This article is about the particular significance of the year 1825 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 (until 17 June); John Jenkinson (from 24 July)
Events 2 January – The square-rigged transatlantic ocean liner Diamond strikes Sarn Badrig in Cardigan Bay and sinks. unknown dates The first public wharves are built at Portmadoc. Rails for the Stockton and Darlington Railway (opened 27 September) are made at Ebbw Vale. Publication of Seren Gomer moves to Carmarthen. Sir Thomas Foley becomes an admiral.
Arts and literature New books English language John Brickdale Blakeway and Hugh Owen – A History of Shrewsbury Felicia Hemans – The Forest Sanctuary Walter Scott – The Bethrothed
Welsh language John Davies (Brychan) – Y Gog Peter Bailey Williams – Tragwyddol Orphwysfa'r Saint
Music Jedediah Richards – Diddanwch y Pererinion
Births 15 January – Eleazar Roberts, writer and musician (d. 1912) 25 January – Robert Piercy, civil engineer (d. 1894) 7 June – R. D. Blackmore, English novelist of Anglo-Welsh parentage (d. 1900)
Deaths 12 February – John Humffreys Parry, antiquary, 39 (in a tavern brawl) 24 February – Thomas Bowdler, editor, 70 16 April – Hugh Jones (Maesglasau), hymn-writer, 75 2 May – Michael Hughes, industrialist, 72 9 June – Abraham Rees, encyclopaedist, 81 10 August – Joseph Harris (Gomer), Baptist minister, poet and editor, 52 12 September – Sir Thomas Stepney, 9th Baronet, groom of the bedchamber to Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany and last of his line, 65
See also 1825 in Ireland
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