1824 in Wales
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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[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[20][21][22][23]
Events
- January – The construction of the "leat" or "leete" at Loggerheads, Denbighshire, used in the local lead mining industry, is first recorded.[24]
- 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.[25]
- Major repairs to Bangor Cathedral are begun.[26]
- Two new furnaces are erected at the Dyffryn ironworks by Anthony Hill.[27]
Arts and literature
New books
- T. G. Cumming – Description of the Iron Bridges of Suspension now erecting over the Strait of Menai at Bangor and over the River Conway
- David Davis (Castellhywel) – Telyn Dewi
- Benjamin Jones (P A Môn) – An Elegy on the death of Benjamin B. Jones, the eldest surviving child of B. Jones of Holyhead
- Welsh Minstrelsy: Containing the Land beneath the Sea
Music
- Seren Gomer (collection of hymns including Grongar by John Edwards)
Births
- 17 February – James Crichton-Stuart, politician (d. 1891)[28]
- March – Isaac D. Seyburn, Welsh-born merchant captain and naval officer (d. 1895)
- 17 April – John Basson Humffray, political reformer in Australia (d. 1891)[29]
- 24 July – Robert Jones Derfel, poet (d. 1905)[30]
- 15 December – Morgan Thomas, Welsh-born Australian surgeon and philanthropist (d. 1903)[31]
- date unknown – David James Jenkins, shipowner and politician (d. 1891)
Deaths
- 1 February – John Rice Jones, Welsh-born American politician and soldier, 64[32]
- 18 April – Edward Jones, harpist ("Bardd y Brenin"), 72[33]
- 30 July – David Howell, American jurist of Welsh descent, 77
- 24 August – Thomas Parry, Chennai merchant, 56 (cholera)[34]
- November – William Moses, poet, 82
- 24 December – John Downman, artist, 74[35]
See also
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ "The Leete, Loggerheads Country Park (CPAT Report No. 1529)" (PDF). Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust. p. 2.
- ^ Harold James Ruthven Murray (1963). A Short History of Chess. Clarendon Press. p. 74.
- ^ "Bangor Cathedral". Transactions (Trafodion). 29–31. Caernarvonshire Historical Society: 55. 1968.
- ^ Charles Wilkins (1903). The History of the Iron, Steel, Tinplate and ... Other Trades of Wales. Joseph Williams. p. 151.
- ^ James Balfour Paul (1905). The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom. D. Douglas. p. 309.
- ^ "Humffray, John Basson". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
- ^ Gwenallt Jones, David (1959). "Derfel, Robert Jones (1824–1905), poet and socialist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
- ^ Serle, Percival (1949). "Thomas, Morgan". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
- ^ Jones, W.A. Burt (1889). John Rice Jones: a brief sketch of the life and public career of the first practicing lawyer in Illinois. Chicago, Illinois: Fergus Printing Company. Fergus' Historical Series #82.
- ^ Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1982). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Hough to Keyse. SIU Press. p. 231. ISBN 978-0-8093-0919-1.
- ^ Allister Macmillan (1928). Seaports of India & Ceylon: Historical and Descriptive, Commercial and Industrial, Facts, Figures, & Resources. W. H. & L. Collingridge. p. 295.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. p. 403.