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1843
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1843 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
United Kingdom incumbents 1843 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 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 – Bishop of BangorJonathan 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 – 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 – 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
15 April – Death of William Howells, the notorious "Laleston poisoning" case. His sister and brother-in-law are later acquitted of his murder.
19 June – An attack on the Carmarthen Workhouse is blamed on "Chartists and the rabble of the town". After the disturbances, the Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire, George Rice Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor, takes on the responsibility for administering order in the county.Frederick Clare Mather Public Order in the Age of the Chartists Manchester University Press 1959 11
22 June – The Times sends a special correspondent to South Wales to cover the Rebecca Riots.John Davies A History of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=_p5DgK5GCGMC&pg=PT575 25 January 2007 Penguin Adult 978-0-14-028475-1 575
25 August – "The Great Meeting" (Y Cyfarfod Mawr) to seek political solutions to the problems underlying the Rebecca Riots is held on Mynydd Sylen in the Gwendraeth valley.
October – Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis is appointed to chair the commission of enquiry into the Rebecca Riots.
1 November – The foundation stone for the first Beaumaris Pier is laid.Martin Easdown Darlah Thomas Piers of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=5D6IAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT115 15 July 2010 Amberley Publishing Limited 978-1-4456-2385-6 115–
22 December – John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr), one of the ringleaders of the Rebecca Riots is sentenced to transportation to Australia.
Pontardawe Tinplate Works established.
Llewelyn Lewellin becomes Dean of St David's.
Arts and literature
New books
Daniel Silvan Evans – Blodeu Ieuaincnot known The Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society Welsh Bibliographical Society 1950 183 cy
Morris Williams (Nicander) – Y Flwyddyn Eglwysigs-WILL-MOR-1809 Williams, Morris (Nicander; 1809-1874), cleric and man of letters Thomas Iorwerth Ellis 10 December 2025
Music
David Hughes (Cristiolus Môn) – Y Perorydd CysegredigAled Jones Press, politics and society: a history of journalism in Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=P4xZAAAAMAAJ 1993 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1167-7 192
John Orlando Parry – The Accomplished Young Lady
Births
8 January – John Bryn Roberts, lawyer and politician (died 1931)Jack Eaton Judge John Bryn Roberts University of Wales Press 1989
12 February – John Graham Chambers, sportsman who codified the Marquess of Queensberry rules (died 1883)
17 April – Richard John Lloyd Price, sportsman and squire of Rhiwlas (died 1923)
12 May – Thomas William Rhys Davids, founder of the Pali Text Society (died 1922) Ridding C. Mary Tin Pe Maung 1923 607190 Obituary: Professor T. W. Rhys Davids Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London 3 1 Cambridge University Press 201–210 10.1017/S0041977X0000032X free
21 May – John Hugh Jones, Roman Catholic priest, translator, and tutor (died 1910)s-JONE-HUG-1843 Jones, John Hugh (1843–1910), Roman Catholic priest Humphreys Edward Morgan 21 October 2021
11 June – James Milo Griffith, sculptor (died 1897)
18 July – Sir Morgan Morgan, politician (died 1894)Death of a Welsh Knight – Sir Morgan Morgan suddenly expires – widespread sorrow in South Wales https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3369774/3369781 Weekly Mail (Wales and the West of England) 7 15 December 1894 Welsh Newspapers Online
4 August – Margaret Townsend Jenkins, social reformer and educator who worked in Chile and Canada (died 1923)Melanie Buddle http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/townsend_margaret_15E.html Townsend, Margaret (Fox; Jenkins) 15
30 August – Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea, MP for Brecon 1880–1885 (died 1907)
12 September – William Morris, Baptist minister (died 1922)
17 September – Hugh Williams, historian (died 1911)Williams, Hugh 3
14 November – Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Unitarian minister in the United States (died 1918)
23 November – Daniel Lewis Lloyd, Bishop of Bangor (died 1899)s-LLOY-LEW-1843 Lloyd, Daniel Lewis (1843–1899), schoolmaster and bishop Thomas Iorwerth Ellis yes 19 September 2019
20 December – Frances Hoggan, first British woman to qualify as a doctor (died 1927)The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion https://books.google.com/books?id=u70qAQAAMAAJ 2003 The Society 978-0-9541626-0-3 170
date unknown – Peter Rees Jones, businessman (died 1905)Ben Weinreb Christopher Hibbert The London Encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=4IJnAAAAMAAJ 1 January 1983 MacMillan 978-0-333-32556-8 419
Deaths
31 January – William Henry Scourfield, Member of Parliament, 66?https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/scourfield-william-henry-1776-1843 SCOURFIELD, William Henry (1776–1843), of Robeston Hall, Robeston West and New Moat, Pemb. History of Parliament Online 3 April 2019 21 August 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190821201250/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/scourfield-william-henry-1776-1843 dead
26 March – Robert Richford Roberts, Welsh-descended Methodist leader in the United States, 6421 Year-book of the Annual Conference Committee of the Providence Annual Conference 1850
27 March – Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny, 881754 Brooke John NEVILL, Henry, Visct. Nevill (1755–1843). http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/nevill-henry-1755-1843
23 April – Sir Robert Vaughan, 2nd Baronet, landowner and politician, 75 http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/vaughan-sir-robert-1768-1843 VAUGHAN, Sir Robert Williames, 2nd bt. (1768–1843), of Nannau Hall, nr. Dolgellau, Merion History of Parliament Online 2013-03-09 23 October 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211023193804/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/vaughan-sir-robert-1768-1843 dead
19 May – Charles James Apperley ("Nimrod"), sports writer, 64?s-APPE-JAM-1779 Apperley, Charles James (1779–1843), writer on sport, known as 'Nimrod' Edward Morgan Humphreys yes 3 April 2019
18 December – Dic Aberdaron (Richard Robert Jones), polyglot, 62/63s-JONE-ROB-1780 Jones, Richard Robert (1780–1843), polyglot Gruffydd Parry yes 9 December 2020
date unknown – Mary Evans (Mrs Fryer Todd), first love of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 73?https://museum.wales/art/online/?action=show_item&item=15 Mary Fryer Todd (née Evans) (1770–1843) National Museum Wales 3 April 2019
See also
1843 in Ireland
References
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