1815 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1790s; 1800s; 1810s; 1820s; 1830s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1815 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

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

Incumbents[]

Monarch - George III
Regent - George

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.^[1]
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.^[2]

Arts and literature[]

New books[]

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)
David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) - Barddoniaeth Gristianogawl^[3]

Music[]

Peter Roberts - The Cambrian Popular Antiquities of Wales ^[4]

Births[]

24 January - Thomas Gee, publisher (died 1898)
16 April - Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (died 1895)^[5]
May - William Lucas Collins, author (died 1887)
2 June - John Deffett Francis, painter and art collector (died 1901)^[6]
21 November - John Bowen, Bishop of Sierra Leone (died 1859)^[7]
13 December - Thomas Rees, Congregational minister (died 1885)
date unknown
- , harpist (died 1887)
- Richard Kyrke Penson, architect (died 1886)^[8]

Deaths[]

5 March - Sir Stephen Glynne, 8th Baronet, 34^[9]
24 April - John Lloyd, naturalist, 65
18 June - Thomas Picton, soldier, 56 (killed at the Battle of Waterloo)^[10]
date unknown - Edward Edwards, Royal Navy officer of Welsh parentage, 73

References[]

^ "Blaen-dyffryn Crawnon, Bryn Oer Tramroad". Coflein. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
^ Sanders, Bob. "A Cardiff & Vale of Glamorgan Chronology". Archived from the original on 30 December 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
^ Stephens, Meic (1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford Oxfordshire New York: Oxford University Press. p. 523. ISBN 9780192115867.
^ Peter Roberts (1815). The Cambrian Popular Antiquities: Or, An Account of Some Traditions, Customs, and Superstitions, of Wales, with Observations as to Their Origin, &c. &c. Illustrated with Copper Plates, Coloured from Nature. E. Williams.
^ James Frederick Rees. "Bruce, Henry Austin (1815-1895), 1st baron Aberdare". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
^ Megan Ellis. "Francis, John Deffett (1815-1901), painter and collector". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
^ Church missionary society (1855). Missionary papers [afterw.] Church missionary paper [afterw.] Church missionary quarterly paper [afterw.] C.M.S. quarterly paper. p. 1.
^ A. W. Skempton; Mike Chrimes (2002). A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500-1830. Thomas Telford. p. 518. ISBN 978-0-7277-2939-2.
^ University of Oxford (1888). Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 ... Parker and Company. p. 531.
^ Janet Bromley; David Bromley (25 March 2015). Wellington's Men Remembered Volume 2: A Register of Memorials to Soldiers who Fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo. Pen and Sword. p. 179. ISBN 978-1-84884-750-7.

[1] "Blaen-dyffryn Crawnon, Bryn Oer Tramroad". Coflein. Retrieved 23 August 2021.

[2] Sanders, Bob. "A Cardiff & Vale of Glamorgan Chronology". Archived from the original on 30 December 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014.

[3] Stephens, Meic (1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford Oxfordshire New York: Oxford University Press. p. 523. ISBN 9780192115867.

[4] Peter Roberts (1815). The Cambrian Popular Antiquities: Or, An Account of Some Traditions, Customs, and Superstitions, of Wales, with Observations as to Their Origin, &c. &c. Illustrated with Copper Plates, Coloured from Nature. E. Williams.

[5] James Frederick Rees. "Bruce, Henry Austin (1815-1895), 1st baron Aberdare". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 March 2019.

[6] Megan Ellis. "Francis, John Deffett (1815-1901), painter and collector". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 March 2019.

[7] Church missionary society (1855). Missionary papers [afterw.] Church missionary paper [afterw.] Church missionary quarterly paper [afterw.] C.M.S. quarterly paper. p. 1.

[8] A. W. Skempton; Mike Chrimes (2002). A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500-1830. Thomas Telford. p. 518. ISBN 978-0-7277-2939-2.

[9] University of Oxford (1888). Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 ... Parker and Company. p. 531.

[10] Janet Bromley; David Bromley (25 March 2015). Wellington's Men Remembered Volume 2: A Register of Memorials to Soldiers who Fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo. Pen and Sword. p. 179. ISBN 978-1-84884-750-7.

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