This article is about the particular significance of the year 1810 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes 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 Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney
Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson Bishop of St Asaph – William Cleaver Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess
Events January - Novelist Thomas Love Peacock first visits Maentwrog where he will settle for a time. 3 March - Launch of the Carmarthen Journal, the oldest surviving newspaper in Wales. 14 April - James Cotton, precentor of Bangor Cathedral, marries Mary Anne, daughter of Henry Majendie, Bishop of Bangor. 27 September - Thomas Picton serves with distinction under Wellington at the Battle of Bussaco. 24 October - The foundation stone of the Moel Famau Jubilee Tower is laid. date unknown Walter Coffin takes a mining lease on land at Dinas Rhondda. Hafod Copperworks opens in the Lower Swansea valley. Etcher Charles Norris settles in Tenby. Jonesville, North Carolina, is founded as Martinsborough; the name is later changed in honour of Hardy Jones (1747–1819).
Arts and literature
New books English language The Beauties of England and Wales, vol. XI Richard Fenton - Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire Ann Hatton - Cambrian Pictures Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - History and Antiquities of the County of Cardigan
Welsh language Dafydd Ddu Eryri - Corff y Gainc
Births 3 January - John Orlando Parry, actor, musician and songwriter (d. 1879) 12 January - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (d. 1882) 15 January - John Evan Thomas, sculptor (died 1873) 19 January - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect (died 1869) 24 January - Thomas Jones, Methodist missionary (died 1849) 4 August - Dan Jones, Mormon missionary (died 1862 in Utah) date unknown - Thomas Jones, librarian (died 1875)
Deaths 10 March - George Morgan, American merchant of Welsh parentage, 67Obituary Col. George Morgan, The Pittsburgh Gazette, 6 Apr 1810, Friday, p. 2. Archived April - Isaac Davis, advisor to the Hawaiian royal family 3 April - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), poet and dramatist, 71 27 June - Richard Crawshay, industrialist, 70 12 August - David Jones, Church of England priest who was supportive of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism, 74 27 September - John Williams, barrister, 53
See also 1810 in Ireland
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