1817 in Wales

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

← 1816 1815 1814 1813 1812 1817 in Wales → 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s
See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1817 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey^[1][2][3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell (from 22 November)^[2]
• 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^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford^[2][11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney^[12][2][13]

• Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie^[14][15]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Herbert Marsh^[16]
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore^[17][18][19]
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess^{[19][20][21][22]}

Events

• March - A riot breaks out in Amlwch over food prices, and a ship carrying flour is prevented from leaving the harbour.^[23]
• 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.^[24]
  • Joseph Harris (Gomer) launches the unsuccessful periodical, Greal y Bedyddwyr.^[25]
  • 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.^[26]
  • 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.^[27]

Arts and literature

New books

• Catherine Hutton - The Welsh Mountaineer^[28]
• 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).^[29]

Births

• 3 March - Robert Thompson Crawshay, iron-master (died 1879)^[30]
• 6 May - John Prichard, architect (d. 1886)^[31]
• June - John Corbett, industrialist (died 1901)
• 16 June - Charles Herbert James, politician (died 1890)
• 16 August - Rowland Williams, theologian and academic (died 1870)^[32]
• 17 September - Hugh Humphreys, publisher (died 1896)^[33]
• 13 November - Henry Brinley Richards, composer (died 1885)^[34]
• 17 December - Erasmus Jones, novelist (died 1909)^[35]
• Thomas Thomas, chapel architect and minister (died 1888)

Deaths

• 16 January - General Vaughan Lloyd, commander of the Woolwich Arsenal, 80^[36]
• 27 March - Josiah Boydell, artist, 65^[37]
• 17 July - William Williams (antiquary), author, 79
• 31 July - Benjamin Hall, industrialist, 36^[38]
• date unknown - David Hughes, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford

See also

• 1817 in Ireland

References

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2. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
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4. Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
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7. "not known". Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. 3. "Old Wales" Office: 106. 1907.
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