1825 in Wales
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Template:Short description Template:Use Welsh English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Year in Wales header This article is about the particular significance of the year 1825 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 (until 17 June); John Jenkinson (from 24 July)[20][21][22][23]
Events
- 2 January – The square-rigged transatlantic ocean liner Diamond strikes Sarn Badrig in Cardigan Bay and sinks.
- unknown dates
- The first public wharves are built at Portmadoc.
- Rails for the Stockton and Darlington Railway (opened 27 September) are made at Ebbw Vale.
- Publication of Seren Gomer moves to Carmarthen.[24]
- Sir Thomas Foley becomes an admiral.
Arts and literature
New books
English language
- John Brickdale Blakeway and Hugh Owen – A History of Shrewsbury[25]
- Felicia Hemans – The Forest Sanctuary[26]
- Walter Scott – The Bethrothed
Welsh language
- John Davies (Brychan) – Y Gog
- Peter Bailey Williams – Tragwyddol Orphwysfa'r Saint[27]
Music
- Jedediah Richards – Diddanwch y Pererinion
Births
- 15 January – Eleazar Roberts, writer and musician (d. 1912)
- 25 January – Robert Piercy, civil engineer (d. 1894)
- 7 June – R. D. Blackmore, English novelist of Anglo-Welsh parentage (d. 1900)[28]
Deaths
- 12 February – John Humffreys Parry, antiquary, 39 (in a tavern brawl)
- 24 February – Thomas Bowdler, editor, 70
- 16 April – Hugh Jones (Maesglasau), hymn-writer, 75
- 2 May – Michael Hughes, industrialist, 72
- 9 June – Abraham Rees, encyclopaedist, 81[29]
- 10 August – Joseph Harris (Gomer), Baptist minister, poet and editor, 52[30]
- 12 September – Sir Thomas Stepney, 9th Baronet, groom of the bedchamber to Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany and last of his line, 65[31]
See also
References
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