1846 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1846 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 – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet^[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 (until 13 September); Thomas Vowler Short (from 27 October)^{[18] [19]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall (from 9 August)^{[20] [21] [22]}

Events

• 14 January - 35 men are killed in a mining accident at Risca.^[23]
• March - A speech by William Williams, MP for Coventry, on the subject of education and the Welsh language leads to the commissioning of a report.
• 27 June - Thomas Frankland Lewis is created a baronet.^[24]
• 1 August - Opening of the Aberdare railway.
• 3 August - Mary Cornelia Edwards of Plas Machynlleth marries George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry.^[25]
• October - New bridge over the River Towy at Llandeilo collapses under construction.
• date unknown
  • The new cast-iron Llandinam Bridge in Montgomeryshire is opened.^[26]
  • The rebuilt Beaumaris Pier is partially opened.^[27]
  • Halkyn-born Mormon missionary Dan Jones becomes mission president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Wales, concentrating the church's efforts around Merthyr Tydfil, publishing (from July) the Welsh language monthly Prophwyd y Jubili and also the tract Hanes Saint y Dyddiau Diweddaf.
  • The Cambrian Archaeological Association is founded by Harry Longueville Jones and John Williams (Ab Ithel) and launches its journal Archaeologia Cambrensis.^[28]

Arts and literature

New books

• Griffith Edwards (Gutyn Padarn) - Gwaith Prydyddawl
• Daniel Silvan Evans - Telynegion
• Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - Heraldic Visitations of Wales and Part of the Marches between the years 1586 and 1613...
• William Morgan (Gwilym Gelli-deg) - Cerbyd Awen

Music

• Y Salmydd Cenedlaethol (collection of hymns)

Births

• 8 January - Henry Bracy, tenor (d. 1917)
• 1 October - John Cadvan Davies, minister and poet (d. 1823)^[29]
• 17 October - Mary Davies (Mair Eifion), poet (d. 1882)
• 24 November - Tom Hurry Riches, steam locomotive engineer (d. 1911)^[30]
• 6 December - James Charles, theologian (d. 1920)
• 28 December - William Frost, harpist (d. 1891)
• 3 August - Samuel M. Jones, mayor of Toledo, Ohio (d. 1904)

Deaths

• 9 March - William Hughes, composer, 88
• 28 March - Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion), poet, 53^[31]
• 26 June - Honoratus Leigh Thomas, surgeon, 77^[32]
• 29 July - John Owens, educational benefactor, 55^[33]
• 13 September – William Carey, Bishop of St Asaph, 76
• October - John Evans, surgeon and cartographer, 90^[34]
• 3 December - Daniel Jones, missionary, 33^[35]
• 5 December - Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet, politician, 86^[36]

See also

• 1846 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. 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: Nicholas Harris Nicolas. The historic peerage of England: Revised, corrected, and continued ... by William Courthope. John Murray. 1857. 533.
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. News: Monmouthshire Merlin. The late Fatal Explosion at Risca. 7 February 1846. Edward Dowling. 10107/3425253.
24. s-LEWI-FRA-1780. Lewis, Sir Thomas Frankland (1780-1855), politician. David Williams. David Williams (historian). 9 November 2018.
25. Book: David Barnes. The Companion Guide to Wales. 2005. Companion Guides. 978-1-900639-43-9. 57.
26. Book: David Morgan Rees. The Industrial Archaeology of Wales. 1975. David & Charles. 270.
27. Book: Martin Easdown. Darlah Thomas. Piers of Wales. 15 July 2010. Amberley Publishing Limited. 978-1-4456-2385-6. 117.
28. Book: Abraham Hume. The Learned Societies and Printing Clubs of the United Kingdom: Being an Account of Their Respective Origin, History, Objects, and Constitution: with Full Details Respecting Membership, Fees, Their Published Works and Transactions, Notices of Their Periods and Places of Meeting, &c. and a General Introduction and a Classified Index. 1847. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 164.
29. s-DAVI-CAD-1846. Davies, John Cadvan (Cadvan; 1846 - 1923), Wesleyan minister. Edward Tegla Davies. 22 May 2020.
30. Web site: Tom Hurry Riches (1911 obituary). Grace's Guide. 16 January 2022.
31. s-EVAN-DAN-1792 . Evans, Daniel (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion; 1792 - 1846). David Gwenallt . Jones . D. Gwenallt Jones . 5 September 2008.
32. Thomas, Honoratus Leigh. 56.
33. Web site: Owens, John (1790–1846), merchant and philanthropist . Brian W. . Clapp . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . 2004 . 11 October 2017.
34. s-EVAN-JOH-1756 . Evans, John (1756 - 1846), surgeon. North. Frederick John. F. J. North. 9 October 2008.
35. s-JONE-DAN-1813. Jones, Daniel (1813-1846), Calvinistic Methodist missionary in the Khasi Hills, India. Evan Lewis Evans. 1959. 16 January 2022.
36. Book: The Gentleman's Magazine (London, England). 1847. F. Jefferies. 306.