1820s in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1820 - 1829 to Wales
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
and its people
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
.
Incumbents
- Prince of WalesPrince of WalesPrince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
- George, Prince RegentGeorge IV of the United KingdomGeorge IV was the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and also of Hanover from the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later...
(until 29 January 1820) - Princess of WalesPrincess of WalesPrincess of Wales is a British courtesy title held by the wife of The Prince of Wales since the first "English" Prince of Wales in 1283.Although there have been considerably more than ten male heirs to the throne, there have been only ten Princesses of Wales. The majority of Princes of Wales...
- Caroline of BrunswickCaroline of BrunswickCaroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was the Queen consort of King George IV of the United Kingdom from 29 January 1820 until her death...
(until 29 January 1820)
Events
- 18201820 in WalesThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1820 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent *Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick -Events:...
- 18211821 in WalesThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1821 to Wales and its people.-Events:*The new king visits Carmarthen; supporters of his estranged wife start a riot.*July 27 - Sir Thomas Philipps is created a baronet....
- 18221822 in WalesThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1822 to Wales and its people.-Events:*April - Launch of the Chester Cymmrodorion Society.*Beginning of "Rhyfel y Sais Bach", a dispute over enclosures in Pembrokeshire....
- 18231823 in WalesThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1823 to Wales and its people.-Events:*February - John Frost is sentenced to six months in prison for a libel against the town clerk of Newport....
- 18241824 in WalesThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1824 to Wales and its people.-Events:*8 September - The Society of Cymmrodorion sponsors a major eisteddfod at Welshpool.*18 December - William Chambers inherits the Stepney estate....
- 18251825 in WalesThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1825 to Wales and its people.-Events:*Rails for the Stockton to Darlington railway are made at Ebbw Vale.*Publication of Seren Gomer moves to Carmarthen.*Sir Thomas Foley becomes an admiral....
- 18261826 in WalesThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1826 to Wales and its people.-Events:*January 30 - Opening of the Menai Suspension Bridge, designed by Thomas Telford.*July 1 - Opening of Telford's Conwy Suspension Bridge....
- 18271827 in WalesThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1827 to Wales and its people.-Events:*1 March – Official opening of St David's College, Lampeter...
- 18281828 in WalesThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1828 to Wales and its people.-Events:* Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, visits the eisteddfod at Denbigh, making it the first to receive a royal visit....
- 18291829 in WalesThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1829 to Wales and its people.-Events:*May 6 - The Cymmrodorion hold an eisteddfod in London.*The Ecclesiastical Courts Act, 1829, is passed, largely at the instigation of Sir John Nicholl....
New books
- John EliasJohn EliasJohn Elias was a Christian preacher in Wales in the first half of the 19th century, as part of the Welsh Methodist revival. His preaching was noted as being exceptionally powerful, "as if talking fire down from heaven". On one occasion it is said he preached to a crowd of 10,000 people. He was a...
- Golygiad Ysgrythurol ar Gyfiawnhad Pechadur (1821) - Felicia HemansFelicia Hemans-Ancestry:Felicia Heman's paternal grandfather was George Browne of Passage, co. Cork, Ireland; her maternal grandparents were Elizabeth Haydock Wagner of Lancashire and Benedict Paul Wagner , wine importer at 9 Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool. Family legend gave the Wagners a Venetian origin;...
- The Forest Sanctuary (1825) - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc)Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc)Reverend Thomas Price was a historian and a major Welsh literary figure of the early 19th century....
- An Essay on the Physiognomy and Physiology of the Present Inhabitants of Britain (1829) - David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr)David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr)David Richards , better-known by his bardic name Dafydd Ionawr, was a Welsh-language poet, born near Tywyn in Gwynedd, north-west Wales....
- Cywydd y Dilyw (1821)
Music
- John Ellis - Eliot (hymn tuneHymn tuneA hymn tune is the melody of a musical composition to which a hymn text is sung. Musically speaking, a hymn is generally understood to have four-part harmony, a fast harmonic rhythm , and no refrain or chorus....
) (1823) - Edward JonesEdward Jones (harpist)Edward Jones was a Welsh harpist, bard, performer, composer, arranger, and collector of music. He was commonly known by the bardic name of "Bardd y Brenin", which he took in 1820, when King George IV, his patron, came to the throne....
- Hen Ganiadau Cymru (1820) - Peroriaeth Hyfryd (collection of hymns including Caersalem by Robert Edwards) (1827)
- Seren Gomer (collection of hymns including Grongar by John Edwards) (1824)
Births
- 1820
- 21 May - Sir Thomas Lloyd, 1st BaronetSir Thomas Lloyd, 1st BaronetSir Thomas Davies Lloyd, 1st Baronet , was a British Liberal Member of Parliament, for Cardiganshire 1865-1868 and Cardigan Boroughs 1868-1874. An old fashioned Whig Liberal, he defeated David Davies of Llandinam for Cardiganshire, 1865...
