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1847 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1847 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
  • Princess of Wales – vacant

    • Events

  • 14 January - All thirteen members of the Point of Ayr lifeboat crew are drowned when it capsizes off Rhyl.
  • 8 April - John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) is transported to Tasmania for shooting a man.
  • In the UK general election:
  • Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis becomes MP for Radnor Boroughs.
  • Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet, loses his Flintshire seat to Edward Lloyd-Mostyn for the second time.
  • 24 May - Five people are killed in the Dee bridge disaster, when Robert Stephenson's railway bridge on the Chester and Holyhead Railway at Chester collapses.
  • 1 July - Publication of the government report on education in Wales (the "Blue Books"), containing opinions hostile to Welsh culture.
  • Prince Albert, is unsuccessfully challenged for the chancellorship of the University of Cambridge by The Earl of Powis. The winning margin is less than 120 votes.
  • Sir William Robert Grove is awarded the medal of the Royal Society.

    • New books

  • Reports of the commissioners of enquiry into the state of education in Wales
  • John Lloyd - Poems
  • Morris Williams (Nicander) - Llyfr yr Homiliau

    • Music

  • John Mills (Ieuan Glan Alarch) - Y Salmydd Eglwysig

    • Births

  • 13 January - Daniel James (Gwyrosydd), hymn-writer (died 1920)
  • 27 January - Owen Owens Roberts, choirmaster and conductor (died 1926)
  • 9 February - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist social reformer (died 1902)
  • 22 April - Charles Henry Wynn (died 1911)
  • 20 June - Evan Thomas Davies (Dyfrig), clergyman and author (died 1927)
  • 10 July - Alfred Neobard Palmer, historian and ancient monuments inspector (died 1915)
  • 12 September - John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, Cardiff landowner (died 1900)
  • 14 November - Roland Rogers, musician (died 1927)
  • date unknown - Llewelyn Kenrick, footballer (died 1933)

    • Deaths

  • 13 February - Sharon Turner, historian, 78
  • 17 March - Sir Harford Jones Brydges, diplomat and author, 83
  • 29 March - Humphrey Gwalchmai, Calvinistic Methodist leader, 59
  • 7 June - David Mushet, Scottish metallurgist (in Monmouth), 74
  • 27 September - Lucy Thomas, colliery owner ('The Mother of the Welsh Steam Coal Trade')

    • References

    1847 in Wales Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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