1845 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1845 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 (until 17 January); Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet (from 25 April)^{[9] [10]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh^[13]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis^[14]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet^[15]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite^{[16] [2]}
• 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 (from 9 August)^{[20] [21] [22]}

Events

• 1 March — Work begins on the construction of the Chester and Holyhead Railway;^[23] Robert Stephenson is chief engineer on the project.
• 2 August — 26 men are killed in a mining accident at Cwmbach, Aberdare.^[24]
• exact date unknown
  • Halkyn-born Mormon missionary Dan Jones returns to Wales from the United States to proselytise for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.^[25]
  • Henry Hussey Vivian becomes manager of the Hafod Smelting Works.^[26]

Arts and literature

Literature and new books

• 1 January – Lewis Edwards founds the periodical Y Traethodydd.^[27]
• The Welsh language periodical Y Trysorfa is founded.
• Thomas Gee inherits his father's printing business.^[28]
• Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion) — Galar-Cerdd ar Farwolaeth William Bruce Knight, Deon Llandaf
• John Jones (Idrisyn) — Yr Esboniad Beirniadol
• John Mills (Ieuan Glan Alarch) — Y Beirniadur Cymreig
• Samuel Prideaux Tregelles — Hebrew Reading Lessons

Music

• Rosser Beynon — Telyn Seion
• Casgliad o Hymnau (hymns)
• John Ambrose Lloyd — Y Ganaan Glyd

Visual arts

• March — Thomas Brigstocke exhibits his painting of General Nott before Queen Victoria.^[29]
• Penry Williams paints the portrait of Lady Charlotte Guest.

Births

• 1 January – Francis Jayne, Principal of St David's College, Lampeter, and Bishop of Chester (died 1921)
• 24 February – Alfred Lewis Jones, shipping magnate (died 1909)
• 16 May – Amy Dillwyn, businesswoman and novelist (died 1935)
• 21 June – Samuel Griffith, Premier of Queensland (died 1920)
• 10 October – Timothy Richard, missionary (died 1919)

Deaths

• 1 January – Sir William Nott, military leader, 62^[30]
• 17 January – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster, Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire, 77^[31]
• 26 January – Peter Jones (Pedr Fardd), poet, 69
• 12 April – John Nevill, 3rd Earl of Abergavenny, 55^[32]
• 8 August – William Bruce Knight, Dean of Llandaff, 59^[33]
• 16 October – Martha Llwyd, poet, 79
• 17 November – Sir Salusbury Pryce Humphreys, naval officer, 66^[34]

See also

• 1845 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. Web site: Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint. History of Parliament Online. 16 January 2022.
10. Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. not known. William Retlaw Williams. "Old Wales" Office. 1907. 3. 106.
11. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 612.
12. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 29.
13. Book: Amy Audrey Locke. The Hanbury Family. Arthur L. Humphreys. 1916. 147.
14. s-POWY-HER-1674. Herbert family (earls of Powis). Evan David Jones. 1959. 30 November 2021.
15. Web site: Thorne . R.G. . John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire . History of Parliament . 27 March 2020.
16. Book: Jonathan Williams. The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. 1859. 115.
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: John Maxwell Dunn. The Chester & Holyhead Railway. 1948. Oakwood Press.
24. Book: Commercial Relations of the United States with Foreign Countries During the Years .... 1897. U.S. Government Printing Office.
25. Web site: Wales. 2014-06-10.
26. Book: Ralph Alan Griffiths. The City of Swansea: Challenges and Change. 1991. A. Sutton. 978-0-86299-676-5.
27. Web site: 'Et Incarnatus Est': The Christology of Thomas Charles Edwards (1837–1900). D. Densil Morgan. 58. 16 January 2022.
28. Book: Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. 1994. University of Wales Press.
29. Book: Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru: The National Library of Wales Journal. 1968. Council of the National Library of Wales.
30. Book: Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas. History of the Orders of Knighthood of the British Empire; of the Order of the Guelphs of Hanover; and of the Medals, Clasps, and Crosses, Conferred for Naval and Military Services. 1842. J. Hunter. 5.
31. Tedder, H. R., rev. H. C. G. Matthew (2004) 'Grosvenor, Robert, first marquess of Westminster (1767–1845)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Retrieved on 12 April 2010.
32. Book: Cokayne, George E. . George Cokayne

    . George Cokayne . Gibbs . Vicary . Vicary Gibbs (St Albans MP) . The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant . I, Ab-Adam to Basing . St. Catherine Press . London . 1910 . 43.

33. Web site: Knight, William Bruce (1785-1845), Welsh scholar, ecclesiastic, and administrator. Lawrence Thomas. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 22 May 2020.
34. William Richard . O'Byrne . Davenport, Salusbury Pryce . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . 1849 . John Murray.