• Source: 1862 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1862 to Wales and its people.




Incumbents



Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins
Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph
Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot
Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover
Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite
Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell
Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant
Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short
Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall




Events



1 January – South Wales Railway leased to Great Western Railway prior to merger.
19 February – Gethin Pit disaster, Abercanaid: the first of two firedamp explosions at this colliery near Merthyr Tydfil kills 47 men and boys.
5 May – Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, makes an important speech on the subject of education in Wales. He is later appointed vice-president of the Committee of Council on Education.
2 June – Llangollen is linked to the rail network for the first time.
4 July – Sarah Edith Wynne, noted soprano, makes her London début.
c. August – First train through the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway's Torpantau Tunnel.
7 August – Ferry from Porthmadog to Talsarnau sinks with the loss of 8 lives.
28 October – The incomplete Moel Famau Jubilee Tower collapses in a storm.
1 December – Great Orme's Head lighthouse at Llandudno, erected by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, is first illuminated.
Guillermo Rawson, Interior Minister of Argentina, meets Love Jones-Parry and Lewis Jones to discuss the Welsh colonisation of Patagonia.
The Clogau mine begins producing gold.
Snowdon Mill, a steam-powered flour mill, is opened at Porthmadog.




Arts and literature


"Religion", by Joseph Edwards, and "The Tinted Venus" by John Gibson are among sculptures shown at the Great Exhibition.




= Awards

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National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Caernarfon. The chair is won by Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn).




= New books

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English language

George Borrow – Wild Wales
Rees Howell Gronow – Reminiscences of Captain Gronow
Jane Williams (Ysgafell) – Celtic Fables, Fairy Tales and Legends versified



Welsh language

John Ceiriog Hughes – Oriau'r Bore




= Music

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Henry Brinley Richards – "God Bless the Prince of Wales"
Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd) – Hymnau




Sport


Cricket
21 July – South Wales Cricket Club defeat Surrey at The Oval.
24 July – South Wales Cricket Club defeat MCC at Lord's.




Births


5 January – John Fisher, Celtic scholar (d. 1930)
16 January – Leifchild Jones, 1st Baron Rhayader, politician (d. 1939)
17 January – Buckley Roderick, Wales international rugby player (d. 1908)
23 January – Evan Richards, Wales international rugby player (d. 1931)
1 February – Thomas Pryce-Jenkins, Wales international rugby player (d. 1922)
16 February
Llewellyn John Montfort Bebb, academic (d. 1915)
Philip Tanner, folk singer (d. 1950)
22 March – Edward Treharne, Wales international rugby player (d. 1904)
11 April – Charles Evans Hughes, American politician of Welsh parentage (d. 1948)
27 April – Sir Hugh Vincent, solicitor and Wales international rugby player (d. 1931)
28 April – William Norton, Wales international rugby player (d. 1898)
17 May – Sir William Rice Edwards, surgeon (d. 1923)
5 August - Robert Mills-Roberts, footballer (d. 1935)
16 September – Thomas Baker Jones, Wales international rugby player (d. 1959)
27 October – Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas, admiral (d. 1928)
16 November – Sir David Rocyn-Jones, medical practitioner and President of the WRU (d. 1953)
7 December – Humphrey Jones, footballer (d. 1946)
9 December – John John Evans, journalist (d. 1942)
date unknown
John Daniel Evans, Patagonia settler (d. 1943)
Seth Powell, footballer (d. 1945)




Deaths


3 January – Dan Jones, Mormon missionary, 51
8 February - Hans Busk, poet, 89
25 March – Timothy Davies, clergyman
1 May – Frederick Richard West, politician, 62/63
28 May – James Henry Cotton, Dean of Bangor, 82
2 August – Anthony Hill, industrialist, 78
27 August – John Williams (Ab Ithel), antiquary, 51
9 December – Edward Hughes (Eos Maldwyn), harpist, age unknown (tuberculosis)
31 December – Daniel Jones, Baptist minister, 74
date unknown – Robert Edwards, hymn writer, 66?




See also


1862 in Ireland




References

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