1822 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1822 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

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", a dispute over enclosures in Pembrokeshire.
• 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)
• 2 March – Michael D. Jones, Tad y Wladfa, founder of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia (d. 1898)
• 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)
• 27 October – Aneurin Jones (Aneurin Fardd), writer (d. 1904)
• 15 December – Edward Stephen (Tanymarian), musician (d. 1885)
• 22 December - John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), musician and minister (d. 1877)

Deaths

• 30 March – David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), poet, 62
• 22 May - Samuel Homfray, industrialist, 59
• 5 June
  • (near Durham) - Stephen Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons, 64
  • George Lewis, theologian, 59
• 25 September - John Henry Bowen, American politician of Welsh descent, 42
• 22 December^[1] Sarah Wesley, widow of Charles Wesley, 96^[2][3]

References

1. Charles Wesley timeline
2. Cheetham, J. Keith (2003). On the Trail of John Wesley. Edinburgh: Luath Press. pp. 95–97. ISBN 1-84282-023-0.
3. Barry, Joseph (2010). Temperley, Nicholas; Banfield, Stephen, eds. Music and the Wesleys. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. pp. 141–146. ISBN 978-0-252-07767-8.