in the Battle of Grijó.
• date unknown
• David Hughes, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, donates £105 towards scholarships to give South Wales the same level of support as North Wales.
• Hawarden Castle is enlarged.
• Restoration of Brecon Castle as a hotel begins.
• John Rice Jones begins lead mining across the Mississippi in the future state of Missouri.
• Jeremiah Homfray opens a level at Richard Griffiths' lease in Trehafod in the Rhondda; the first full scale attempt to mine coal in the area.

Arts and literature

New books

• Edward Davies - The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids
• Zaccheus Davies - Cân am y Farn
• Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) - An English-Welsh Dictionary neu Eir-Lyfr Saesneg a Chymraeg
• Theophilus Jones - History of the County of Brecknock, vol. 2
• Henry Parry (editor) Grammatica Britannica, 2nd edition (1st edition by John Davies of Mallwyd)

Music

• George Thomson - A Selected Collection of Original Welsh Airs (1st edition)

Births

• 18 January - John Gwyn Jeffreys, conchologist (died 1885)
• 15 February - Owen Jones, architect (died 1874)
• 17 April - Thomas Brigstocke, painter (died 1881)
• 24 May - William Chambers, politician (died 1882)
• 26 May - G. T. Clark, engineer (died 1885)
• 12 July - David Williams (Alaw Goch), coal owner (died 1863)
• 11 August - Robert Thomas (Ap Vychan), writer (died 1880)
• 20 August - Morris Williams (Nicander), writer (died 1874)
• 27 October - Lewis Edwards, Nonconformist minister and educator (died 1887)
• 22 December - John Hanmer, 1st Baron Hanmer, politician (died 1882)
• 18 January - Evan James, weaver and mill-owner, lyricist of the Welsh national anthem (died 1878)
• unknown date - David Price, Independent minister (died 1887)

Deaths

• 23 January - Hugh Barlow, politician, 79/80
• 10 February - Hugh Bold, lawyer, 77/78
• April - Charles Francis Greville, founder of Milford Haven, 59
• October 28 - Hugh Pugh, Independent minister, 29

See also

• 1809 in Ireland

References