1851 in Wales

1851 in Wales

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

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - Edward Albert, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"

Events

*September 24 - Vale of Neath Railway opens from Neath to Aberdare.
*August - William Bulkeley Hughes hosts a banquet at Bangor for Robert Stephenson.
*Richard Fothergill III is prosecuted for running a "truck shop" at Aberdare.

Arts and literature

New books

*John Blackwell (Alun) - "Ceinion Alun" (posthumously published)
*Richard Williams Morgan - "A Tragedy of Powys Castle"

Music

*Thomas Jones (Gogrynwr) - "Gweddi Habacuc" (cantata)

Births

*February 8 - Sir Marteine Lloyd, 2nd Baronet (d. 1933)
*March 24 - Robert Ambrose Jones (Emrys ap Iwan) (d. 1906)
*June 15 - Ernest Howard Griffiths, physicist (d. 1932)
*July 8 - Sir Arthur Evans, archaeologist (d. 1941)
*July 12 - Elizabeth Phillips Hughes, promoter of women's education (died 1925)
*December 27 - Percy Gilchrist, industrialist

Deaths

*April 6 - William Morgan Kinsey, travel writer, 62?
*June 30 - Thomas Phillips, founder of Llandovery College, 80


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