1842 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1842 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williams^{[5] [6]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby^[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 – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis^[13]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet^[14]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney^{[15] [2] [16]}
• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell^{[17] [18]}
  • Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey^[19]
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall^{[20] [21] [22]}

Events

• 12 April – Chartist Convention meets in London to arrange to submit another petition to parliament. Delegates include Morgan Williams, who brings with him a petition signed by 36,000 people from south Wales.
• 7 May – John Bennion of Flintshire, and his wife Elizabeth, arrive in Nauvoo on the John Cummins to join the Mormon community.
• 12 June – The first Welsh language service in Waukesha County, USA, is held at Bronyberllan, home of Richard "King" Jones.
• July
  • The Rebecca Riots, which had seen sporadic outbreaks in 1839, begin in earnest.^[23]
  • Boughrood bridge completed over the River Wye.
• August – Workers at Cyfarthfa and Penydarren ironworks join the general strike.
• 30 August – Sir William Nott defeats the Afghans at Ghazni.^[24]
• 10 October – The Town Dock at Newport is opened.^[25]
• date unknown
  • Missionary Thomas Jones produces his first Khasi Reader and his translation of a Welsh-language work Rhodd Mam ("A Mother's Gift") into the Khasi language.^[26]
  • A Royal Commission chaired by Robert Hugh Franks reports on the employment of children in the coal industry in South Wales. They find that children as young as six are working twelve-hour shifts underground.
  • A stone viaduct is built to carry the Glyncorrwg Mineral Railway Railway.^[27]
  • Henry Robertson arrives in Wales to work as an engineer. Later he settles near Wrexham and builds Palé Hall.
  • John Cory and his family move to the docks area of Cardiff and open a ship's chandlery business.^[28]
  • Henry Hussey Vivian takes over the management of the Liverpool branch of the firm of Vivian and Sons.
  • A Calvinistic Methodist mission to "the Welsh people in France" is established by Rev James Williams and his wife in Brittany.^[29]
  • Two explosions at the Blackvein Colliery in Crosskeys result in a total of five deaths.

Arts and literature

New books

• Charles James Apperley (Nimrod) – The Life of a Sportsman
• Anne Beale – Poems
• Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) – A History of Wales to the Death of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, vol. 14^[30]

Music

• John Orlando Parry – Anticipations of Switzerland

Births

• 12 February – Megan Watts Hughes, singer (died 1907)^[31]
• 11 March – Sarah Edith Wynne, singer (died 1897)^[32]
• 15 April – John Hughes (Glanystwyth), minister (died 1902)
• 14 June – William Abraham (Mabon), politician (died 1922)^[33]
• 28 September – William John Parry, quarrymen's leader (died 1927)
• 31 October – Moses Owen Jones, musician (died 1908)
• 19 December – Daniel Thomas Phillips, minister and American consul (died 1905)

Deaths

• 26 May – Benjamin Heath Malkin, antiquary and author, 73^[34]
• September – William Ouseley, orientalist, 73^[35]
• 10 November – John Jones of Ystrad, politician, 65^[36]
• 22 December – Thomas Phillips, minister and writer, 70^[37]

See also

• 1842 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 24.
2. Book: J.C. Sainty . John Sainty (civil servant) . List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 . Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd . London . 1979.
3. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 695.
4. Book: Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. 169.
5. Web site: Penpont including attached conservatory and rear service ranges. British Listed Buildings. 2 December 2021.
6. Book: Edwin Poole. The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. 1886. 378.
7. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 26.
8. Web site: Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx.. History of Parliament Online. 5 December 2021.
9. Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. not known. William Retlaw Williams. "Old Wales" Office. 1907. 3. 106.
10. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 612.
11. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 29.
12. Book: Amy Audrey Locke. The Hanbury Family. Arthur L. Humphreys. 1916. 147.
13. s-POWY-HER-1674. Herbert family (earls of Powis). Evan David Jones. 1959. 30 November 2021.
14. Web site: Thorne . R.G. . John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire . History of Parliament . 27 March 2020.
15. Book: Jonathan Williams. The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. 1859. 115.
16. Book: William Stockdale. Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom. 1833. 86.
17. Book: Fryde, E. B. . Handbook of British chronology . New York Cambridge University Press . Cambridge England . 1996 . 9780521563505 . 292.
18. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 305.
19. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
20. Book: Old Yorkshire, volume 3. 1882. 90.
21. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 307.
22. Book: The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. 95.
23. Book: Paul O'Leary. Claiming the Streets: Processions and Urban Culture in South Wales, C.1830-1880. 15 October 2012. University of Wales Press. 978-1-78316-275-8. 194.
24. Book: Tony Jaques. Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: F-O. 2007. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-33538-9. 392.
25. Book: Charles Frederick CLIFFE. The Book of South Wales, the Bristol Channel, Monmouthshire and the Wye ... Illustrated with maps and engravings. 1848. Hamilton, Adams & Company. 85.
26. Web site: Jones, Thomas (1810-1849), the first Calvinistic Methodist missionary on the Khasia Hills (Assam). Robert Thomas Jenkins. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. 18 April 2019.
27. Book: Stephen Hughes. The Archaeology of an Early Railway System: The Brecon Forest Tramroads. 1990. Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales. 978-1-871184-05-1. 325.
28. Book: Meic Stephens. The new companion to the literature of Wales. 23 September 1998. University of Wales Press. 978-0-7083-1383-1. 121.
29. Book: Sir Thomas Phillips. Wales: The Language, Social Condition, Moral Character, and Religious Opinions of the People, Considered in Their Relation to Education: Withsome Account of the Provsion Made for Education in Other Parts of the Kingdom. 1849. J. W. Parker. 570.
30. Book: Wales - Zygophyllaceae . 1843 . 222.
31. Book: James Duff Brown. Stephen Samuel Stratton. British Musical Biography: A Dictionary of Musical Artists, Authors, and Composers Born in Britain and Its Colonies. 1897. S.S. Stratton.
32. s-WYNN-EDI-1842. Wynne, Sarah Edith ('Eos Cymru'; 1842-1897), vocalist. Robert David Griffith. 1959. 5 December 2021.
33. s-ABRA-WIL-1842. Abraham, William (Mabon; 1842-1922), M.P. and first president of the South Wales Miners' Federation. Huw Morris-Jones. 1959. 5 December 2021.
34. Book: Report of the general meeting of the Camden Society for the publication of early historical and literary remains ... on Tuesday the 2nd May 1843: (Council.) Acc. 1, Works of the Camden Society. 2, Laws of the Camden Society. 3, Members of the Camden Society for the fifth year, ending 2 May 1843. 1843. 1.
35. Book: P. Thankappan Nair. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society: bk. 1 and 2. 1833-1841, James Prinsep's period. The Asiatic Society. 1980. 1978.
36. Web site: JONES, John (1777-1842), of Ystrad Lodge, Carm.. History of Parliament Online. 28 January 2019.
37. s-PHIL-THO-1772. Phillips, Thomas (1772-1842), Congregational minister, and master of Neuadd-lwyd school, Cardiganshire. John Dyfnallt Owen. 1959. 5 December 2021.