1817 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1817 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey â Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire â Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â William Edward Powell (from 22 November)[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire â George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire â Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire â Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford[2][11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney[12][2][13]
Events
- March - A riot breaks out in Amlwch over food prices, and a ship carrying flour is prevented from leaving the harbour.[23]
- 22 July - Windham Sadler succeeds in crossing the Irish Sea by hot air balloon, landing near Holyhead.
- October John Gibson arrives in Rome to study sculpture with help from Antonio Canova.
- 6 December - Joseph Tregelles Price advertises Neath Abbey ironworks for sale.
- dates unknown
- Lewis Weston Dillwyn retires from managing the Cambrian Pottery at Swansea.[24]
- Joseph Harris (Gomer) launches the unsuccessful periodical, Greal y Bedyddwyr.[25]
- Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis drafts the report on the Poor Law which brings its abuses to the attention of the public.
- Construction work commences on the first chapel in Tywyn.[26]
- Approximate date - Britain's longest tramroad tunnel is opened at Pwll du near Blaenavon. The Pwll Du Tunnel is more than a mile (2400 m) in length. Begun as a mineral adit, at this time it carries a horse-drawn double track plateway of approximately 2 ft (600 mm) gauge carrying material for Blaenavon Ironworks; next summer it will be incorporated in Thomas Hill's Tramroad, connecting to the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal.[27]
Arts and literature
New books
- Catherine Hutton - The Welsh Mountaineer[28]
- John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd) - Annerch Plant a Rhieni oddi ar farwolaeth William Thomas mab Lewis Thomas, Llanrwst
Music
Births
- 3 March - Robert Thompson Crawshay, iron-master (died 1879)[30]
- 6 May - John Prichard, architect (d. 1886)[31]
- June - John Corbett, industrialist (died 1901)
- 16 June - Charles Herbert James, politician (died 1890)
- 16 August - Rowland Williams, theologian and academic (died 1870)[32]
- 17 September - Hugh Humphreys, publisher (died 1896)[33]
- 13 November - Henry Brinley Richards, composer (died 1885)[34]
- 17 December - Erasmus Jones, novelist (died 1909)[35]
- Thomas Thomas, chapel architect and minister (died 1888)
Deaths
- 16 January - General Vaughan Lloyd, commander of the Woolwich Arsenal, 80[36]
- 27 March - Josiah Boydell, artist, 65[37]
- 17 July - William Williams (antiquary), author, 79
- 31 July - Benjamin Hall, industrialist, 36[38]
- date unknown - David Hughes, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford