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September 2019
February 2020
1851
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1851 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
United Kingdom incumbents 1851 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 Eresby (until 7 March); Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet (from 7 March)Edward 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 – 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 – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley 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 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 – Alfred OllivantJoseph Jackson Howard Joseph Jackson Howard Frederick Arthur Crisp Visitation of England and Wales 6 https://archive.org/details/visitationofengl06howa/page/n28/mode/1up 1898 15
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 90Thomas 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
May
David Davies (Llandinam) marries Margaret Jones of Llanfair Caereinion. Thomas Ivor Top Sawyer: a biography of David Davies of Llandinam Golden Grove Carmarthen, Dyfed 1988 9781870876100 25
24 September – Vale of Neath Railway opens from Neath to Aberdare.C. R. Clinker Edward Terence MacDermot Oswald Stevens Nock History of the Great Western Railway I. Allan 1964 5
27 August – William Bulkeley Hughes hosts a banquet at Bangor for Robert Stephenson.The Annals of Our Time. A Diurnal of Events, Social and Political, which Have Happened In, Or Had Relation To, the Kingdom of Great Britain, from the Accession of Queen Victoria to the Opening of the Present Parliament. [1837–1868.] https://books.google.com/books?id=khJXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA211 1869 211
Richard Fothergill III is prosecuted for running a "truck shop" at Aberdare.Reports from commissioners, inspectors and others House of Commons 1851 45
Arts and literature
New books
John Blackwell (Alun) – Ceinion Alun (posthumously published)
Richard Williams Morgan – A Tragedy of Powys CastleEdward Cave John Nichols The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle November 1851 Notes of the month XXXVI https://books.google.com/books?id=JUW1VEw-YloC&pg=PA524 524
Music
Thomas Jones (Gogrynwr) – Gweddi Habacuc (cantata)https://biography.wales/article/s3-JONE-THO-1822 Jones, Thomas ('Gogrynwr'; 1822–1854), doctor and musician Robert David Griffith Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 4 April 2019
John Ambrose Lloyd – Teyrnasoedd y Ddaear (anthem)
John Owen (Owain Alaw)
Deborah a Barac (anthem)
Gweddi Habacuc (cantata)
Births
8 February – Sir Marteine Lloyd, 2nd Baronet (d. 1933)"The" Illustrated London News https://books.google.com/books?id=4ddzfW9wvaYC&pg=SA1877-PA119 1877 Elm House 1877
10 March – William Haggar, pioneer of the film industry (d. 1925)
24 March – Robert Ambrose Jones (Emrys ap Iwan) (d. 1906)Catholic University of America New Catholic Encyclopedia: Ead-Fre https://books.google.com/books?id=bOYpAQAAMAAJ 2003 Thomson/Gale 978-0-7876-4004-0 199
15 June – Ernest Howard Griffiths, physicist (d. 1932)
12 July – Elizabeth Phillips Hughes, promoter of women's education (died 1925)s-HUGH-PHI-1851 Hughes, Elizabeth Phillips (18–1925), educationalist Megan Lewis National Library of Wales 18 September 2019
27 December – Percy Gilchrist, industrialist Carpenter H. C. H. Percy Carlyle Gilchrist. 1851–1935 10.1098/rsbm.1936.0002 free Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 2 5 19–99 1936
Deaths
1 January – George Insole, English-born coal shipper, 60
6 April – William Morgan Kinsey, travel writer, 62?Leslie Stephen Sir Sidney Lee DNB https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_SdfQAAAAMAAJ 1892 Smith, Elder, & Company 193
8 April – John Parry (Bardd Alaw), harpist and composer, 75s-PARR-JOH-1776 Parry, John ('Bardd Alaw'; 1776–1851), musician Robert David Griffith National Library of Wales 15 November 2019
30 June
Thomas Phillips, founder of Llandovery College, 80Phillips, Thomas (1760–1851), philanthropist and surgeon Oxford Dictionary of National Biography en 10.1093/ref:odnb/22175 2004
William Saunders, Welsh-language poet, 45s-SAUN-WIL-1806 Saunders, William (1806–1851), poet and writer William Roger Hughes National Library of Wales 15 November 2019
17 July – Aneurin Owen, historian, 58robert dunlop Dictionary of National Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=5iYeCqSP9wwC 1895 399
13 August – Benjamin Gibson, classical scholar, younger brother of John Gibson, 40s-GIBS-JOH-1790 Gibson, John (1790–1866), sculptor Megan Ellis National Library of Wales 15 November 2019
22 November – Thomas Morgan, navy chaplain, 81s-MORG-THO-1769 Morgan, Thomas (1769–1851), navy chaplain Robert Thomas Jenkins National Library of Wales 15 November 2019
See also
1851 in Ireland
References
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