1810s in Wales

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Other events of the decade

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1810–1819 to Wales and its people.

## Events

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* 1810
* 1811
* 1812
* 1813
* 1814
* 1815
* 1816
* 1817
* 1818
* 1819

## Arts and literature

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### New books

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* Thomas Charles \- Biblical Dictionary, vol. 4 (1811)
* Dafydd Ddu Eryri \- Corph y Gaingc (1810)
* Richard Fenton
* A Tour in Quest of Genealogy (1811)
* Memoirs of an Old Wig (1815)
* Joseph Harris (Gomer) \- Traethawd ar Briodol Dduwdod ein Harglwydd Iesu Grist (1816)
* Ann Hatton
* Cambrian Pictures (1810)
* Chronicles of an Illustrious House (1816)
* Samuel Johnson \- A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774 (1816)
* Thomas Jones (Dinbych) \- Hanes Diwigwyr, Merthyron, a Chyffeswyr Eglwys Loegr (1813)
* William Owen Pughe \- Coll Gwynfa (translation of Milton's Paradise Lost) (1819)
* David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) \- Barddoniaeth Gristianogawl (1815)
* John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd) \- Annerch Plant a Rhieni oddi ar farwolaeth William Thomas mab Lewis Thomas, Llanrwst (1817)

### Music

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* 1811
* John James \- Pigion o Hymnau
* 1817
* Robert Williams \- Llanfair (hymn tune, formerly named Bethel); Williams recorded that the tune was composed on 14 July of this year.

## Births

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* 1810
* 12 January \- John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (d. 1882)
* 15 January \- John Evan Thomas, sculptor (d. 1873)
* 19 January \- John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect (d. 1869)
* 24 January \- Thomas Jones, missionary (d. 1849)
* 1811
* 14 January \- Rowland Prichard, musician (d. 1887)
* 26 January \- Roger Edwards, minister (d. 1886)
* 11 March \- Thomas Jones (Glan Alun), poet (d. 1866)
* 11 July \- William Robert Grove, inventor (d. 1896)
* date unknown \- John Williams (Ab Ithel), antiquary (d. 1862)
* 1812
* 6 January \- Catherine Glynne, future wife of William Ewart Gladstone (d. 1900)
* 3 February \- Robert Elis (Cynddelw), poet and lexicographer (d. 1875)
* 3 April \- Henry Richard, pacifist politician (d. 1888)
* 19 May \- Lady Charlotte Guest, translator and philanthropist (d. 1895)
* 1813
* 30 June \- Thomas Briscoe, translator (d. 1895)
* 1 August \- William Ambrose (Emrys), poet (d. 1873)
* 10 October \- William Adams, mining engineer (d. 1886)
* date unknown \- John Edwards (Meiriadog), poet (d. 1906)
* 1814
* 5 March \- Joseph Edwards, sculptor (d. 1882)
* date unknown \- Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist (d. 1903)
* 1815
* 24 January \- Thomas Gee, publisher (d. 1898)
* 16 April \- Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (d. 1895)
* May - William Lucas Collins, author (d. 1887)
* 21 November \- John Bowen, Bishop of Sierra Leone (d. 1859)
* 13 December \- Thomas Rees, Congregational minister (d. 1885)
* 1816
* 3 June \- John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech, politician (d. 1876)
* 11 June \- Thomas William Davids, ecclesiastical historian (d. 1884)
* 16 August \- Charles John Vaughan, dean of Llandaff and co-founder of University of Wales, Cardiff
* date unknown
* Huw Derfel, poet and historian (d. 1890)
* Edward Edwards (Pencerdd Ceredigion), musician (d. 1897)
* Henry Robertson, Scots engineer responsible for building the North Wales Mineral Railway (d. 1888)
* 1817
* 16 August \- Rowland Williams, theologian and academic
* 1 November \- Henry Brinley Richards, composer (d. 1885)
* 1818
* 11 January \- Daniel Silvan Evans, lexicographer (d. 1903)
* 18 December \- David Davies (Llandinam), industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1890)
* 1819
* 4 November \- Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor (d. 1894)
* 15 November \- Arthur Wynn Williams, physician (d. 1886)

## Deaths

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* 1810
* 3 April \- Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), poet and dramatist (b. 1739)
* 27 June \- Richard Crawshay, industrialist (b. 1729)
* 1811
* 25 September \- Joshua Eddowes, printer and bookseller (b. 1724)
* 1812
* 13 March \- Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge (b. 1744)
* 1813
* 23 March \- Princess Augusta, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales and mother of Caroline, the Princess of Wales (b. 1737)
* 17 April \- Thomas Edwards (Yr Hwntw Mawr), murderer
* date unknown \- Jane Cave, poet (b. 1754)
* 1814
* 12 March \- Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu), printer and translator (b. 1733)
* 21 June \- Sir Erasmus Gower, colonial governor (b. 1742)
* 5 October \- Thomas Charles of Bala, Welsh Bible pioneer (b. 1755)
* 1815
* 1816
* 29 June \- David Williams, Enlightenment philosopher (b. 1738)
* 1817
* 16 January \- General Vaughan Lloyd, commander of the Woolwich Arsenal (b. 1736)
* 27 March \- Josiah Boydell, artist (b. 1752)
* 17 July \- William Williams of Llandygly (b. 1738)
* 31 July \- Benjamin Hall, industrialist (b. 1778)
* date unknown \- David Hughes, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
* 1818
* 12 September \- John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd), poet (b. 1742)
* 1819
* 31 January \- Thomas Bevan, missionary (b.c.1796)
* 8 February \- Sydenham Teak Edwards, botanist (b. 1768)
* 25 June \- John Abel, minister (b. 1770)
* 6 November \- Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (b. 1796)