1822 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1822 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley (until 3 June); Thomas Assheton Smith (from 18 July)^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell^[2]
  • • Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford^{[2] [11]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney^{[12] [2] [13]}
• Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie^{[14] [15]}
• Bishop of Llandaff – William Van Mildert^[16]
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore^{[17] [18]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess^{[19] [20] [21] [22]}

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 "" ("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 – Basil Jones, bishop (d. 1897)^[24]
• 2 March – Michael D. Jones, Tad y Wladfa, founder of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia (d. 1898)^[25]
• 3 August – 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 – Aneurin Jones (Aneurin Fardd), writer (d. 1904)
• 15 December – Edward Stephen (Tanymarian), musician (d. 1885)
• 22 December - John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), musician and minister (d. 1877)

Deaths

• 30 March – David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), poet, 62
• 9 April – William Jones, Welsh-descended Governor of Rhode Island, 68^[27]
• 22 May – Samuel Homfray, industrialist, 59^[28]
  • • 5 June (near Durham) - Stephen Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons, 64
  • George Lewis, theologian, 59
• 25 September – John Henry Bowen, American politician of Welsh descent, 42
• 22 December – Sarah Wesley (née Gwynne), widow of Charles Wesley, 96^{[29] [30]}

See also

• 1822 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 24.
2. Book: J.C. Sainty . John Sainty (civil servant) . List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 . Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd . London . 1979.
3. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 695.
4. Book: Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. 169.
5. Book: Edwin Poole. 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. 1886. 378.
6. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 26.
7. Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. not known. William Retlaw Williams. "Old Wales" Office. 1907. 3. 106.
8. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 612.
9. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 29.
10. Web site: R. G. Thorne. Clive, Edward, 2nd Baron Clive (1754-1839), of Walcot, Salop. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820. 1986. 13 November 2021.
11. s-PHIL-PIC-1491. Philipps family, of Picton. Bertie George Charles. 1959. 19 October 2021.
12. Book: Jonathan Williams. The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. 1859. 115.
13. Book: William Stockdale. Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom. 1833. 86.
14. Book: Fryde, E. B. . Handbook of British chronology . New York Cambridge University Press . Cambridge England . 1996 . 9780521563505 . 292.
15. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 305.
16. 28096. Mildert, William. 2004. 2007. Varley. Elizabeth.
17. Book: The Church of the people and free church penny magazine. 1859. 179.
18. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
19. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 307.
20. Book: The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. 95.
21. Book: The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3. George III (King of Great Britain). University Press. 1967. 434.
22. Web site: Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas . The Royal Society . 30 October 2020.
23. Jones, Eirian. War of the Little Englishman, Lolfa, 2007
24. s-JONE-BAS-1822 . Jones, William Basil (Tickell) (1822–1897) . 21 April 2011.
25. s-JONE-DAN-1822. Jones, Michael Daniel (1822-1898), Independent minister and principal of the Independent College at Bala. Richard Griffith Owen. 19 March 2019.
26. Web site: Death of Charles Watkins Williams-Wynn. The Montgomery County Times and Shropshire and Mid-Wales Advertiser. 2 May 1896. 10 December 2019.
27. Book: The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Rhode Island. 1881. National Biographical Publishing Co. Providence. 155–156.
28. s-HOMF-RAY-1726. Homfray family. 25 November 2021.
29. Book: Cheetham, J. Keith . On the Trail of John Wesley . Luath Press . Edinburgh . 2003 . 95–97 . 1-84282-023-0 .
30. Book: Barry, Joseph . Temperley . Nicholas . Banfield . Stephen . Music and the Wesleys . University of Illinois Press . Urbana . 2010 . 141–146 . 978-0-252-07767-8.