1820 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1820 to Wales and its people.

← 1819 1818 1817 1816 1815 1820 in Wales → 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1820 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• 29 January – The Prince of Wales becomes King George IV on the death of King George III of the United Kingdom.
• 14 April - At the completion of the United Kingdom general election:
  • Henry Paget, later Marquess of Anglesey, is elected as member for Anglesey.
  • Wyndham Lewis is elected for Cardiff.[1]
  • Christopher Cole is re-elected for Glamorganshire.
• 24 June – The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion is revived, having been in abeyance since 1787.[2]
• date unknown
  • The first "colliery school" in the South Wales coalfield is established at Hirwaun.[3]
  • Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) founds a Welsh school at Gelli Felen.[4]
  • Crawshay Bailey becomes a partner at Nant-y-glo ironworks with his brother, Joseph Bailey.
  • John Scandrett Harford meets Bishop Thomas Burgess and offers to donate the site of Lampeter Castle for the construction of St David's College.[5]
  • Tondu Ironworks is built by Sir Robert Price.

Arts and literature

New books

• Felicia Hemans – The Sceptic
• John Jones (Tegid) – Traethawd ar Gadwedigaeth yr Iaith Gymraeg
• Robert Jones – Drych yr Amseroedd
• William Probert - Y Gododdin (first English translation)

Music

• Edward Jones – Hen Ganiadau Cymru[6]

Births

• 13 May - Robert Owen, theologian (d. 1902)
• 21 May – Sir Thomas Lloyd, 1st Baronet, politician and landowner (d. 1877)
• 22 May - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 6th Baronet, politician (d. 1885)
• 20 June – Thomas Essile Davies (Dewi Wyn o Essyllt), poet (d. 1891)[7]
• 5 September – Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd), minister and journalist (d. 1852)

Deaths

• 20 January - Eliezer Williams, clergyman and genealogist, 75[8]
• 29 January – King George III of the United Kingdom, Prince of Wales 1751–1760, 81
• 6 May – Wilmot Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Lisburne, landowner, 64[9]
• 16 June – Thomas Jones of Denbigh, Methodist preacher and writer, 64
• 27 June – William Lort Mansel, bishop and academic, 67
• 23 August – Edward Randles, harpist, 57[10]
• 28 August – Henry Mills, musician, 63

References

1. Thomas Nicholas (1872). Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales, Containing a Record of All Ranks of the Gentry, Their Lineage, Alliances, Appointments, Armorial Ensigns, and Residences ... Longmans. p. 634.
2. Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (1877). A Sketch of the History of the Cymmrodorion. Cymmrodorion society. p. 10.
3. Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru: The National Library of Wales Journal. Council of the National Library of Wales. 1958. p. 139.
4. Thomas Price (1855). The Literary Remains of the Rev. Thomas Price, Carnhuanawc. Rees. p. 74.
5. Ceredigion. Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society. 1955. p. 134.
6. Phyllis Kinney (15 April 2011). Welsh Traditional Music. University of Wales Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-7083-2358-8.
7. Thomas Mardy Rees (1908). Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. Also a Complete Alphabetical Index. Herald Office.
8. The Carmarthenshire Historian. 1969.
9. "Deaths". The New Annual Register: (180). 1821.
10. Country Life. July 1948.