1867 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1867 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar[5][6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse[8][2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover (until 27 April);[13] Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (from 21 May)[14]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley[15]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington[16]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite[17][2]
- Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell[18][19]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant[20]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short[21][22][20]
- Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall[20][23]
Events
- 3 June – The opening of the Anglesey Central Railway to passenger traffic links Amlwch to the rail network for the first time.[24]
- 19 August – The Victoria pier at Rhyl, built at a cost of £23,000, opens to the public.[25]
- 2 September – The Carnarvonshire Railway opens throughout, connecting Carnarvon and Portmadoc.[24]
- 30 September – Mawddwy Railway opens.[26]
- 10 October – Barmouth Bridge across the Mawddach estuary opens to rail traffic, linking Barmouth to the rail network for the first time.[27]
- 26–27 October – Barque Earl of Chester is wrecked off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, with the loss of at least 17 lives.[28]
- 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.[29]
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 Flower[30]
- 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)[31]
- William Llewelyn Williams, politician (d. 1922)
- 10 April – Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, peer (d. 1934)[32]
- 2 May – Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn), poet (d. 1926)[33]
- 13 May – Frank Brangwyn, artist (d. 1956)[34]
- 15 May – Sir Henry Stuart Jones, academic (d. 1939)
- 21 May – John Thomas Job, poet (d. 1938)[35]
- 26 May – Mary of Teck, member of the British royal family, Princess of Wales 1901–1910 (d. 1953)[36]
- 29 September – John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy), poet (d. 1924)
- 6 October – Rosser Evans, Wales international rugby player
- 12 October – Lyn Harding, actor (d. 1952)
- 2 November – Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer (d. 1899)[37]
- 28 November – James Richard Atkin, judge (born in Australia) (d. 1944)
- 18 December – David Watts Morgan, Member of Parliament for Rhondda East (d. 1933)[38]
- 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, 82[39]
- 18 February – Edward Roberts (Iorwerth Glan Aled), poet, 48
- 27 April – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist, 64[40]
- 26 May – Thomas Phillips, politician and businessman, 65/66[41]
- 4 August – William Crawshay II, industrialist, 79[42]
- 9 September – John Propert, physician, 74[43]
- 12 September – Robert Fulke Greville, landowner and politician, 67[44]
- 16 November – Thomas Aubrey, Methodist minister, 59[45]
- 1 December – William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines in Australia, 74
See also
References
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- ^ "Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
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- ^ James Henry Clark (1869). History of Monmouthshire. County Observer. p. 375.
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- ^ Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 266.
- ^ a b c Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.
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- ^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
- ^ Annual Report Presented by the Council to the Court of Governors. National Library of Wales. 1962. p. 59.
- ^ a b Quick, Michael (2009). Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: a Chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5.
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- ^ Glanmor Williams (1984). Early Glamorgan: pre-history and early history. Printed and published for the Committee by W. Lewis (printers) limited. p. 428. ISBN 978-0-904730-04-3.
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