1811 in Wales

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• 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}}

• 5 February - The Prince of Wales becomes Prince Regent.{{London Gazette |issue=16451|page=227|date=5 February 1811}}
• 25 March - Sir Joseph Bailey takes over Nantyglo Ironworks.{{cite web|url=https://www.blaenau-gwent.gov.uk/media/xvtngp23/joseph-bailey-eng.pdf|title=The Joseph Bailey Trail|publisher=Blaenau Gwent CBC|access-date=16 January 2025}}
• 25 May - The Hay Railway is authorised by an Act of Parliament.{{cite book|author=Donald J. Grant|title=Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ok88DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA259|date=31 October 2017|publisher=Troubador Publishing Ltd|isbn=978-1-78803-768-6|pages=259}}
• 19 June - The first Methodist Association for the ordination of new ministers is held at Llandeilo. Thomas Charles plays a leading role.{{cite book|author1=David Ceri Jones|author2=Eryn Mant White|title=The Elect Methodists: Calvinistic Methodism in England and Wales, 1735-1811|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ylKuBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA229|date=4 January 2012|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-2502-5|pages=229}} The Presbyterian Church of Wales thus secedes from the Church of England.{{cite book|author=Thomas Spencer Baynes|title=The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VtpTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA193|year=1878|publisher=A. and C. Black|pages=193}}
• 20 August - Thomas Sheasby resigns as engineer of the Aberdare Canal,{{cite book|author=Stephen Hughes|title=Copperopolis: Landscapes of the Early Industrial Period in Swansea|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oXjppt5BYjEC&pg=PA151|date=18 December 2008|publisher=Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales|isbn=978-1-871184-32-7|pages=151–}} to be replaced by George Overton.{{cite book|author1=Rowson, Stephen |author2=Wright, Ian L. |year=2001|title=The Glamorganshire and Aberdare Canals|volume=1|publisher=Black Dwarf Publications|isbn=0-9533028-9-X|pages=117–119}} As part of the canal works, a free-standing metal rail bridge is built at Robertstown, Aberdare - the first of its kind in the world.{{cite web|url=http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=401 |work=Engineering Timelines |title=Robertstown Tramway Bridge |accessdate=2013-10-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602120552/http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=401 |archivedate=2016-06-02 }}
• 17 September - Completion of The Cob embankment across Traeth Mawr by William Madocks is celebrated.{{cite book|author=Jacqueli YALLOP|title=Dreamstreets: A Journey Through Britain's Village Utopias|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1-hFDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA25|date=2 June 2016|publisher=Penguin Random House|isbn=978-0-09-958463-6|pages=25–}} His nearby model town of Tremadog is also completed by this year.
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• At Hereford Assizes, Samuel Homfray and his partners in the Penydarren ironworks sue the Dowlais Company for fouling the Morlais brook with cinders and slag.{{cite DWB|id=s-HOMF-RAY-1726|title=Homfray family, of Penydarren, Merthyr Tydfil, iron-masters, etc.|author=Watkin William Price|access-date=10 December 2021}}
• Pont-y-gwaith is built over the River Taff near Merthyr Tydfil.{{cite web|url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300011515-pont-y-gwaith-treharris#.YbNm_r3P3cs|title=Pont y Gwaith|website=British Listed Buildings|access-date=10 December 2021}}

• Thomas Charles - Biblical Dictionary, vol. 4
• Richard Fenton - A Tour in Quest of Genealogy{{cite book|title=A Tour in Quest of Genealogy, Through Several Parts of Wales, Somersetshire, and Wiltshire|publisher=Sherwood, Neely, and Jones|year=1811}}
• Ann Hatton - Poetic Trifles
• Peter Roberts - Brut Tysilio (English translation)

• Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) - Cyfansoddiad o Hymnau{{cite book | last = Jones | first = Ffion | title = The bard is a very singular character' : Iolo Morganwg, marginalia and print culture | publisher = University of Wales Press | location = Cardiff | year = 2010 | isbn = 9780708322963 | page=131}}
• John Williams (ed.) - Gwaith Prydyddawl … W. Williams{{cite book|author=Daniel Silvan Evans|title=A Dictionary of the Welsh Language: C-Cyw.|publisher=W. Spurrell|year=1893|page=659}}

• John James - Pigion o Hymnau

• 14 January - Rowland Prichard, musician (d. 1887){{cite DWB|id=s-PRIC-HUW-1811|title=Prichard, Rowland Huw (1811-1887), musician|author=Robert David Griffith|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=29 August 2019}}
• 26 January - Roger Edwards, minister (d. 1886){{cite DWB|id=s-EDWA-ROG-1811|title=Edwards, Roger (1811-1886), Calvinistic Methodist minister|author=Gwilym Thomas Jones|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=29 August 2019}}
• 11 March - Thomas Jones (Glan Alun), poet (d. 1866){{cite DWB|id=s-JONE-THO-1811|title=Jones, Thomas (1811-1866), Calvinistic Methodist minister and man of letters|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=29 August 2019}}
• 12 March - Mary Pendrill Llewelyn, translator and writer (died 1874){{cite DWB|id=s-LLEW-PEN-1811|title=Llewelyn, Mary Pendrill (1811-1874), translator and writer|author=Ray Looker|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=29 August 2019}}
• 7 April - John Williams (Ab Ithel), antiquary (d. 1862){{cite DWB|id=s-WILL-JOH-1811|title=Williams, John (Ab Ithel; 1811-1862), cleric and antiquary|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=29 August 2019}}
• 29 May - Charles Meredith, pioneer grazier and politician in Tasmania (died 1880 in Australia)
• 25 June - Jane Hughes, poet (died 1880)
• 11 July - William Robert Grove, inventor (d. 1896)
• date unknown - John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr), Rebecca rioter (died 1858){{cite DWB|id=s-JONE-JOH-1811|title=Jones, John (fl. 1811-1858; ‘Shoni Sguborfawr’), Rebecca rioter|author=David Williams|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=29 August 2019}}

• 1 May - Titus Lewis, Baptist minister and writer, 38{{cite DWB|id=s-LEWI-TIT-1773|title=Lewis, Titus (1773-1811), Baptist minister|author=William Joseph Rhys|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=23 January 2020}}
• 30 May - Nicholas Owen, priest and antiquarian, 59{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21024|title= Owen, Nicholas (1752–1811)|last=Pollard|first=Albert|authorlink=Albert Pollard|author2=Walters, Huw |year=2004|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=16 March 2009}}
• 4 July - Mariamne Johnes, botanist, 27{{cite book|title=The Gentleman's Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jfoRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA292|year=1815|publisher=F. Jefferies|pages=292}}
• 25 September - Joshua Eddowes, printer and bookseller, 87{{cite DWB|id=s-EDDO-JOS-1724|title=Eddowes, Joshua (1724-1811), printer and bookseller at Shrewsbury|author=William Llewelyn Davies|year=1959|access-date=18 November 2021}}
• 3 October - Sir John Stepney, 8th Baronet, politician, 68{{cite web| url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/stepney-john-1743-1811|title= STEPNEY, John (1743-1811), of Llanelly, Carm.|publisher= History of Parliament Online |accessdate= 24 June 2016}}

• 1811 in Ireland

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