1851 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1851 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

For United Kingdom incumbents, see 1851 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 (until 7 March); Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet (from 7 March) ^[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 – Alfred Ollivant ^{[18] [19]}
• Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short ^{[20] [21] [19]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall ^{[22] [19] [23]}

Events

• May
  • David Davies (Llandinam) marries Margaret Jones of Llanfair Caereinion. ^[24]
• 24 September – Vale of Neath Railway opens from Neath to Aberdare. ^[25]
• 27 August – William Bulkeley Hughes hosts a banquet at Bangor for Robert Stephenson. ^[26]
  • Richard Fothergill III is prosecuted for running a "truck shop" at Aberdare. ^[27]

Arts and literature

New books

• John Blackwell (Alun) – Ceinion Alun (posthumously published)
• Richard Williams Morgan – A Tragedy of Powys Castle ^[28]

Music

• Thomas Jones (Gogrynwr) – Gweddi Habacuc (cantata) ^[29]
• John Ambrose Lloyd – Teyrnasoedd y Ddaear (anthem)
• John Owen (Owain Alaw)
  • Deborah a Barac (anthem)
  • Gweddi Habacuc (cantata)

Births

• 8 February – Sir Marteine Lloyd, 2nd Baronet (d. 1933) ^[30]
• 10 March – William Haggar, pioneer of the film industry (d. 1925)
• 24 March – Robert Ambrose Jones (Emrys ap Iwan) (d. 1906) ^[31]
• 15 June – Ernest Howard Griffiths, physicist (d. 1932)
• 8 July – Sir Arthur Evans, archaeologist (d. 1941)
• 12 July – Elizabeth Phillips Hughes, promoter of women's education (died 1925) ^[32]
• 27 December – Percy Gilchrist, industrialist ^[33]

Deaths

• 1 January – George Insole, English-born coal shipper, 60
• 6 April – William Morgan Kinsey, travel writer, 62? ^[34]
• 8 April – John Parry (Bardd Alaw), harpist and composer, 75 ^[35]
• 30 June
  • Thomas Phillips, founder of Llandovery College, 80
  • William Saunders, Welsh-language poet, 45 ^[36]
• 17 July – Aneurin Owen, historian, 58 ^[37]
• 13 August – Benjamin Gibson, classical scholar, younger brother of John Gibson, 40 ^[38]
• 22 November – Thomas Morgan, navy chaplain, 81 ^[39]

See also

• 1851 in Ireland

References

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