1867 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1867 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

For United Kingdom incumbents, see 1867 in the United Kingdom § Incumbents.

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar ^{[5] [6]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn ^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse ^{[8] [2]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph ^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet ^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot ^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn ^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover (until 27 April); ^[13] Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (from 21 May) ^[14]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley ^[15]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington ^[16]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite ^{[17] [2]}

• Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell ^{[18] [19]}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant ^[20]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short ^{[21] [22] [20]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall ^{[20] [23]}

Events

• 3 June – The opening of the Anglesey Central Railway to passenger traffic links Amlwch to the rail network for the first time. ^[24]
• 19 August – The Victoria pier at Rhyl, built at a cost of £23,000, opens to the public. ^[25]
• 2 September – The Carnarvonshire Railway opens throughout, connecting Carnarvon and Portmadoc. ^[24]
• 30 September – Mawddwy Railway opens. ^[26]
• 10 October – Barmouth Bridge across the Mawddach estuary opens to rail traffic, linking Barmouth to the rail network for the first time. ^[27]
• 26–27 October – Barque Earl of Chester is wrecked off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, with the loss of at least 17 lives. ^[28]
• 8 November – 178 miners are killed in an accident at Ferndale Colliery, Rhondda.
• date unknown
  • Celtic Congress held at Saint-Brieuc in Brittany.
  • The Bronze Age cairns at Llanmadoc Hill are excavated and finds recorded. ^[29]

Arts and literature

Awards

• At the National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Carmarthen, a crown is presented for the first time.

New books

• Rhoda Broughton – Cometh Up as a Flower ^[30]
• Edward Hamer – The Chartist Outbreak at Llanidloes
• Jabez Edmund Jenkins – Egin Awen, yn cynnwys awdlau, cywyddau
• Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan - Penhow Castle
• William Thomas (Islwyn) – Caniadau
• Alfred Russel Wallace – The Malay Archipelago
• Charles Wilkins – The History of Merthyr Tydfil

Music

• David Roberts (Alawydd) – Llyfr y Psalmau

Sport

• Boxing – The "Marquess of Queensberry rules", formulated by John Graham Chambers, are published.

Births

• 10 March
  • Sir William James Thomas, 1st baronet, philanthropist, one of the Thomas baronets of Yapton (d. 1945) ^[31]
  • William Llewelyn Williams, politician (d. 1922)
• 10 April – Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, peer (d. 1934) ^[32]
• 2 May – Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn), poet (d. 1926) ^[33]
• 13 May – Frank Brangwyn, artist (d. 1956) ^[34]
• 15 May – Sir Henry Stuart Jones, academic (d. 1939)
• 21 May – John Thomas Job, poet (d. 1938) ^[35]
• 26 May – Mary of Teck, member of the British royal family, Princess of Wales 1901–1910 (d. 1953) ^[36]
• 29 September – John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy), poet (d. 1924)
• 6 October – Rosser Evans, Wales international rugby player
• 12 October – Lyn Harding, actor (d. 1952)
• 2 November – Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer (d. 1899) ^[37]
• 28 November – James Richard Atkin, judge (born in Australia) (d. 1944)
• 18 December – David Watts Morgan, Member of Parliament for Rhondda East (d. 1933) ^[38]
• date unknown
  • Mia Arnesby Brown, born Mia Sarah H. Edwards, painter of children's portraits (d. 1931)
  • Fred Hutchinson, rugby player (d. 1941)

Deaths

• 15 February – Walter Coffin, industrialist, 82 ^[39]
• 18 February – Edward Roberts (Iorwerth Glan Aled), poet, 48
• 27 April – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist, 64 ^[40]
• 26 May – Thomas Phillips, politician and businessman, 65/66 ^[41]
• 4 August – William Crawshay II, industrialist, 79 ^[42]
• 9 September – John Propert, physician, 74 ^[43]
• 12 September – Robert Fulke Greville, landowner and politician, 67 ^[44]
• 16 November – Thomas Aubrey, Methodist minister, 59 ^[45]
• 1 December – William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines in Australia, 74

See also

• 1867 in Ireland

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