# 1831 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1831 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 – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby
* 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 Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney
* Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell
* Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston
* Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey
* Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson

## Events

* 28 April–1 June – In the UK general election:
** Robert Fulke Greville is defeated in Pembrokeshire by Sir John Owen of Orielton.
** Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn becomes MP for Flintshire.
** John Jones of Ystrad is injured in rioting during the election at Carmarthen, causing polling there to be postponed.
* 3 June – The Merthyr Rising reaches its climax.
* 5 August – Charles Darwin travels from Shrewsbury to Llangollen with his tutor, Rev Adam Sedgwick, to carry out geological studies. They remain in Wales for more than two weeks.
* 18 August – The paddle steamer Rothsay Castle is wrecked at the eastern end of the Menai Strait with the loss of 93 lives.
* August – John Jones of Ystrad holds the constituency of Carmarthen.
* 22 October – John Jones of Ystrad and Robert Fulke Greville fight a duel at Tafarnspite.
* Repeal of the slate tax.
* Port Talbot ironworks opens.
* William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) becomes a minister.

## Arts and literature
### New books

* John Evans (I. D. Ffraid) – Hanes yr Iddewon

### New publications

* Autumn – Y Drysorfa, a Calvinistic Methodist publication, restarts under the editorship of John Parry.

### Music
## Births

* 13 January – William Hugh Evans, minister and author (d. 1909)
* May – Dewi Havhesp, poet (d. 1884)
* 3 May – Sir Walter Vaughan Morgan, Lord Mayor of London (d. 1916)
* 16 May – David E. Hughes, musician and professor of music (d. 1900)
* 21 July – Edward Lewis, Welsh-born New Zealand clergyman (d. 1913)
* 16 October – John Jones (Eos Bradwen), composer (d. 1899)
* 8 December
** William Dykins, poet (d. 1872)
** Edward Payson Evans, historian and linguist (d. 1917)
* 14 December – Griffith John, missionary (d. 1912)
* 20 December – William T. Davies, Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 1912)
* date unknown – William Davies (Gwilym Teilo), writer (d. 1892)

## Deaths

* 1 January – Charles Heath, printer, writer, and radical Mayor of Monmouth, about 70
* 7 January – Edward "Celtic" Davies, author, 74
* 17 April – Sir Thomas Mostyn, 6th Baronet, politician, 54
* 30 April – Elizabeth Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, 93
* 18 May – John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Lisburne, landowner and politician, 62
* 8 June – Sarah Siddons, actress, 75
* 11 August – Cradock Glascott, Evangelical clergyman and associate of the Wesley brothers, 88
* 13 August – Dic Penderyn, labourer, 23 (executed)
* probable – Joseph Davies, editor of Y Brud a Sylwydd, age unknown