1848 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1848 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1848 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1848 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 – John Lloyd Vaughan WatkinsEditorial http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/4353246/ART15 17 January 2022 Welshman 6 October 1865 29 November 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20141129125341/http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/4353246/ART15 deadEdwin 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 (until 18 March); Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (from 4 May)http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/talbot-christopher-1803-1890 TALBOT, Christopher Rice Mansel (1803-1890), of Penrice Castle and Margam Park, Glam. History of Parliament Online 18 January 2022 7 May 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240507032042/https://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/talbot-christopher-1803-1890 dead 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 Powis (until 17 January); Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley (from 26 February) http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/hanbury-tracy-charles-1778-1858 Hanbury Tracy, Charles (1778–1858), of Toddington, Glos. and Gregynog, Mont. History of Parliament Online 2 July 2013 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 – Thomas Vowler ShortNicholas 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 ThirlwallOld 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 1 March – Llandovery College opens in the building known as the "Depot".David Trevor William Price A History of Saint David's University College Lampeter: to 1898 https://books.google.com/books?id=tDq7AAAAIAAJ 1977 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-0606-2 71 1 May – Opening for Chester and Holyhead Railway traffic of the first tube of Robert Stephenson's Conwy Railway Bridge.Peter E. Baughan The Chester & Holyhead Railway 1 Newton Abbot David & Charles 1972 0-7153-5617-8 1 August – Opening of an isolated section of the Chester and Holyhead Railway across Anglesey from Llanfair to Holyhead. 24 August – The American barque Ocean Monarch, loaded with would-be immigrants, catches fire off Colwyn Bay, with the loss of 178 lives.The London Journal: and Weekly Record of Literature, Science, and Art https://books.google.com/books?id=TYU-AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA33 1848 G. Vickers 1 24 October – Trinity College, Carmarthen is established (as the South Wales and Monmouthshire Training College), to train teachers for Church of England schools.National Library of Wales Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru: The National Library of Wales Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=hQvhAAAAMAAJ 1993 Council of the National Library of Wales 326 14 November – Opening of the North Wales County Pauper Lunatic Asylum (North Wales Hospital), Denbigh.Kathryn Burtinshaw John R F Burt Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots: A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=xWdHDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA83 30 April 2017 Pen and Sword 978-1-4738-7906-5 83 The new Llandeilo Bridge is completed, with a span of 145 ft m over the River Towy.Roger Cragg Wales and West Central England https://books.google.com/books?id=oTZZsUzmKrMC&pg=PA77 1997 Thomas Telford 978-0-7277-2576-9 77 Merthyr Tydfil Hebrew Congregation formed. Butchers' Market in Wrexham opened. Michael D. Jones becomes a minister in Cincinnati, Ohio. Arts and literature New books John Hughes - The Self-Searcher John Jenkins - National Education Richard Williams Morgan - Maynooth and St. Asaph Edward Parry - Railway Companion from Chester to Holyhead Music Robert Herbert Williams - Alawydd Trefriws-WILL-HER-1805 Williams, Robert Herbert (Corfanydd; (1805-1876), musician Robert David Griffith 1959 18 January 2022 Visual arts John Evan Thomas - Death of Tewdric Mawr, King of Gwent (sculpture) Births 12 February – Beriah Gwynfe Evans, journalist and dramatist (died 1927)s-EVAN-GWY-1848 Evans, Beriah Gwynfe (1848-1927), journalist and dramatist Edward Morgan Humphreys 1959 18 January 2022 18 September – Robert Harris, painter (died 1919) 5 October – Sir John Purser Griffiths, civil engineer (died 1938) 2 November – A. G. Edwards, first Archbishop of Wales (died 1917) 30 December – David Jenkins, composer (died 1915)s-JENK-DAV-1848 Jenkins, David (1848-1915), musician John Morgan Lloyd 10 December 2025 Charles Ashton police officer, literary historian and bibliophile (suicide 1899) Deaths 17 January – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, 63 (accidentally shot by his son)s-POWY-HER-1674 Herbert family (earls of Powis) Evan David Jones National Library of Wales 18 September 2019 23 February – Lord Granville Somerset, MP for Monmouthshire, 55 18 March – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, creator of modern Cardiff, 54Davies John 1981 Cardiff and the Marquesses of Bute University of Wales Press Cardiff, UK 9780708324639 27 March – William Ellis Jones, poet, 52 2 April – Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, antiquary, 64 7 November – Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), poet and historian, 61s-PRIC-THO-1787 Price, Thomas (Carnhuanawc; 1787-1848), historian and antiquary Brinley Rees Brinley Rees 18 September 2019 15 November – David Hiram Williams, geologist and surveyor, 36 Allen's Indian Mail Vol VII No 117 London Monday, 22 January 1849 p41 23 December – James Cowles Prichard, physician and ethnologist of Welsh parentage, 62 See also 1848 in Ireland References Wales Wales Category:1848 in Europe Category:1840s in Wales