1814 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1814 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 (until 16 November)
• 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

• 1 January - The first weekly newspaper in Welsh is published, when Seren Gomer is founded by Joseph Harris (Gomer), a Baptist minister in Swansea.
• 3 January - Lampeter is granted its town charter.
• February - Anthony Bushby Bacon sells his mineral rights at Cyfarthfa to Richard Crawshay for £95,000.
• May - Caernarvon and Anglesey Hospital is founded.
• Summer solstice - Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morgannwg) declaims his poem "Heddwch" from the Logan Stone in the presence of the Gorsedd of Morgannwg, at the "second Assemblage"
• 10 September - The last recorded fatal duel in Wales is fought at Adpar, Newcastle Emlyn. Thomas Heslop of Jamaica is killed; a local landowner, Beynon, is found guilty and fined one shilling.
• date unknown
• Sydenham Edwards founds The Botanical Register.
• The Admiralty re-locates from Milford Haven to Paterchurch, resulting in the founding of Pembroke Dock.
• Journalist and preacher Elijah Waring settles at Neath.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Jones - Natur a Chyneddfau Gweddi (2nd edition)

Music

• Thomas William - Perl Mewn Adfyd

Births

• January - George Grant Francis, philanthropist (d. 1882)
• 29 January - Edward William Thomas, composer (d. 1892)
• 5 March - Joseph Edwards, sculptor (d. 1882)
• 16 June - Robert Davies (Cyndeyrn), composer (d. 1867)
• date unknown - Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist (d. 1903)

Deaths

• 12 March - Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu), printer and translator, 80?
• 23 April - Richard Jones, clergyman and writer, 57
• 3 May - Thomas Coke, Methodist leader, 66
• 21 June - Sir Erasmus Gower, colonial governor, 71
• 26 September - Owen Jones, antiquary and founder of the Gwyneddigion Society, 73
• 5 October - Thomas Charles of Bala, Bible publishing pioneer, 58
• 16 November - John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, 70

See also

• 1814 in Ireland

References