1820s in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1820â1829 to Wales and its people.
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Arts and literature
New books
- John Elias â Golygiad Ysgrythurol ar Gyfiawnhad Pechadur (1821)
- Felicia Hemans â The Forest Sanctuary (1825)
- Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) â An Essay on the Physiognomy and Physiology of the Present Inhabitants of Britain (1829)
- David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) â Cywydd y Dilyw (1821)
Music
- John Ellis â Eliot (hymn tune) (1823)
- Edward Jones â Hen Ganiadau Cymru (1820)
- Peroriaeth Hyfryd (collection of hymns including Caersalem by Robert Edwards) (1827)
- Seren Gomer (collection of hymns including Grongar by John Edwards) (1824)
Births
- 1820
- 21 May â Sir Thomas Lloyd, 1st Baronet, politician and landowner (d. 1877)
- 1821
- 24 June â Guillermo Rawson, Argentinian politician (d. 1890)
- 16 July â John Jones (Mathetes), preacher and writer (d. 1878)
- 1822
- 2 March â Michael D. Jones, Patagonian settler (d. 1898)
- 1823
- 8 January â Alfred Russel Wallace, biologist (d. 1913)
- March â Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn), poet and archdruid (d. 1905)
- 23 November â Sir John Evans, archaeologist (d. 1908)
- 1824
- date unknown â John Basson Humffray, political reformer in Australia (d. 1891)
- 1825
- 7 June â R. D. Blackmore, novelist (d. 1900)
- 1826
- 13 January â Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff (d. 1913)
- 1 March â John Thomas, harpist (d. 1913)
- 8 May â George Osborne Morgan, lawyer (d. 1897)
- 11 May â David Charles Davies, Nonconformist leader (d. 1891)
- 1827
- 27 October â Joseph Tudor Hughes (Blegwryd), harp prodigy (d. 1841)
- 1828
- 30 January â John David Jenkins, philanthropist (d. 1876)
- 1829
- 27 January â Isaac Roberts, astronomer (d. 1904)[1]
Deaths
- 1820
- 29 January â King George III of the United Kingdom, Prince of Wales 1751â1760
- 16 June â Thomas Jones of Denbigh, Methodist preacher and writer (b. 1756)
- 27 June â William Lort Mansel, bishop and academic (b. 1753)
- 23 August â John Randles, harpist (b. 1763)
- 28 August â Henry Mills, musician (b. 1757)
- 1821
- 2 May â Hester Thrale, diarist (b. 1741)
- 7 August â Caroline of Brunswick, former Princess of Wales (1795â1820), 53
- 1822
- 30 March â David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), poet (b. 1759)
- date unknown â Stephen Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons (b. 1758)
- 1823
- 26 February â John Philip Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons (b. 1757)
- 1825
- 24 February â Thomas Bowdler, editor (b. 1754)[2]
- 9 June â Abraham Rees, encyclopaedist (b. 1743)
- 10 August â Joseph Harris (Gomer), Baptist minister, poet and editor (b. 1773)
- 1827
- date unknown â Helen Maria Williams, novelist and poet (b. c. 1761)
- 1828
- September â William Madocks, landowner
- 1829
- 26 January â Benjamin Millingchamp, collector of manuscripts (b. 1756)
- June â Elizabeth Randles, harpist (b. 1801)