1828 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1828 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 (until 12 May); ^[6] Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby (from 25 November) ^[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 – Edward Copleston ^[17]
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore ^{[18] [19] [17]}
• Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson ^{[17] [20] [21] [22]}

Events

• 1 June - The Saundersfoot Railway and Harbour Company is formed. ^[23]
• 19 June - The Llanelly Dock is established by Act of Parliament. ^[24]
• September - Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, visits the eisteddfod at Denbigh, making it the first to receive a royal visit. ^[25]
• unknown dates
  • An iron suspension bridge is built to link South Stack with Holy Island, Anglesey.
  • David Owen (Brutus) becomes editor of the periodical Lleuad yr Oes at Aberystwyth.

Arts and literature

New books

• Ellis Evans - Unoliaeth a Gweledigaeth yr Eglwys, sef, Llythyr Cymanfa Cefn Mawr ^[26]
• T. J. Llewelyn Prichard - The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shon Catti, descriptive of life in Wales; interspersed with poems
• David Saunders (Dafydd Glan Teifi) - Awdl ar Fordaith yr Apostol Paul
• John Thomas - Telyn y Cantorion
• John Walters - An English and Welsh Dictionary
• Thomas Wiliam - Cwyn yr Unig

Music

• William Owen (Gwilym Ddu Glan Hafren) - Y Caniedydd Crefyddol (collection of hymn tunes)

Births

• 30 January - John David Jenkins, philanthropist (d. 1876)
• 4 March - Owen Wynne Jones (Glasynys), clergyman and writer (d. 1870) ^[27]
• 13 March - Thomas Morgan Thomas, missionary (d. 1884)
• 6 May - Sir Hugh Rowlands, soldier (d. 1909) ^[28]
• 4 June - David Thomas (Dewi Hefin), poet (d. 1909)
• 23 September - Charles James Watkin Williams, politician (d. 1884)
• 30 October - Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford, lawyer and statesman (d. 1911)
• 13 December - David Lewis Wooding, genealogist (d. 1891)
• date unknown
  • John Richard Hughes, evangelist (d. 1893)
  • John Pryce, clergyman and writer (d. 1903)

Deaths

• 19 February - Thomas Jones (Y Bardd Cloff), 59
• 29 March - Griffith Rowlands, surgeon, 65
• 12 May - Thomas Assheton Smith I, industrialist, 75 ^[6]
• 15 September - William Madocks, landowner, 55 ^[29]
• 4 October - Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2nd Baronet, politician, 46/47 ^[30]
• 29 December - Priscilla Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, 67
• date unknown - Edward Charles (Siamas Gwynedd), writer, 70?

See also

• 1828 in Ireland

References

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3. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN   9780806313146.
4. Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
5. Edwin Poole (1886). 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. p. 378.
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