1814 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1814 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey â Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire â Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â Thomas Johnes[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire â George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire â Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire â Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute (until 16 November)[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford[2][11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney[12][2][13]
Events
- 1 January - The first weekly newspaper in Welsh is published, when Seren Gomer is founded by Joseph Harris (Gomer), a Baptist minister in Swansea.[23]
- 3 January - Lampeter is granted its town charter.[24]
- February - Anthony Bushby Bacon sells his mineral rights at Cyfarthfa to Richard Crawshay for £95,000.[25]
- May - Caernarvon and Anglesey Hospital is founded.
- Summer solstice - Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morgannwg) declaims his poem "Heddwch" from the Logan Stone in the presence of the Gorsedd of Morgannwg, at the "second Assemblage"
- 10 September - The last recorded fatal duel in Wales is fought at Adpar, Newcastle Emlyn.[26] Thomas Heslop of Jamaica is killed; a local landowner, Beynon, is found guilty and fined one shilling.
- date unknown
- Sydenham Edwards founds The Botanical Register.
- The Admiralty re-locates from Milford Haven to Paterchurch, resulting in the founding of Pembroke Dock.[27]
- Journalist and preacher Elijah Waring settles at Neath.
Arts and literature
Births
- January - George Grant Francis, philanthropist (d. 1882)
- 29 January - Edward William Thomas, composer (d. 1892)
- 5 March - Joseph Edwards, sculptor (d. 1882)
- 16 June - Robert Davies (Cyndeyrn), composer (d. 1867)[30]
- date unknown - Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist (d. 1903)
Deaths
- 12 March - Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu), printer and translator, 80?[31]
- 23 April - Richard Jones, clergyman and writer, 57[32]
- 3 May - Thomas Coke, Methodist leader, 66[33]
- 21 June - Sir Erasmus Gower, colonial governor, 71[34]
- 26 September - Owen Jones, antiquary and founder of the Gwyneddigion Society, 73
- 5 October - Thomas Charles of Bala, Bible publishing pioneer, 58[35]
- 16 November - John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, 70[36]