1825 in Wales

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1825 in the United Kingdom

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1825 to Wales and its people.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Arts and literature 3.1 New books 3.2 Music 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Incumbents

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] 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

[edit] Music

• Jedediah Richards - Diddanwch y Pererinion

[edit] Births

• January 25 - Robert Piercy, civil engineer (d. 1894)
• June 7 - R. D. Blackmore, novelist (d. 1900)

[edit] 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