1822 in Wales

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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] [19]}
• 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 "Rhyfel y Sais Bach  [ cy ]" ("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) ^[27]
• 22 December - John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), musician and minister (d. 1877) ^[28]

Deaths

Lieutenant Colonel Poulett Somerset, MP for Monmouthshire

• 30 March – David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), poet, 62
• 9 April – William Jones, Welsh-descended Governor of Rhode Island, 68 ^[29]
• 22 May – Samuel Homfray, industrialist, 59 ^[30]
• 5 June
  • (near Durham) - Stephen Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons, 64
  • George Lewis, theologian, 59
• 19 June – Poulett Somerset, soldier and politician, 53 ^[31]
• 25 September – John Henry Bowen, American politician of Welsh descent, 42 ^[32]
• 22 December – Sarah Wesley (née Gwynne), widow of Charles Wesley, 96 ^{[33] [34]}

See also

• 1822 in Ireland

References

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