1867 in Wales

none September 2019 November 2019 1867 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1867 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1867 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd 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 – Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/morgan-charles-1792-1875 Morgan, Charles Morgan Robinson (1792–1875), of Ruperra, Glam. and Tredegar, Mon. History of Parliament Online 3 July 2013June 2026 InternetArchiveBot Edwin 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 – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron PenrhynEdward 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 – Edward PryseDeath of Colonel Pryse http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3344911/3344915/21 27 February 2018 Cambrian News 1 June 1888 4 Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulphhttp://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 3 December 2021 29 October 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201029224834/https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/myddelton-biddulph-robert-1805-1872 dead Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronethttp://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/glynne-sir-stephen-1807-1874 Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint. 3 December 2021 21 September 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150921215928/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/glynne-sir-stephen-1807-1874 dead Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel TalbotCampbell Thomas Methuen C.R.M. Talbot 1803–1890 Morgannwg 2000 44 66–104 http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewobject/llgc-id:1174908/article/000041850 17 May 2014 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 – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover (until 27 April);James Henry Clark History of Monmouthshire County Observer 1869 375 Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (from 21 May) Doyle James E. The Official Baronage of England https://books.google.com/books?id=CFpmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA139 I 1886 Longmans, Green and Co. 139 7 March 2009 Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron SudeleyAmy Audrey Locke The Hanbury Family Arthur L. Humphreys 1916 170 Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington Smith Jenny Portraits for a King : the British military paintings of A-J Dubois Drahonet (1791-1834 National Army Museum London 1990 9780901721211 15 Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron OrmathwaiteWalsh, John Benn 59 Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell 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 266 Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Shorts-SHOR-VOW-1790 Short, Thomas Vowler (1790-1872), bishop of St Asaph William Thomas Havard 1959 3 December 2021The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15 Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...  University Press 1854 307Annual Report Presented by the Council to the Court of Governors National Library of Wales 1962 59 Events 3 June – The opening of the Anglesey Central Railway to passenger traffic links Amlwch to the rail network for the first time.Michael Quick Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: a Chronology Oxford 4th Railway and Canal Historical Society 2009 978-0-901461-57-5 19 August – The Victoria pier at Rhyl, built at a cost of £23,000, opens to the public.Marjorie Howe Old Rhyl: From 1850s - 1910 https://books.google.com/books?id=Lxvp6HyZuhMC&pg=PA29 2000 Gwasg Helygain Ltd 978-0-9522755-4-1 29 2 September – The Carnarvonshire Railway opens throughout, connecting Carnarvon and Portmadoc. 30 September – Mawddwy Railway opens.Wrexham Advertiser 12 October 1867 Mawddwy Railway 4 http://newspapers.library.wales/view/4582790/4582794/4/ 2022-12-27 10 October – Barmouth Bridge across the Mawddach estuary opens to rail traffic, linking Barmouth to the rail network for the first time.https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/celebrations-mark-150th-anniversary-barmouth-13726951 Celebrations to mark 150th anniversary of Barmouth Bridge that is 'outstanding example of 19th Century engineering' 7 October 2017 Eryl Crump North Wales Live 30 December 2019 26–27 October – Barque Earl of Chester is wrecked off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, with the loss of at least 17 lives.The Times London The Gale 30 October 1867 9 25955 8 November – 178 miners are killed in an accident at Ferndale Colliery, Rhondda. date unknown Celtic Congress held