This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1810 - 1819 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Prince of Wales - George (later George IV) Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick Events 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 Arts and literature New books Thomas Charles - Biblical Dictionary, vol. 4 (1811) Dafydd Ddu Eryri - (1810) Richard Fenton A Tour in Quest of Genealogy (1811) Memoirs of an Old Wig (1815) Joseph Harris (Gomer) - (1816) Ann Hatton Cambrian Pictures (1810) Chronicles of an Illustrious House (1816) Samuel Johnson - A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774 (1816) Thomas Jones (Dinbych) - (1813) William Owen Pughe - (translation of Milton's Paradise Lost) (1819) David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) - (1815) John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd) - (1817) Music 1811 John James - 1817 Robert Williams - (hymn tune, formerly named Bethel); Williams recorded that the tune was composed on 14 July of this year. Births 1810 12 January - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (d. 1882) 15 January - John Evan Thomas, sculptor (d. 1873) 19 January - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect (d. 1869) 24 January - Thomas Jones, missionary (d. 1849) 1811 14 January - Rowland Prichard, musician (d. 1887) 26 January - Roger Edwards, minister (d. 1886) 11 March - Thomas Jones (Glan Alun), poet (d. 1866) 11 July - William Robert Grove, inventor (d. 1896) date unknown - John Williams (Ab Ithel), antiquary (d. 1862) 1812 6 January - Catherine Glynne, future wife of William Ewart Gladstone (d. 1900) 3 February - Robert Elis (Cynddelw), poet and lexicographer (d. 1875) 3 April - Henry Richard, pacifist politician (d. 1888) 19 May - Lady Charlotte Guest, translator and philanthropist (d. 1895) 1813 30 June - Thomas Briscoe, translator (d. 1895) 1 August - William Ambrose (Emrys), poet (d. 1873) 10 October - William Adams, mining engineer (d. 1886) date unknown - John Edwards (Meiriadog), poet (d. 1906) 1814 5 March - Joseph Edwards, sculptor (d. 1882) date unknown - Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist (d. 1903) 1815 24 January - Thomas Gee, publisher (d. 1898) 16 April - Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (d. 1895) May - William Lucas Collins, author (d. 1887) 21 November - John Bowen, Bishop of Sierra Leone (d. 1859) 13 December - Thomas Rees, Congregational minister (d. 1885) 1816 3