1825 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1800s; 1810s; 1820s; 1830s; 1840s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1825 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

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

2 January – The square-rigged transatlantic ocean liner Diamond strikes Sarn Badrig in Cardigan Bay and sinks.
The first public wharves are built at Portmadoc.
Rails for the Stockton and Darlington Railway (opened 27 September) are made at Ebbw Vale.
Publication of Seren Gomer moves to Carmarthen.
Sir Thomas Foley becomes an admiral.

Arts and literature

New books

English language

John Brickdale Blakeway and Hugh Owen – A History of Shrewsbury[1]
Felicia Hemans – The Forest Sanctuary[2]

Welsh language

John Davies (Brychan) – Y Gog
Peter Bailey Williams – Tragwyddol Orphwysfa'r Saint[3]

Music

Jedediah Richards – Diddanwch y Pererinion

Births

15 January – Eleazar Roberts, writer and musician (d. 1912)
25 January – Robert Piercy, civil engineer (d. 1894)
7 June – R. D. Blackmore, English novelist of Anglo-Welsh parentage (d. 1900)

Deaths

12 February – John Humffreys Parry, antiquary, 39 (in a tavern brawl)
24 February – Thomas Bowdler, editor, 70
16 April – Hugh Jones (Maesglasau), hymn-writer, 75
2 May – Michael Hughes, industrialist, 72
9 June – Abraham Rees, encyclopaedist, 81
10 August – Joseph Harris (Gomer), Baptist minister, poet and editor, 52
12 September – Sir Thomas Stepney, 9th Baronet, groom of the bedchamber to Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany and last of his line, 65[4]

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References

John Burke (1837). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry; Or, Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Etc. Henry Colburn. p. 512.
Charles Mahoney (21 December 2010). A Companion to Romantic Poetry. John Wiley & Sons. p. 80. ISBN 978-1-4443-9064-3.
National Library of Wales (1961). Annual Report ... Presented by the Council to the Court of Governors on the ... The Library. p. 25.
Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (1971). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. p. 247.

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[1] John Burke (1837). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry; Or, Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Etc. Henry Colburn. p. 512.

[2] Charles Mahoney (21 December 2010). A Companion to Romantic Poetry. John Wiley & Sons. p. 80. ISBN 978-1-4443-9064-3.

[3] National Library of Wales (1961). Annual Report ... Presented by the Council to the Court of Governors on the ... The Library. p. 25.

[England)1971-4] Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (1971). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. p. 247.