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:1818 in Wales

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{{Year in Wales header|1818}}

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1818 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

  • 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 – Herbert Marsh{{Cite DNB|wstitle= Marsh, Herbert |volume= 36 |last= Venables |first= Edmund |author-link= Edmund Venables |pages= 211-215 |year= |short=1}}
  • Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore{{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

  • 31 March - Joseph Tregelles Price and his partners take out a new lease on Neath Abbey ironworks.{{cite book|author=Laurence Ince|title=The South Wales Iron Industry, 1750-1885|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZadIAAAAYAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Ferric|isbn=978-0-9518165-1-6|page=92}}
  • June - In the United Kingdom general election:
  • Samuel Homfray becomes MP for Stafford.
  • John Jones of Ystrad fails to win Carmarthen.{{cite book|title=The Canada Law Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LH8uAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA172|year=1869|publisher=W.C. Chewett & Company|pages=172}}
  • Berkeley Thomas Paget, MP for Anglesey, retires from Parliament.
  • John Edwards becomes MP for Glamorganshire.
  • August - John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri), parson of Kerry, and Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's, agree "to make an attempt to rekindle the bardic skill and ingenuity of the principality ... by holding eisteddfodau in different places in the four provinces".{{cite DWB|id=s-JENK-JOH-1770|title=Jenkins, John (Ifor Ceri; 1770-1829), cleric and antiquary|author=David Gwenallt Jones|access-date=30 December 2018}}
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  • Richard Fothergill retires from his role in managing the Tredegar ironworks with Samuel Homfray.{{cite book|author=Arthur Clark|title=The Story of Monmouthshire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tx1UAAAAYAAJ|year=1962|publisher=C. Davies|isbn=978-0-9506618-0-3}} The Sirhowy Ironworks, previously run by Fothergill, is leased to Messrs. Harford of Ebbw Vale.
  • The first slate quarry on the site of what will become Oakeley quarry in Blaenau Ffestiniog (which will be the world's largest underground slate mine) is begun when Samuel Holland, a Liverpool merchant, leases land near Rhiwbryfdir farm from the landlords, the Oakeley family of Plas Tan y Bwlch.{{cite book|last=Jones|first=R. Merfyn|year=1981|title=The North Wales Quarrymen, 1874–1922|series=Studies in Welsh history, 4|publisher=University of Wales Press|location=Cardiff|isbn=0-7083-0776-0}}
  • Joseph Harris (Gomer) re-founds the periodical Seren Gomer.{{cite book|author=Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England)|title=The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ezFWAAAAYAAJ|year=1982|publisher=The Society|pages=30ff}}
  • John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) becomes landlord of the King's Head in Ludgate Street, London. His tavern becomes a meeting place for the London Welsh.{{cite DWB|id=s-JONE-JOH-1766|title=Jones, John (‘Jac Glan-y-gors’: 1766-1821), satirical poet|author=David Rowland Hughes|access-date=1 January 2019}}

Arts and literature

  • Poet Felicia Hemans effectively separates from her husband, who goes to live in Rome for his health.{{cite book|author1=Mrs. Hemans|author2=Lydia Howard Sigourney|title=Memoir of the Life and Writings of Felicia Hemans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rtQ_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA55|year=1855|publisher=C. S. Francis|pages=55}}

=Awards=

=New books=

  • Nicholas Carlisle - A Concise Description of the Endowed Grammar Schools in England and Wales{{cite book|author=Nicholas Carlisle|title=Concise Description of the Endowed {{as written|Ga|mmar [sic]}} Schools in England and Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a_ynYgEACAAJ|year=1818|publisher=Baldwin, Crodock and Joy}}
  • Charles Norris - A Historical Account of Tenby{{cite book|title=Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru: The National Library of Wales Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BWoaAAAAMAAJ|year=1970|publisher=Council of the National Library of Wales|page=20}}

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