1822 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1822 to Wales and its people.
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 Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley (until 3 June); Thomas Assheton Smith (from 18 July)[6]
- 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[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford[2][11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney[12][2][13]
- Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie[14][15]
- Bishop of Llandaff – William Van Mildert[16]
- Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore[17][18][19]
- Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess[19][20][21][22]
Events
[edit]- April - Launch of the Chester Cymmrodorion Society.
- 13 June - William Lloyd climbs Boorendo in the Himalayas.
- 12 August - St David's College (now the University of Wales, Lampeter) is founded by Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's.
- Beginning of "Rhyfel y Sais Bach" ("War of the Little Englishman"), a dispute over enclosures in Pembrokeshire.[23]
- Horse-drawn trams begin a passenger service between Tredegar and Newport.
- Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet, establishes a private printing press in Broadway Tower on his estate at Middle Hill in Worcestershire.
Arts and literature
[edit]New books
[edit]- John Hughes - An Essay on the Ancient and Present State of the Welsh Language
- William Owen Pughe - Hu Gadarn
- John Montgomery Traherne - Lists of Knights of the Shire of Glamorgan
- Y Cymmrodor (first, unnumbered volume)
Music
[edit]- Stephen Llwyd - "Caerllyngoed" (hymn tune)
Births
[edit]- 2 January – Basil Jones, bishop (d. 1897)[24]
- 2 March – Michael D. Jones, Tad y Wladfa, founder of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia (d. 1898)[25]
- 3 August – John Rhys Morgan, minister, teacher and poet (d. 1900)
- 25 September - William Bloomfield Douglas, colonial governor (d. 1906)
- 4 October - Charles Williams-Wynn, politician (d. 1896)[26]
- 27 October – Aneurin Jones (Aneurin Fardd), writer (d. 1904)
- 15 December – Edward Stephen (Tanymarian), musician (d. 1885)[27]
- 22 December - John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), musician and minister (d. 1877)[28]
Deaths
[edit]
- 30 March – David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), poet, 62
- 9 April – William Jones, Welsh-descended Governor of Rhode Island, 68[29]
- 22 May – Samuel Homfray, industrialist, 59[30]
- 5 June
- (near Durham) - Stephen Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons, 64
- George Lewis, theologian, 59
- 19 June – Poulett Somerset, soldier and politician, 53[31]
- 25 September – John Henry Bowen, American politician of Welsh descent, 42[32]
- 22 December – Sarah Wesley (née Gwynne), widow of Charles Wesley, 96[33][34]
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 d 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Bertie George Charles (1959). "Philipps family, of Picton". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Jones, Eirian. War of the Little Englishman, Lolfa, 2007
- ^ "Jones, William Basil (Tickell) (1822–1897)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
- ^ Richard Griffith Owen. "Jones, Michael Daniel (1822-1898), Independent minister and principal of the Independent College at Bala". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
- ^ "Death of Charles Watkins Williams-Wynn". The Montgomery County Times and Shropshire and Mid-Wales Advertiser. 2 May 1896. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
- ^ Robert David Griffith (1959). "Stephen, Edward (Jones) (Tanymarian; 1822-1885), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
- ^ Robert David Griffith. "Roberts, John (Ieuan Gwyllt; 1822-1877), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
- ^ The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Rhode Island. Providence: National Biographical Publishing Co. 1881. pp. 155–156.
- ^ "Homfray family". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
- ^ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 2, page 3188.
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- United States Congress. "1822 in Wales (id: B000684)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- ^ Cheetham, J. Keith (2003). On the Trail of John Wesley. Edinburgh: Luath Press. pp. 95–97. ISBN 1-84282-023-0.
- ^ Barry, Joseph (2010). Temperley, Nicholas; Banfield, Stephen (eds.). Music and the Wesleys. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. pp. 141–146. ISBN 978-0-252-07767-8.