1841 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1841 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 – Robert Myddelton Biddulph^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis^[13]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet^[14]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney^{[15] [2] [16]}
• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell^{[17] [18]}
  • Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey^[19]
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall^{[20] [21] [22]}

Events

• 19 February - The Governor Fenner, carrying emigrants to America, sinks off Holyhead after colliding with a steamer, with the loss of 123 lives.^[23]
• 9 March - The first known photograph is taken in Wales, of Margam Castle by Calvert Jones.^[24]
• 12 April - The Taff Vale Railway is extended to Merthyr Tydfil
• 26 July - The proprietors of The Skerries Lighthouse off Anglesey, the last privately owned light in the British Isles, are awarded £444,984 in compensation for its sale to Trinity House.
• 19 August - In the United Kingdom general election, William Edwards stands as a Chartist candidate in Monmouth Boroughs and becomes the only Parliamentary candidate in Wales, ever, not to win a single vote.
• 8 December - The month-old Albert Edward, eldest son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, is created Prince of Wales by letters patent.^[25]
• date unknown
  • Founding of Bala-Bangor Congregational College.^[26]
  • Poor Law Amendment Act is passed, largely thanks to the efforts of Sir George Cornewall Lewis.
  • Mordecai Jones opens a brewery at Brecon.
  • The Brymbo ironworks are bought out of Chancery after a long period of litigation and reopened by a limited company.
  • Opening of Swansea Museum by the Royal Institution of South Wales.^[27]
  • Land is earmarked by Welsh immigrants in Ohio for the building of Tyn Rhos Chapel.^[28]

Arts and literature

New books

• David Owen (Brutus) - Gweithrediadau yr Eglwys Sefydledig^[29]
• Welsh Book of Common Prayer (new edition)

Music

Births

• 28 January - Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer (as John Rowlands;^[30] died 1904)
• 14 February
  • Sir John Gibson, journalist (died 1915)
  • William Reginald Herbert, horseman (died 1929)
• 5 April - Robert Rees, singer and musician (died 1892)
• 23 April - Henry Hughes, minister and historian (died 1924)
• 29 April - Francis Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell, soldier (died 1925)^[31]
• 21 May - Joseph Parry, composer (died 1903)^[32]
• 26 June (in London) - James Cholmeley Russell, railway entrepreneur (died 1912)
• 9 November (in London) - Edward Albert, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII of the United Kingdom (died 1910)

Deaths

• 17 January - David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), poet, 56^[33]
• 12 May - Joseph Tudor Hughes, harpist, 13 (drowning)
• 19 May - John Blackwell (Alun), poet, 42^[34]
• 1 May - David Jones, missionary, 44^[35]
• 24 May - Thomas Roberts, Llwyn'rhudol, co-founder of Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion, 75-80^[36]
• 8 June - John Elias, preacher, 67^[37]
• 4 December - David Daniel Davis, physician, 64^[38]

See also

• 1841 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. Web site: Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx.. History of Parliament Online. 5 December 2021.
9. Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. not known. William Retlaw Williams. "Old Wales" Office. 1907. 3. 106.
10. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 612.
11. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 29.
12. Book: Amy Audrey Locke. The Hanbury Family. Arthur L. Humphreys. 1916. 147.
13. s-POWY-HER-1674. Herbert family (earls of Powis). Evan David Jones. 1959. 30 November 2021.
14. Web site: Thorne . R.G. . John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire . History of Parliament . 27 March 2020.
15. Book: Jonathan Williams. The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. 1859. 115.
16. Book: William Stockdale. Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom. 1833. 86.
17. Book: Fryde, E. B. . Handbook of British chronology . New York Cambridge University Press . Cambridge England . 1996 . 9780521563505 . 292.
18. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 305.
19. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
20. Book: Old Yorkshire, volume 3. 1882. 90.
21. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 307.
22. Book: The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. 95.
23. Book: Joseph Haydn. Benjamin Vincent. A Dictionary of Dates Relating to All Ages and Nations: For Universal Reference; Comprehending Remarkable Occurrences, Ancient and Modern ...particularly of the British Empire. 1860. E. Moxon. 721.
24. Book: National Library of Wales. Annual Report - National Library of Wales. 1987.
25. Book: Allison, Ronald . The Royal encyclopedia . Macmillan Press . London . 1991 . 9780333538104 . 155.
26. Book: Alan P. F. Sell. One Ministry, Many Ministers: A Case Study from the Reformed Tradition. 24 October 2014. Wipf and Stock Publishers. 978-1-62564-892-1. 84.
27. Book: Glanmor Williams. Swansea: An Illustrated History. 1 January 1990. Christopher Davies. 978-0-7154-0714-1. 161.
28. Book: Anne Kelly Knowles. Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier. registration. February 1997. University of Chicago Press. 978-0-226-44853-4. 145.
29. Book: Catalogue of Welsh Books, Books on Wales, and Books by Welshmen, A.D. 1800-1862, at Glan Aber, Chester. 1870. 37.
30. Book: William G. Stairs. Roy D. MacLaren. African Exploits: The Diaries of William Stairs, 1887-1892. 18 March 1998. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. 978-0-7735-1640-3. 7.
31. Web site: Francis Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 17 August 2013.
32. Book: Maggie Humphreys. Robert Evans. Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. 1 January 1997. A&C Black. 978-0-7201-2330-2. 258.
33. Owen, David (1784-1841). 42.
34. Thompson . Cooper . Blackwell, John . 5 . 146–147.
35. Web site: Jones, David (1797-1841), missionary. Evan Lewis Evans. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. 19 September 2019.
36. Roberts, Thomas (1765/6–1841), author. 2004. 10.1093/ref:odnb/62917.
37. Book: Edward Morgan . John Elias - life, letters and essays . Banner of Truth Trust, Edinburgh. 1973 . 0-85151-174-0 .
38. Book: The London and Edinburgh Monthly Journal of Medical Science. 1842. 82.