1808 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1808 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 5 January - First issue of The North Wales Gazette is printed at Bangor.
• 19 November - The naval frigate HMS Owen Glendower is launched.
• date unknown
  • Construction of the Horseshoe Falls on the River Dee by Thomas Telford.
  • The publishing house Gwasg Gee is founded.
  • St Katherine's Church, Milford Haven, built by Charles Francis Greville, is consecrated.
  • Benjamin Hall is given the Abercarn estate by his father-in-law, Richard Crawshay.
  • William Lort Mansel becomes Bishop of Bristol.
  • The White Book of Hergest is destroyed in a fire at Covent Garden.
  • The Ruabon Brook Tramway is extended from Acrefair to the Plas Madoc Colliery in Plasbennion.^[1]
  • Twelve-year-old Charles Nice Davies goes to serve in India as an ensign.

Arts and literature

New books

• Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn) - Ieithiadur neu Ramadeg Cymraeg
• Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Bannau y Byd
• Felicia Hemans - Juvenile Poems
• Titus Lewis - Llyfr Rhyfeddodau

Music

• Hymnau o Fawl i Dduw a'r Oen (hymns by Ann Griffiths, posthumously published)

Births

• 30 January - Sir John Henry Scourfield, author (died 1876)
• 6 March - William Williams (Carw Coch), man of letters and eisteddfodwr (died 1872)
• 13 May - Thomas Aubrey, Wesleyan leader (died 1867)
• date unknown
  • Dic Penderyn, labourer executed for his part in the Merthyr Rising (died 1831)^[2]
  • William Roos, artist and engraver (died 1878)^[3]

Deaths

• 21 January - Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, 70?
• 30 November - Watkin Williams, politician, 66?
• 28 December - Griffith Roberts, physician and collector of manuscripts, 73

References

1. Jowett, Alan (1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas. Patrick Stephens Limited. pp. 57, 59. ISBN 1-85260-086-1.
2. "Dic Penderyn (Richard Lewis)". 100 Welsh Heroes. Retrieved 21 August 2006.
3. Lloyd, John Edward; Jenkins, R.T. (1958). The Dictionary of Welsh Biography, Down to 1940. Cardiff: William Lewis. p. 890.