# 1800 in Wales

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

## Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne (until 6 January); Thomas Johnes (from 4 July)
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan
* 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 – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Harley
* Bishop of Bangor – John Warren (until 27 January); William Cleaver (from 24 May)
* Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
* Bishop of St Asaph – Lewis Bagot
* Bishop of St Davids – William Stuart (until October); Lord George Murray (nominated)

## Events

* February - John Bryan begins preaching.
* 5 May - Missionary John Davies sets out for Tahiti.
* 1 August - The Naval Temple on The Kymin at Monmouth is dedicated.
* August - Owen Davies and John Hughes arrive in Ruthin to superintend the Wesleyan Methodist mission to Wales.
* December - The Brecon Canal opens between Brecon and Talybont.
* unknown dates
** 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.
** William Nott joins the Bengal European Regiment in India.

## Arts and literature
### New books
#### English language

* William Bingley - Tour round North Wales
* 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
* Richard Llwyd - Beaumaris Bay
* William Ouseley - Epitome of the Ancient History of Persia
* Henry Wigstead - Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales: In the Year 1797

#### Welsh language

* Timothy Thomas - Traethiad am y Wisg-Wen Ddisglair (2nd edition)

### Music

* "Suo Gân" (approximate first printing)

## Births

* 4 March - Dr William Price, physician (d. 1893)
* 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)
* 1 August - Elizabeth Randles, musical prodigy (d. 1829)
* 1 October - Williams Evans, hymnist (d. 1880)
* 30 October - Ernest Vaughan, 4th Earl of Lisburne, landowner and politician (d. 1873)
* 29 November - David Griffith (Clwydfardd), poet and archdruid (d. 1894)
* date unknown
** James James (Iago Emlyn), minister and poet (d. 1879)
** David Morris, politician (d. 1864)

## Deaths

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