1799 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1799 to Wales and its people.

← 1798 1797 1796 1795 1794 1799 in Wales → 1800 1801 1802 1803 1804
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1799 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – George (later George IV)
• Princess of Wales – Caroline of Brunswick

Events

• April – Crumlin Arm (Monmouthshire canal) with Fourteen Locks completed.
• October – Anthony Bushby Bacon and his brother Thomas take over the Hirwaun ironworks. Thomas sells his interest in the Plymouth ironworks to the Hill family.
• 16 October – Evan Pritchard (Ieuan Lleyn), David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri) and Griffith Williams (Gutyn Peris) are "ordained" bards of the province of Gwynedd by Iolo Morganwg.
• 25 December – HMS Ethalion is wrecked off the Penmarks.
• Following the failure of the Pembrokeshire fish harvest, Richard Fenton imports grain from the Mediterranean to relieve the plight of local people.
• Peter Price becomes manager of Neath ironworks,[1] and brings his family, including his wife Anna and his son Joseph Tregelles Price.
• Japanner John Pyrke relocates to Usk from London.
• Ann Hatton and her husband take a lease on Swansea Bathing House.
• Iolo Morganwg travels to North Wales to collect material for the Myvyrian Archaiology.
• Launch of the quarterly periodical Trysorfa Ysprydol by Thomas Charles.
• John Sevier, governor of Tennessee, writes of the alleged discovery of six skeletons in brass armour bearing the Welsh coat-of-arms.
• Baptist leader and colonist Morgan John Rhys moves to Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
• The Llandovery Bank is established, as W & D Jones & Co. Commonly known as the "Black Ox Bank" or "Banc yr Eidon", it is one of the earliest banks established in Carmarthenshire.[2]
• The 11 miles (18 km) Crumlin Arm of the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal is opened. It leaves the main line at Crindau, rising 358 feet (109m) through 32 locks to Crumlin (including the Cefn flight of Fourteen Locks).[3]
• Robert Nicholl Carne begins construction of Dimlands, near Llantwit Major.[4]

Arts and literature

New books

• Philip Yorke – The Royal Tribes of Wales[5]

Births

• 26 May
  • Reginald Blewitt, MP for Monmouth Boroughs, landowner and newspaper publisher (d. 1878)
  • John Davies of Nercwys, Calvinistic Methodist minister, preacher and writer (d. 1879)[6]
• 30 June – David Williams, politician (d. 1869)[7]
• 10 October – Samuel Bowen, Independent minister (d. 1887)[8]
• 21 December – John Vaughan, ironmaster (d. 1868)[9]
• date unknown
  • Moses Davies, musician and hymn-writer (d. 1866)[10]
  • Frederick Richard West, MP for Denbigh Boroughs (d. 1862)[11]

Deaths

• 1 March – Thomas Olivers, Methodist preacher and hymn-writer, 73[12]
• May – John Evans, explorer, 29[13]
• 15 July – John Breynton, clergyman, 80[14]
• 3 September – William Thomas, academic and Chancellor of Llandaff Cathedral, 65[15]
• 4 November – Josiah Tucker, economist, 87[16]
• 14 December – Benjamin Francis, hymn-writer, 55[17]

References

1. Iolo Morganwg; Geraint H. Jenkins; Ffion Mair Jones; David Ceri Jones (2007). The Correspondence of Iolo Morganwg: 1810–1826. University of Wales Press. p. 184. ISBN 978-0-7083-2134-8.
2. John Orbell (5 July 2017). British Banking: A Guide to Historical Records. Taylor & Francis. p. 309. ISBN 978-1-351-95468-6.
3. Priestley, Joseph (1831). Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways of Great Britain.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
4. Archaeologia cambrensis (Public domain ed.). Cambrian Archaeological Association. 1856. p. 382.
5. Thomas Moule (1822). Bibliotheca Heraldica Magnæ Britanniæ: An Analytical Catalogue of Books on Genealogy, Heraldry, Nobility, Knighthood & Ceremonies. The author. pp. 488.
6. "Testimonial to the Rev John Davies". National Library of Wales. Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser and Cheshire Shropshire and North Wales Register. 1 May 1875. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
7. Sir William Llewelyn Davies. "Williams family, of Bron Eryri, later called Castell Deudraeth, Meirionnydd". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
8. Richard Griffith Owen. "Bowen, Samuel (1799-1887), Macclesfield, Independent minister and teacher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
9. "Obituary. John Vaughan, 1799-1868". Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 28 (1869): 622–627. 1869. doi:10.1680/imotp.1869.23113. ISSN 1753-7843.
10. Robert David Griffith. "Davies, Moses (1799-1866), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
11. Post office railway directory for 1848, of Chairmen, Deputy-Chairmen, Directors, Secretaries, Engineers, and Officials; with an alphabetical official directory. Kelly and Company. 1848. p. 395.
12. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Oliver(s), Thomas (1725-1799), Wesleyan preacher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
13. David Williams. "Evans, John (1770-1799), explorer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
14. Thomas, C. E. (1979). "Breynton, John". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. IV (1771–1800) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
15. Hywel David Emanuel. "Thomas, William (1734-1799), cleric and antiquary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
16. Ruth Savage (26 April 2012). Philosophy and Religion in Enlightenment Britain: New Case Studies. OUP Oxford. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-19-922704-4.
17. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Francis, Benjamin (1734-1799), hymnist, Baptist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 November 2020.