# 1810 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1810 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley
* 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
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney
* Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie
* Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
* Bishop of St Asaph – William Cleaver
* Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess

## 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.
* 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.
* 24 October - The foundation stone of the Moel Famau Jubilee Tower is laid.
* date unknown
** Walter Coffin takes a mining lease on land at Dinas Rhondda.
** Hafod Copperworks opens in the Lower Swansea valley.
** 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
* Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - History and Antiquities of the County of Cardigan

#### Welsh language

* Dafydd Ddu Eryri - Corff y Gainc

## Births

* 3 January - John Orlando Parry, actor, musician and songwriter (d. 1879)
* 12 January - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (d. 1882)
* 15 January - John Evan Thomas, sculptor (died 1873)
* 19 January - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect (died 1869)
* 24 January - Thomas Jones, Methodist missionary (died 1849)
* 4 August - Dan Jones, Mormon missionary (died 1862 in Utah)
* date unknown - Thomas Jones, librarian (died 1875)

## Deaths

* 10 March - George Morgan, American merchant of Welsh parentage, 67
* April - Isaac Davis, advisor to the Hawaiian royal family
* 3 April - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), poet and dramatist, 71
* 27 June - Richard Crawshay, industrialist, 70
* 12 August - David Jones, Church of England priest who was supportive of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism, 74
* 27 September - John Williams, barrister, 53