1828 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1828 to Wales and its people.

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1828
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Wales

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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 (until 12 May);^[6] Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby (from 25 November)^[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 Edward Copleston^[17]
Bishop of St Asaph â John Luxmoore^[18]^[19]^[17]
Bishop of St Davids â John Jenkinson^[17]^[20]^[21]^[22]

Events

1 June - The Saundersfoot Railway and Harbour Company is formed.^[23]
19 June - The Llanelly Dock is established by Act of Parliament.^[24]
September - Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, visits the eisteddfod at Denbigh, making it the first to receive a royal visit.^[25]
unknown dates
- An iron suspension bridge is built to link South Stack with Holy Island, Anglesey.
- David Owen (Brutus) becomes editor of the periodical Lleuad yr Oes at Aberystwyth.

Arts and literature

New books

Ellis Evans - Unoliaeth a Gweledigaeth yr Eglwys, sef, Llythyr Cymanfa Cefn Mawr^[26]
T. J. Llewelyn Prichard - The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shon Catti, descriptive of life in Wales; interspersed with poems
David Saunders (Dafydd Glan Teifi) - Awdl ar Fordaith yr Apostol Paul
John Thomas - Telyn y Cantorion
John Walters - An English and Welsh Dictionary
Thomas Wiliam - Cwyn yr Unig

Music

William Owen (Gwilym Ddu Glan Hafren) - Y Caniedydd Crefyddol (collection of hymn tunes)

Births

30 January - John David Jenkins, philanthropist (d. 1876)
4 March - Owen Wynne Jones (Glasynys), clergyman and writer (d. 1870)^[27]
13 March - Thomas Morgan Thomas, missionary (d. 1884)
6 May - Sir Hugh Rowlands, soldier (d. 1909)^[28]
4 June - David Thomas (Dewi Hefin), poet (d. 1909)
23 September - Charles James Watkin Williams, politician (d. 1884)
30 October - Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford, lawyer and statesman (d. 1911)
13 December - David Lewis Wooding, genealogist (d. 1891)
date unknown
- John Richard Hughes, evangelist (d. 1893)
- John Pryce, clergyman and writer (d. 1903)

Deaths

19 February - Thomas Jones (Y Bardd Cloff), 59
29 March - Griffith Rowlands, surgeon, 65
12 May - Thomas Assheton Smith I, industrialist, 75^[6]
15 September - William Madocks, landowner, 55^[29]
4 October - Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2nd Baronet, politician, 46/47^[30]
29 December - Priscilla Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, 67
date unknown - Edward Charles (Siamas Gwynedd), writer, 70?

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]
"ASSHETON SMITH, Thomas (c.1752-1828), of Faenol, Caern. and Tidworth, Hants". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
[7]
Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
[8]
"not known". Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. 3. "Old Wales" Office: 106. 1907.
[9]
Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
[10]
Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
[11]
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.
[12]
Thorne, R.G. "John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire". History of Parliament. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
[13]
Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
[14]
William Stockdale (1833). Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom. p. 86.
[15]
Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780521563505.
[16]
Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
[17]
Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.
[18]
The Church of the people and free church penny magazine. 1859. p. 179.
[19]
The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
[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]
Ernest Frank Carter (1959). An Historical Geography of the Railways of the British Isles. Cassel. p. 35.
[24]
Donald J. Grant (31 October 2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain. Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 322. ISBN 978-1-78803-768-6.
[25]
Thomas Griffith (1830). The Gwyneddion; Or an Account of the Royal Denbigh Eisteddfod ... September, 1828; ...: With ... Prize Essays and Poems ... Griffith. pp. 26.
[26]
Tom Ellis Jones (1959). "Evans, Ellis (1786-1864), Baptist minister and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
[27]
David Gwenallt Jones (1959). "Jones, Owen Wynne(Glasynys; 1828-1870), cleric, antiquary, story-writer, and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
[28]
Williams, Williams Alister. "Hugh Rowlands". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
[29]
David Thomas (1959). "Madocks, William Alexander (1773-1828), industrialist and philanthropist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
[30]
John Debrett (1840). G.W. Collen (ed.). The baronetage of England. p. 260.