Английская Википедия:1815 in Wales

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Шаблон:Use Welsh English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Year in Wales header This article is about the particular significance of the year 1815 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
• 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 Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute (from 2 June)
• 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 (until 15 May); John Luxmoore (from 8 June)
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess

Events

• 23 January - John Scandrett Harford inherits the family estates on the death of his father.
• 28 March - Opening of the British School for boys at Newport.
• 12 April - Admiral Thomas Foley is knighted.
• 23 May - John Luxmoore replaces William Cleaver as Bishop of St Asaph.
• May or June - Bryn Oer Tramway opens in South Wales.
• 18 June - Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, famously loses a leg at the Battle of Waterloo. General Thomas Picton is killed in the same battle.
• A twice-weekly boat service between Cardiff and Bristol is established.

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Walter Davies - General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of South Wales
• Richard Fenton - Memoirs of an Old Wig
• Thomas Love Peacock - Headlong Hall (anonymous; dated 1816)

Welsh language

• David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) - Barddoniaeth Gristianogawl

Music

• Peter Roberts - The Cambrian Popular Antiquities of Wales

Births

• 24 January - Thomas Gee, publisher (died 1898)
• 16 April - Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (died 1895)
• May - William Lucas Collins, author (died 1887)
• 2 June - John Deffett Francis, painter and art collector (died 1901)
• 21 November - John Bowen, Bishop of Sierra Leone (died 1859)
• 13 December - Thomas Rees, Congregational minister (died 1885)
• date unknown
  • Thomas Gruffydd, harpist (died 1887)
  • Richard Kyrke Penson, architect (died 1886)

Deaths

• 5 March - Sir Stephen Glynne, 8th Baronet, 34
• 24 April - John Lloyd, naturalist and politician, 65
• 15 May - William Cleaver, Bishop of St Asaph, 72/73
• 18 June - Thomas Picton, soldier, 56 (killed at the Battle of Waterloo)
• August - Robert Williams, farmer and poet, 70/71
• date unknown - Edward Edwards, Royal Navy officer of Welsh parentage, 73

See also

• 1815 in Ireland