1825 in Wales

1825 in Wales

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1825 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland

Other events of 1825

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1825 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - vacant
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• Rails for the Stockton to Darlington railway are made at Ebbw Vale.
• Publication of Seren Gomer moves to Carmarthen.
• Sir Thomas Foley becomes an admiral.

Arts and literature

New books

• J. B. Blakeway & Hugh Owen - A History of Shrewsbury
• John Davies (Brychan) - Y Gog
• Felicia Hemans - The Forest Sanctuary
• Peter Bailey Williams - Tragwyddol Orphwysfa'r Saint

Music

• Jedediah Richards - Diddanwch y Pererinion

Births

• January 15 - Eleazar Roberts, writer and musician (d. 1912)
• January 25 - Robert Piercy, civil engineer (d. 1894)
• June 7 - R. D. Blackmore, novelist (d. 1900)

Deaths

• February 12 - John Humphreys Parry, antiquary, 39 (in a tavern brawl)
• February 24 - Thomas Bowdler, editor, 70
• April 16 - Hugh Jones (Maesglasau), hymn-writer, 75
• May 2 - Michael Hughes, industrialist, 72
• June 9 - Abraham Rees, encyclopaedist, 81
• August 10 - Joseph Harris (Gomer), Baptist minister, poet and editor, 52
• September 19 - Sir Thomas Stepney, 9th Baronet, groom of the bedchamber to Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany and last of his line, 65