1813 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1813 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
• 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 - Sir Joseph Bailey sells his 25% share in Cyfarthfa ironworks for £20,000.
• April - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) moves to Crickhowell to take over several parishes in the vicinity.
• 30 September - Sir Jeremiah Homfray is forced to sell his house at Cwm Rhondda to settle his debts.
• 2 November - Richard Parry Price, heir to the Puleston estates, is created a baronet.
• date unknown
• Anthony Hill and his two brothers go into partnership at the Plymouth ironworks.
• The "Branwen ferch LlÅ·r" sepulchral urn is discovered on the banks of the river Alaw in Anglesey (later placed in the British Museum by Richard Llwyd).
• The first permanent military barracks in Wales are opened at Brecon.
• An Independent minister, David Davies, is forced to leave his teaching post at Carmarthen Academy after charges of "immorality" are made against him.
• David Daniel Davis is appointed a physician at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in London.
• Charles James Apperley becomes agent for his brother-in-law's estates in Caernarvonshire, taking up residence at TÅ· Gwyn, Llanbeblig.
• Diana Noel, 2nd Baroness Barham, settles at Fairy Hill, Gower.
• Thomas Charles of Bala publishes his "rules" for the conduct of Sunday schools.
• Elijah Waring founds a new periodical, The Cambrian Visitor: a Monthly Miscellany, which fails after eight months.

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Hugh Davies - Welsh Botanology ... A Systematic Catalogue of the Native Plants of Anglesey, in Latin, English, and Welsh
• Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) - General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of North Wales
• M. Surrey - Llewellyn, Prince of Wales, or Gellert the Faithful Dog (play)

Welsh language

• William Owen - Lloffion o Faes Boaz
• William Williams (Gwilym Peris) - Awengerdd Peris

Music

Births

• 30 January - Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, Biblical scholar (d. 1875)
• 2 May - Mordecai Jones, industrialist (d. 1880)
• 30 June - Thomas Briscoe, translator (d. 1895)
• 1 August - William Ambrose (Emrys), poet (d. 1873)
• 12 September - Daniel Jones, missionary (d. 1846)
• 10 October - William Adams, mining engineer (d. 1886)
• date unknown - John Edwards (Meiriadog), poet (d. 1906)

Deaths

• 9 March - Edward Williams, minister and theologian, 62
• 23 March - Princess Augusta of Great Britain, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and mother of Caroline of Brunswick, later Princess of Wales, 75
• 17 April - Thomas Edwards (Yr Hwntw Mawr), murderer
• 28 July - John Randolph, former Bishop of Bangor, 64
• 11 August (or 12 August) - John Price, librarian, 78
• date unknown - Edward Pugh, artist

See also

• 1813 in Ireland

References