1825 in Wales

1825 in Wales

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 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


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