1813 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1813 to Wales and its people.

← 1812 1811 1810 1809 1808 1813 in Wales → 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s
See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1813 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey^[1][2][3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th 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 – 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^[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 – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford^[2][11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney^[12][2][13]

• Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie^[14][15]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson^[16]
• Bishop of St Asaph – William Cleaver^[17][18][19]
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess^{[19][20][21][22]}

Events

• January - Sir Joseph Bailey sells his 25% share in Cyfarthfa ironworks for £20,000.^[23]
• April - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) moves to Crickhowell to take over several parishes in the vicinity.
• 30 September - Sir Jeremiah Homfray is forced to sell his house at Cwm Rhondda to settle his debts.^[24]
• 2 November - Richard Parry Price, heir to the Puleston estates, is created a baronet.^[25]
• date unknown
  • Anthony Hill and his two brothers go into partnership at the Plymouth ironworks.
  • The "Branwen ferch Llŷr" sepulchral urn is discovered on the banks of the river Alaw in Anglesey (later placed in the British Museum by Richard Llwyd).
  • The first permanent military barracks in Wales are opened at Brecon.
  • An Independent minister, David Davies, is forced to leave his teaching post at Carmarthen Academy after charges of "immorality" are made against him.^[26]
  • David Daniel Davis is appointed a physician at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in London.
  • Charles James Apperley becomes agent for his brother-in-law's estates in Caernarvonshire, taking up residence at Tŷ Gwyn, Llanbeblig.
  • Diana Noel, 2nd Baroness Barham, settles at Fairy Hill, Gower.^[27]
  • Thomas Charles of Bala publishes his "rules" for the conduct of Sunday schools.
  • Elijah Waring founds a new periodical, The Cambrian Visitor: a Monthly Miscellany, which fails after eight months.

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Hugh Davies - Welsh Botanology … A Systematic Catalogue of the Native Plants of Anglesey, in Latin, English, and Welsh
• Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) - General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of North Wales
• M. Surrey - Llewellyn, Prince of Wales, or Gellert the Faithful Dog (play)^[28]

Welsh language

• William Owen - Lloffion o Faes Boaz^[29]
• William Williams (Gwilym Peris) - Awengerdd Peris

Music

Births

• 30 January - Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, Biblical scholar (d. 1875)^[30]
• 2 May - Mordecai Jones, industrialist (d. 1880)
• 30 June - Thomas Briscoe, translator (d. 1895)
• 1 August - William Ambrose (Emrys), poet (d. 1873)^[31]
• 12 September - Daniel Jones, missionary (d. 1846)
• 10 October - William Adams, mining engineer (d. 1886)
• date unknown - John Edwards (Meiriadog), poet (d. 1906)^[32]

Deaths

• 9 March - Edward Williams, minister and theologian, 62^[33]
• 23 March - Princess Augusta of Great Britain, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and mother of Caroline of Brunswick, later Princess of Wales, 75^[34]
• 17 April - Thomas Edwards (Yr Hwntw Mawr), murderer^[35]
• 28 July - John Randolph, former Bishop of Bangor, 64^[36]
• 11 August (or 12 August) - John Price, librarian, 78^[37]
• date unknown - Edward Pugh, artist^[38]

See also

• 1813 in Ireland

References

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