1820s in Wales

none December 2025 November 2020 1810s | 1830s | Other years in Wales Other events of the decade This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1820–1829 to Wales and its people. Arts and literature New books John Elias – Golygiad Ysgrythurol ar Gyfiawnhad Pechadur (1821) Felicia Hemans – The Forest Sanctuary (1825) Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) – An Essay on the Physiognomy and Physiology of the Present Inhabitants of Britain (1829) David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) – Cywydd y Dilyw (1821) Music John Ellis – Eliot (hymn tune) (1823) Edward Jones – Hen Ganiadau Cymru (1820) Peroriaeth Hyfryd (collection of hymns including Caersalem by Robert Edwards) (1827) Seren Gomer (collection of hymns including Grongar by John Edwards) (1824) Births 1820 21 May – Sir Thomas Lloyd, 1st Baronet, politician and landowner (d. 1877) 1821 24 June – Guillermo Rawson, Argentinian politician (d. 1890) 16 July – John Jones (Mathetes), preacher and writer (d. 1878) 1822 2 March – Michael D. Jones, Patagonian settler (d. 1898) 1823 8 January – Alfred Russel Wallace, biologist (d. 1913) March – Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn), poet and archdruid (d. 1905) 23 November – Sir John Evans, archaeologist (d. 1908) 1824 date unknown – John Basson Humffray, political reformer in Australia (d. 1891) 1825 7 June – R. D. Blackmore, novelist (d. 1900) 1826 13 January – Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff (d. 1913) 1 March – John Thomas, harpist (d. 1913) 8 May – George Osborne Morgan, lawyer (d. 1897) 11 May – David Charles Davies, Nonconformist leader (d. 1891) 1827 27 October – Joseph Tudor Hughes (Blegwryd), harp prodigy (d. 1841) 1828 30 January – John David Jenkins, philanthropist (d. 1876) 1829 27 January – Isaac Roberts, astronomer (d. 1904)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Isaac-Roberts Isaac Roberts Encyclopædia Britannica 10 December 2025 Deaths 1820 29 January – King George III of the United Kingdom, Prince of Wales 1751–1760 16 June – Thomas Jones of Denbigh, Methodist preacher and writer (b. 1756) 27 June – William Lort Mansel, bishop and academic (b. 1753) 23 August – John Randles, harpist (b. 1763) 28 August – Henry Mills, musician (b. 1757) 1821 2 May – Hester Thrale, diarist (b. 1741) 7 August – Caroline of Brunswick, former Princess of Wales (1795–1820), 53 1822 30 March – David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), poet (b. 1759) date unknown – Stephen Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons (b. 1758) 1823 26 February – John Philip Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons (b. 1757) 1825 24 February – Thomas Bowdler, editor (b. 1754)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Bowdler Thomas Bowdler Encyclopædia Britannica 10 December 2025 9 June – Abraham Rees, encyclopaedist (b. 1743) 10 August – Joseph Harris (Gomer), Baptist minister, poet and editor (b. 1773) 1827 date unknown – Helen Maria Williams, novelist and poet (b. c. 1761) 1828 September – William Madocks, landowner 1829 26 January – Benjamin Millingchamp, collector of manuscripts (b. 1756) June – Elizabeth Randles, harpist (b. 1801) References