1867 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1867 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar^{[5] [6]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse^{[8] [2]}
  • Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover (until 27 April);^[13] Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (from 21 May)^[14]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley^[15]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington^[16]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite^{[17] [2]}
• Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell^{[18] [19]}
  • Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short^{[20] [21]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall^{[22] [23]}

Events

• 3 June – The opening of the Anglesey Central Railway to passenger traffic links Amlwch to the rail network for the first time.^[24]
• 19 August – The Victoria pier at Rhyl, built at a cost of £23,000, opens to the public.^[25]
• 2 September – The Carnarvonshire Railway opens throughout, connecting Carnarvon and Portmadoc.^[24]
• 30 September – Mawddwy Railway opens.^[26]
• 10 October – Barmouth Bridge across the Mawddach estuary opens to rail traffic, linking Barmouth to the rail network for the first time.^[27]
• 26–27 October – Barque Earl of Chester is wrecked off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, with the loss of at least 17 lives.^[28]
• 8 November – 178 miners are killed in an accident at Ferndale Colliery, Rhondda.
• date unknown
  • Celtic Congress held at Saint-Brieuc in Brittany.
  • The Bronze Age cairns at Llanmadoc Hill are excavated and finds recorded.^[29]

Arts and literature

Awards

• At the National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Carmarthen, a crown is presented for the first time.

New books

• Rhoda Broughton – Cometh Up as a Flower^[30]
• Edward Hamer – The Chartist Outbreak at Llanidloes
• Jabez Edmund Jenkins – Egin Awen, yn cynnwys awdlau, cywyddau
• Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan - Penhow Castle
• William Thomas (Islwyn) – Caniadau
• Alfred Russel Wallace – The Malay Archipelago
• Charles Wilkins – The History of Merthyr Tydfil

Music

• David Roberts (Alawydd) – Llyfr y Psalmau

Sport

• Boxing – The "Marquess of Queensberry rules", formulated by John Graham Chambers, are published.

Births

• 10 March
  • Sir William James Thomas, 1st baronet, philanthropist, one of the Thomas baronets of Yapton (d. 1945)^[31]
  • William Llewelyn Williams, politician (d. 1922)
• 10 April – Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, peer (d. 1934)^[32]
• 2 May – Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn), poet (d. 1926)^[33]
• 13 May – Frank Brangwyn, artist (d. 1956)^[34]
• 15 May – Sir Henry Stuart Jones, academic (d. 1939)
• 21 May – John Thomas Job, poet (d. 1938)^[35]
• 26 May – Mary of Teck, member of the British royal family, Princess of Wales 1901–1910 (d. 1953)^[36]
• 29 September – John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy), poet (d. 1924)
• 6 October – Rosser Evans, Wales international rugby player
• 12 October – Lyn Harding, actor (d. 1952)
• 2 November – Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer (d. 1899)^[37]
• 28 November – James Richard Atkin, judge (born in Australia) (d. 1944)
• 18 December – David Watts Morgan, Member of Parliament for Rhondda East (d. 1933)^[38]
• date unknown
  • Mia Arnesby Brown, born Mia Sarah H. Edwards, painter of children's portraits (d. 1931)
  • Fred Hutchinson, rugby player (d. 1941)

Deaths

• 15 February – Walter Coffin, industrialist, 82^[39]
• 18 February – Edward Roberts (Iorwerth Glan Aled), poet, 48
• 27 April – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist, 64^[40]
• 26 May – Thomas Phillips, politician and businessman, 65/66^[41]
• 4 August – William Crawshay II, industrialist, 79^[42]
• 9 September – John Propert, physician, 74^[43]
• 12 September – Robert Fulke Greville, landowner and politician, 67^[44]
• 16 November – Thomas Aubrey, Methodist minister, 59^[45]
• 1 December – William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines in Australia, 74

