1848 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1848 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins^{[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 (until 18 March); Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (from 4 May)^[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 (until 17 January); Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley (from 26 February)^[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 – Thomas Vowler Short^{[18] [19]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall^{[20] [21] [22]}

Events

• 1 March – Llandovery College opens in the building known as the "Depot".^[23]
• 1 May – Opening for Chester and Holyhead Railway traffic of the first tube of Robert Stephenson's Conwy Railway Bridge.^[24]
• 1 August – Opening of an isolated section of the Chester and Holyhead Railway across Anglesey from Llanfair to Holyhead.^[24]
• 24 August – The American barque Ocean Monarch, loaded with would-be immigrants, catches fire off Colwyn Bay, with the loss of 178 lives.^[25]
• 24 October – Trinity College, Carmarthen is established (as the South Wales and Monmouthshire Training College), to train teachers for Church of England schools.^[26]
• 14 November – Opening of the North Wales County Pauper Lunatic Asylum (North Wales Hospital), Denbigh.^[27]
• The new Llandeilo Bridge is completed, with a span of 145feet over the River Towy.^[28]
• Merthyr Tydfil Hebrew Congregation formed.
• Butchers' Market in Wrexham opened.
• Michael D. Jones becomes a minister in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Hughes - The Self-Searcher
• John Jenkins - National Education
• Richard Williams Morgan - Maynooth and St. Asaph
• Edward Parry - Railway Companion from Chester to Holyhead

Music

• Robert Herbert Williams - Alawydd Trefriw^[29]

Visual arts

• John Evan Thomas - Death of Tewdric Mawr, King of Gwent (sculpture)

Births

• 23 January – Daniel James, bardic poet and lyricist of Calon Lân (died 1920)^[30]
• 12 February – Beriah Gwynfe Evans, journalist and dramatist (died 1927)^[31]
• 18 September – Robert Harris, painter (died 1919)
• 5 October – Sir John Purser Griffiths, civil engineer (died 1938)
• 2 November – A. G. Edwards, first Archbishop of Wales (died 1917)
• 30 December – David Jenkins, composer (died 1915)
• Charles Ashton police officer, literary historian and bibliophile (suicide 1899)

Deaths

• 17 January – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, 63 (accidentally shot by his son)^[32]
• 23 February – Lord Granville Somerset, MP for Monmouthshire, 55
• 18 March – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, creator of modern Cardiff, 54^[33]
• 27 March – William Ellis Jones, poet, 52
• 2 April – Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, antiquary, 64
• 7 November – Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), poet and historian, 61^[34]
• 15 November – David Hiram Williams, geologist and surveyor, 36^[35]
• 23 December – James Cowles Prichard, physician and ethnologist of Welsh parentage, 62

See also

• 1848 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. News: Editorial. 17 January 2022. Welshman. 6 October 1865.
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. Web site: TALBOT, Christopher Rice Mansel (1803-1890), of Penrice Castle and Margam Park, Glam.. History of Parliament Online. 18 January 2022.
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. Web site: Hanbury Tracy, Charles (1778–1858), of Toddington, Glos. and Gregynog, Mont.. History of Parliament Online. 2 July 2013.
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. Book: David Trevor William Price. A History of Saint David's University College Lampeter: to 1898. 1977. University of Wales Press. 978-0-7083-0606-2. 71.
24. Book: Baughan, Peter E.. The Chester & Holyhead Railway. 1. Newton Abbot. David & Charles. 1972. 0-7153-5617-8.
25. Book: The London Journal: and Weekly Record of Literature, Science, and Art. 1848. G. Vickers. 1.
26. Book: National Library of Wales. Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru: The National Library of Wales Journal. 1993. Council of the National Library of Wales. 326.
27. Book: Kathryn Burtinshaw. John R F Burt. Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots: A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland. 30 April 2017. Pen and Sword. 978-1-4738-7906-5. 83.
28. Book: Roger Cragg. Wales and West Central England. 1997. Thomas Telford. 978-0-7277-2576-9. 77.
29. s-WILL-HER-1805. Williams, Robert Herbert (Corfanydd; (1805-1876), musician. Robert David Griffith. 1959. 18 January 2022.
30. s-JAME-DAN-1847. James, Daniel (Gwyrosydd; 1847-1920), poet. Gwilym Prichard Ambrose. 1959. 17 January 2022.
31. s-EVAN-GWY-1848. Evans, Beriah Gwynfe (1848-1927), journalist and dramatist. Edward Morgan Humphreys. 1959. 18 January 2022.
32. s-POWY-HER-1674. Herbert family (earls of Powis). Evan David Jones. National Library of Wales. 18 September 2019.
33. Book: Davies, John. 1981. Cardiff and the Marquesses of Bute. University of Wales Press. Cardiff, UK. 9780708324639.
34. Web site: Price, Thomas (Carnhuanawc; 1787-1848), historian and antiquary. Brinley Rees. Brinley Rees. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 18 September 2019.
35. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081881819;view=1up;seq=55 Allen's Indian Mail Vol VII No 117 London Monday, 22 January 1849 p41