1824 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{{cite ODNB|id=28096|title=Mildert, William|orig-year=2004|year=2007|last=Varley|first=Elizabeth}}
• 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 – Thomas Burgess{{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}}

• January – The construction of the "leat" or "leete" at Loggerheads, Denbighshire, used in the local lead mining industry, is first recorded.{{cite web|url=https://coflein.gov.uk/media/265/198/660441.pdf|title=The Leete, Loggerheads Country Park (CPAT Report No. 1529)|page=2|publisher=Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust}}
• 8 September – The Society of Cymmrodorion sponsors a major eisteddfod at Welshpool.
• 18 December – William Chambers inherits the Stepney estate.
• dates unknown
• The first gasometer in Wales is built at Greenfield, Flintshire.
• Chess William Davies Evans develops the Evans Gambit.{{cite book|author=Harold James Ruthven Murray|title=A Short History of Chess|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1963|page=74}}
• Major repairs to Bangor Cathedral are begun.{{cite journal|journal=Transactions (Trafodion)|title=Bangor Cathedral|publisher=Caernarvonshire Historical Society |year=1968|volume=29–31|page=55}}
• Two new furnaces are erected at the Dyffryn ironworks by Anthony Hill.{{cite book|author=Charles Wilkins|title=The History of the Iron, Steel, Tinplate and ... Other Trades of Wales|publisher=Joseph Williams|year=1903|page=151}}

• T. G. Cumming – Description of the Iron Bridges of Suspension now erecting over the Strait of Menai at Bangor and over the River Conway
• Benjamin Jones (P A Môn) – An Elegy on the death of Benjamin B. Jones, the eldest surviving child of B. Jones of Holyhead
• William Owen – Drych Crefyddol yn dangos Dechreuad y Grefydd Brotestanaidd{{Cite DWB|id=s-OWEN-WIL-1785|title=OWEN, WILLIAM (1785-1864), antiquary|access-date=23 August 2024}}
• Thomas Prichard – Welsh Minstrelsy: Containing the Land beneath the Sea{{Cite DWB|id=s-PRIC-LLE-1789|title=Prichard, Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn (died 1875?), travelling actor and author|author=William Llewelyn Davies|access-date=23 August 2024}}

• David Davis (Castellhywel) – Telyn Dewi{{cite DWB|id=s-DAVI-DAV-1745|title=Davis, David, Dafis Castellhywel (1745–1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster|year=1959|access-date=26 October 2021}}
• John Howell (editor) – Blodau Dyfed'{{Cite DWB|id=s-HOWE-JOH-1774|title=HOWELL, JOHN ('Ioan ab Hywel' OR 'Ioan Glandyfroedd'; 1774-1830), weaver, schoolmaster, poet, editor, and musician|access-date=23 August 2024}}

• Seren Gomer (collection of hymns including Grongar by John Edwards)

• 17 February – James Crichton-Stuart, politician (d. 1891){{cite book|author=James Balfour Paul|title=The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ELEEAAAAIAAJ|year=1905|publisher=D. Douglas|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ELEEAAAAIAAJ/page/n326 309]}}
• March – Isaac D. Seyburn, Welsh-born merchant captain and naval officer (d. 1895)
• 17 April – John Basson Humffray, political reformer in Australia (d. 1891){{cite re-member|name=Humffray, John Basson|accessdate=26 August 2022|num2=586}}
• 24 July – Robert Jones Derfel, poet (d. 1905){{Cite DWB|last=Gwenallt Jones|first=David|year=1959|title=Derfel, Robert Jones (1824–1905), poet and socialist|id=s-DERF-JON-1824|access-date=30 August 2021}}
• 15 December – Morgan Thomas, Welsh-born Australian surgeon and philanthropist (d. 1903){{Dictionary of Australian Biography|First=Morgan|Last=Thomas|shortlink=0-dict-biogT-V.html#thomas2}}
• date unknown – David James Jenkins, shipowner and politician (d. 1891)

• 1 February – John Rice Jones, Welsh-born American politician and soldier, 64{{cite book|last=Jones|first=W.A. Burt|title=John Rice Jones: a brief sketch of the life and public career of the first practicing lawyer in Illinois.|year=1889|publisher=Fergus Printing Company. Fergus' Historical Series #82|location=Chicago, Illinois}}
• 18 April – Edward Jones, harpist ("Bardd y Brenin"), 72{{cite book|author1=Philip H. Highfill|author2=Kalman A. Burnim|author3=Edward A. Langhans|title=A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Hough to Keyse|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mjeImcc9rGwC&pg=PA231|year=1982|publisher=SIU Press|isbn=978-0-8093-0919-1|pages=231}}
• 30 July – David Howell, American jurist of Welsh descent, 77
• 24 August – Thomas Parry, Chennai merchant, 56 (cholera){{cite book|author=Allister Macmillan|title=Seaports of India & Ceylon: Historical and Descriptive, Commercial and Industrial, Facts, Figures, & Resources|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6wREPxGHJIMC|year=1928|publisher=W. H. & L. Collingridge|page=295}}
• 18 September – Thomas Hill of Dennis, industrialist, about 92{{cite web| title = Thomas Hill of Dennis| url = https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Thomas_Hill_of_Dennis|website = Grace's Guide| access-date = 14 February 2025}}
• November – William Moses, poet, 82
• 24 December – John Downman, artist, 74{{cite DNB|page=403|wstitle=Downman, John}}

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