# 1817 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1817 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell (from 22 November)
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney
* Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie
* Bishop of Llandaff – Herbert Marsh
* Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore
* Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess

## Events

* March - A riot breaks out in Amlwch over food prices, and a ship carrying flour is prevented from leaving the harbour.
* 22 July - Windham Sadler succeeds in crossing the Irish Sea by hot air balloon, landing near Holyhead.
* October John Gibson arrives in Rome to study sculpture with help from Antonio Canova.
* 6 December - Joseph Tregelles Price advertises Neath Abbey ironworks for sale.
* dates unknown
** Lewis Weston Dillwyn retires from managing the Cambrian Pottery at Swansea.
** Joseph Harris (Gomer) launches the unsuccessful periodical, Greal y Bedyddwyr.
** Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis drafts the report on the Poor Law which brings its abuses to the attention of the public.
** Construction work commences on the first chapel in Tywyn.
** Approximate date - Britain's longest tramroad tunnel is opened at Pwll du near Blaenavon. The Pwll Du Tunnel is more than a mile (2400 m) in length. Begun as a mineral adit, at this time it carries a horse-drawn double track plateway of approximately 2 ft (600 mm) gauge carrying material for Blaenavon Ironworks; next summer it will be incorporated in Thomas Hill's Tramroad, connecting to the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal.

## Arts and literature
### New books

* Catherine Hutton - The Welsh Mountaineer
* John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd) - Annerch Plant a Rhieni oddi ar farwolaeth William Thomas mab Lewis Thomas, Llanrwst

### Music

* 14 July - Robert Williams composes the famous hymn-tune Llanfair (formerly named Bethel).

## Births

* 3 March - Robert Thompson Crawshay, iron-master (died 1879)
* 6 May - John Prichard, architect (d. 1886)
* June - John Corbett, industrialist (died 1901)
* 16 June - Charles Herbert James, politician (died 1890)
* 16 August - Rowland Williams, theologian and academic (died 1870)
* 17 September - Hugh Humphreys, publisher (died 1896)
* 13 November - Henry Brinley Richards, composer (died 1885)
* 17 December - Erasmus Jones, novelist (died 1909)
* Thomas Thomas, chapel architect and minister (died 1888)

## Deaths

* 16 January - General Vaughan Lloyd, commander of the Woolwich Arsenal, 80
* 27 March - Josiah Boydell, artist, 65
* 17 July - William Williams (antiquary), author, 79
* 31 July - Benjamin Hall, industrialist, 36
* date unknown - David Hughes, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford