“1815 in Wales”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

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

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 Luxmore replaces William Cleaver as Bishop of St Asaph.

May or June - Bryn Oer Tramway opens in South Wales.

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.^[1]

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

Music

Peter Roberts - The Cambrian Popular Antiquities of Wales ^[2]

Births

24 January - Thomas Gee, publisher (died 1898)

16 April - Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (died 1895)^[3]

May - William Lucas Collins, author (died 1887)

2 June - John Deffett Francis, painter and art collector (died 1901)^[4]

21 November - John Bowen, Bishop of Sierra Leone (died 1859)^[5]

13 December - Thomas Rees, Congregational minister (died 1885)

date unknown

Thomas Gruffydd, harpist (died 1887)
Richard Kyrke Penson, architect (died 1886)^[6]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.glamorganfamilyhistory.co.uk/CDFF2.html |first=Bob |last=Sanders |title=A Cardiff & Vale of Glamorgan Chronology |accessdate=2014-12-23 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6VCB6XZL9?url=http://www.glamorganfamilyhistory.co.uk/CDFF2.html |archivedate=2014-12-30 |deadurl=no |df= }}
2. ^{{cite book|author=Peter Roberts|title=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|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7-QuAAAAMAAJ|year=1815|publisher=E. Williams}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-BRUC-AUS-1815|title=Bruce, Henry Austin (1815-1895), 1st baron Aberdare|author=James Frederick Rees|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=13 March 2019}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-FRAN-DEF-1815|title=Francis, John Deffett (1815-1901), painter and collector|author=Megan Ellis|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=13 March 2019}}
5. ^{{cite book|author=Church missionary society|title=Missionary papers [afterw.] Church missionary paper [afterw.] Church missionary quarterly paper [afterw.] C.M.S. quarterly paper|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wCsEAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PR175-IA1|year=1855|pages=1}}
6. ^{{cite book|author1=A. W. Skempton|author2=Mike Chrimes|title=A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500-1830|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jeOMfpYMOtYC&pg=PA518|year=2002|publisher=Thomas Telford|isbn=978-0-7277-2939-2|pages=518}}
7. ^{{cite book|author=University of Oxford|title=Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nf2L1j0dH4sC|year=1888|publisher=Parker and Company|page=531}}
8. ^{{cite book|author1=Janet Bromley|author2=David Bromley|title=Wellington's Men Remembered Volume 2: A Register of Memorials to Soldiers who Fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n0euCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA179|date=25 March 2015|publisher=Pen and Sword|isbn=978-1-84884-750-7|pages=179}}

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