1810 in Wales
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{{Year in Wales header|1810}}
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1810 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget{{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{{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
- January - Novelist Thomas Love Peacock first visits Maentwrog where he will settle for a time.
- 3 March - Launch of the Carmarthen Journal, the oldest surviving newspaper in Wales.{{cite book|author=William Spurrell|title=Carmarthen and its neighbourhood|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qLkHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA98|year=1860|pages=98}}
- 14 April - James Cotton, precentor of Bangor Cathedral, marries Mary Anne, daughter of Henry Majendie, Bishop of Bangor.
- 27 September - Thomas Picton serves with distinction under Wellington at the Battle of Bussaco.{{cite book|author=René Chartrand|title=Bussaco 1810: Wellington defeats Napoleon's Marshals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0oGHCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT33|date=20 March 2013|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4728-0312-2|pages=33}}
- 24 October - The foundation stone of the Moel Famau Jubilee Tower is laid.{{cite web|url=https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/booklet-unveils-past-jubilee-tower-2747176|title=Booklet unveils past of Jubilee Tower on Moel Famau|website=Daily Post|date=30 September 2010|author=Lois York|access-date=22 May 2018}}
- date unknown
- Walter Coffin takes a mining lease on land at Dinas Rhondda.
- Hafod Copperworks opens in the Lower Swansea valley.{{cite book|title=Engineering and Mining Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hkfnAAAAMAAJ|year=1882|publisher=Western & Company|page=261}}
- Etcher Charles Norris settles in Tenby.
- Jonesville, North Carolina, is founded as Martinsborough; the name is later changed in honour of Hardy Jones (1747–1819).
Arts and literature
=New books=
==English language==
- The Beauties of England and Wales, vol. XI
- Richard Fenton - Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire
- Ann Hatton - Cambrian Pictures{{cite web|url=https://orieldavies.org/shop/products/cambrian-pictures|title=Cambrian Pictures|website=Oriel Davies Gallery|access-date=16 January 2025}}
- Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - History and Antiquities of the County of Cardigan
==Welsh language==
Births
- 3 January - John Orlando Parry, actor, musician and songwriter (d. 1879){{DNB|wstitle=Parry, John Orlando}}
- 12 January - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (d. 1882){{cite book
| last = Morris
| first = Richard Leslie
| author-link =
| contribution = Llewelyn, John Dillwyn
| year = 2004
| title = Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
| publisher = Oxford University Press
| place = Oxford, England
| doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/45563
| accessdate = 4 November 2015
| chapter-url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/45563
}}
- 15 January - John Evan Thomas, sculptor (died 1873){{cite DWB|id=s-THOM-EVA-1810|title=Thomas, John Evan (1810-1873), sculptor|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|access-date=8 March 2019}}
- 19 January - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect (died 1869){{cite DWB|id=s-JONE-JOH-1810|title=Jones, John (Talhaiarn; 1810-1869), architect and poet|author=David Gwenallt Jones|access-date=8 March 2019}}
- 24 January - Thomas Jones, Methodist missionary (died 1849){{cite DWB|id=s-JONE-THO-1810|title=Jones, Thomas (1810-1849), the first Calvinistic Methodist missionary on the Khasia Hills (Assam)|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|access-date=8 March 2019}}
- 4 August - Dan Jones, Mormon missionary (died 1862 in Utah)
- date unknown - Thomas Jones, librarian (died 1875){{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15097|title=Jones, Thomas (1810–1875)|last=Sutton|first=C. W.|author2=Crosby, Alan G. |work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|accessdate=2009-01-27}}
Deaths
- 10 March - George Morgan, American merchant of Welsh parentage, 67[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3787921/obituary_col_george_morgan/ Obituary Col. George Morgan], The Pittsburgh Gazette, 6 Apr 1810, Friday, p. 2. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160131061303/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3787921/obituary_col_george_morgan/ Archived]
- April - Isaac Davis, advisor to the Hawaiian royal family{{cite book |title=Hawaiian Journal of History |hdl=10524/238 |chapter=The Cemetery for Foreigners |year=2000 |volume=34 |publisher=Hawaiian Historical Society |pages=63–67 |author=Robert C. Schmitt }}
- 3 April - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), poet and dramatist, 71{{cite DWB |last1=Parry |first1=Sir Thomas |authorlink=Thomas Parry (author) |title=Edwards, Thomas (Twm o'r Nant; 1739–1810) |id=s-EDWA-THO-1739}}
- 27 June - Richard Crawshay, industrialist, 70{{cite DWB |last1=Price |first1=Watkin William|title=Crawshay family, of Cyfarthfa, Glamorganshire, industrialists|id=s-CRAW-CYF-1739|access-date=29 August 2019}}
- 12 August - David Jones, Church of England priest who was supportive of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism, 74{{cite DWB |last1=Roberts|first1=Gomer Morgan|title=Jones, David (1736-1810), Methodist cleric|id=s-JONE-DAV-1736|access-date=29 August 2019}}
- 27 September - John Williams, barrister, 53{{cite DNB|wstitle=Williams, John (1757-1810)}}