# 1824 in Wales

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

## Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Assheton Smith
* 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 – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney
* Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie
* Bishop of Llandaff – William Van Mildert
* Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore
* Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess

## Events

* January – The construction of the "leat" or "leete" at Loggerheads, Denbighshire, used in the local lead mining industry, is first recorded.
* 8 September – The Society of Cymmrodorion sponsors a major eisteddfod at Welshpool.
* 18 December – William Chambers inherits the Stepney estate.
* dates unknown
** The first gasometer in Wales is built at Greenfield, Flintshire.
** Chess 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.

## Arts and literature
### New books
#### English language

* T. G. Cumming – Description of the Iron Bridges of Suspension now erecting over the Strait of Menai at Bangor and over the River Conway
* Benjamin Jones (P A Môn) – An Elegy on the death of Benjamin B. Jones, the eldest surviving child of B. Jones of Holyhead
* William Owen – Drych Crefyddol yn dangos Dechreuad y Grefydd Brotestanaidd
* Thomas Prichard – Welsh Minstrelsy: Containing the Land beneath the Sea

#### Welsh language

* David Davis (Castellhywel) – Telyn Dewi
* John Howell (editor) – Blodau Dyfed'

### Music

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

## Births

* 17 February – James Crichton-Stuart, politician (d. 1891)
* March – Isaac D. Seyburn, Welsh-born merchant captain and naval officer (d. 1895)
* 17 April – John Basson Humffray, political reformer in Australia (d. 1891)
* 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
* 30 July – David Howell, American jurist of Welsh descent, 77
* 24 August – Thomas Parry, Chennai merchant, 56 (cholera)
* 18 September – Thomas Hill of Dennis, industrialist, about 92
* November – William Moses, poet, 82
* 24 December – John Downman, artist, 74