1816 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1816 to Wales and its people.

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Centuries:
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1790s
  • 1800s
  • 1810s
  • 1820s
  • 1830s
See also:
1816 in
The United Kingdom
Ireland
Scotland

Incumbents

Events

Arts and literature

New books
  • Jane Ellis - Cerddi (first published Welsh language book by a woman)
  • Joseph Harris (Gomer) - Traethawd ar Briodol Dduwdod ein Harglwydd Iesu Grist
  • Ann Hatton - Chronicles of an Illustrious House
  • Samuel Johnson - A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774

Music
  • John Ellis - Mawl yr Arglwydd (collection of hymns)[6]

Births
  • 11 January - Henry Robertson, Scots engineer responsible for building the North Wales Mineral Railway (d. 1888)
  • 7 March - Huw Derfel Hughes, poet and historian (d. 1890)
  • 3 June - John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech, politician (d. 1876)
  • 11 June - Thomas William Davids, ecclesiastical historian (d. 1884)
  • 16 August - Charles John Vaughan, dean of Llandaff and co-founder of University of Wales, Cardiff[7]
  • date unknown
    • Edward Edwards (Pencerdd Ceredigion), musician (d. 1897)
    • Edward Meredith Price, composer (d. 1898)[8]

Deaths
  • 23 April - Thomas Johnes, landowner and politician, 67[9]
  • 18 June - Thomas Henry, apothecary, 81
  • 29 June - David Williams, Enlightenment philosopher, 78[10]
  • 17 July - John Lewis, missionary, about 24 (fever)[11]
  • 10 October - Fanny Imlay, half-sister of Mary Shelley, 22 (committed suicide at the Mackworth Arms in Swansea)[12]
  • date unknown
    • Benjamin Davies, first Baptist minister at Haverfordwest (age unknown)[13]
    • David Jones, barrister ("the Welsh Freeholder"), c.51[14]

References
  1. Alan Phillips (15 May 2010). Defending Wales: The Coast and Sea Lanes in Wartime. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-4456-2032-9.
  2. Ernest Frank Carter (1952). Britain's Railway Liveries: Colours, Crests and Linings, 1825-1948. Burke.
  3. Rough Guides (2 March 2015). The Rough Guide to Wales. Apa Publications. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-241-20625-6.
  4. Pollin, B. R. (1965). "Fanny Godwin's Suicide Re-examined". Études Anglaises. 18 (3): 258–68.
  5. Thomas, Jeffrey L. (2004). "Nantyglo Round Towers". Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  6. Phyllis Kinney (15 April 2011). Welsh Traditional Music. University of Wales Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-0-7083-2358-8.
  7. Roach, John. "Vaughan, Charles John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28124. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  8. Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. A&C Black. p. 270. ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2.
  9. Lewis Namier; John Brooke (1985). The House of Commons 1754-1790. Boydell & Brewer. p. 683. ISBN 978-0-436-30420-0.
  10. David Williams. "Williams, David (1738-1816), littérateur and political pamphleteer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  11. Evan Lewis Evans. "Davies, David (1792?-1816), Wesleyan missionary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  12. John Cordy Jeaffreson (20 September 2018). The Real Shelley. BoD – Books on Demand. p. 271. ISBN 978-3-7340-1053-8.
  13. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Davies, David (1800-1856), Baptist minister and college tutor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  14. "Jones, David (1765-1816)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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