# 1820 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1820 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
* 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 (until 28 April); William Van Mildert (from 31 May)
* Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore
* Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess

## Events

* 29 January – The Prince of Wales becomes King George IV of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, King George III.
* 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.
** Christopher Cole is re-elected for Glamorganshire.
* 24 June – The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion is revived, having been in abeyance since 1787.
* date unknown
** The first "colliery school" in the South Wales coalfield is established at Hirwaun.
** Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) founds a Welsh school at Gelli Felen.
** Crawshay Bailey becomes a partner at Nant-y-glo ironworks with his brother, Joseph Bailey.
** Tondu Ironworks is built by Sir Robert Price.
** John Scandrett Harford meets Bishop Thomas Burgess and offers to donate the site of Lampeter Castle for the construction of St David's College.

## 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

## 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)
* 5 September – Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd), minister and journalist (d. 1852)

## Deaths

* 20 January – Eliezer Williams, clergyman and genealogist, 75
* 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
* 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
* 28 August – Henry Mills, musician, 63