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1846
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1846 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
United Kingdom incumbents 1846 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents
Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of AngleseyEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 24J.C. Sainty John Sainty (civil servant) List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd London 1979 Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 695Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru University of Wales Press 1992 169
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williamshttps://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300006802-penpont-including-attached-conservatory-and-rear-service-ranges-trallong#.YakSuNDP3cs Penpont including attached conservatory and rear service ranges British Listed Buildings 2 December 2021Edwin 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
Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de EresbyEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 26
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulphhttps://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/myddelton-biddulph-robert-1805-1872 Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx. History of Parliament Online 5 December 2021
Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronethttps://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/glynne-sir-stephen-1807-1874 Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint History of Parliament Online 16 January 2022
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 612
Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron MostynEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 29
Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury LeighAmy Audrey Locke The Hanbury Family Arthur L. Humphreys 1916 147
Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powiss-POWY-HER-1674 Herbert family (earls of Powis) Evan David Jones 1959 30 November 2021
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st BaronetThorne R.G. John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/owen-john-1776-861 History of Parliament 27 March 2020
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron OrmathwaiteJonathan Williams The History of Radnorshire R. Mason 1859 115
Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell Fryde E. B. Handbook of British chronology New York Cambridge University Press Cambridge England 1996 9780521563505 292 Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 305
Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston
Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey (until 13 September);Carey, William (1769-1846) Thomas Vowler Short (from 27 October)Nicholas Harris Nicolas The historic peerage of England: Revised, corrected, and continued ... by William Courthope John Murray 1857 533The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15
Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall (from 9 August)Old Yorkshire, volume 3 1882 90 Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 307The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged Porter 1780 95
Events
14 January - 35 men are killed in a mining accident at Risca.Monmouthshire Merlin The late Fatal Explosion at Risca 7 February 1846 Edward Dowling 10107/3425253
March - A speech by William Williams, MP for Coventry, on the subject of education and the Welsh language leads to the commissioning of a report.
27 June - Thomas Frankland Lewis is created a baronet.s-LEWI-FRA-1780 Lewis, Sir Thomas Frankland (1780-1855), politician David Williams David Williams (historian) 9 November 2018
1 August - Opening of the Aberdare railway.
3 August - Mary Cornelia Edwards of Plas Machynlleth marries George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry.David Barnes The Companion Guide to Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=Np_H_j3hXUEC&pg=PA57 2005 Companion Guides 978-1-900639-43-9 57
October - New bridge over the River Towy at Llandeilo collapses under construction.
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The new cast-iron Llandinam Bridge in Montgomeryshire is opened.David Morgan Rees The Industrial Archaeology of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=2jrlAAAAIAAJ 1975 David & Charles 270
The rebuilt Beaumaris Pier is partially opened.Martin Easdown Darlah Thomas Piers of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=5D6IAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT117 15 July 2010 Amberley Publishing Limited 978-1-4456-2385-6 117
Halkyn-born Mormon missionary Dan Jones becomes mission president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Wales, concentrating the church's efforts around Merthyr Tydfil, publishing (from July) the Welsh language monthly Prophwyd y Jubili and also the tract Hanes Saint y Dyddiau Diweddaf.
The Cambrian Archaeological Association is founded by Harry Longueville Jones and John Williams (Ab Ithel) and launches its journal Archaeologia Cambrensis.Abraham Hume The Learned Societies and Printing Clubs of the United Kingdom: Being an Account of Their Respective Origin, History, Objects, and Constitution: with Full Details Respecting Membership, Fees, Their Published Works and Transactions, Notices of Their Periods and Places of Meeting, &c. and a General Introduction and a Classified Index https://books.google.com/books?id=GdQ-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA164 1847 Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 164
Arts and literature
New books
Griffith Edwards (Gutyn Padarn) - Gwaith Prydyddawl
Daniel Silvan Evans - Telynegion
Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - Heraldic Visitations of Wales and Part of the Marches between the years 1586 and 1613...
William Morgan (Gwilym Gelli-deg) - Cerbyd Awen
Music
Y Salmydd Cenedlaethol (collection of hymns)
Births
8 January - Henry Bracy, tenor (d. 1917)
1 October - John Cadvan Davies, minister and poet (d. 1823)s-DAVI-CAD-1846 Davies, John Cadvan (Cadvan; 1846 - 1923), Wesleyan minister Edward Tegla Davies 22 May 2020
17 October - Mary Davies (Mair Eifion), poet (d. 1882)
24 November - Tom Hurry Riches, steam locomotive engineer (d. 1911)https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Tom_Hurry_Riches Tom Hurry Riches (1911 obituary) Grace's Guide 16 January 2022
6 December - James Charles, theologian (d. 1920)
28 December - William Frost, harpist (d. 1891)
3 August - Samuel M. Jones, mayor of Toledo, Ohio (d. 1904)
Deaths
9 March - William Hughes, composer, 88
28 March - Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion), poet, 53s-EVAN-DAN-1792 Evans, Daniel (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion; 1792–1846) David Gwenallt Jones D. Gwenallt Jones 5 September 2008
26 June - Honoratus Leigh Thomas, surgeon, 77Thomas, Honoratus Leigh 56
29 July - John Owens, educational benefactor, 55Owens, John (1790–1846), merchant and philanthropist Brian W. Clapp Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21040 2004 11 October 2017
13 September – William Carey, Bishop of St Asaph, 76
October - John Evans, surgeon and cartographer, 90s-EVAN-JOH-1756 Evans, John (1756–1846), surgeon North Frederick John F. J. North 9 October 2008
3 December - Daniel Jones, missionary, 33s-JONE-DAN-1813 Jones, Daniel (1813-1846), Calvinistic Methodist missionary in the Khasi Hills, India Evan Lewis Evans 1959 16 January 2022
5 December - Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet, politician, 86The Gentleman's Magazine (London, England) https://books.google.com/books?id=e2odAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA306 1847 F. Jefferies 306
See also
1846 in Ireland
References
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