1844 in Wales

none thumb | right | alt=Watercolour landscape painting of a castle on a hill, a tree on the left and a traveller in the middle below the castle |Harlech Caste in north Wales by artist David Cox who visited Betws-y-Coed for the first time in 1844 September 2019 September 2019 1844 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1844 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1844 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 – 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 – 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 1 January - 11 or 12 men are killed in a mining accident at Dinas Middle Colliery, Rhondda.The Cambrian: A Magazine for the Welsh in America https://books.google.com/books?id=0VcwAQAAMAAJ 1893 D.I. Jones 330 14 February - 40 men are killed when the Cleddau floods the Garden Pit coal-mine at Landshipping, Pembrokeshire.https://www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fblogs%2Fwales%2Fentries%2Fdf32b5ec-1df8-3292-841d-3071fbd45db8 The Landshipping mining disaster www.bbc.co.uk 2011-11-02 2019-12-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20170316030324/http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/entries/df32b5ec-1df8-3292-841d-3071fbd45db8 2017-03-16 live 8 March - John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) embarks on the Blundell for transportation to Norfolk Island, his sentence for shooting at a man during the Rebecca Riots.https://biography.wales/article/s-JONE-JOH-1811 Jones, John (fl. 1811-1858; 'Shoni Sguborfawr'), Rebecca rioter David Williams Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 19 September 2019 13 May - 7 or 8 men are killed in a mining accident at Broadmoor, Loveston, Pembrokeshire.The Illustrated London News https://books.google.com/books?id=E6RUAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP16 1844 Leighton 16 3 December - 6 men are killed in a mining accident at Fforest Level, Dinas, Rhondda. 31 December - David Williams takes out a lease on a mine at Cwmbach, in partnership with Lewis Lewis (of Cefn Coed.https://biography.wales/article/s-WILL-DAV-1809 Williams, David (Alaw Goch; 1809-1863), coal-owner and eisteddfodwr Watkin William Price Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 19 September 2019 date unknown A prospectus is issued to potential investors in a railway to be built through south Wales from a junction with the Great Western Railway at Standish in Gloucestershire.The Supplement to the Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge: Habenaria- Ginziber. 2 https://books.google.com/books?id=3twc_fkaFMMC&pg=PA680 1846 C. Knight 680 Owen Owen Roberts is instrumental in setting up the first hospital for Caernarvonshire and Anglesey, at Bangor.https://biography.wales/article/s-ROBE-OWE-1793 Roberts, Owen Owen (1793-1866), physician and social reformer Emyr Hywel Owen Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 19 September 2019 Arts and literature New books Hugh Derfel Hughes - Blodau'r Gân David Owen (Brutus) - Eliasia Music Rowland Prichard - Cyfaill y Cantorion (The Singer's Friend) Maria Jane Williams - Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morgannwg Visual arts English watercolour landscape painter David Cox spends his first summer at Betws-y-Coed, which he will continue to do until 1856. thumb | right | alt=Watercolour landscape painting of a castle on a hill, a tree on the left and a traveller in the middle below the castle | Print of Harlech Caste in north Wales by David Cox Sport Denbigh Cricket Club is founded.Denbigh Cricket Club website. Accessed 21 March 2013 Births 1 January - Robert Clayton, cricketer (died 1901) 7 March - Watkin Hezekiah Williams, poet and schoolmaster (died 1905) 28 April - Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet (died 1895)s-JONE-TUD-1844 Jones, Thomas Tudno (Tudno; 1844-1895), cleric and poet Thomas Parry 10 November 2025 June - John Roland Phillips, historian (died 1887) 28 July - Gerard Manley Hopkins, Welsh-descended poet (died 1889)Norman White, "Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844–1889)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press. 3 August - Herbert Armitage James, clergyman and schoolmaster (died 1931)http://callisto.ggsrv.com/imgsrv/WrapPDF?banner=47b0f357&digest=15fc5d701a5401ddcd896da953e1a690&contentSet=LT&recordID=0FFO-1935-SEP19-015-F Memorial to Dr. H. A. James The Times 19 September 1935 15 5 February 2008 1 December - Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales 1901-1910 (died 1925)Marlene A Eilers Queen Victoria's Descendants 171 Deaths 18 January - Azariah Shadrach, minister and author, 6925189 Mari A. Williams Shadrach, Azariahs-SHAD-AZA-1774 Shadrach, Azariah (1774–1844), schoolmaster, Independent minister, and author 7 April 2017 7 April - Morgan Lewis, Welsh-descended American politician, 89 8 November - Iltid Nicholl, lawyer, 67/68"Iltid Nicholl, Esq.", The Gentleman's Magazine, NS, vol. 23 (January–June 1845), p. 316. 23 November - Thomas William, hymn-writer, 83 See also 1844 in Ireland References Wales Wales Category:1844 in Europe Category:1840s in Wales