1824 in Wales

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
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Assheton Smith
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell
• 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
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney
• Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie
• Bishop of Llandaff – William Van Mildert
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess

Events

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

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• T. G. Cumming – Description of the Iron Bridges of Suspension now erecting over the Strait of Menai at Bangor and over the River Conway
• Benjamin Jones (P A Môn) – An Elegy on the death of Benjamin B. Jones, the eldest surviving child of B. Jones of Holyhead
• William Owen – Drych Crefyddol yn dangos Dechreuad y Grefydd Brotestanaidd
• Thomas Prichard – Welsh Minstrelsy: Containing the Land beneath the Sea

Welsh language

• David Davis (Castellhywel) – Telyn Dewi
• John Howell (editor) – Blodau Dyfed