1814 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1814 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick
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.[1]
- 3 January - Lampeter is granted its town charter.[2]
- February - Anthony Bushby Bacon sells his mineral rights at Cyfarthfa to Richard Crawshay for £95,000.[3]
- 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.[4] 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.[5]
- Journalist and preacher Elijah Waring settles at Neath.
Arts and literature
New books
- John Jones - Natur a Chyneddfau Gweddi (2nd edition)[6]
Music
- Thomas William - Perl Mewn Adfyd[7]
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)[8]
- date unknown - Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist (d. 1903)
Deaths
- 12 March - Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu), printer and translator, 80?[9]
- 23 April - Richard Jones, clergyman and writer, 57[10]
- 3 May - Thomas Coke, Methodist leader, 66[11]
- 21 June - Sir Erasmus Gower, colonial governor, 71[12]
- 26 September - Owen Jones, antiquary and founder of the Gwyneddigion Society, 73
- 5 October - Thomas Charles of Bala, Bible publishing pioneer, 58
- 16 November - John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, 70
References
- John Graham Jones (15 November 2014). The History of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-1-78316-169-0.
- Report. 1837. p. 461.
- Alan Birch (5 November 2013). Economic History of the British Iron and Steel Industry. Routledge. p. 81. ISBN 978-1-136-61723-2.
- "About Adpar". Newcastle Emlyn and Adpar. Archived from the original on 8 October 2009. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
- Charles George Harper (1905). Gloucester to Milford Haven. Chapman & Hall.
- Catalogue of Welsh Books, Books on Wales, and Books by Welshmen, A.D. 1800-1862, at Glan Aber, Chester. 1870. p. 48.
- "William, Thomas (1761-1844)". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. 2009. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
- Robert David Griffith. "DAVIES, ROBERT (Cyndeyrn; 1814-1867), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
- Thomas Isfryn Jones. "Thomas, Evan (Ieuan Fardd Ddu; 1733-1814), printer and translator". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
- Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones, Richard (1757?-1814), cleric and writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
- John Wesley Etheridge (1860). The Life of the Rev. Thomas Coke, D.C.L. J. Mason. p. 449.
- James Stanier Clarke; John McArthur (2 September 2010). The Naval Chronicle: Volume 32, July-December 1814. Cambridge University Press. p. 176. ISBN 978-1-108-01871-5.
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