1847 in Wales

1847 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1847 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

*January 14 - All 13 members of the Point of Ayr lifeboat crew are drowned when it capsizes off Rhyl.
*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 the Rebecca riots.
*In the UK general election:
**Sir Thomas 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 the Dee bridge disaster, when Robert Stephenson's railway bridge on the Chester and Holyhead Railway at Chester collapses.
*The Cambrian Archaeological Association is founded by Harry Longueville Jones and John Williams (Ab Ithel)
*Albert, Prince Consort, is unsuccessfully challenged for the chancellorship of the University of Cambridge by Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis. The winning margin is less than 120 votes.
*Sir William Robert Grove is awarded the medal of the Royal 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

*John Mills (Ieuan Glan Alarch) - "Y Salmydd Eglwysig"

Births

*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

*February 13 - Sharon Turner, historian, 78
*March 17 - Sir Harford Jones Brydges, diplomat and author, 83
*March 29 - Humphrey Gwalchmai, Calvinistic Methodist leader, 59


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