1801 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1801 to Wales and its people.

← 1800 1799 1798 1797 1796 1801 in Wales → 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s
See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1801 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget^[1][2][3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes^[2]
• 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^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (until 16 January);^[2] vacant until 1804
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford^[2][10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Harley^[11][2]

• Bishop of Bangor – William Cleaver^[12][13][14]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson^[15]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Lewis Bagot^[16][12]
• Bishop of St Davids – Lord George Murray^[17]

Events

• Chirk aqueduct is completed and opened.^[18]
• First railway in north Wales is built by Lord Penrhyn to link his quarries with Bethesda and Port Penrhyn.
• John Rice Jones becomes first attorney-general of Indiana.^[19]
• The "Great Debate" is held at Ramoth Chapel in Llanfrothen, Merionethshire, as a result of which John Richard Jones forms the "Scottish Baptist" connexion.^[20]

Arts and literature

New books

• Cyhoeddiadau Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion
• The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, vol. 1^[21]
• Azariah Shadrach - Allwedd Myfyrdod^[22]
• Hester Thrale - Retrospection: or a review of the most striking events, characters, situations, and their consequences, which the last eighteen hundred years have presented to the view of mankind

Music

Births

• 6 January – Evan Davies (Myfyr Morganwg), bard, druid and antiquarian (d. 1888)^[23]
• 6 February – William Williams (Caledfryn), poet and critic (d. 1869)^[24]
• 1 November – John Lloyd Davies, politician (d. 1860)^[25]
• 18 November – David Rees (Y Cynhyrfwr), minister and writer (d. 1869)^[26]
• 23 December – William Watkin Edward Wynne, politician (d. 1880)^[27]
• date unknown – Thomas Phillips, lawyer, politician and businessman, mayor of Newport (d. 1867)^[28]

Deaths

• 16 January – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, 45^[29]
• 14 February – Rhys Jones, antiquary, 87^[30]
• 23 September – Thomas Nowell, historian, 71?^[31]
• 13 December – William Edwardes, 1st Baron Kensington, about 90^[32]
• probable – Frances Williams, convicted thief, one of the first women to settle Australia, 40/41^[33]

See also

• 1801 in Ireland