See also

• 1867 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: Morgan, Charles Morgan Robinson (1792–1875), of Ruperra, Glam. and Tredegar, Mon.. History of Parliament Online. 3 July 2013.
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. News: Death of Colonel Pryse. 27 February 2018. Cambrian News. 1 June 1888. 4.
9. Web site: Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx.. History of Parliament Online. 3 December 2021.
10. Web site: Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint.. 3 December 2021.
11. Campbell. Thomas Methuen. C.R.M. Talbot 1803–1890. Morgannwg. 2000. 44. 66–104. 17 May 2014.
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: James Henry Clark. History of Monmouthshire. County Observer. 1869. 375.
14. Book: Doyle, James E. . The Official Baronage of England . I . 1886 . Longmans, Green and Co. . 139 . 7 March 2009.
15. Book: Amy Audrey Locke. The Hanbury Family. Arthur L. Humphreys. 1916. 170.
16. Book: Smith, Jenny . Portraits for a King : the British military paintings of A-J Dubois Drahonet (1791-1834 . National Army Museum . London . 1990 . 9780901721211 . 15.
17. Walsh, John Benn. 59.
18. Book: Fryde, E. B. . Handbook of British chronology . New York Cambridge University Press . Cambridge England . 1996 . 9780521563505 . 292.
19. Book:  Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales....  University Press. 1854. 266.
20. s-SHOR-VOW-1790. Short, Thomas Vowler (1790-1872), bishop of St Asaph. William Thomas Havard. 1959. 3 December 2021.
21. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
22. Book:  Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales....  University Press. 1854. 307.
23. Book: Annual Report Presented by the Council to the Court of Governors. National Library of Wales. 1962. 59.
24. Book: Quick, Michael. Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: a Chronology. Oxford. 4th. Railway and Canal Historical Society. 2009. 978-0-901461-57-5.
25. Book: Marjorie Howe. Old Rhyl: From 1850s - 1910. 2000. Gwasg Helygain Ltd. 978-0-9522755-4-1. 29.
26. News: Wrexham Advertiser. 12 October 1867. Mawddwy Railway. 4. 2022-12-27.
27. Web site: Celebrations to mark 150th anniversary of Barmouth Bridge that is 'outstanding example of 19th Century engineering'. 7 October 2017. Eryl Crump. North Wales Live. 30 December 2019.
28. News: The Times. London. The Gale. 30 October 1867. 9. 25955.
29. Book: Glanmor Williams. Early Glamorgan: pre-history and early history. 1984. Printed and published for the Committee by W. Lewis (printers) limited. 978-0-904730-04-3. 428.
30. Book: Leavis, Q. D.. Q. D. Leavis

    . Q. D. Leavis. Fiction and the Reading Public. 2nd. London. Chatto & Windus. 1965.

31. s2-THOM-JAM-1867. Thomas, Sir William James (1867-1945), Baronet, coalowner, philanthropist. Owen Picton Davies. yes. 27 November 2018.
32. Book: Percival, Tony. Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998. 1999. A.C.S. Publications. Nottingham. 21. 1-902171-17-9. Published under Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
33. s-WILL-ELI-1867. Williams, Eliseus (1867-1926), poet. Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams. yes. 30 December 2019.
34. s2-BRAN-GUI-1867. Brangwyn, Sir Frank Francois Guillaume (1867-1956), painter. Evan David Jones. yes. 30 December 2019.
35. s-JOB0-THO-1867. Job, John Thomas (1867-1938), Calvinistic Methodist minister, hymn writer and poet. Enaf Morrice Job. yes. 30 December 2019.
36. The Times (London), Monday, 29 July 1867 p. 12 col. E
37. McConnell, Anita, ‘Jones, Owen Glynne (1867–1899)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
38. Web site: Morgan, David Watts (1867–1933), miners' leader and politician . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Chris Williams . 22 August 2010.
39. s-COFF-WAL-1784. Coffin, Walter (1784-1867), colliery pioneer. Robert Thomas Jenkins. yes. 30 December 2019.
40. s11-HALL-BEN-1802. Hall, Benjamin, Lord Llanover (1802-1867), politician and reformer. Marion Löffler. yes. 30 December 2019.
41. Phillips, Thomas (1801-1867).
42. s-CRAW-CYF-1739. Crawshay family. Watkin William Price. yes. 30 December 2019.
43. s-PROP-JOH-1793. Propert, John (1793-1867), physician, founder of the Medical Benevolent College, Epsom. Moelwyn Idwal Williams. 1959. 16 February 2022.
44. s-GREV-FRA-1749. Greville, Charles. James Frederick Rees. yes. 30 December 2019.
45. Thomas Aubrey. s-AUBR-THO-1808. Albert Hughes Williams. 1959. yes. 30 December 2019.