1849 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1849 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

For United Kingdom incumbents, see 1849 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 – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (from 4 May) ^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn ^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh ^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley ^[13]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet ^[14]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite ^{[15] [2]}

• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell ^{[16] [17]}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston (until 14 October); Alfred Ollivant (from 2 December) ^{[18] [19]}
• Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short ^{[20] [21] [19]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall ^{[22] [19] [23]}

Events

• 2 January – Completion of both tubes of Robert Stephenson's Conwy Railway Bridge.
• 26 February – Halkyn-born Mormon missionary Dan Jones embarks with 249 Welsh converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bound for Salt Lake City from Liverpool. ^[24]
• 13 May – A case of cholera is recorded in Cardiff, the beginning of an outbreak that spreads to Merthyr, Dowlais and Aberdare, and kills 800 people.
• 20 June – First tube of Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge is floated into position on the Menai Strait. ^[25]
• 10 August – Underground explosion at Lletty Shenkin colliery, Cwmbach, kills 52. ^[26]
• 1 November – Alfred Ollivant becomes Bishop of Llandaff.
• 13 December – Foundation stone of Llandovery College is laid.
• A temperance festival is held at Carmarthen.

Arts and literature

Awards

• David Griffith (Clwydfardd) is appointed official bard of the Aberffraw eisteddfod. Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn) is also invested as a bard.

New books

English language

• Anne Beale – Traits and Stories of the Welsh Peasantry
• Lady Charlotte Guest concludes publication of her translation into English of the Mabinogion ^[27]
• John Lloyd – The English Country Gentleman
• Samuel Lewis – Topographical Dictionary of Wales
• Thomas Stephens – The Literature of the Kymry

Welsh language

• Robert Elis (Cynddelw) – Yr Adgyfodiad
• Hugh Derfel Hughes – Y Gweithiwr Caniadgar ^[28]
• Rowland Hughes – Cyfarchiad Caredig i rai newydd ddychwelyd
• John Jones (Talhaiarn) – Awdl y Greadigaeth

Music

• Haleliwia (hymns)

Births

• 2 May – Charles James Jackson, businessman and collector (d. 1923)

Deaths

• 14 August – Edward Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff, 73 ^[29]
• 16 September – Thomas Jones, missionary, 39 ^[30]
• 2 October – James Davies, schoolmaster, 83 ^[31]
• 2 November – Jacob Davies, missionary, 33 ^[32]
• 5 December – Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), poet, 88

See also

• 1849 in Ireland

References

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2. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
3. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN   9780806313146.
4. Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
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6. Edwin Poole (1886). 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. p. 378.
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19. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.
20. Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1857). The historic peerage of England: Revised, corrected, and continued ... by William Courthope. John Murray. p. 533.
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23. The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
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25. "Britannia Bridge". Engineering Timelines. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
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27. Ifor Williams (1959). "Hughes, Hugh Derfel (1816-1890), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 18 January 2022.
28. Angela V. John; Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams (1959). "Guest (Schreiber), Lady Charlotte Elizabeth (1812-1895), translator, businesswoman and collector". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 18 January 2022.
29. John Henry Newman; Gerard Tracey; Ian Turnbull Ker (1961). Letters and Diaries: Birmingham and London, Jan. 1849-June 1850. T. Nelson. p. 399.
30. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones, Thomas (1810-1849), the first Calvinistic Methodist missionary on the Khasia Hills (Assam)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 18 January 2022.
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