1825 in Wales
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 ; John Jenkinson
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 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
- 25 January – Robert Piercy, civil engineer
- 7 June – R. D. Blackmore, English novelist of Anglo-Welsh parentage
Deaths
- 12 February – John Humffreys Parry, antiquary, 39
- 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