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1822 in Wales
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1822
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 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 – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley (until 3 June); Thomas Assheton Smith (from 18 July)Edward 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 Clive, 1st Earl of PowisR. G. Thorne http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/clive-edward-1754-1839 Clive, Edward, 2nd Baron Clive (1754-1839), of Walcot, Salop The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 1986 13 November 2021 13 November 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211113165618/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/clive-edward-1754-1839 dead
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milfords-PHIL-PIC-1491 Philipps family, of Picton Bertie George Charles 1959 19 October 2021
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 – Henry Majendie 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 – William Van Mildert28096 Mildert, William 2004 2007 Varley Elizabeth
Bishop of St Asaph – John LuxmooreThe Church of the people and free church penny magazine 1859 179The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15
Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess 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
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.Jones, Eirian. War of the Little Englishman, Lolfa, 2007
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)s-JONE-BAS-1822 Jones, William Basil (Tickell) (1822–1897) 21 April 2011
2 March – Michael D. Jones, Tad y Wladfa, founder of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia (d. 1898)s-JONE-DAN-1822 Jones, Michael Daniel (1822-1898), Independent minister and principal of the Independent College at Bala Richard Griffith Owen 19 March 2019
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)https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3861254/3861260/29/G.B.%20williams%20amlwch Death of Charles Watkins Williams-Wynn The Montgomery County Times and Shropshire and Mid-Wales Advertiser 2 May 1896 10 December 2019
27 October – Aneurin Jones (Aneurin Fardd), writer (d. 1904)
15 December – Edward Stephen (Tanymarian), musician (d. 1885)s-STEP-JON-1822 Stephen, Edward (Jones) (Tanymarian; 1822-1885), musician Robert David Griffith 1959 14 December 2021
22 December - John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), musician and minister (d. 1877)s-ROBE-JOH-1822 Roberts, John (Ieuan Gwyllt; 1822-1877), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and musician Robert David Griffith 23 August 2024
Deaths
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30 March – David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), poet, 62
9 April – William Jones, Welsh-descended Governor of Rhode Island, 68The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Rhode Island https://archive.org/details/biographicalcycl00nati 1881 National Biographical Publishing Co Providence 155–156
22 May – Samuel Homfray, industrialist, 59s-HOMF-RAY-1726 Homfray family 25 November 2021
5 June
(near Durham) - Stephen Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons, 64
George Lewis, theologian, 59
19 June – Poulett Somerset, soldier and politician, 53Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 2, page 3188.
25 September – John Henry Bowen, American politician of Welsh descent, 42B000684
22 December – Sarah Wesley (née Gwynne), widow of Charles Wesley, 96Cheetham J. Keith On the Trail of John Wesley Luath Press Edinburgh 2003 95–97 1-84282-023-0 Barry Joseph Temperley Nicholas Banfield Stephen Music and the Wesleys University of Illinois Press Urbana 2010 141–146 978-0-252-07767-8
See also
1822 in Ireland
References
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