1825 in Wales

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
• 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 (until 17 June); John Jenkinson (from 24 July)

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.
• Sir Thomas Foley becomes an admiral.

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• John Brickdale Blakeway and Hugh Owen – A History of Shrewsbury
• Felicia Hemans – The Forest Sanctuary
• Walter Scott – The Bethrothed

Welsh language

• John Davies (Brychan) – Y Gog
• Peter Bailey Williams – Tragwyddol Orphwysfa'r Saint

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)

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
• 10 August – Joseph Harris (Gomer), Baptist minister, poet and editor, 52
• 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

See also

• 1825 in Ireland

References