1822 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1822 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 â Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley (until 3 June); Thomas Assheton Smith (from 18 July)[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â William Edward Powell[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
- 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
New books
- 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
- Stephen Llwyd - "Caerllyngoed" (hymn tune)
Births
- 2 January â Basil Jones, bishop (d. 1897)[24]
- 2 March â Michael D. Jones, Tad y Wladfa, founder of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia (d. 1898)[25]
- 3 August â 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 â Aneurin Jones (Aneurin Fardd), writer (d. 1904)
- 15 December â Edward Stephen (Tanymarian), musician (d. 1885)[27]
- 22 December - John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), musician and minister (d. 1877)[28]
Deaths
- 30 March â David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), poet, 62
- 9 April â William Jones, Welsh-descended Governor of Rhode Island, 68[29]
- 22 May â Samuel Homfray, industrialist, 59[30]
- 5 June
- (near Durham) - Stephen Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons, 64
- George Lewis, theologian, 59
- 19 June â Poulett Somerset, soldier and politician, 53[31]
- 25 September â John Henry Bowen, American politician of Welsh descent, 42[32]
- 22 December â Sarah Wesley (née Gwynne), widow of Charles Wesley, 96[33][34]