- 1847 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1847 to
Wales and its people.Incumbents
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Prince of Wales - Edward Albert, son of QueenVictoria of the United Kingdom
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"Events
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January 14 - All 13 members of thePoint of Ayr lifeboat crew are drowned when it capsizes offRhyl .
*April 1 - Publication of the controversial government report on education in Wales (the "Blue Books")
*April 8 -John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) is transported to Tasmania for his involvement in theRebecca riots .
*In the UK general election:
**SirThomas Frankland Lewis becomes MP for Radnor Boroughs.
**Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet , loses his Flintshire seat to Edward Lloyd-Mostyn for the second time.
*May 24 - Five people are killed in theDee bridge disaster , whenRobert Stephenson 's railway bridge on theChester and Holyhead Railway at Chester collapses.
*The Cambrian Archaeological Association is founded byHarry Longueville Jones andJohn Williams (Ab Ithel)
*Albert, Prince Consort , is unsuccessfully challenged for the chancellorship of theUniversity of Cambridge byEdward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis . The winning margin is less than 120 votes.
*SirWilliam Robert Grove is awarded the medal of theRoyal Society .Arts and literature
New books
*"Reports of the commissioners of enquiry into the state of education in Wales"
*John Lloyd - "Poems"
*Morris Williams (Nicander) - "Llyfr yr Homiliau"Music
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John Mills (Ieuan Glan Alarch) - "Y Salmydd Eglwysig"Births
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January 13 -Daniel James (Gwyrosydd), hymn-writer (died 1920)
*January 27 -Owen Owens Roberts , choirmaster and conductor (died 1926)
*April 22 -Charles Henry Wynn (died 1911)
*June 20 -Evan Thomas Davies (Dyfrig), clergyman and author (died 1927)
*July 10 -Alfred Neobard Palmer , historian and ancient monuments inspector (died 1915)
*September 12 -John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute , Cardiff landowner (died 1900)
*November 14 -Roland Rogers , musician (died 1927)
*"date unknown" -Llewelyn Kenrick , footballer (died 1933)Deaths
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February 13 -Sharon Turner , historian, 78
*March 17 - SirHarford Jones Brydges , diplomat and author, 83
*March 29 -Humphrey Gwalchmai , Calvinistic Methodist leader, 59
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