1824 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1824 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 Assheton Smith^{[6] [7]}
• 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^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney^{[13] [2] [14]}
• Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie^{[15] [16]}
• Bishop of Llandaff – William Van Mildert^[17]
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore^{[18] [19]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess^{[20] [21] [22] [23]}

Events

• January – The construction of the "leat" or "leete" at Loggerheads, Denbighshire, used in the local lead mining industry, is first recorded.^[24]
• 8 September – The Society of Cymmrodorion sponsors a major eisteddfod at Welshpool.
• 18 December – 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

• T. G. Cumming – Description of the Iron Bridges of Suspension now erecting over the Strait of Menai at Bangor and over the River Conway
• David Davis (Castellhywel) – Telyn Dewi
• Benjamin Jones (P A Môn) – An Elegy on the death of Benjamin B. Jones, the eldest surviving child of B. Jones of Holyhead
• Welsh Minstrelsy: Containing the Land beneath the Sea

Music

• Seren Gomer (collection of hymns including Grongar by John Edwards)

Births

• 17 February – James Crichton-Stuart, politician (d. 1891)^[28]
• March – Isaac D. Seyburn, Welsh-born merchant captain and naval officer (d. 1895)
• 17 April – John Basson Humffray, political reformer in Australia (d. 1891)^[29]
• 24 July – Robert Jones Derfel, poet (d. 1905)^[30]
• 15 December – Morgan Thomas, Welsh-born Australian surgeon and philanthropist (d. 1903)
• date unknown – David James Jenkins, shipowner and politician (d. 1891)

Deaths

• 1 February – John Rice Jones, Welsh-born American politician and soldier, 64^[31]
• 18 April – Edward Jones, harpist ("Bardd y Brenin"), 72^[32]
• 30 July – David Howell, American jurist of Welsh descent, 77
• 24 August – Thomas Parry, Chennai merchant, 56 (cholera)^[33]
• November – William Moses, poet, 82
• 24 December – John Downman, artist, 74^[34]

See also

• 1824 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. Web site: ASSHETON SMITH, Thomas (c.1752-1828), of Faenol, Caern. and Tidworth, Hants.. History of Parliament Online. 6 June 2013.
7. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 26.
8. Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. not known. William Retlaw Williams. "Old Wales" Office. 1907. 3. 106.
9. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 612.
10. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 29.
11. 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.
12. Web site: Thorne . R.G. . John Owen (1776–1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire . History of Parliament . 27 March 2020.
13. Book: Jonathan Williams. The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. 1859. 115.
14. Book: William Stockdale. Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom. 1833. 86.
15. Book: Fryde, E. B. . Handbook of British chronology . New York Cambridge University Press . Cambridge England . 1996 . 9780521563505 . 292.
16. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 305.
17. 28096. Mildert, William. 2004. 2007. Varley. Elizabeth.
18. Book: The Church of the people and free church penny magazine. 1859. 179.
19. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
20. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 307.
21. Book: The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. 95.
22. Book: The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3. George III (King of Great Britain). University Press. 1967. 434.
23. Web site: Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas . The Royal Society . 30 October 2020.
24. Web site: The Leete, Loggerheads Country Park (CPAT Report No. 1529). 2. Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust.
25. Book: Harold James Ruthven Murray. A Short History of Chess. Clarendon Press. 1963. 74.
26. Transactions (Trafodion). Bangor Cathedral. Caernarvonshire Historical Society . 1968. 29–31. 55.
27. Book: Charles Wilkins. The History of the Iron, Steel, Tinplate and ... Other Trades of Wales. Joseph Williams. 1903. 151.
28. Book: James Balfour Paul. The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom. 1905. D. Douglas. 309.
29. Humffray, John Basson. 26 August 2022. 586.
30. Gwenallt Jones. David. 1959. Derfel, Robert Jones (1824–1905), poet and socialist. s-DERF-JON-1824. 30 August 2021.
31. Book: Jones, W.A. Burt. John Rice Jones: a brief sketch of the life and public career of the first practicing lawyer in Illinois.. 1889. Fergus Printing Company. Fergus' Historical Series #82. Chicago, Illinois.
32. Book: Philip H. Highfill. Kalman A. Burnim. Edward A. Langhans. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Hough to Keyse. 1982. SIU Press. 978-0-8093-0919-1. 231.
33. Book: Allister Macmillan. Seaports of India & Ceylon: Historical and Descriptive, Commercial and Industrial, Facts, Figures, & Resources. 1928. W. H. & L. Collingridge. 295.
34. 403. Downman, John.