, politician and landowner (d. 1877)
- 21 May - Sir Thomas Lloyd, 1st Baronet
- 1821
- 24 June - Guillermo RawsonGuillermo RawsonDr. Guillermo Rawson was a medical doctor and politician in nineteenth-century Argentina. As Interior Minister in 1862 he met Captain Love Jones-Parry and Lewis Jones who were on their way to Patagonia to investigate whether it was suitable for the creation of a Welsh settlement there...
, Argentinian politician (d. 1890) - 16 July - John Jones (Mathetes), preacher and writer (d. 1878)
- 24 June - Guillermo Rawson
- 1822
- 2 March - Michael D. JonesMichael D. JonesMichael Daniel Jones was a Welsh Congregationalist minister and principal of a theological college, but is best remembered as a founder of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia known as Y Wladfa and as one of the fathers of modern Welsh nationalism.Jones was born in Llanuwchllyn, Merioneth in 1822...
, Patagonian settler (d. 1898)
- 2 March - Michael D. Jones
- 1823
- 8 January - Alfred Russel WallaceAlfred Russel WallaceAlfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist...
, biologist (d. 1913) - March - Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn)Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn)Rev. Rowland Williams , commonly known by his bardic name of "Hwfa Môn", was a Welsh clergyman and poet, who served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1895 to 1905.- Early Life and education:...
, poet and archdruid (d. 1905) - 23 November - Sir John EvansJohn Evans (archaeologist)Sir John Evans, KCB, FRS was an English archaeologist and geologist.-Biography:John Evans was the son of the Rev. Dr A. B. Evans, headmaster of Market Bosworth Grammar School, and was born at Britwell Court, Buckinghamshire...
, archaeologist (d. 1908)
- 8 January - Alfred Russel Wallace
- 1824
- date unknown - John Basson HumffrayJohn Basson HumffrayJohn Basson Humffray was born in Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales and became active in the Chartist movement before migrating to Victoria, Australia in 1853, arriving in Ballarat in November that year....
, political reformer in Australia (d. 1891)
- date unknown - John Basson Humffray
- 1825
- 7 June - R. D. BlackmoreR. D. BlackmoreRichard Doddridge Blackmore , referred to most commonly as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century. Over the course of his career, Blackmore achieved a close following around the world...
, novelist (d. 1900)
- 7 June - R. D. Blackmore
- 1826
- 13 January - Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount LlandaffHenry Matthews, 1st Viscount LlandaffHenry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff PC, QC was a British lawyer and Conservative politician. He is best remembered for his role in the 1885 Sir Charles Dilke divorce trial and for his tenure as Home Secretary from 1886 to 1892.-Background and education:The member of an old Herefordshire family,...
(d. 1913) - 1 March - John ThomasJohn Thomas (harpist)John Thomas was a Welsh composer and harpist. The bardic name Pencerdd Gwalia was conferred on him at the 1861 Aberdare Eisteddfod....
, harpist (d. 1913) - 8 May - George Osborne MorganGeorge Osborne MorganSir George Osborne Morgan, 1st Baronet PC, QC, was a Welsh lawyer and Liberal politician.Born at Gothenburg, Sweden, he was educated at Friars School, Bangor, Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford, and was a scholar of Worcester College, Oxford from 1847.He became a barrister of Lincoln's...
, lawyer (d. 1897) - 11 May - David Charles DaviesDavid Charles DaviesDavid Charles Davies was a Welsh Nonconformist minister.He was born at Aberystwyth, his father being a merchant and a pioneer of Welsh Methodism, and his mother a niece of Thomas Charles of Bala. He was educated in his native town by a noted schoolmaster, John Evans, at Bala College, and at...
, Nonconformist leader (d. 1891)
- 13 January - Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff
- 1827
- 27 October - Joseph Tudor Hughes (Blegwryd), harp prodigy (d. 1841)
- 1828
- 30 January - John David JenkinsJohn David JenkinsJohn David Jenkins was a Welsh clergyman and historian. He spent six years ministering in Pietermaritzburg; after his return to England, he became known as the "Rail men's Apostle" for his work with railway workers in Oxford. He was Vice-President, and then President, of the Amalgamated Society of...
, philanthropist (d. 1876)
- 30 January - John David Jenkins
- 1829
- 27 January - Isaac RobertsIsaac RobertsIsaac Roberts was a Welsh engineer and business man best known for his work as an amateur astronomer, pioneering the field of astrophotography of nebulae. He was a member of the Liverpool Astronomical Society in England and was a fellow of the Royal Geological Society...
