1839 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1839 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

• March – John Frost, former mayor of Newport, is deprived of his position as a magistrate because of his Chartist sympathies.
• 30 April – Chartists riot in Llanidloes and seize control of the town for five days.
• 7 May – Henry Vincent is arrested after addressing a Chartist meeting and taken to prison at Monmouth.^[23]
• 13 May – Beginning of the Rebecca Riots.
• 25 July – William Ewart Gladstone marries Catherine Glynne of Hawarden.^[24]
• 28 August – Mary Anne Lewis, widow of Cardiff MP Wyndham Lewis, marries Benjamin Disraeli.^[25]
• 5 October – Opening of West Bute Dock.
• 4 November – Newport Rising: between 5,000 and 10,000 Chartist sympathisers led by John Frost, many of them coal miners, march on the Westgate Hotel in Newport, Monmouthshire, to liberate Chartist prisoners; around 22 are killed when troops, directed by Thomas Phillips, the mayor, fire on the crowd.^[26] This is the last large-scale armed civil rebellion against authority in mainland Britain and sees the most deaths.
• 23 November – Zephaniah Williams, one of the leaders of the Chartist march on Newport, is arrested on board ship at Cardiff.^[27]
• date unknown – Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis resigns as chairman of the Poor Law Commission, to be replaced by his son, George Cornewall Lewis.

Arts and literature

New books

• William Bingley – Excursions in North Wales
• Maria James – Wales and other Poems
• William Williams (Caledfryn) – Drych Barddonol

Music

• John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt) – Hafilah (hymn tune)

Births

• 9 January – Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen), writer (d. 1916)^[28]
• 13 February (in England) – Robert Bird, politician (d. 1909)
• 7 March (in Germany) – Ludwig Mond, German-born industrialist (d. 1909)^[29]
• 31 March – Thomas Henry Thomas (Arlunydd Penygarn) later known as T. H. Thomas, artist (d. 1915)^[30]
• 24 September (in England) – John Neale Dalton, royal chaplain and tutor (d. 1931)^[31]

Deaths

• 27 January – Sir Charles Paget, MP for Caernarfon, 60 (yellow fever)^[32]
• 11 May – "Doctor" John Harries, Cwrt-y-cadno, physician, 54^[33]
• 16 May – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis, 84^[34]
• 20 May – Rice Rees, historian, 35^[35]
• 29 December – Hopkin Bevan, minister and author, 74^[36]

See also

• 1839 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: A Gwent Anthology. 1988. Christopher Davies. 978-0-7154-0655-7. 134.
24. Book: Bebbington, David . William Ewart Gladstone: faith and politics in Victorian Britain . W.B. Eerdmans . Grand Rapids, Mich . 1993 . 9780802801524 . 45.
25. Book: Paul Smith. Paul Smith (historian). Disraeli: A Brief Life. registration. 12 September 1996. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-38150-5. 37.
26. Web site: John Lovell and the People's Charter. The struggle for democracy. The National Archives. Kew. 2003. 2019-05-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235009/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/struggle_democracy/lovell.htm. 2007-09-26. live.
27. Book: David Egan. People, Protest, and Politics: Case Studies in Nineteenth Century Wales. 1 January 1987. Gomer Press. 978-0-86383-350-2. 85.
28. s-REES-JAN-1839. Rees, Sarah Jane (Cranogwen; 1839-1916), schoolmistress, poet, editor, temperance advocate. William Llewelyn Davies. 30 November 2020.
29. Book: Chemical Society (Great Britain). Journal of the Chemical Society. 1918. The Society. 318.
30. s-THOM-HEN-1839. Thomas, Thomas Henry (Arlunydd Penygarn; 1839-1915), artist. William Llewelyn Davies. 30 November 2020.
31. Book: Trinity College (University of Cambridge). Admissions to Trinity College, Cambridge .... 1913. Macmillan and Company, Limited. 700.
32. Book: Edward Clarence Paget. Memoir of the Honble Sir Charles Paget, G.C.H., 1778-1839. 1913. Longmans, Green and Company. 105.
33. Book: Isaac Evans. Coelion Cymru. Aberystwyth. 1938. 136. cy.
34. R. G. Thorne, CLIVE, Edward, 2nd Baron Clive (1754-1839), of Walcot, Salop. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, 1986.
35. s-REES-RIC-1804. REES, RICE (1804 - 1839), cleric and scholar. Jones. Selwyn. 26 April 2008.
36. Book: Thomas Mardy Rees. Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. Also a Complete Alphabetical Index. 1908. Herald Office. 195.