1815 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1815 to Wales and its people.

← 1814 1813 1812 1811 1810 1815 in Wales → 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s
See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1815 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 Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute (from 2 June)^[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 (until 15 May);^[17] John Luxmoore (from 8 June)^[18][19][20]
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess^{[20][21][22][23]}

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.^[24]
• 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.^[25]

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^[26]

Music

• Peter Roberts - The Cambrian Popular Antiquities of Wales ^[27]

Births

• 24 January - Thomas Gee, publisher (died 1898)
• 16 April - Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (died 1895)^[28]
• May - William Lucas Collins, author (died 1887)
• 2 June - John Deffett Francis, painter and art collector (died 1901)^[29]
• 21 November - John Bowen, Bishop of Sierra Leone (died 1859)^[30]
• 13 December - Thomas Rees, Congregational minister (died 1885)
• date unknown
  • Thomas Gruffydd, harpist (died 1887)
  • Richard Kyrke Penson, architect (died 1886)^[31]

Deaths

• 5 March - Sir Stephen Glynne, 8th Baronet, 34^[32]
• 24 April - John Lloyd, naturalist and politician, 65^[33]
• 15 May - William Cleaver, Bishop of St Asaph, 72/73^[17]
• 18 June - Thomas Picton, soldier, 56 (killed at the Battle of Waterloo)^[34]
• August - Robert Williams, farmer and poet, 70/71^[35]
• date unknown - Edward Edwards, Royal Navy officer of Welsh parentage, 73

See also

• 1815 in Ireland

References

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2. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
3. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
4. Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
5. Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
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7. "not known". Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. 3. "Old Wales" Office: 106. 1907.
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