at Saint-Brieuc in Brittany. The Bronze Age cairns at Llanmadoc Hill are excavated and finds recorded.Glanmor Williams Early Glamorgan: pre-history and early history https://books.google.com/books?id=WjFWAAAAYAAJ 1984 Printed and published for the Committee by W. Lewis (printers) limited 978-0-904730-04-3 428 Arts and literature Awards At the National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Carmarthen, a crown is presented for the first time. New books Rhoda Broughton – Cometh Up as a FlowerQ. D. Leavis Q. D. Leavis Fiction and the Reading Public 2nd London Chatto & Windus 1965 Edward Hamer – The Chartist Outbreak at Llanidloes Jabez Edmund Jenkins – Egin Awen, yn cynnwys awdlau, cywyddau Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan - Penhow Castle William Thomas (Islwyn) – Caniadau Alfred Russel Wallace – The Malay Archipelago Charles Wilkins – The History of Merthyr Tydfil Music David Roberts (Alawydd) – Llyfr y Psalmau Sport Boxing – The "Marquess of Queensberry rules", formulated by John Graham Chambers, are published. Births 10 March Sir William James Thomas, 1st baronet, philanthropist, one of the Thomas baronets of Yapton (d. 1945)s2-THOM-JAM-1867 Thomas, Sir William James (1867-1945), Baronet, coalowner, philanthropist Owen Picton Davies yes 27 November 2018 William Llewelyn Williams, politician (d. 1922) 10 April – Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, peer (d. 1934)Percival Tony Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998 1999 A.C.S. Publications Nottingham 21 1-902171-17-9 Published under Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. 2 May – Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn), poet (d. 1926)s-WILL-ELI-1867 Williams, Eliseus (1867-1926), poet Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams yes 30 December 2019 13 May – Frank Brangwyn, artist (d. 1956)s2-BRAN-GUI-1867 Brangwyn, Sir Frank Francois Guillaume (1867-1956), painter Evan David Jones yes 30 December 2019 15 May – Sir Henry Stuart Jones, academic (d. 1939) 21 May – John Thomas Job, poet (d. 1938)s-JOB0-THO-1867 Job, John Thomas (1867-1938), Calvinistic Methodist minister, hymn writer and poet Enaf Morrice Job yes 30 December 2019 26 May – Mary of Teck, member of the British royal family, Princess of Wales 1901–1910 (d. 1953)The Times (London), Monday, 29 July 1867 p. 12 col. E 29 September – John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy), poet (d. 1924)s-WILL-RIC-1867 Williams, John Richard (J.R. Tryfanwy; 1867-1924), poet William Gilbert Williams 12 December 2025 6 October – Rosser Evans, Wales international rugby player 12 October – Lyn Harding, actor (d. 1952) 2 November – Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer (d. 1899)McConnell, Anita, ‘Jones, Owen Glynne (1867–1899)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 28 November – James Richard Atkin, judge (born in Australia) (d. 1944) 18 December – David Watts Morgan, Member of Parliament for Rhondda East (d. 1933)http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/dnb/66803.html Morgan, David Watts (1867–1933), miners' leader and politician Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Chris Williams 22 August 2010 date unknown Mia Arnesby Brown, born Mia Sarah H. Edwards, painter of children's portraits (d. 1931) Fred Hutchinson, rugby player (d. 1941) Deaths 15 February – Walter Coffin, industrialist, 82s-COFF-WAL-1784 Coffin, Walter (1784-1867), colliery pioneer Robert Thomas Jenkins yes 30 December 2019 18 February – Edward Roberts (Iorwerth Glan Aled), poet, 48 27 April – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist, 64s11-HALL-BEN-1802 Hall, Benjamin, Lord Llanover (1802-1867), politician and reformer Marion Löffler yes 30 December 2019 26 May – Thomas Phillips, politician and businessman, 65/66Phillips, Thomas (1801-1867) 4 August – William Crawshay II, industrialist, 79s-CRAW-CYF-1739 Crawshay family Watkin William Price yes 30 December 2019 9 September – John Propert, physician, 74s-PROP-JOH-1793 Propert, John (1793-1867), physician, founder of the Medical Benevolent College, Epsom Moelwyn Idwal Williams 1959 16 February 2022 12 September – Robert Fulke Greville, landowner and politician, 67s-GREV-FRA-1749 Greville, Charles James Frederick Rees yes 30 December 2019 16 November – Thomas Aubrey, Methodist minister, 59Thomas Aubrey s-AUBR-THO-1808 Albert Hughes Williams 1959 yes 30 December 2019 1 December – William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines in Australia, 74 See also 1867 in Ireland References Category:Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom Category:1867 in Europe Category:1860s in the United Kingdom Wales