This article is about the particular significance of the year 1822 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 Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley (until 3 June); Thomas Assheton Smith (from 18 July) 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 – William Van Mildert Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess
Events April - Launch of the Chester Cymmrodorion Society. 13 June - William Lloyd climbs Boorendo in the Himalayas. 12 August - St David's College (now the University of Wales, Lampeter) is founded by Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's. Beginning of "" ("War of the Little Englishman"), a dispute over enclosures in Pembrokeshire.Jones, Eirian. War of the Little Englishman, Lolfa, 2007 Horse-drawn trams begin a passenger service between Tredegar and Newport. Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet, establishes a private printing press in Broadway Tower on his estate at Middle Hill in Worcestershire.
Arts and literature New books John Hughes - An Essay on the Ancient and Present State of the Welsh Language William Owen Pughe - Hu Gadarn John Montgomery Traherne - Lists of Knights of the Shire of Glamorgan Y Cymmrodor (first, unnumbered volume)
Music Stephen Llwyd - "Caerllyngoed" (hymn tune)
Births 2 January – Basil Jones, bishop (d. 1897) 2 March – Michael D. Jones, Tad y Wladfa, founder of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia (d. 1898) 3 August – John Rhys Morgan, minister, teacher and poet (d. 1900) 25 September - William Bloomfield Douglas, colonial governor (d. 1906) 4 October - Charles Williams-Wynn, politician (d. 1896) 27 October – Aneurin Jones (Aneurin Fardd), writer (d. 1904) 15 December – Edward Stephen (Tanymarian), musician (d. 1885) 22 December - John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), musician and minister (d. 1877)
Deaths
30 March – David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), poet, 62 9 April – William Jones, Welsh-descended Governor of Rhode Island, 68 22 May – Samuel Homfray, industrialist, 59 5 June (near Durham) - Stephen Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons, 64 George Lewis, theologian, 59 19 June – Poulett Somerset, soldier and politician, 53Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 2, page 3188. 25 September – John Henry Bowen, American politician of Welsh descent, 42 22 December – Sarah Wesley (née Gwynne), widow of Charles Wesley, 96
See also 1822 in Ireland
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