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'''
MusicSeren 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
See also 1824 in Ireland
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