• Source: 1847 in Wales

      • This article is about the particular significance of the year 1847 to Wales and its people.


      Incumbents



      Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
      Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williams (until 16 January); John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins (from 17 February)
      Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby
      Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell
      Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
      Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph
      Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet
      Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
      Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
      Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh
      Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
      Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
      Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite
      Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell
      Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston
      Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short
      Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall


      Events


      14 January - All thirteen members of the Point of Ayr lifeboat crew are drowned when it capsizes off Rhyl.
      8 April - John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) is transferred from Norfolk Island to Tasmania.
      In the UK general election:
      Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis becomes MP for Radnor Boroughs.
      Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet, loses his Flintshire seat to Edward Lloyd-Mostyn for the second time.
      24 May - Five people are killed in the Dee bridge disaster, when Robert Stephenson's railway bridge on the Chester and Holyhead Railway at Chester collapses.
      1 July - "Treachery of the Blue Books": Publication of a government report ("blue book") on education in Wales containing opinions hostile to Welsh culture.
      Prince Albert is unsuccessfully challenged for the chancellorship of the University of Cambridge by The Earl of Powis. The winning margin is less than 120 votes.
      Sir William Robert Grove is awarded the medal of the Royal Society.


      Arts and literature




      = New books

      =
      Reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the state of education in Wales
      John Lloyd - Poems
      Morris Williams (Nicander) - Llyfr yr Homiliau


      = Music

      =
      John Mills (Ieuan Glan Alarch) - Y Salmydd Eglwysig


      Births


      27 January - Owen Owens Roberts, choirmaster and conductor (died 1926)
      9 February - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist social reformer (died 1902)
      22 April - Charles Henry Wynn, landowner (died 1911)
      20 June - Evan Thomas Davies (Dyfrig), clergyman and author (died 1927)
      10 July - Alfred Neobard Palmer, historian and ancient monuments inspector (died 1915)
      12 September - John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, Cardiff landowner (died 1900)
      13 October - Owen Owen, draper (died 1910)
      14 November - Roland Rogers, musician (died 1927)
      date unknown - Llewelyn Kenrick, footballer (died 1933)


      Deaths


      13 February - Sharon Turner, historian, 78
      16 February - Taliesin Williams, poet and author, son of Iolo Morganwg, 59
      17 March - Sir Harford Jones Brydges, diplomat and author, 83
      29 March - Humphrey Gwalchmai, Calvinistic Methodist leader, 59
      7 June - David Mushet, Scottish metallurgist (in Monmouth), 74
      27 September - Lucy Thomas, colliery owner ('The Mother of the Welsh Steam Coal Trade')
      6 October - John Evans (Methodist), 68


      See also


      1847 in Ireland


      References

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