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 (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.

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