1844 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1844 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 – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite^{[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

• 1 January - 11 or 12 men are killed in a mining accident at Dinas Middle Colliery, Rhondda.^[22]
• 14 February - 40 men are killed when the Cleddau floods the Garden Pit coal-mine at Landshipping, Pembrokeshire.^[23]
• 8 March - John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) embarks on the Blundell for transportation to Norfolk Island, his sentence for shooting at a man during the Rebecca Riots.^[24]
• 13 May - 7 or 8 men are killed in a mining accident at Broadmoor, Loveston, Pembrokeshire.^[25]
• 3 December - 6 men are killed in a mining accident at Fforest Level, Dinas, Rhondda.
• 31 December - David Williams takes out a lease on a mine at Cwmbach, in partnership with Lewis Lewis (of Cefn Coed.^[26]
• date unknown
  • A prospectus is issued to potential investors in a railway to be built through south Wales from a junction with the Great Western Railway at Standish in Gloucestershire.^[27]
  • Owen Owen Roberts is instrumental in setting up the first hospital for Caernarvonshire and Anglesey, at Bangor.^[28]

Arts and literature

New books

• Hugh Derfel Hughes - Blodau'r Gân
• David Owen (Brutus) - Eliasia

Music

• Rowland Prichard - Cyfaill y Cantorion (The Singer's Friend)
• Maria Jane Williams - Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morgannwg

Visual arts

• English watercolour landscape painter David Cox spends his first summer at Betws-y-Coed, which he will continue to do until 1856.

Sport

• Denbigh Cricket Club is founded.^[29]

Births

• 1 January - Robert Clayton, cricketer (died 1901)
• 7 March - Watkin Hezekiah Williams, poet and schoolmaster (died 1905)
• 28 April - Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet (died 1895)
• June - John Roland Phillips, historian (died 1887)
• 28 July - Gerard Manley Hopkins, Welsh-descended poet (died 1889)^[30]
• 3 August - Herbert Armitage James, clergyman and schoolmaster (died 1931)^[31]
• 1 December - Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales 1901-1910 (died 1925)

Deaths

• 18 January - Azariah Shadrach, minister and author, 69^{[32] [33]}
• 7 April - Morgan Lewis, Welsh-descended American politician, 89
• 8 November - Iltid Nicholl, lawyer, 67/68^[34]
• 23 November - Thomas William, hymn-writer, 83

See also

• 1844 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: The Cambrian: A Magazine for the Welsh in America. 1893. D.I. Jones. 330.
23. Web site: The Landshipping mining disaster. www.bbc.co.uk. 2011-11-02. 2019-12-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20170316030324/http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/entries/df32b5ec-1df8-3292-841d-3071fbd45db8. 2017-03-16. live.
24. Web site: Jones, John (fl. 1811-1858; 'Shoni Sguborfawr'), Rebecca rioter. David Williams. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 19 September 2019.
25. Book: The Illustrated London News. 1844. Leighton. 16.
26. Web site: Williams, David (Alaw Goch; 1809-1863), coal-owner and eisteddfodwr. Watkin William Price. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 19 September 2019.
27. Book: The Supplement to the Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge: Habenaria- Ginziber. 2. 1846. C. Knight. 680.
28. Web site: Roberts, Owen Owen (1793-1866), physician and social reformer. Emyr Hywel Owen. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 19 September 2019.
29. http://www.denbighcricketclub.co.uk/ Denbigh Cricket Club website
30. Norman White, "Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844–1889)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press.
31. News: Memorial to Dr. H. A. James. . 19 September 1935. 15. 5 February 2008.
32. 25189. Mari A.. Williams. Shadrach, Azariah.
33. s-SHAD-AZA-1774. Shadrach, Azariah (1774–1844), schoolmaster, Independent minister, and author. 7 April 2017.
34. https://books.google.com/books?id=DX4DcDD_0u4C&pg=PA316 "Iltid Nicholl, Esq."