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^[1][2][3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell^[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 Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney^[12][2][13]

• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell^[14][15]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston^[16]
• Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey^[17][18][16]
• Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson^{[16][19][20][21]}

Events

• 28 April–1 June – In the UK general election:
  • Robert Fulke Greville is defeated in Pembrokeshire by Sir John Owen of Orielton.^[22]
  • 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.^[23]
• 3 June – The Merthyr Rising reaches its climax.^[24]
• 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.^[25]
• 18 August – The paddle steamer Rothsay Castle is wrecked at the eastern end of the Menai Strait with the loss of 93 lives.^[26]
• 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.^[27]

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)^[28]
• 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^[29]
• 7 January – Edward "Celtic" Davies, author, 74^[30]
• 17 April – Sir Thomas Mostyn, 6th Baronet, politician, 54^[31]
• 30 April – Elizabeth Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, 93
• 18 May – John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Lisburne, landowner and politician, 62^[32]
• 8 June – Sarah Siddons, actress, 75^[33]
• 11 August – Cradock Glascott, Evangelical clergyman and associate of the Wesley brothers, 88^[34]
• 13 August – Dic Penderyn, labourer, 23 (executed)^[35]
• probable – Joseph Davies, editor of Y Brud a Sylwydd, age unknown^[36]

See also

• 1831 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.
3. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
4. Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
5. Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
6. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
7. "not known". Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. 3. "Old Wales" Office: 106. 1907.
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