1824 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1824 to Wales and its people.

← 1823 1822 1821 1820 1819 1824 in Wales → 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1824 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – vacant
• Princess of Wales – vacant

Events

• 8 September – The Society of Cymmrodorion sponsors a major eisteddfod at Welshpool.
• 18 December – William Chambers inherits the Stepney estate.
• The first gasometer in Wales is built at Greenfield, Flintshire.
• William Davies Evans develops the Evans Gambit.
• Major repairs to Bangor Cathedral are begun.
• Two new furnaces are erected at the Dyffryn ironworks by Anthony Hill.
• Approximate date of construction of the "leat" at Loggerheads, Denbighshire, used in the local lead mining industry.

Arts and literature

New books

• T. G. Cumming – Description of the Iron Bridges of Suspension now erecting over the Strait of Menai at Bangor and over the River Conway
• David Davis (Castellhywel) – Telyn Dewi
• Benjamin Jones (P A Môn) – An Elegy on the death of Benjamin B. Jones, the eldest surviving child of B. Jones of Holyhead
• Welsh Minstrelsy: Containing the Land beneath the Sea

Music

• Seren Gomer (collection of hymns including Grongar by John Edwards)

Births

• 17 February - James Crichton-Stuart, politician (d. 1891)[1]
• March - Isaac D. Seyburn, Welsh-born merchant captain and naval officer (d. 1895)
• 17 April - John Basson Humffray, political reformer in Australia (d. 1891)[2]
• 24 July – Robert Jones Derfel, poet (d. 1905)
• 15 December - Morgan Thomas, Welsh-born Australian surgeon and philanthropist (d. 1903)
• date unknown - David James Jenkins, shipowner and politician (d. 1891)

Deaths

• 1 February - John Rice Jones, Welsh-born American politician and soldier, 64
• 18 April – Edward Jones, harpist ("Bardd y Brenin"), 72[3]
• 30 July – David Howell, American jurist of Welsh descent, 77
• 24 August – Thomas Parry, Chennai merchant, 56 (cholera)[4]
• November – William Moses, poet, 82
• 24 December - John Downman, artist, 74

References

1. James Balfour Paul (1905). The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom. D. Douglas. p. 309.
2. "Humffray, John Basson". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 7 July 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
3. Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1982). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Hough to Keyse. SIU Press. p. 231. ISBN 978-0-8093-0919-1.
4. Allister Macmillan (1928). Seaports of India & Ceylon: Historical and Descriptive, Commercial and Industrial, Facts, Figures, & Resources. W. H. & L. Collingridge. p. 295.