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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1805 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget[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 – John Vaughan (until 19 January);[7] George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor (from 21 April)
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford[2][12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney[13][2][14]
Events
- 21 October - Battle of Trafalgar: A British Royal Navy fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. About 465 of the 18,000 men on the British ships were born in Wales.[24]
- 26 November - The Ellesmere Canal's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is opened, the tallest and longest in Britain, completing the canal's Llangollen branch.[25]
- unknown dates
Arts and literature
New books
- Thomas Charles - Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol[28]
- Theophilus Jones - History of the County of Brecknock, vol. 1
- Titus Lewis - A Welsh — English Dictionary, Geiriadur Cymraeg a Saesneg[29]
- Robert Southey - Madoc[30]
Music
- Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) takes up residence in St James's Palace.
Visual arts
Births
- 13 December - Robert Griffiths, inventor (died 1883)[32]
- 19 December - John David Edwards, hymn-writer (died 1885)[33]
- date unknown
- Evan Davies, missionary (died 1864)[34]
- Hugh Hughes (Tegai), writer (died 1864)[35]
- John William Thomas, mathematician (died 1840)
Deaths
- 15 April - Mary Morgan, servant, 16 (executed by hanging, for killing her newborn child)[36]
- August - Ann Griffiths, poet and hymn-writer, 29[37]
- 25 November - Jonathan Hughes, poet, 84[38]
See also
References
- ↑ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
- 1 2 3 4 J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- ↑ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ↑ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
- ↑ "Vaughan, John (c. 1752-1804), of Golden Grove, Carm". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
- ↑ "not known". Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. "Old Wales" Office. 3: 106. 1907.
- ↑ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ↑ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
- ↑ R. G. Thorne (1986). "Clive, Edward, 2nd Baron Clive (1754-1839), of Walcot, Salop". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ↑ Bertie George Charles (1959). "Philipps family, of Picton". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ↑ Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
- ↑ William Stockdale (1833). Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom. p. 86.
- ↑ Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
- ↑ The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
- ↑ Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780521563505.
- ↑ John Henry James (1898). A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff. Western Mail. p. 16.
- ↑ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
- 1 2 Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.
- ↑ The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
- ↑ George III (King of Great Britain) (1967). The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3. University Press. p. 434.
- ↑ "Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas". The Royal Society. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ↑ "Trafalgar ancestors". The National Archives (United Kingdom). Retrieved 28 August 2014.
- ↑ Rolt, L. T. C. (1958). Thomas Telford. London: Longmans, Green.
- ↑ "The Late Bank Failures at Wrexham". The Bankers' Magazine. BPC (Bankers' Magazine) Limited. IX: 242. 1849.
- ↑ Thomas Lloyd; Julian Orbach; Robert Scourfield (2006). Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion. Yale University Press. p. 391. ISBN 0-300-10179-1.
- ↑ Thomas Charles (1819). Geiriadur ysgrythawl. Geiriadur ysgrythyrol ... Yr ail argraffiad, etc. Robert Saunderson. p. 13.
- ↑ Titus Lewis (1805). A Welsh-English dictionary. Geirlyfr Cymraeg a Saesneg, gan T. Lewis ac eraill. J. Evans, in Priory-Street.
- ↑ Michael Gamer (17 February 2017). Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry. Cambridge University Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-1-107-15885-6.
- ↑ "Welsh Landscape - Artists". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
- ↑ Griffith Milwyn Griffiths (1959). "Griffiths, Robert (1805-1883), engineer and inventor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ↑ Robert David Griffith. "Edwards, John David (1805-1885), cleric and musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ↑ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 14. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 135.
- ↑ David Tecwyn Evans. "Edwards, Hughes, Hugh (Tegai; 1805-1864), Independent minister and man of letters". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ↑ George Hardinge (1818). The miscellaneous works, in prose and verse, of George Hardinge [ed. by J. Nichols]. p. 58.
- ↑ A. M. Allchin (1987). Ann Griffiths: The Furnace and the Fountain. University of Wales Press. p. ii. ISBN 978-0-7083-0954-4.
- ↑ Thomas Parry. "Hughes, Jonathan (1721-1805), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
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