1809 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1809 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents
Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

Events
9 February - South Stack Lighthouse off Anglesey first illuminated.
10 May - Stapleton Cotton plays a prominent role in the Battle of Grijó.
date unknown
David Hughes, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, donates £105 towards scholarships to give South Wales the same level of support as North Wales.
Hawarden Castle is enlarged.
John Rice Jones begins lead mining across the Mississippi in the future state of Missouri.
Jeremiah Homfray opens a level at Richard Griffiths' lease in Trehafod in the Rhondda; the first full scale attempt to mine coal in the area.

Arts and literature

New books
Edward Davies - The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids
Zaccheus Davies - Cân am y Farn
Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) - An English-Welsh Dictionary neu Eir-Lyfr Saesneg a Chymraeg
Theophilus Jones - History of the County of Brecknock, vol. 2
Henry Parry (editor) Grammatica Britannica, 2nd edition (1st edition by John Davies of Mallwyd)

Music
George Thomson - A Selected Collection of Original Welsh Airs (1st edition)

Births
18 January - John Gwyn Jeffreys, conchologist (died 1885)
15 February - Owen Jones, architect (died 1874)
17 April - Thomas Brigstocke, painter  (died 1881)
24 May - William Chambers, politician (died 1882)
26 May - G. T. Clark, engineer (died 1885)
11 August - Robert Thomas (Ap Vychan), writer (died 1880)
20 August - Morris Williams (Nicander), writer (died 1874)
27 October - Lewis Edwards, Nonconformist minister and educator (died 1887)
22 December - John Hanmer, 1st Baron Hanmer, politician (died 1882)
date unknown - Evan James, lyricist of the Welsh national anthem (died 1878)

Deaths
23 January - Hugh Barlow, politician, 79/80
10 February - Hugh Bold, lawyer, 77/78
April - Charles Francis Greville, founder of Milford Haven, 59
October 28 - Hugh Pugh, Independent minister, 29

References

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