1824 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1824 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 Assheton Smith[6][7]
- 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[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney[13][2][14]
- Bishop of Bangor â Henry Majendie[15][16]
- Bishop of Llandaff â William Van Mildert[17]
- Bishop of St Asaph â John Luxmoore[18][19][20]
- Bishop of St Davids â Thomas Burgess[20][21][22][23]
Events
- January â The construction of the "leat" or "leete" at Loggerheads, Denbighshire, used in the local lead mining industry, is first recorded.[24]
- 8 September â The Society of Cymmrodorion sponsors a major eisteddfod at Welshpool.
- 18 December â William Chambers inherits the Stepney estate.
- dates unknown
- The first gasometer in Wales is built at Greenfield, Flintshire.
- Chess William Davies Evans develops the Evans Gambit.[25]
- Major repairs to Bangor Cathedral are begun.[26]
- Two new furnaces are erected at the Dyffryn ironworks by Anthony Hill.[27]
Arts and literature
New books
English language
- T. G. Cumming â Description of the Iron Bridges of Suspension now erecting over the Strait of Menai at Bangor and over the River Conway
- Benjamin Jones (P A Môn) â An Elegy on the death of Benjamin B. Jones, the eldest surviving child of B. Jones of Holyhead
- William Owen â Drych Crefyddol yn dangos Dechreuad y Grefydd Brotestanaidd[28]
- Thomas Prichard â Welsh Minstrelsy: Containing the Land beneath the Sea[29]
Welsh language
- David Davis (Castellhywel) â Telyn Dewi[30]
- John Howell (editor) â Blodau Dyfed'[31]
Music
- Seren Gomer (collection of hymns including Grongar by John Edwards)
Births
- 17 February â James Crichton-Stuart, politician (d. 1891)[32]
- March â Isaac D. Seyburn, Welsh-born merchant captain and naval officer (d. 1895)
- 17 April â John Basson Humffray, political reformer in Australia (d. 1891)[33]
- 24 July â Robert Jones Derfel, poet (d. 1905)[34]
- 15 December â Morgan Thomas, Welsh-born Australian surgeon and philanthropist (d. 1903)[35]
- date unknown â David James Jenkins, shipowner and politician (d. 1891)
Deaths
- 1 February â John Rice Jones, Welsh-born American politician and soldier, 64[36]
- 18 April â Edward Jones, harpist ("Bardd y Brenin"), 72[37]
- 30 July â David Howell, American jurist of Welsh descent, 77
- 24 August â Thomas Parry, Chennai merchant, 56 (cholera)[38]
- 18 September â Thomas Hill of Dennis, industrialist, about 92[39]
- November â William Moses, poet, 82
- 24 December â John Downman, artist, 74[40]