1820 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1820 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort ^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley ^[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 – Herbert Marsh (until 28 April); ^[16] William Van Mildert (from 31 May) ^[17]
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore ^{[18] [19] [20]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess ^{[20] [21] [22] [23]}

Events

• 29 January – The Prince of Wales becomes King George IV of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, King George III.
• 14 April – At the completion of the United Kingdom general election:
  • Henry Paget, later Marquess of Anglesey, is elected as member for Anglesey.
  • Wyndham Lewis is elected for Cardiff. ^[24]
  • Christopher Cole is re-elected for Glamorganshire.
• 24 June – The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion is revived, having been in abeyance since 1787. ^[25]
• date unknown
  • The first "colliery school" in the South Wales coalfield is established at Hirwaun. ^[26]
  • Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) founds a Welsh school at Gelli Felen. ^[27]
  • Crawshay Bailey becomes a partner at Nant-y-glo ironworks with his brother, Joseph Bailey.
  • Tondu Ironworks is built by Sir Robert Price.
  • John Scandrett Harford meets Bishop Thomas Burgess and offers to donate the site of Lampeter Castle for the construction of St David's College. ^[28]

Arts and literature

New books

• Felicia Hemans – The Sceptic
• John Jones (Tegid) – Traethawd ar Gadwedigaeth yr Iaith Gymraeg
• Robert Jones – Drych yr Amseroedd
• William Probert - Y Gododdin (first English translation)

Music

• Edward Jones – Hen Ganiadau Cymru ^[29]

Births

• 13 May – Robert Owen, theologian (d. 1902) ^[30]
• 21 May – Sir Thomas Lloyd, 1st Baronet, politician and landowner (d. 1877)
• 22 May – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 6th Baronet, politician (d. 1885) ^[31]
• 20 June – Thomas Essile Davies (Dewi Wyn o Essyllt), poet (d. 1891) ^[32]
• 5 September – Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd), minister and journalist (d. 1852) ^[33]

Deaths

• 20 January – Eliezer Williams, clergyman and genealogist, 75 ^[34]
• 29 January – King George III of the United Kingdom, Prince of Wales 1751–1760, 81 ^[35]
• 6 May – Wilmot Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Lisburne, landowner, 64 ^[36]
• 16 June – Thomas Jones of Denbigh, Methodist preacher and writer, 64 ^[37]
• 27 June – William Lort Mansel, bishop and academic, 67 ^[38]
• 23 August – Edward Randles, harpist, 57 ^[39]
• 28 August – Henry Mills, musician, 63

See also

• 1820 in Ireland

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