1825 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1825 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 (until 17 June); John Jenkinson (from 24 July)[20][21][22][23]
Events
- 2 January â The square-rigged transatlantic ocean liner Diamond strikes Sarn Badrig in Cardigan Bay and sinks.
- unknown dates
- The first public wharves are built at Portmadoc.
- Rails for the Stockton and Darlington Railway (opened 27 September) are made at Ebbw Vale.
- Publication of Seren Gomer moves to Carmarthen.[24]
- Sir Thomas Foley becomes an admiral.
Arts and literature
New books
English language
- John Brickdale Blakeway and Hugh Owen â A History of Shrewsbury[25]
- Felicia Hemans â The Forest Sanctuary[26]
- Walter Scott â The Bethrothed
Welsh language
- John Davies (Brychan) â Y Gog
- Peter Bailey Williams â Tragwyddol Orphwysfa'r Saint[27]
Music
- Jedediah Richards â Diddanwch y Pererinion
Births
- 15 January â Eleazar Roberts, writer and musician (d. 1912)
- 25 January â Robert Piercy, civil engineer (d. 1894)
- 7 June â R. D. Blackmore, English novelist of Anglo-Welsh parentage (d. 1900)[28]
Deaths
- 12 February â John Humffreys Parry, antiquary, 39 (in a tavern brawl)
- 24 February â Thomas Bowdler, editor, 70
- 16 April â Hugh Jones (Maesglasau), hymn-writer, 75
- 2 May â Michael Hughes, industrialist, 72
- 9 June â Abraham Rees, encyclopaedist, 81[29]
- 10 August â Joseph Harris (Gomer), Baptist minister, poet and editor, 52[30]
- 12 September â Sir Thomas Stepney, 9th Baronet, groom of the bedchamber to Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany and last of his line, 65[31]