1821 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1821 to Wales and its people.

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1821
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Incumbents

Bishop of Bangor â Henry Majendie^[14]^[15]
Bishop of Llandaff â William Van Mildert^[16]
Bishop of St Asaph â John Luxmoore^[17]^[18]^[19]
Bishop of St Davids â Thomas Burgess^[19]^[20]^[21]^[22]

Events

27 July â Sir Thomas Phillipps is created a baronet.^[23]
13 September â King George IV of the United Kingdom visits Brecon on his return from Ireland.^[24]
November â The first edition of Y Dysgedydd appears.^[25]
1 March â The first gas street lighting in Wales is installed at Swansea.^[26]
unknown date â William Madocks obtains an Act of Parliament allowing him to build a port, later known as Porthmadog.^[27]

Arts and literature

New books

John Elias â Golygiad Ysgrythurol ar Gyfiawnhad Pechadur^[28]
Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd) â Pedwar Cyflwr Dyn (translation of a work by Thomas Boston
David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) â Cywydd y Dilyw

Music

Joseph Harris (Gomer) â Casgliad o Hymnau (collection of hymns)

Births

21 April â Thomas Stephens, historian, literary critic and social reformer (d. 1875)
1 May â William Latham Bevan, church historian (d. 1908)^[29]
24 June â Guillermo Rawson, Argentinian politician (d. 1890)
6 July â Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea (d. 1894)^[30]
16 July â John Jones (Mathetes), preacher and writer (d. 1878)
14 November â John Owen (Owain Alaw), musician (d. 1883)
16 December - John Griffith, journalist writing under the pseudonym Y Gohebydd (d. 1877)^[31]
date unknown - William Davies, politician (d. 1895)

Deaths

16 February â Hugh Davies, botanist, 81
2 March - Benjamin Evans, Independent minister, 81
2 May â Hester Thrale, diarist, 80^[32]
21 May â John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors), poet and satirist, 54^[33]
13 July â Sir Watkin Lewes, lord mayor of London, 81^[34]
7 August â Caroline of Brunswick, former Princess of Wales (1795â1820), 53^[35]
12 October - William Jones, evangelist, 65
November â Richard Fenton, poet and author, 74^[36]

References

[1]
Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
[2]
J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
[3]
Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
[4]
Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
[5]
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.
[6]
Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
[7]
"not known". Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. 3. "Old Wales" Office: 106. 1907.
[8]
Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
[9]
Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
[10]
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.
[11]
Bertie George Charles (1959). "Philipps family, of Picton". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
[12]
Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
[13]
William Stockdale (1833). Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom. p. 86.
[14]
Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780521563505.
[15]
Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
[16]
Varley, Elizabeth (2007) [2004]. "Mildert, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28096. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
[17]
The Church of the people and free church penny magazine. 1859. p. 179.
[18]
The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
[19]
Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.
[20]
The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
[21]
George III (King of Great Britain) (1967). The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3. University Press. p. 434.
[22]
"Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas". The Royal Society. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
[23]
Vincent, Benjamin (2020). Haydn's Dictionary of Dates. S.l: SALZWASSER-VERLAG GMBH. p. 448. ISBN 9783846047958.
[24]
Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Edwin Poole. p. 71.
[25]
Ifano Jones (1925). A History of Printing and Printers in Wales to 1810, and of Successive and Related Printers to 1923. W. Lewis (printers), limited. p. 153.
[26]
The New Swansea Guide; Containing a Particular Description of the Town and Its Vicinity: Together with a Short History of the County. H. Griffith. 1823. p. 22.
[27]
Official Report of the Standing Committees. H.M. Stationery Office. 1974. p. 28.
[28]
Meic Stephens (1986). Cydymaith i lenyddiaeth Cymru (in Welsh). Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-7083-0915-5.
[29]
Howard, Joseph Jackson; Crisp, Frederick Arthur, eds. (1893). Visitation of England and Wales. Vol. 1. p. 282.
[30]
Leslie Stephen; Sir Sidney Lee (1899). DNB. Smith, Elder, & Company. p. 379.
[31]
"Griffith, John (Y Gohebydd; 1821 - 1877)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
[32]
Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie; Joy Dorothy Harvey (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. Taylor & Francis. p. 1026. ISBN 978-0-415-92040-7.
[33]
Iolo Morganwg; Geraint H. Jenkins; Ffion Mair Jones (2007). The Correspondence of Iolo Morganwg: 1810â1826. University of Wales Press. p. 616. ISBN 978-0-7083-2134-8.
[34]
Lewis Namier; John Brooke (1985). The House of Commons 1754-1790. Boydell & Brewer. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-436-30420-0.
[35]
Smith, E. A. "Caroline (1768â1821)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4722. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
[36]
"Fenton, Richard". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 February 2018.

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References

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