1836 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1836 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williams^{[5] [6]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby^[7]
• 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^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet^[13]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney^{[14] [2] [15]}
• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell^{[16] [17]}
  • Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey^[18]
• Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson^{[19] [20] [21] [22]}

Events

• 20 April – Opening of the Ffestiniog Railway, the first narrow-gauge railway in the world.^[23]
• 21 June – An Act of Parliament is passed, allowing the construction of the Taff Vale Railway.^[24]
• June – Crawshay Bailey buys the Aberaman estate from the family of Anthony Bacon at auction.^[25]
• 9 November – John Frost is elected Mayor of Newport.^[26]
• date unknown
  • The final known duel in Wales takes place, fought with pistols at Gumfreston Hall in Pembrokeshire, between MP Sir John Owen and former Tenby mayor William Richards. Richards is badly wounded.^[27]
  • Humphrey Gwalchmai launches the periodical Yr Athraw.^[28]
  • The Philanthropic Order of True Ivorites is established in Wrexham by Thomas Robert Jones, it is Wales' first friendly society.^[29]

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Rice Rees - An Essay on the Welsh Saints
• Thomas Roscoe - Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales
• Samuel Prideaux Tregelles - Passages in the Old Testament connected with the Revelation

Welsh language

• Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) - Hanes Cymru a Chenedl y Cymry o'r Cynoesoedd hyd at Farwolaeth Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, vol. 1^[30]
• John Williams (Ab Ithel) - Eglwys Loegr yn Anymddibynol ar Eglwys Rhufain^[31]

Music

• John David Edwards - Original Sacred Music

Births

• 30 January – Lewis Jones, one of the founders of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia (d. 1904)
• 15 March – Griffith Jones (Glan Menai), teacher and author (d. 1906)
• 1 April – John Owen, balladeer (d. 1915)
• 26 May – Sir John Dillwyn-Llewellyn, 1st Baronet, politician (d. 1927)
• 5 July – Evan Herber Evans, Nonconformist leader (d. 1896)
• 6 October – Allen Raine, novelist (d. 1908)^[32]
• 20 October – Daniel Owen, novelist (d. 1895)^[33]
• 9 November – Isaac Foulkes, newspaper proprietor (d. 1904)
• 9 November – Arthur Charles Humphreys-Owen, politician (d. 1905)

Deaths

• 11 August - William Williams (Gwilym Twrog), poet, 67^[34]
• 24 August Sir Christopher Cole, Royal Navy officer and politician, 66^[35]
• 22 November - Peter Bailey Williams, clergyman and writer, 73^[36]
• 27 December - Edward Jones, Maes y Plwm, hymn-writer, 75^[37]

See also

• 1836 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 24.
2. Book: J.C. Sainty . John Sainty (civil servant) . List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 . Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd . London . 1979.
3. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 695.
4. Book: Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. 169.
5. Web site: Penpont including attached conservatory and rear service ranges. British Listed Buildings. 2 December 2021.
6. Book: Edwin Poole. 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. 1886. 378.
7. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 26.
8. Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. not known. William Retlaw Williams. "Old Wales" Office. 1907. 3. 106.
9. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 612.
10. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 29.
11. Book: Amy Audrey Locke. The Hanbury Family. Arthur L. Humphreys. 1916. 147.
12. s-POWY-HER-1674. Herbert family (earls of Powis). Evan David Jones. 1959. 30 November 2021.
13. Web site: Thorne . R.G. . John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire . History of Parliament . 27 March 2020.
14. Book: Jonathan Williams. The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. 1859. 115.
15. Book: William Stockdale. Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom. 1833. 86.
16. Book: Fryde, E. B. . Handbook of British chronology . New York Cambridge University Press . Cambridge England . 1996 . 9780521563505 . 292.
17. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 305.
18. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
19. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 307.
20. Book: The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. 95.
21. Book: The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3. George III (King of Great Britain). University Press. 1967. 434.
22. Web site: Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas . The Royal Society . 30 October 2020.
23. Book: Donald J. Grant. Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain. 31 October 2017. Troubador Publishing Ltd. 978-1-78803-768-6. 201.
24. Book: Donald J. Grant. Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain. 31 October 2017. Troubador Publishing Ltd. 978-1-78803-768-6. 553.
25. Book: Morgannwg. 1976. Glamorgan History Society. 30.
26. Book: Report of Cases argued and determined in the English Courts of Common Law, volume 35. 1878. 822.
27. Book: May, John . A Chronicle of Welsh Events . 1994 . Christopher Davies Ltd . Swansea. 67 . 0-7154-0723-6.
28. Book: Bye-gones, Relating to Wales and the Border Counties. 1909. 57.
29. Book: Meic Stephens. The new companion to the literature of Wales. 23 September 1998. University of Wales Press. 978-0-7083-1383-1. 255.
30. Book: George Long. The penny cyclopædia [ed. by G. Long].]. 1843. 222.
31. Book: Catalogue of Welsh Books, Books on Wales, and Books by Welshmen, A.D. 1800-1862, at Glan Aber, Chester. 1870. 31.
32. s-PUDD-ADA-1836. Puddicombe, Anne Adalisa ('Allen Raine'; 1836-1908), novelist. David Jenkins. National Library of Wales. 2 April 2019.
33. s-OWEN-DAN-1836. Owen, Daniel (1836-1895), novelist. Katherine Williams. National Library of Wales. 1959. 2 December 2021.
34. s-WILL-WIL-1768. Williams, William (Gwilym Twrog; 1768-1836), poet. Bob Owen. National Library of Wales. 2 April 2019.
35. Web site: COLE, Sir Christopher (1770-1836), of Penrice Castle, Glam.. History of Parliament Online. 2 April 2019.
36. s-WILL-BAI-1763. Williams, Peter Bailey. 24 April 2018.
37. s-JONE-EDW-1761. Jones, Edward (1761-1836), poet, farmer, and schoolmaster. Evan David Jones. National Library of Wales. 11 January 2020.