: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{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=24}}{{cite book | author=J.C. Sainty | author-link=John Sainty (civil servant) | title=List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 | publisher=Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd | location=London | year=1979}}{{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=695}}{{cite book|title=Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru|publisher=University of Wales Press|year=1992|page=169}}
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort{{cite book| author=Edwin Poole|title=The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions|publisher=Edwin Poole|year=1886|page=378}}
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=26}}
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes
- 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{{cite journal|journal=Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders|title=not known|author-link=William Retlaw Williams|publisher="Old Wales" Office|year=1907|volume=3|page=106}}
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute (until 16 November){{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=612}}
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=29}}
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis{{cite web|author=R. G. Thorne|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/clive-edward-1754-1839|title=Clive, Edward, 2nd Baron Clive (1754-1839), of Walcot, Salop|website=The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820|date=1986|access-date=13 November 2021}}
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford{{cite DWB|id=s-PHIL-PIC-1491|title=Philipps family, of Picton|author=Bertie George Charles|date=1959|access-date=19 October 2021}}
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney{{cite book|author=Jonathan Williams|title=The History of Radnorshire|publisher=R. Mason|year=1859|page=115}}{{cite book|author=William Stockdale|title=Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom|year=1833|page=86}}
- Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie{{cite book | last = Fryde | first = E. B. | title = Handbook of British chronology | publisher = New York Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge England | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780521563505 | page=292}}{{cite book|author= Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=305}}
- Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson{{cite book|author=John Henry James|title=A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff|publisher=Western Mail|year=1898|page=16}}
- Bishop of St Asaph – William Cleaver{{cite book|title=The Church of the people and free church penny magazine|year=1859|page=179}}{{cite book|title=The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England|publisher=James Parkes and Company|year=1866|page=15}}
- Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess{{cite book|author= Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=307}}{{cite book|title=The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged|publisher=Porter|year=1780|page=95}}{{cite book|title=The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3|author=George III (King of Great Britain)|publisher=University Press|year=1967|page=434}}{{cite web |title=Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas |url=https://catalogues.royalsociety.org/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=NA3174&pos=1 |website=The Royal Society |access-date=30 October 2020}}
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.{{cite book|author=John Graham Jones|title=The History of Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=goevBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA128|date=15 November 2014|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-1-78316-169-0|pages=128}}
- 3 January - Lampeter is granted its town charter.{{cite book|title=Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XyZDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA461|year=1837|pages=461}}
- February - Anthony Bushby Bacon sells his mineral rights at Cyfarthfa to Richard Crawshay for £95,000.{{cite book|author=Alan Birch|title=Economic History of the British Iron and Steel Industry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XVP-AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA81|date=5 November 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-61723-2|pages=81}}
- 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.{{cite web|title=About Adpar |work=Newcastle Emlyn and Adpar |url=http://www.newcastle-emlyn.com/adpar |accessdate=2012-02-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091008070817/http://www.newcastle-emlyn.com/adpar |archivedate=2009-10-08 }} 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.{{cite book|author=Charles George Harper|title=Gloucester to Milford Haven|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordgloucester02harpuoft|year=1905|publisher=Chapman & Hall}}
- Journalist and preacher Elijah Waring settles at Neath.
Arts and literature
=New books=
- John Jones - Natur a Chyneddfau Gweddi (2nd edition){{cite book|title=Catalogue of Welsh Books, Books on Wales, and Books by Welshmen, A.D. 1800-1862, at Glan Aber, Chester|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nZVaAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA48|year=1870|pages=48}}
=Music=
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){{cite DWB|id=s-DAVS-ROB-1814|title=DAVIES, ROBERT (Cyndeyrn; 1814-1867), musician|author=Robert David Griffith|access-date=23 January 2020}}
- date unknown - Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist (d. 1903)
Deaths
- 12 March - Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu), printer and translator, 80?{{cite DWB|id=s-THOM-EVA-1733|title=Thomas, Evan (Ieuan Fardd Ddu; 1733-1814), printer and translator|author=Thomas Isfryn Jones|access-date=23 January 2020}}
- 23 April - Richard Jones, clergyman and writer, 57{{cite DWB|id=s1-JONE-RIC-1757|title=Jones, Richard (1757?-1814), cleric and writer|author= Robert Thomas Jenkins|access-date=23 January 2020}}
- 3 May - Thomas Coke, Methodist leader, 66{{cite book|author=John Wesley Etheridge|title=The Life of the Rev. Thomas Coke, D.C.L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vApOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA449|year=1860|publisher=J. Mason|pages=449}}
- 21 June - Sir Erasmus Gower, colonial governor, 71{{cite book|author1=James Stanier Clarke|author2=John McArthur|title=The Naval Chronicle: Volume 32, July-December 1814|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m437Tx8awa4C&pg=PA176|date=2 September 2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-01871-5|pages=176}}
- 26 September - Owen Jones, antiquary and founder of the Gwyneddigion Society, 73
- 5 October - Thomas Charles of Bala, Bible publishing pioneer, 58{{cite DWB|id=s-CHAR-THO-1755|title=Charles, Thomas (1755-1814), Methodist cleric|author=John Roberts|year=1959|access-date=19 November 2021}}
- 16 November - John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, 70{{cite ODNB|first=Roland|last=Thorne|title=Stuart, John, first marquess of Bute (1744–1814)|id=64138}}