1840 in Wales

none thumb|Aberystwyth of 1840 September 2019 September 2019 1840 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1840 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 (until 6 January); Robert Myddelton Biddulph (from 8 February)https://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 – 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 Baronet (until 6 January); Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn (from 25 January)Edward 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 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 CareyCarey, William (1769-1846)The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15 Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson (until 7 July); 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 1 January - Trial of Chartists John Frost, Zephaniah Williams and William Jones for their part in the Newport Rising of 1839 continues at MonmouthFrost, John Trial of John Frost for high treason: revised by a Barrister https://books.google.com/books?id=g2NjAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA19 1839 19 before Chief Justice Tindal. This is the first trial where proceedings are recorded in shorthand. 16 January - Frost, Williams and Jones are all found guilty of high treason for their part in the Chartist riots,Samuel Maunder George William Cox The Treasury of History New https://books.google.com/books?id=IhpXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA499 1856 Longman & Co. 499– and are sentenced to death - the last time the sentence of hanging, drawing and quartering is passed in the United Kingdom, although following a nationwide petitioning campaign and, extraordinarily, direct lobbying of the Home Secretary by the Lord Chief Justice, it is commuted to transportation for life (and Frost is much later pardoned). 5 June - Joseph Brown is appointed Vicar Apostolic of the Roman Catholic District of Wales, being consecrated as a bishop on 28 October. 8 October - Taff Vale Railway is officially opened, the first steam-worked passenger railway in Wales, running from Cardiff docks to Navigation House at Abercynon via the Cardiff station known in modern days as Queen Street.Barrie D. S. The Taff Vale Railway Oakwood Press 1950Edward Cresy An Encyclopædia of Civil Engineering, Historical, Theoretical, and Practical https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_MUMOAAAAYAAJ 1847 Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans Paternoster-Row 595 Public service begins the following day. 30 October - First branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Wales formed in Flintshire.Wales http://www.mission.net/england/bristol/british_mission.html 2014-06-10 18 November - The paddle steamer City of Bristol is wrecked at Llangennith, Gower, drowning about 22 people.Tom Bennett Shipwrecks for Walkers 1: A Walkers Guide to Beach Wrecks Around Britain https://books.google.com/books?id=xrsXDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT28 Author 28 Approximate date - Rebuilding of Gregynog Hall with extensive use of concrete begins.Glyn Tegai Hughes Prys Morgan J. Gareth Thomas Gregynog https://books.google.com/books?id=-6wVAAAAIAAJ 1977 University of Wales Press Cardiff 978-0-7083-0634-5 Arts and literature An eisteddfod is held at Liverpool. New books English language Sir John Hanmer - Memorials of the Parish and Family of Hanmer William Lloyd - The Narrative of a Journey from Cawnpoor to the Boorendo Pass Welsh language Evan Davies (Eta Delta) - Y Weinidogaeth a'r Eglwysis-DAVI-EVA-1794 Davies, Evan (Eta Delta; 1794-1855), Independent minister Richard Griffith Owen 1959 5 December 2021 David Price (Dewi Dinorwig) - Y Catechism Cyntaf Taliesin Williams - Hynafiaeth ac Awdurdodaeth Coelbren y Beirdd Music John Orlando Parry - Wanted: a Governess (opera)s-PARR-JOH-1776 Parry, John ('Bardd Alaw'; 1776–1851), musician 8 January 2021 Births 7 February - Charles Warren, military and police officer and archaeologist (died 1927)The International Who's who: Who's who in the World International Who's Who Publishing Company 1910 213 21 June - Sir John Rhŷs, educationist (died 1915)Fraser, J., & Williams, M. (2006, May 25). Rhŷs [formerly Rees], Sir John (1840–1915), Celtic scholar. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 10 Dec. 2025, from https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-35734. 16 September - Alfred Thomas, 1st Baron Pontypridd (died 1927)s-THOM-ALF-1840 Benjamin George Owens Thomas, Alfred, baron Pontypridd (1840-1927), of Bronwydd, Cardiffaccess-date=10 December 2025 29 November - Rhoda Broughton, novelist (died 1920)Broughton Rhoda Cometh Up As A Flower March 2010 Broadview Press 978-1-77048-295-1 9 https://books.google.com/books?id=T04EGpXCIesC&pg=PA9 en 3 December - Francis Kilvert, diarist (died 1879) Quesne A. L. After Kilvert Oxford University Press Oxford England New York 1978 9780192117489 2 5 December - John E. Jones, Welsh-born governor of Nevada (died 1896)https://www.nga.org/governor/john-edward-jones/ John Edward Jones National Governors Association 10 December 2025 17 December - Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, politician (died 1935)Ystwyth, 1st Baron cr 1921, of Tan-y-Bwlch, (Matthew Lewis Vaughan-Davies) (17 Dec. 1840–21 Aug. 1935) https://www.ukwhoswho.com/search?q=Ystwyth%2C+1st+Baron+cr+1921%2C+of+Tan-y-Bwlch%2C+%28Matthew+Lewis+Vaughan-Davies%29+%2817+Dec.+1840%E2%80%9321+Aug.+1935%29 WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO 2 August 2021 en Deaths 6 January - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet, politician and soldier, 67http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1790-1820/member/williams-wynn-sir-watkin-1772-1840 Williams Wynn, Sir Watkin, 5th Bt. (1772-1840), of Wynnstay, Denb. History of Parliament Online 5 December 2021 17 March - William Williams of Wern, 58s-PREE-HEN-1834 Preece, Sir William Henry (1834-1913), electrical engineer Edwin Augustine Owen National Library of Wales 15 August 2021 19 May - John Blackwell (Alun), poet, 42?s-BLAC-JOH-1797 Blackwell, John (Alun; 1797-1840), cleric and poet 10 December 2025 7 July - John Jenkinson, Bishop of St Davids, 58 Fryde E. B. Handbook of British chronology New York Cambridge University Press Cambridge England 1996 9780521563505 299 17 December - George Hay Dawkins-Pennant, politician, 76http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/dawkins-pennant-george-hay-1764-1840 Dawkins Pennant, George Hay (1764–1840), of Penrhyn Castle, Caern., History of Parliament Online 10 June 2016 15 April 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160415220004/http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/dawkins-pennant-george-hay-1764-1840 dead See also 1840 in Ireland References Wales Wales Category:1840 in Europe Category:1840s in Wales