:1826 in Wales

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=24}}{{cite book | author=J.C. Sainty | author-link=John Sainty (civil servant) | title=List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 | publisher=Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd | location=London | year=1979}}{{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=695}}{{cite book|title=Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru|publisher=University of Wales Press|year=1992|page=169}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort{{cite book| author=Edwin Poole|title=The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions|publisher=Edwin Poole|year=1886|page=378}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Assheton Smith{{cite web|url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/assheton-smith-thomas-1752-1828|title = ASSHETON SMITH, Thomas (c.1752-1828), of Faenol, Caern. and Tidworth, Hants.|publisher= History of Parliament Online|access-date = 6 June 2013}}{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=26}}
• 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{{cite journal|journal=Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders|title=not known|author-link=William Retlaw Williams|publisher="Old Wales" Office|year=1907|volume=3|page=106}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute{{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=612}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=29}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis{{cite web|author=R. G. Thorne|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/clive-edward-1754-1839|title=Clive, Edward, 2nd Baron Clive (1754-1839), of Walcot, Salop|website=The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820|date=1986|access-date=13 November 2021}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet{{cite web |last1=Thorne |first1=R.G. |title=John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/owen-john-1776-861 |website=History of Parliament |access-date=27 March 2020}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney{{cite book|author=Jonathan Williams|title=The History of Radnorshire|publisher=R. Mason|year=1859|page=115}}{{cite book|author=William Stockdale|title=Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom|year=1833|page=86}}

• Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie{{cite book | last = Fryde | first = E. B. | title = Handbook of British chronology | publisher = New York Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge England | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780521563505 | page=292}}{{cite book|author= Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=305}}
• Bishop of Llandaff – William Van Mildert (until 24 April);{{cite ODNB|id=28096|title=Mildert, William|orig-year=2004|year=2007|last=Varley|first=Elizabeth}} Charles Sumner (from 21 May)
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore{{cite book|title=The Church of the people and free church penny magazine|year=1859|page=179}}{{cite book|title=The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England|publisher=James Parkes and Company|year=1866|page=15}}
• Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson{{cite book|author= Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=307}}{{cite book|title=The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged|publisher=Porter|year=1780|page=95}}{{cite book|title=The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3|author=George III (King of Great Britain)|publisher=University Press|year=1967|page=434}}{{cite web |title=Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas |url=https://catalogues.royalsociety.org/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=NA3174&pos=1 |website=The Royal Society |access-date=30 October 2020}}

• 30 January - Opening of the Menai Suspension Bridge, designed by Thomas Telford.{{cite book|author=Strait MENAI|title=The Tourists' Guide to the Shores of the Menai Straits ... With a Full ... Account of the Suspension Bridge; by J. Pring, etc|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uBxbAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA20|year=1832|publisher=Chronicle Office|pages=20}}
• 1 July - Opening of Telford's Conwy Suspension Bridge.
• Wrexham Maelor Hospital's predecessor founded.
• The Calvinistic Methodist "connexion" produces its Constitutional Deed. It incorporates all property (such as chapels) as the property of the connexion as a whole.

• Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion) - Golwg ar Gyflwr yr Iddewon, Cerdd{{cite book|author=Daniel EVANS (called Daniel Ddu o Geredigion.)|title=Golwg ar Gyflwr yr Iddewon Cerdd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9k01Kwjku8MC&pg=PA3|year=1826|pages=3}}
• James Humphreys - Observations on the Actual State of the English Laws of Real Property, with the outlines of a Code

• 24 May - John Parry (Bardd Alaw) is given a benefit concert by the Society of Cymmrodorion.

• 13 January (in Ceylon) - Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff (d. 1913){{cite book|title=The Law Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=COg5AQAAIAAJ|year=1908|publisher=Office of The Law Times|page=267}}
• 10 February - Edward Williams, iron-master (d. 1886){{cite DWB|id=s-WILL-EDW-1826|title=Williams, Edward (1826-1886), iron-master|author=Walter Thomas Morgan|year=1959|access-date=28 November 2021}}
• 26 February - John Llewelyn Davies, English theologian of Welsh parentage (d. 1916)Obituary of John Llewelyn Davies, The Times, Friday, 19 May 1916
• 1 March - John Thomas, harpist (d. 1913)
• 22 March - Lewys Glyn Dyfi (Lewis Meredith), poet and preacher (d. 1891){{cite DWB|id=s-MERE-LEW-1826|title=Meredith, Lewis (1826-1891), preacher and writer|author=Griffith Thomas Roberts|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=6 December 2019}}
• 27 April - Owen Phillips, Dean of St Davids (d. 1897){{cite DWB|id=s-PHIL-OWE-1826|title=Phillips, Evan Owen (1826-1897), dean of S. Davids|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|year=1959|access-date=28 November 2021}}
• 8 May - George Osborne Morgan, lawyer (d. 1897)
• 11 May - David Charles Davies, Nonconformist leader (d. 1891){{cite DWB|id=s-DAVI-CHA-1826|title=Davies, David Charles (1826-1891), Calvinistic Methodist minister, theologian, and principal of Trevecka College|author=Gwilym Arthur Edwards|year=1959|access-date=28 November 2021}}
• 26 June - Evan Davies, educationalist and lawyer (died 1872){{cite DWB|title=Evan Davies|id=s-DAVI-EVA-1826|last=Jenkins|first=Robert Thomas|access-date= 18 April 2017}}
• 18 December - Henry Parry, Anglican bishop of Welsh parentage (d. 1893 in Australia)

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• April - Ned Turner, prize-fighter, 34
• 21 April - Thomas Johnes, clergyman, chancellor and canon of Exeter, about 76s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Johnes, Thomas (1)
• May (approximate) - Richard Griffiths, industrial pioneer who opened up transport links into the Rhondda, 70{{cite DWB|id=s-GRIF-RIC-1756|title=Griffiths, Richard|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=1 April 2019}}
• October - John Williams, clergyman, teacher and collector of manuscripts, about 76{{cite DWB|id=s-WILL-JOH-1760|title=WILLIAMS, JOHN (1760–1826), cleric and schoolmaster|last=Davies|first=Sir William Llewelyn|access-date=28 November 2021}}
• 7 December - John Vivian, industrialist, 76{{cite book|author=Joseph Polsue|title=Lake's Parochial History of the County of Cornwall|publisher=EP Publishing [for] Cornwall County Library|year=1974|page=256}}
• 18 December - Iolo Morganwg, poet and antiquary, 79{{cite DWB|id=s-WILL-EDW-1747|title=Williams, Edward (Iolo Morganwg, 1747-1826), poet and antiquary|author=Griffith John Williams|year=1959|access-date=28 November 2021}}
• 28 December - Nathaniel Williams, theologian and hymn-writer, 84

• 1826 in Ireland

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