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1825 in Wales 
Summary
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1825 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
New books edit
English language edit
- John Brickdale Blakeway and Hugh Owen – A History of Shrewsbury[25]
- Felicia Hemans – The Forest Sanctuary[26]
- Walter Scott – The Bethrothed
Welsh language edit
- John Davies (Brychan) – Y Gog
- Peter Bailey Williams – Tragwyddol Orphwysfa'r Saint[27]
Music edit
- Jedediah Richards – Diddanwch y Pererinion
Births edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
References edit
- ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
- ^ a b c J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
- ^ Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
- ^ "ASSHETON SMITH, Thomas (c.1752-1828), of Faenol, Caern. and Tidworth, Hants". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
- ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
- ^ "not known". Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. 3. "Old Wales" Office: 106. 1907.
- ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
- ^ R. G. Thorne (1986). "Clive, Edward, 2nd Baron Clive (1754-1839), of Walcot, Salop". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ Thorne, R.G. "John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire". History of Parliament. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
- ^ Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
- ^ William Stockdale (1833). Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom. p. 86.
- ^ Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780521563505.
- ^ Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
- ^ Varley, Elizabeth (2007) [2004]. "Mildert, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28096. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ The Church of the people and free church penny magazine. 1859. p. 179.
- ^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
- ^ a b Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.
- ^ The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
- ^ George III (King of Great Britain) (1967). The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3. University Press. p. 434.
- ^ "Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas". The Royal Society. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ Finkelstein, David (2020). The Edinburgh history of the British and Irish press. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781474424912.
- ^ John Burke (1837). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry; Or, Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Etc. Henry Colburn. p. 512.
- ^ Charles Mahoney (21 December 2010). A Companion to Romantic Poetry. John Wiley & Sons. p. 80. ISBN 978-1-4443-9064-3.
- ^ National Library of Wales (1961). Annual Report – Presented by the Council to the Court of Governors. The Library. p. 25.
- ^ Shurey, Richard (1984). Walking through literary landscapes. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 26. ISBN 9780715384862.
- ^ David Williams; Llewelyn Gwyn Chambers (1959). "Rees, Abraham (1743-1825), encyclopaedist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
- ^ William Joseph Rhys (1959). "Harris, Joseph (Gomer, 1773-1825), Baptist minister and man of letters". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
- ^ Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (1971). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. p. 247.