1848 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1848 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

For United Kingdom incumbents, see 1848 in the United Kingdom § Incumbents.

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins ^{[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 – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet ^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute (until 18 March); ^[10] Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (from 4 May) ^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn ^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh ^[13]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (until 17 January); ^[14] Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley (from 26 February) ^[15]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet ^[16]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite ^{[17] [2]}

• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell ^{[18] [19]}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston ^[20]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short ^{[21] [22] [20]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall ^{[23] [20] [24]}

Events

• 1 March – Llandovery College opens in the building known as the "Depot". ^[25]
• 1 May – Opening for Chester and Holyhead Railway traffic of the first tube of Robert Stephenson's Conwy Railway Bridge. ^[26]
• 1 August – Opening of an isolated section of the Chester and Holyhead Railway across Anglesey from Llanfair to Holyhead. ^[26]
• 24 August – The American barque Ocean Monarch , loaded with would-be immigrants, catches fire off Colwyn Bay, with the loss of 178 lives. ^[27]
• 24 October – Trinity College, Carmarthen is established (as the South Wales and Monmouthshire Training College), to train teachers for Church of England schools. ^[28]
• 14 November – Opening of the North Wales County Pauper Lunatic Asylum (North Wales Hospital), Denbigh. ^[29]
• The new Llandeilo Bridge is completed, with a span of 145 feet (44 m) over the River Towy. ^[30]
• Merthyr Tydfil Hebrew Congregation formed.
• Butchers' Market in Wrexham opened.
• Michael D. Jones becomes a minister in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Hughes - The Self-Searcher
• John Jenkins - National Education
• Richard Williams Morgan - Maynooth and St. Asaph
• Edward Parry - Railway Companion from Chester to Holyhead

Music

• Robert Herbert Williams - Alawydd Trefriw ^[31]

Visual arts

• John Evan Thomas - Death of Tewdric Mawr, King of Gwent (sculpture)

Births

• 12 February – Beriah Gwynfe Evans, journalist and dramatist (died 1927) ^[32]
• 18 September – Robert Harris, painter (died 1919)
• 5 October – Sir John Purser Griffiths, civil engineer (died 1938)
• 2 November – A. G. Edwards, first Archbishop of Wales (died 1917)
• 30 December – David Jenkins, composer (died 1915) ^[33]
• Charles Ashton police officer, literary historian and bibliophile (suicide 1899)

Deaths

• 17 January – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, 63 (accidentally shot by his son) ^[14]
• 23 February – Lord Granville Somerset, MP for Monmouthshire, 55
• 18 March – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, creator of modern Cardiff, 54 ^[10]
• 27 March – William Ellis Jones, poet, 52
• 2 April – Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, antiquary, 64
• 7 November – Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), poet and historian, 61 ^[34]
• 15 November – David Hiram Williams, geologist and surveyor, 36 ^[35]
• 23 December – James Cowles Prichard, physician and ethnologist of Welsh parentage, 62

See also

• 1848 in Ireland

References

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