1828 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1828 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 (until 12 May); Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby (from 25 November)
• 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 – Edward Copleston
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore
• Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson

Events

• 1 June - The Saundersfoot Railway and Harbour Company is formed.
• 19 June - The Llanelly Dock is established by Act of Parliament.
• September - Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, visits the eisteddfod at Denbigh, making it the first to receive a royal visit.
• unknown dates
• An iron suspension bridge is built to link South Stack with Holy Island, Anglesey.
• David Owen (Brutus) becomes editor of the periodical Lleuad yr Oes at Aberystwyth.

Arts and literature

New books

• Ellis Evans - Unoliaeth a Gweledigaeth yr Eglwys, sef, Llythyr Cymanfa Cefn Mawr
• T. J. Llewelyn Prichard - The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shon Catti, descriptive of life in Wales; interspersed with poems
• David Saunders (Dafydd Glan Teifi) - Awdl ar Fordaith yr Apostol Paul
• John Thomas - Telyn y Cantorion
• John Walters - An English and Welsh Dictionary
• Thomas Wiliam - Cwyn yr Unig

Music

• William Owen (Gwilym Ddu Glan Hafren) - Y Caniedydd Crefyddol (collection of hymn tunes)

Births

• 30 January - John David Jenkins, philanthropist (d. 1876)
• 4 March - Owen Wynne Jones (Glasynys), clergyman and writer (d. 1870)
• 13 March - Thomas Morgan Thomas, missionary (d. 1884)
• 6 May - Sir Hugh Rowlands, soldier (d. 1909)
• 4 June - David Thomas (Dewi Hefin), poet (d. 1909)
• 23 September - Charles James Watkin Williams, politician (d. 1884)
• 30 October - Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford, lawyer and statesman (d. 1911)
• 13 December - David Lewis Wooding, genealogist (d. 1891)
• date unknown
• John Richard Hughes, evangelist (d. 1893)
• John Pryce, clergyman and writer (d. 1903)

Deaths

• 19 February - Thomas Jones (Y Bardd Cloff), 59
• 29 March - Griffith Rowlands, surgeon, 65
• 12 May - Thomas Assheton Smith I, industrialist, 75
• 15 September - William Madocks, landowner, 55
• 4 October - Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2nd Baronet, politician, 46/47
• 29 December - Priscilla Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, 67
• date unknown - Edward Charles (Siamas Gwynedd), writer, 70?

See also

• 1828 in Ireland

References