• Source: 1816 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1816 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 (until 23 April)
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 Crichton-Stuart, 2nd 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 (until 4 July) Herbert Marsh (from 25 August)
Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore
Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess




Events


10 February - Pembroke Dock's first Royal Navy ships are launched: HMS Ariadne and HMS Valorous.
7 May - Hay Railway opens throughout.
24 July - Old Wye Bridge, Chepstow (rebuilt in cast iron), is opened across the River Wye.
9 October - Fanny Imlay, half-sister of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, takes a room at the Mackworth Arms in Swansea, and instructs the maid not to disturb her. The following day she is found dead, having taken a fatal dose of laudanum.
Nantyglo Round Towers built.
Taliesin Williams, son of Iolo Morganwg, opens a school at Merthyr Tydfil.




Arts and literature






= New books

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English language

Ann Hatton - Chronicles of an Illustrious House
Samuel Johnson - A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774



Welsh language

Jane Ellis - Cerddi (first published Welsh language book by a woman)
Joseph Harris (Gomer) - Traethawd ar Briodol Dduwdod ein Harglwydd Iesu Grist




= Music

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John Ellis - Mawl yr Arglwydd (collection of hymns)




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
date unknown
Edward Edwards (Pencerdd Ceredigion), musician (d. 1897)
Edward Meredith Price, composer (d. 1898)




Deaths


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




See also


1816 in Ireland




References

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