• Source: 1850 in Wales

      • This article is about the particular significance of the year 1850 to Wales and its people.


      Incumbents



      Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
      Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins
      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 – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (from 4 May)
      Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
      Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh
      Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley
      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 – Alfred Ollivant
      Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short
      Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall


      Events


      18 March – Opening of the Britannia Bridge.
      3 April – G. T. Clark marries Ann Price Lewis, a descendant of one of the original partners in the Dowlais Ironworks.
      18 June – Opening of the South Wales Railway between Chepstow and Swansea.
      October – The Merthyr Board of Health is founded, with John Josiah Guest as its first chairman.
      November – The first issue of the periodical Y Drych is printed, though not in circulation for another two months
      14 December – 13 men are killed in a mining accident at New Duffryn Colliery, Mountain Ash.
      unknown dates
      The Llanelli Board of Health is founded, with William Chambers as its first chairman.
      Vaendre Hall in the village of St Mellons is completed, the home of the industrialist John Cory.


      Arts and literature




      = New books

      =
      Thomas Edwards (Caerfallwch) – Geirlyfr Saesoneg a Chymraeg, An English and Welsh Dictionary
      'Elen Egryn' (Elin Evans) – Telyn Egryn (poems)
      Elijah Waring – Recollections and Anecdotes of Edward Williams
      Morris Williams (Nicander) – Y Psalmwyr


      = Music

      =
      September – North Wales Musical Festival is held at Rhuddlan Castle.


      Births


      1 January – Evan Rees (Dyfed), minister, poet and archdruid (died 1923)
      4 January – Griffith J. Griffith, industrialist (died 1919)
      16 April – Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, inventor (died 1885)
      24 November – John Aeron Thomas, politician (died 1935)
      date unknown
      Alfred Davies, footballer (died 1891)
      John Evan Davies, minister and author (died 1929)
      Owen Owen, teacher and schools inspector (died 1920)


      Deaths


      11 April
      David Hughes, clergyman and writer, 64?
      Edward Hughes (Y Dryw), poet, 77
      18 April – John Richards, Welsh-born US politician, 85
      19 April – Sir John Edwards of Garth, politician, 80
      11 July – Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), poet and hymn-writer, 83
      28 July – David Lewis, Carmarthenshire priest and writer, 90?
      2 September – Charles Williams-Wynn, politician, 74
      19 December – George Williams, politician, 85


      See also


      1850 in Ireland


      References

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