1814 in Wales

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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^[1][2][3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes^[2]
• 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^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute (until 16 November)^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford^[2][11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney^[12][2][13]

• Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie^[14][15]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson^[16]
• Bishop of St Asaph – William Cleaver^[17][18][19]
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess^{[19][20][21][22]}

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.^[23]
• 3 January - Lampeter is granted its town charter.^[24]
• February - Anthony Bushby Bacon sells his mineral rights at Cyfarthfa to Richard Crawshay for £95,000.^[25]
• 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.^[26] 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.^[27]
  • Journalist and preacher Elijah Waring settles at Neath.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Jones - Natur a Chyneddfau Gweddi (2nd edition)^[28]

Music

• Thomas William - Perl Mewn Adfyd^[29]

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)^[30]
• date unknown - Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist (d. 1903)

Deaths

• 12 March - Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu), printer and translator, 80?^[31]
• 23 April - Richard Jones, clergyman and writer, 57^[32]
• 3 May - Thomas Coke, Methodist leader, 66^[33]
• 21 June - Sir Erasmus Gower, colonial governor, 71^[34]
• 26 September - Owen Jones, antiquary and founder of the Gwyneddigion Society, 73
• 5 October - Thomas Charles of Bala, Bible publishing pioneer, 58^[35]
• 16 November - John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, 70^[36]

See also

• 1814 in Ireland

References

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2. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
3. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
4. Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
5. Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
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7. "not known". Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. 3. "Old Wales" Office: 106. 1907.
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25. Alan Birch (5 November 2013). Economic History of the British Iron and Steel Industry. Routledge. p. 81. ISBN 978-1-136-61723-2.
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28. Catalogue of Welsh Books, Books on Wales, and Books by Welshmen, A.D. 1800-1862, at Glan Aber, Chester. 1870. p. 48.
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30. Robert David Griffith. "DAVIES, ROBERT (Cyndeyrn; 1814-1867), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
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