, astronomer (d. 1904)
- 27 January - Isaac Roberts
Deaths
- 1820
- 29 January - King George III of the United KingdomGeorge III of the United KingdomGeorge III was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of these two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death...
, Prince of Wales 1751-1760 - 16 June - Thomas Jones of DenbighThomas Jones of DenbighThomas Jones , called "Thomas Jones of Denbigh" to differentiate him from namesakes, was a Welsh minister and author.-Life history:...
, Methodist preacher and writer (b. 1756) - 27 June - William Lort ManselWilliam Lort ManselBishop William Lort Mansel was an English churchman and Cambridge fellow. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1798 to his death in 1820, and also Bishop of Bristol from 1808 to 1820.William Lort Mansel was the son of William Wogan Mansel of Pembroke...
, bishop and academic (b. 1753) - 23 August - John Randles, harpist (b. 1763)
- 28 August - Henry Mills, musician (b. 1757)
- 29 January - King George III of the United Kingdom
- 1821
- 2 May - Hester ThraleHester ThraleHester Lynch Thrale was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts. Her diaries and correspondence are an important source of information about Samuel Johnson and 18th-century life.-Biography:Thrale was born at Bodvel Hall, Caernarvonshire, Wales...
, diarist (b. 1741) - 7 August - Caroline of BrunswickCaroline of BrunswickCaroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was the Queen consort of King George IV of the United Kingdom from 29 January 1820 until her death...
, former Princess of Wales (1795-1820), 53
- 2 May - Hester Thrale
- 1822
- 30 March - David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), poet (b. 1759)
- date unknown - Stephen KembleStephen KembleGeorge Stephen Kemble was a successful theatre manager, British actor, writer, and a member of the famous Kemble family....
, actor, brother of Sarah SiddonsSarah SiddonsSarah Siddons was a Welsh actress, the best-known tragedienne of the 18th century. She was the elder sister of John Philip Kemble, Charles Kemble, Stephen Kemble, Ann Hatton and Elizabeth Whitlock, and the aunt of Fanny Kemble. She was most famous for her portrayal of the Shakespearean character,...
(b. 1758)
- 1823
- 26 February - John Philip KembleJohn Philip KembleJohn Philip Kemble was an English actor. He was born into a theatrical family as the eldest son of Roger Kemble, actor-manager of a touring troupe. His elder sister Sarah Siddons achieved fame with him on the stage of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane...
, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons (b. 1757)
- 26 February - John Philip Kemble
- 1825
- 24 February - Thomas BowdlerThomas BowdlerThomas Bowdler was an English physician who published an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's work, edited by his sister Harriet, intended to be more appropriate for 19th century women and children than the original....
, editor (b. 1754) - 9 June - Abraham ReesAbraham ReesAbraham Rees was a Welsh nonconformist minister, and compiler of Rees's Cyclopaedia .- Life :He was the second son of Lewis Rees, by his wife Esther, daughter of Abraham Penry, and was born at born in Llanbrynmair, Montgomeryshire. Lewis Rees Abraham Rees (1743 – 9 June 1825) was a Welsh...
, encyclopaedist (b. 1743) - 10 August - Joseph Harris (Gomer)Joseph Harris (Gomer)Joseph Harris was a Welsh Baptist minister, author, and journal editor. A Welsh language poet, he took the Biblical name of Gomer as his bardic name. On 1 January 1814 he launched the first Welsh-language weekly Seren Gomer in Swansea.Gomer was born on a farm in Wolf's Castle, Pembrokeshire...
, Baptist minister, poet and editor (b. 1773)
- 24 February - Thomas Bowdler
- 1827
- date unknown - Helen Maria WilliamsHelen Maria WilliamsHelen Maria Williams was a British novelist, poet, and translator of French-language works. A religious dissenter, she was a supporter of abolitionism and of the ideals of the French Revolution; she was imprisoned in Paris during the Reign of Terror, but nonetheless spent much of the rest of her...
, novelist and poet (b. c. 1761)
- date unknown - Helen Maria Williams
- 1828
- September - William MadocksWilliam MadocksWilliam Alexander Madocks was a landowner and Member of Parliament for the town of Boston in Lincolnshire from 1802 to 1820, and then for Chippenham in Wiltshire from 1820 to 1826...
, landowner
- September - William Madocks
- 1829
- 26 January - Benjamin Millingchamp, collector of manuscripts (b. 1756)
- June - Elizabeth RandlesElizabeth RandlesElizabeth Randles was a Welsh harpist and pianist of the early 19th century. She was born in Wrexham on the 24 May 1801 , the daughter of Edward Randles, the blind organist of the parish church, Wrexham...
, harpist (b. 1801)