1810 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1810 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 – Henry Majendie
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
• Bishop of St Asaph – William Cleaver
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess

Events

• January - Novelist Thomas Love Peacock first visits Maentwrog where he will settle for a time.
• 3 March - Launch of the Carmarthen Journal, the oldest surviving newspaper in Wales.
• 14 April - James Cotton, precentor of Bangor Cathedral, marries Mary Anne, daughter of Henry Majendie, Bishop of Bangor.
• 27 September - Thomas Picton serves with distinction under Wellington at the Battle of Bussaco.
• 24 October - The foundation stone of the Moel Famau Jubilee Tower is laid.
• date unknown
• Walter Coffin takes a mining lease on land at Dinas Rhondda.
• Hafod Copperworks opens in the Lower Swansea valley.
• Etcher Charles Norris settles in Tenby.
• Jonesville, North Carolina, is founded as Martinsborough; the name is later changed in honour of Hardy Jones (1747–1819).

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• The Beauties of England and Wales, vol. XI
• Richard Fenton - Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire
• Ann Hatton - Cambrian Pictures
• Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - History and Antiquities of the County of Cardigan

Welsh language

• Dafydd Ddu Eryri - Corff y Gainc

Births

• 3 January - John Orlando Parry, actor, musician and songwriter (d. 1879)
• 12 January - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (d. 1882)
• 15 January - John Evan Thomas, sculptor (died 1873)
• 19 January - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect (died 1869)
• 24 January - Thomas Jones, Methodist missionary (died 1849)
• 4 August - Dan Jones, Mormon missionary (died 1862 in Utah)
• date unknown - Thomas Jones, librarian (died 1875)

Deaths

• 10 March - George Morgan, American merchant of Welsh parentage, 67
• April - Isaac Davis, advisor to the Hawaiian royal family
• 3 April - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), poet and dramatist, 71
• 27 June - Richard Crawshay, industrialist, 70
• 12 August - David Jones, Church of England priest who was supportive of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism, 74
• 27 September - John Williams, barrister, 53

See also

• 1810 in Ireland

References