1824 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1824 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents[]

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey^[1][2][3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Assheton Smith^[6][7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell^[2]
• 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^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney^[13][2][14]
• Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie^[15][16]
• Bishop of Llandaff – William Van Mildert^[17]
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore^[18][19][20]
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess^{[20][21][22][23]}

Events[]

• January – The construction of the "leat" or "leete" at Loggerheads, Denbighshire, used in the local lead mining industry, is first recorded.^[24]
• 8 September – The Society of Cymmrodorion sponsors a major eisteddfod at Welshpool.
• 18 December – inherits the Stepney estate.
• dates unknown
  • The first gasometer in Wales is built at Greenfield, Flintshire.
  • Chess William Davies Evans develops the Evans Gambit.^[25]
  • Major repairs to Bangor Cathedral are begun.^[26]
  • Two new furnaces are erected at the Dyffryn ironworks by .^[27]

Arts and literature[]

New books[]

• T. G. Cumming – Description of the Iron Bridges of Suspension now erecting over the Strait of Menai at Bangor and over the River Conway
• David Davis (Castellhywel) – Telyn Dewi
• (P A Môn) – An Elegy on the death of Benjamin B. Jones, the eldest surviving child of B. Jones of Holyhead
• Welsh Minstrelsy: Containing the Land beneath the Sea

Music[]

• Seren Gomer (collection of hymns including Grongar by )

Births[]

• 17 February – James Crichton-Stuart, politician (d. 1891)^[28]
• March – Isaac D. Seyburn, Welsh-born merchant captain and naval officer (d. 1895)
• 17 April – John Basson Humffray, political reformer in Australia (d. 1891)^[29]
• 24 July – Robert Jones Derfel, poet (d. 1905)^[30]
• 15 December – Morgan Thomas, Welsh-born Australian surgeon and philanthropist (d. 1903)^[31]
• date unknown – David James Jenkins, shipowner and politician (d. 1891)

Deaths[]

• 1 February – John Rice Jones, Welsh-born American politician and soldier, 64^[32]
• 18 April – Edward Jones, harpist ("Bardd y Brenin"), 72^[33]
• 30 July – David Howell, American jurist of Welsh descent, 77
• 24 August – Thomas Parry, Chennai merchant, 56 (cholera)^[34]
• November – , poet, 82
• 24 December – John Downman, artist, 74^[35]

References[]