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1839
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1839 to Wales and its people.
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 – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of WestminsterOld Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders not known William Retlaw Williams "Old Wales" Office 1907 3 106
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 – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th BaronetEdward 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 – George Rodney, 3rd Baron RodneyJonathan Williams The History of Radnorshire R. Mason 1859 115William Stockdale Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom 1833 86
Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell Fryde E. B. Handbook of British chronology New York Cambridge University Press Cambridge England 1996 9780521563505 292Thomas 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 CareyCarey, William (1769-1846)The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15
Bishop of St Davids – John JenkinsonThomas 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 95The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3 George III (King of Great Britain) University Press 1967 434Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas https://catalogues.royalsociety.org/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=NA3174&pos=1 The Royal Society 30 October 2020
Events
March – John Frost, former mayor of Newport, is deprived of his position as a magistrate because of his Chartist sympathies.
30 April – Chartists riot in Llanidloes and seize control of the town for five days.
7 May – Henry Vincent is arrested after addressing a Chartist meeting and taken to prison at Monmouth.A Gwent Anthology https://books.google.com/books?id=3GCgAAAAMAAJ 1988 Christopher Davies 978-0-7154-0655-7 134
13 May – Beginning of the Rebecca Riots.
25 July – William Ewart Gladstone marries Catherine Glynne of Hawarden. Bebbington David William Ewart Gladstone: faith and politics in Victorian Britain W.B. Eerdmans Grand Rapids, Mich 1993 9780802801524 45
28 August – Mary Anne Lewis, widow of Cardiff MP Wyndham Lewis, marries Benjamin Disraeli.Paul Smith Paul Smith (historian) Disraeli: A Brief Life https://archive.org/details/disraelibrieflif0000smit registration 12 September 1996 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-38150-5 37
5 October – Opening of West Bute Dock.
4 November – Newport Rising: between 5,000 and 10,000 Chartist sympathisers led by John Frost, many of them coal miners, march on the Westgate Hotel in Newport, Monmouthshire, to liberate Chartist prisoners; around 22 are killed when troops, directed by Thomas Phillips, the mayor, fire on the crowd.http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/struggle_democracy/lovell.htm John Lovell and the People's Charter The struggle for democracy The National Archives Kew 2003 2019-05-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235009/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/struggle_democracy/lovell.htm 2007-09-26 live This is the last large-scale armed civil rebellion against authority in mainland Britain and sees the most deaths.
23 November – Zephaniah Williams, one of the leaders of the Chartist march on Newport, is arrested on board ship at Cardiff.David Egan People, Protest, and Politics: Case Studies in Nineteenth Century Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=iDFWAAAAYAAJ 1 January 1987 Gomer Press 978-0-86383-350-2 85
date unknown – Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis resigns as chairman of the Poor Law Commission, to be replaced by his son, George Cornewall Lewis.
Arts and literature
New books
William Bingley – Excursions in North Wales
Maria James – Wales and other Poems
William Williams (Caledfryn) – Drych Barddonol
Music
John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt) – Hafilah (hymn tune)
Births
9 January – Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen), writer (d. 1916)s-REES-JAN-1839 Rees, Sarah Jane (Cranogwen; 1839-1916), schoolmistress, poet, editor, temperance advocate William Llewelyn Davies 30 November 2020
13 February (in England) – Robert Bird, politician (d. 1909)
7 March (in Germany) – Ludwig Mond, German-born industrialist (d. 1909)Chemical Society (Great Britain) Journal of the Chemical Society https://books.google.com/books?id=OrLyAAAAMAAJ 1918 The Society 318
31 March – Thomas Henry Thomas (Arlunydd Penygarn) later known as T. H. Thomas, artist (d. 1915)s-THOM-HEN-1839 Thomas, Thomas Henry (Arlunydd Penygarn; 1839-1915), artist William Llewelyn Davies 30 November 2020
24 September (in England) – John Neale Dalton, royal chaplain and tutor (d. 1931)Trinity College (University of Cambridge) Admissions to Trinity College, Cambridge ... https://books.google.com/books?id=_jY1AQAAMAAJ 1913 Macmillan and Company, Limited 700
Deaths
27 January – Sir Charles Paget, MP for Caernarfon, 60 (yellow fever)Edward Clarence Paget Memoir of the Honble Sir Charles Paget, G.C.H., 1778-1839 https://books.google.com/books?id=5f5zv9GJ8XwC 1913 Longmans, Green and Company 105
11 May – "Doctor" John Harries, Cwrt-y-cadno, physician, 54Isaac Evans Coelion Cymru Aberystwyth 1938 136 cy
16 May – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis, 84R. G. Thorne, CLIVE, Edward, 2nd Baron Clive (1754-1839), of Walcot, Salop. https://web.archive.org/web/20211113165618/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/clive-edward-1754-1839 13 November 2021 in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, 1986.
20 May – Rice Rees, historian, 35s-REES-RIC-1804 REES, RICE (1804–1839), cleric and scholar Jones Selwyn 26 April 2008
29 December – Hopkin Bevan, minister and author, 74Thomas Mardy Rees Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. Also a Complete Alphabetical Index https://books.google.com/books?id=sXM_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA195 1908 Herald Office 195
See also
1839 in Ireland
References
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