1831 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1831 thumb | right This article is about the particular significance of the year 1831 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of AngleseyEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 24J.C. Sainty John Sainty (civil servant) List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd London 1979 Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 695Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru University of Wales Press 1992 169 Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of BeaufortEdwin 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 Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de EresbyEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 26 Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell 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 WestminsterOld Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders not known William Retlaw Williams "Old Wales" Office 1907 3 106 Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 612 Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th BaronetEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 29 Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powiss-POWY-HER-1674 Herbert family (earls of Powis) Evan David Jones 1959 30 November 2021 Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st BaronetThorne R.G. John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/owen-john-1776-861 History of Parliament 27 March 2020 Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron RodneyJonathan Williams The History of Radnorshire R. Mason 1859 115William Stockdale Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom 1833 86 Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell Fryde E. B. Handbook of British chronology New York Cambridge University Press Cambridge England 1996 9780521563505 292 Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 305 Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston Bishop of St Asaph – William CareyCarey, William (1769-1846)The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15 Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 307The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged Porter 1780 95The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3 George III (King of Great Britain) University Press 1967 434Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas https://catalogues.royalsociety.org/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=NA3174&pos=1 The Royal Society 30 October 2020 Events 28 April–1 June – In the UK general election: Robert Fulke Greville is defeated in Pembrokeshire by Sir John Owen of Orielton.https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/owen-sir-john-1776-1861 OWEN, Sir John, 1st bt. (1776-1861), of Orielton, Pemb. History of Parliament Online 11 February 2019 Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn becomes MP for Flintshire. John Jones of Ystrad is injured in rioting during the election at Carmarthen, causing polling there to be postponed.https://biography.wales/article/s1-JONE-JOH-1777 JONES, JOHN (1777-1842), ‘of Ystrad’, politician Dictionary of Welsh Biography David Williams David Williams (historian) National Library of Wales 11 February 2019 3 June – The Merthyr Rising reaches its climax.David Egan People, Protest, and Politics: Case Studies in Nineteenth Century Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=iDFWAAAAYAAJ 1 January 1987 Gomer Press 978-0-86383-350-2 5 August – Charles Darwin travels from Shrewsbury to Llangollen with his tutor, Rev Adam Sedgwick, to carry out geological studies. They remain in Wales for more than two weeks.http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/Lucas_Lowe_Journal.html The recovery of time past: Darwin at Barmouth on the eve of the Beagle Peter Lucas 1 January 2010 Darwin Online 2010-01-21 18 August – The paddle steamer Rothsay Castle is wrecked at the eastern end of the Menai Strait with the loss of 93 lives.Joseph Adshead A Circumstantial Narrative of the Wreck of the Rothsay Castle Steampacket: On Her Passage from Liverpool to Beaumaris, August 17, 1831 ... https://books.google.com/books?id=VDdKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA169 1834 Hamilton, Adams, and Company 169 August – John Jones of Ystrad holds the constituency of Carmarthen. 22 October – John Jones of Ystrad and Robert Fulke Greville fight a duel at Tafarnspite. Repeal of the slate tax. Port Talbot ironworks opens. William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) becomes a minister. Arts and literature New books John Evans (I. D. Ffraid) – Hanes yr Iddewon New publications Autumn – Y Drysorfa, a Calvinistic Methodist publication, restarts under the editorship of John Parry.The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion The Society 1963 172 Music Births 13 January – William Hugh Evans, minister and author (d. 1909) May – Dewi Havhesp, poet (d. 1884) 3 May – Sir Walter Vaughan Morgan, Lord Mayor of London (d. 1916) 16 May – David E. Hughes, musician and professor of music (d. 1900) 21 July – Edward Lewis, Welsh-born New Zealand clergyman (d. 1913) 16 October – John Jones (Eos Bradwen), composer (d. 1899) Humphreys Maggie Dictionary of composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland Mansell London Herndon, VA 1997 9780720123302 190 8 December William Dykins, poet (d. 1872) Edward Payson Evans, historian and linguist (d. 1917) 14 December – Griffith John, missionary (d. 1912) 20 December – William T. Davies, Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 1912) date unknown – William Davies (Gwilym Teilo), writer (d. 1892) Deaths 1 January – Charles Heath, printer, writer, and radical Mayor of Monmouth, about 70s-HEAT-CHA-1761 Heath, Charles 9 November 2021 7 January – Edward "Celtic" Davies, author, 74s-DAVI-EDW-1756 Davies, Edward ('Celtic Davies'; 1756-1831), cleric and author Griffith John Williams 1959 30 November 2021 17 April – Sir Thomas Mostyn, 6th Baronet, politician, 54https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/mostyn-sir-thomas-1776-1831 MOSTYN, Sir Thomas, 6th Bt. (1776-1831), of Mostyn, Flints. and Gloddaeth, Caern. History of Parliament Online 21 February 2019 30 April – Elizabeth Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, 93 18 May – John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Lisburne, landowner and politician, 62Thorne R.G. Cardiganshire http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/constituencies/cardiganshire The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 Institute of Historical Research 3 November 2017 8 June – Sarah Siddons, actress, 75Siddons, Sarah 11 August – Cradock Glascott, Evangelical clergyman and associate of the Wesley brothers, 88s-GLAS-CRA-1743 Glascott, Cradock (1743-1831), an Evangelical cleric Daniel Williams 1959 30 November 2021 13 August – Dic Penderyn, labourer, 23 (executed)s-LEWI-RIC-1807 Lewis, Richard ('Dic Penderyn'; 1807/8-1831), miner and revolutionary martyr David Williams 1959 30 November 2021 probable – Joseph Davies, editor of Y Brud a Sylwydd, age unknownJoseph Davies s-DAVI-JOS-1831 Parry Thomas 30 November 2021 See also 1831 in Ireland References Wales Wales Category:1831 in Europe Category:1830s in Wales