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1820s in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1820 - 1829 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - George (until 29 January 1820) (became George IV)
  • Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick (until 29 January 1820)

    • 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)

    • 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)
  • 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

    1820s in Wales Wikipedia
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