1843 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1843 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 – Bishop of Bangor^{[15] [2]}
• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell^{[16] [17]}
  • Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey^[18]
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall^{[19] [20] [21]}

Events

• 15 April – Death of William Howells, the notorious "Laleston poisoning" case. His sister and brother-in-law are later acquitted of his murder.
• 19 June – An attack on the Carmarthen workhouse is blamed on "Chartists and the rabble of the town". After the disturbances, the Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire, George Rice Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor, takes on the responsibility for administering order in the county.^[22]
• 22 June – The Times sends a special correspondent to South Wales to cover the Rebecca Riots.^[23]
• 25 August – "The Great Meeting" (Y Cyfarfod Mawr) to seek political solutions to the problems underlying the Rebecca Riots is held on Mynydd Sylen in the Gwendraeth valley.
• October – Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis is appointed to chair the commission of enquiry into the Rebecca Riots.^[24]
• 1 November – The foundation stone for the first Beaumaris Pier is laid.^[25]
• 22 December – John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr), one of the ringleaders of the Rebecca Riots is sentenced to transportation to Australia.
• Pontardawe Tinplate Works established.
• Llewelyn Lewellin becomes Dean of St David's.

Arts and literature

New books

• Daniel Silvan Evans – Blodeu Ieuainc^[26]
• Morris Williams (Nicander) – Y Flwyddyn Eglwysig

Music

• David Hughes (Cristiolus Môn) – Y Perorydd Cysegredig^[27]
• John Orlando Parry – The Accomplished Young Lady

Births

• 8 January – John Bryn Roberts, lawyer and politician (died 1931)^[28]
• 12 February – John Graham Chambers, sportsman who codified the Marquess of Queensberry rules (died 1883)
• 17 April – Richard John Lloyd Price, sportsman and squire of Rhiwlas (died 1923)
• 12 May – Thomas William Rhys Davids, founder of the Pali Text Society (died 1922)^[29]
• 21 May – John Hugh Jones, Roman Catholic priest, translator, and tutor (died 1910)^[30]
• 11 June – James Milo Griffith, sculptor (died 1897)
• 18 July – Sir Morgan Morgan, politician (died 1894)^[31]
• 4 August – Margaret Townsend Jenkins, social reformer and educator who worked in Chile and Canada (died 1923)^[32]
• 30 August – Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea, MP for Brecon 1880–1885 (died 1907)
• 12 September – William Morris, Baptist minister (died 1922)
• 17 September – Hugh Williams, historian (died 1911)^[33]
• 14 November – Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Unitarian minister in the United States (died 1918)
• 23 November – Daniel Lewis Lloyd, Bishop of Bangor (died 1899)^[34]
• 20 December – Frances Hoggan, first British woman to qualify as a doctor (died 1927)
• date unknown – Peter Rees Jones, businessman (died 1905)^[35]

Deaths

• 31 January – William Henry Scourfield, Member of Parliament, 66?^[36]
• 28 March – Robert Richford Roberts, Welsh-descended Methodist leader in the United States, 64^[37]
• 27 March – Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny, 88
• 23 April – Sir Robert Vaughan, 2nd Baronet, landowner and politician, 75^[38]
• 19 May – Charles James Apperley ("Nimrod"), sports writer, 64?^[39]
• 18 December – Dic Aberdaron (Richard Robert Jones), polyglot, 62/63^[40]
• date unknown – Mary Evans (Mrs Fryer Todd), first love of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 73?^[41]

See also

• 1843 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: 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: Old Yorkshire, volume 3. 1882. 90.
20. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 307.
21. Book: The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. 95.
22. Book: Frederick Clare Mather. Public Order in the Age of the Chartists. Manchester University Press. 1959. 11.
23. Book: John Davies. A History of Wales. 25 January 2007. Penguin Adult. 978-0-14-028475-1. 575.
24. Book: John Davies. A History of Wales. 25 January 2007. Penguin Adult. 978-0-14-028475-1. 575.
25. Book: Martin Easdown. Darlah Thomas. Piers of Wales. 15 July 2010. Amberley Publishing Limited. 978-1-4456-2385-6. 115–.
26. not known. The Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society. Welsh Bibliographical Society. 1950. 183. cy.
27. Book: Aled Jones. Press, politics and society: a history of journalism in Wales. 1993. University of Wales Press. 978-0-7083-1167-7. 192.
28. Book: Jack Eaton. Judge John Bryn Roberts. University of Wales Press. 1989.
29. Ridding. C. Mary. Tin. Pe Maung. 1923. 607190. Obituary: Professor T. W. Rhys Davids. Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London. 3. 1. Cambridge University Press. 201–210. 10.1017/S0041977X0000032X. free.
30. s-JONE-HUG-1843. Jones, John Hugh (1843–1910), Roman Catholic priest. Humphreys. Edward Morgan. 21 October 2021.
31. News: Death of a Welsh Knight – Sir Morgan Morgan suddenly expires – widespread sorrow in South Wales . Weekly Mail . (Wales and the West of England) . 7 . 15 December 1894 . Welsh Newspapers Online .
32. Melanie. Buddle. Townsend, Margaret (Fox; Jenkins). 15.
33. Williams, Hugh. 3.
34. s-LLOY-LEW-1843. Lloyd, Daniel Lewis (1843–1899), schoolmaster and bishop. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. yes. 19 September 2019.
35. Book: Ben Weinreb. Christopher Hibbert. The London Encyclopedia. 1 January 1983. MacMillan. 978-0-333-32556-8. 419.
36. Web site: SCOURFIELD, William Henry (1776–1843), of Robeston Hall, Robeston West and New Moat, Pemb.. History of Parliament Online. 3 April 2019.
37. Book: 21. Year-book of the Annual Conference. Committee of the Providence Annual Conference. 1850.
38. Web site: VAUGHAN, Sir Robert Williames, 2nd bt. (1768–1843), of Nannau Hall, nr. Dolgellau, Merion. History of Parliament Online. 2013-03-09.
39. s-APPE-JAM-1779. Apperley, Charles James (1779–1843), writer on sport, known as 'Nimrod'. Edward Morgan Humphreys. yes. 3 April 2019.
40. s-JONE-ROB-1780. Jones, Richard Robert (1780–1843), polyglot. Gruffydd Parry. yes. 9 December 2020.
41. Web site: Mary Fryer Todd (née Evans) (1770–1843). National Museum Wales. 3 April 2019.