1800 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1800 to Wales and its people.

← 1799 1798 1797 1796 1795 1800 in Wales → 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1800 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)[1]
• Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick[2]

Events

• February - John Bryan begins preaching.[3]
• 5 May - Missionary John Davies sets out for Tahiti.[4]
• 1 August - Naval Temple on The Kymin at Monmouth is dedicated.[5]
• August - Owen Davies and John Hughes arrive in Ruthin to superintend the Wesleyan Methodist mission to Wales.[6]
• December - Opening of Brecon Canal between Brecon and Talybont.[7]
• Richard Fothergill goes into partnership with Samuel Homfray at Tredegar. Jeremiah Homfray begins leasing mineral lands at Abernant, Cwmbach, and Rhigos.
• Edward Charles becomes official "bard" of the Gwyneddigion Society.
• Thomas Charles introduces the practice of allowing Calvinistic Methodist congregations to elect their own elders.
• Richard Ellis succeeds his father, Lewis Ellis, as organist of Beaumaris Church.
• William Jones establishes a grammar school at Wrexham.
• John Kenrick III develops his great-uncle's chandlery at Wrexham into a bank.
• William Nott joins the Bengal European Regiment in India.

Arts and literature

New books

• William Bingley - Tour round North Wales[8]
• John Evans - A Tour through part of North Wales in … 1798 and at other times
• John Jones - A Development of … Events calculated to restore the Christian Religion to its … Purity
• Thomas Jones - A Cardiganshire Landlord's Advice to his Tenants[9]
• Richard Llwyd - Beaumaris Bay[10]
• William Ouseley - Epitome of the Ancient History of Persia
• Richard Warner - Second Walk Through Wales
• Henry Wigstead - Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales: In the Year 1797

Music

• "Suo Gân" (approximate first printing)[11]

Births

• 4 March - Dr William Price, physician (d. 1893)[12]
• 6 March - Samuel Roberts (S.R.), Radical leader (d. 1885)
• 22 March - Thomas Bevan, Archdeacon of St David's (d. 1863)
• 20 June - Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (d. 1886)[13]
• 1 August - Elizabeth Randles, musical prodigy (d. 1829)[14]
• 1 October - Williams Evans, hymnist (d. 1880)
• 30 October - Ernest Vaughan, 4th Earl of Lisburne, landowner and politician (d. 1873)[15]
• 29 November - David Griffith (Clwydfardd), poet and archdruid (d. 1894)
• date unknown
  • James James (Iago Emlyn), minister and poet (d. 1879)[16]
  • David Morris, politician (d. 1864)[17]

Deaths

• 6 January
  • William Jones of Neyland, clergyman and author, 73[18]
  • Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne, politician, 71[19]
• 27 January - John Warren, Bishop of St David's and later of Bangor[20]
• 14 March - Daines Barrington, antiquary and naturalist, 72[21]
• May - Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr), clergyman and author
• 14 July - Basil Feilding, 6th Earl of Denbigh, 81[22]

References

1. Smith, E. A. (1999). George IV. Yale University Press. p. 1. ISBN 0-300-07685-1.
2. Smith, E. A. (2008) [2004]. "Caroline (1768–1821)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/94608. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
3. Albert Hughes Williams. "Bryan, John (1776-1856), Wesleyan Methodist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
4. The history of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830. Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press. 1961.
5. "Naval Temple". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
6. Albert Hughes Williams. "Davies, Owen (1752-1830), Wesleyan Methodist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
7. Norris, John (2007). The Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal (5th Ed.). privately published. ISBN 0-9517991-4-2.
8. Simon Bainbridge (16 April 2020). Mountaineering and British Romanticism: The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 1770-1836. Oxford University Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-19-885789-1.
9. Anne Kelly Knowles (February 1997). Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier. University of Chicago Press. pp. 46. ISBN 978-0-226-44853-4.
10. Allan Ingram; Joanna Fowler (29 April 2016). Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse: Order in Variety. Springer. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-137-48763-6.
11. Lullaby (Suo Gan) Lesley Nelson-Burns, Contemplator.com . Accessed July 2011
12. Dean Powell (15 September 2012). Dr William Price: Wales's First Radical. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 46. ISBN 978-1-4456-2052-7.
13. Robert Henry Mair (1872). The School Boards: Our Educational Parliaments. p. 358.
14. Dictionary of Musicians (1824). "Select Biography. Miss Randles, the Cambrian Musical Prodigy". In Percy, Reuben; Timbs, John (eds.). The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 4. J. Limbird. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
15. "Death of the Earl of Lisburne". Welshman. 14 November 1873. p. 5. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
16. Williams, Griffith John. "James Davies". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
17. Edward Walford (1871). The County Families of the United Kingdom: Or, Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. Robert Hardwicke. pp. 706.
18. "Jones, William (1726-1800)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
19. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Vaughan, Wilmot, 4th Viscount Lisburne" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
20. George Lewis SMYTH (1843). Biographical Illustrations of Westminster Abbey. pp. 211.
21. Englishmen (1836). Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham. pp. 291.
22. George Kearsley (1804). Kearsley's Complete Peerage, of England, Scotland and Ireland; together with an extinct peerage, etc. p. 79.