1841 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales 1841 in The United Kingdom Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1841 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williams ^{[5] [6]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby ^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell ^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph ^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster ^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute ^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn ^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh ^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis ^[13]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet ^[14]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney ^{[15] [2] [16]}

• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell ^{[17] [18]}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston ^[19]
• Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey ^{[20] [21] [19]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall ^{[22] [19] [23]}

Events

• 19 February - The Governor Fenner, carrying emigrants to America, sinks off Holyhead after colliding with a steamer, with the loss of 123 lives. ^[24]
• 9 March - The first known photograph is taken in Wales, of Margam Castle by Calvert Jones. ^[25]
• 12 April - The Taff Vale Railway is extended to Merthyr Tydfil
• 26 July - The proprietors of The Skerries Lighthouse off Anglesey, the last privately owned light in the British Isles, are awarded £444,984 in compensation for its sale to Trinity House.
• 19 August - In the United Kingdom general election, William Edwards stands as a Chartist candidate in Monmouth Boroughs and becomes the only Parliamentary candidate in Wales, ever, not to win a single vote.
• 8 December - The month-old Albert Edward, eldest son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, is created Prince of Wales by letters patent. ^[26]
• date unknown
  • Founding of Bala-Bangor Congregational College. ^[27]
  • Poor Law Amendment Act is passed, largely thanks to the efforts of Sir George Cornewall Lewis.
  • Mordecai Jones opens a brewery at Brecon.
  • The Brymbo ironworks are bought out of Chancery after a long period of litigation and reopened by a limited company.
  • Opening of Swansea Museum by the Royal Institution of South Wales. ^[28]
  • Land is earmarked by Welsh immigrants in Ohio for the building of Tyn Rhos Chapel. ^[29]

Arts and literature

New books

• David Owen (Brutus) - Gweithrediadau yr Eglwys Sefydledig ^[30]
• Welsh Book of Common Prayer (new edition)

Births

• 28 January - Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer (as John Rowlands; ^[31] died 1904)
• 14 February
  • Sir John Gibson, journalist (died 1915)
  • William Reginald Herbert, horseman (died 1929)
• 5 April - Robert Rees, singer and musician (died 1892)
• 23 April - Henry Hughes, minister and historian (died 1924)
• 29 April - Francis Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell, soldier (died 1925) ^[32]
• 21 May - Joseph Parry, composer (died 1903) ^[33]
• 26 June (in London) - James Cholmeley Russell, railway entrepreneur (died 1912)
• 9 November (in London) - Edward Albert, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII of the United Kingdom (died 1910)

Deaths

• 17 January - David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), poet, 56 ^[34]
• 12 May - Joseph Tudor Hughes, harpist, 13 (drowning)
• 19 May - John Blackwell (Alun), poet, 42 ^[35]
• 1 May - David Jones, missionary, 44 ^[36]
• 24 May - Thomas Roberts, Llwyn'rhudol, co-founder of Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion, 75-80 ^[37]
• 8 June - John Elias, preacher, 67 ^[38]
• 4 December - David Daniel Davis, physician, 64 ^[39]

See also

• 1841 in Ireland

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