1809 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1780s; 1790s; 1800s; 1810s; 1820s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1809 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1809 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)[1]
Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

Events

9 February - South Stack Lighthouse off Anglesey first illuminated.[2]
10 May - Stapleton Cotton plays a prominent role in the Battle of Grijó.[3]
date unknown
- David Hughes, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, donates £105 towards scholarships to give South Wales the same level of support as North Wales.
- Hawarden Castle is enlarged.[4]
- John Rice Jones begins lead mining across the Mississippi in the future state of Missouri.
- Jeremiah Homfray opens a level at Richard Griffiths' lease in Trehafod in the Rhondda; the first full scale attempt to mine coal in the area.

Arts and literature

New books

Edward Davies - The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids[5]
Zaccheus Davies - Cân am y Farn[6]
Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) - An English-Welsh Dictionary neu Eir-Lyfr Saesneg a Chymraeg
Theophilus Jones - History of the County of Brecknock, vol. 2
Henry Parry (editor) Grammatica Britannica, 2nd edition (1st edition by John Davies of Mallwyd)[7]

Music

George Thomson - A Selected Collection of Original Welsh Airs (1st edition)[8]

Births

18 January - John Gwyn Jeffreys, conchologist (died 1885)[9]
15 February - Owen Jones, architect (died 1874)
17 April - Thomas Brigstocke, painter (died 1881)
24 May - William Chambers, politician (died 1882)
26 May - G. T. Clark, engineer (died 1885)
11 August - Robert Thomas (Ap Vychan), writer (died 1880)
20 August - Morris Williams (Nicander), writer (died 1874)
27 October - Lewis Edwards, Nonconformist minister and educator (died 1887)
22 December - John Hanmer, 1st Baron Hanmer, politician (died 1882)[10]
date unknown - Evan James, lyricist of the Welsh national anthem (died 1878)

Deaths

23 January - Hugh Barlow, politician, 79/80[11]
10 February - Hugh Bold, lawyer, 77/78[12]
April - Charles Francis Greville, founder of Milford Haven, 59[13]
October 28 - Hugh Pugh, Independent minister, 29

References

The Reigns Of George IV., William IV., And Victoria. 1820-1864. 1864. p. 45.
Roger Cragg (1997). Wales and West Central England. Thomas Telford. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-7277-2576-9.
"No. 16633". The London Gazette. 16 August 1812. p. 1633.
Daniel Paterson (1838). Paterson's Roads ... The sixteenth edition ... Remodelled, augmented, and improved ... By Edward Mogg. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans. p. 192.
Edward Davies (1809). The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids, Ascertained by National Documents... J. Booth.
Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940. Paratowyd dan nawdd Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion. Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion. 1953. p. 150.
Davies, Sir William Llewelyn. "Parry, Henry(1766?–1854), cleric and antiquary". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 October 2008.
Phyllis Kinney (15 April 2011). Welsh Traditional Music. University of Wales Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-78316-299-4.
Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jeffreys, John Gwyn (1709-1885), conchologist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Porter, Bertha (1890). "Hanmer, John (1809-1881)". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
"OWEN (afterwards BARLOW), Hugh (1729-1809), of Great Nash, Pemb". History of Parliament Online (1754-1790). Retrieved 4 October 2017.
Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Bold, Hugh (1631-1709), lawyer, of Brecon". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[1] The Reigns Of George IV., William IV., And Victoria. 1820-1864. 1864. p. 45.

[2] Roger Cragg (1997). Wales and West Central England. Thomas Telford. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-7277-2576-9.

[3] "No. 16633". The London Gazette. 16 August 1812. p. 1633.

[4] Daniel Paterson (1838). Paterson's Roads ... The sixteenth edition ... Remodelled, augmented, and improved ... By Edward Mogg. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans. p. 192.

[5] Edward Davies (1809). The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids, Ascertained by National Documents... J. Booth.

[6] Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940. Paratowyd dan nawdd Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion. Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion. 1953. p. 150.

[7] Davies, Sir William Llewelyn. "Parry, Henry(1766?–1854), cleric and antiquary". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 October 2008.

[8] Phyllis Kinney (15 April 2011). Welsh Traditional Music. University of Wales Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-78316-299-4.

[9] Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jeffreys, John Gwyn (1709-1885), conchologist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 January 2020.

[10] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Porter, Bertha (1890). "Hanmer, John (1809-1881)". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[11] "OWEN (afterwards BARLOW), Hugh (1729-1809), of Great Nash, Pemb". History of Parliament Online (1754-1790). Retrieved 4 October 2017.

[12] Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Bold, Hugh (1631-1709), lawyer, of Brecon". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 January 2020.

[13] Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.