1825 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1825 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 (until 17 June); John Jenkinson (from 24 July)^{[20] [21] [22] [23]}

Events

• 2 January – 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 – A History of Shrewsbury^[25]
• Felicia Hemans – The Forest Sanctuary^[26]
• Walter Scott – The Bethrothed

Welsh language

• John Davies (Brychan) – Y Gog
• Peter Bailey Williams – Tragwyddol Orphwysfa'r Saint^[27]

Music

• Jedediah Richards – Diddanwch y Pererinion

Births

• 15 January – Eleazar Roberts, writer and musician (d. 1912)
• 25 January – Robert Piercy, civil engineer (d. 1894)
• 7 June – R. D. Blackmore, English novelist of Anglo-Welsh parentage (d. 1900)^[28]

Deaths

• 12 February – John Humffreys Parry, antiquary, 39 (in a tavern brawl)
• 24 February – Thomas Bowdler, editor, 70
• 16 April – Hugh Jones (Maesglasau), hymn-writer, 75
• 2 May – Michael Hughes, industrialist, 72
• 9 June – Abraham Rees, encyclopaedist, 81^[29]
• 10 August – Joseph Harris (Gomer), Baptist minister, poet and editor, 52^[30]
• 12 September – Sir Thomas Stepney, 9th Baronet, groom of the bedchamber to Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany and last of his line, 65^[31]

See also

• 1825 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. Book: Finkelstein, David . The Edinburgh history of the British and Irish press . Edinburgh University Press . Edinburgh . 2020 . 9781474424912 .
25. Book: John Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry; Or, Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Etc. 1837. Henry Colburn. 512.
26. Book: Charles Mahoney. A Companion to Romantic Poetry. 21 December 2010. John Wiley & Sons. 978-1-4443-9064-3. 80.
27. Book: National Library of Wales. Annual Report – Presented by the Council to the Court of Governors. 1961. The Library. 25.
28. Book: Shurey, Richard . Walking through literary landscapes . David & Charles . Newton Abbot . 1984 . 9780715384862 . 26.
29. s-REES-ABR-1743. Rees, Abraham (1743-1825), encyclopaedist. David Williams. Llewelyn Gwyn Chambers. 1959. 27 November 2021.
30. s-HARR-JOS-1773. Harris, Joseph (Gomer, 1773-1825), Baptist minister and man of letters. William Joseph Rhys. 1959. 27 November 2021.
31. Book: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. 1971. The Society. 247.