1862 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1862 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins^{[5] [6]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse^[8]
  • 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^[13]
  • • Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite^{[14] [2]}
• Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell^{[15] [16]}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant^[17]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short^{[18] [19]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall^{[20] [21] [22]}

Events

• 1 January – South Wales Railway leased to Great Western Railway prior to merger.
• 19 February – Gethin Pit disaster, Abercanaid: the first of two firedamp explosions at this colliery near Merthyr Tydfil kills 47 men and boys.^[23]
• 5 May – Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, makes an important speech on the subject of education in Wales. He is later appointed vice-president of the Committee of Council on Education.
• 2 June – Llangollen is linked to the rail network for the first time.
• 4 July – Sarah Edith Wynne, noted soprano, makes her London début.
• c. August – First train through the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway's Torpantau Tunnel.^[24]
• 7 August – Ferry from Porthmadog to Talsarnau sinks with the loss of 8 lives.^[25]
• 28 October – The incomplete Moel Famau Jubilee Tower collapses in a storm.
• 1 December – Great Orme's Head lighthouse at Llandudno, erected by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, is first illuminated.
• Guillermo Rawson, Interior Minister of Argentina, meets Love Jones-Parry and Lewis Jones to discuss the Welsh colonisation of Patagonia.
• The Clogau mine begins producing gold.
• Snowdon Mill, a steam-powered flour mill, is opened at Porthmadog.

Arts and literature

• "Religion", by Joseph Edwards, and "The Tinted Venus" by John Gibson are among sculptures shown at the Great Exhibition.

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Caernarfon. The chair is won by Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn).

New books

English language

• George Borrow – Wild Wales^[26]
• Rees Howell Gronow – Reminiscences of Captain Gronow^[27]
• Jane Williams (Ysgafell) – Celtic Fables, Fairy Tales and Legends versified

Welsh language

• John Ceiriog Hughes – Oriau'r Bore^{[28] [29]}

Music

• Henry Brinley Richards – "God Bless the Prince of Wales"^[30]
• Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd) – Hymnau

Sport

• Cricket
  • 21 July – South Wales Cricket Club defeat Surrey at The Oval.
  • 24 July – South Wales Cricket Club defeat MCC at Lord's.

Births

• 5 January – John Fisher, Celtic scholar (d. 1930)
• 16 January – Leifchild Jones, 1st Baron Rhayader, politician (d. 1939)^[31]
• 17 January – Buckley Roderick, Wales international rugby player (d. 1908)
• 23 January – Evan Richards, Wales international rugby player (d. 1931)
• 1 February – Thomas Pryce-Jenkins, Wales international rugby player (d. 1922)
  • • 16 February Llewellyn John Montfort Bebb, academic (d. 1915)^[32]
  • Philip Tanner, folk singer (d. 1950)^[33]
• 22 March – Edward Treharne, Wales international rugby player (d. 1904)
• 11 April – Charles Evans Hughes, American politician of Welsh parentage (d. 1948)
• 27 April – Sir Hugh Vincent, solicitor and Wales international rugby player (d. 1931)^[34]
• 28 April – William Norton, Wales international rugby player (d. 1898)
• 17 May – Sir William Rice Edwards, surgeon (d. 1923)^[35]
• 5 August - Robert Mills-Roberts, footballer (d. 1935)
• 16 September – Thomas Baker Jones, Wales international rugby player (d. 1959)
• 27 October – Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas, admiral (d. 1928)^[36]
• 16 November – Sir David Rocyn-Jones, medical practitioner and President of the WRU (d. 1953)^[37]
• 7 December – Humphrey Jones, footballer (d. 1946)
• 9 December – John John Evans, journalist (d. 1942)
• date unknown
  • John Daniel Evans, Patagonia settler (d. 1943)
  • Seth Powell, footballer (d. 1945)

Deaths

• 3 January – Dan Jones, Mormon missionary, 51
• 8 February - Hans Busk, poet, 89^[38]
• 25 March – Timothy Davies, clergyman^[39]
• 1 May – Frederick Richard West, politician, 62/63^[40]
• 28 May – James Henry Cotton, Dean of Bangor, 82^[41]
• 2 August – Anthony Hill, industrialist, 78^[42]
• 27 August – John Williams (Ab Ithel), antiquary, 51
• 9 December – Edward Hughes (Eos Maldwyn), harpist, age unknown (tuberculosis)^[43]
• 31 December – Daniel Jones, Baptist minister, 74^[44]
• date unknown – Robert Edwards, hymn writer, 66?^[45]

See also

• 1862 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. News: Editorial. 17 January 2022. Welshman. 6 October 1865.
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. Book: Thomas John Hughes. The Welsh magistracy, by Adfyfr. South Wales and Monmouthshire Liberal Federation Offices. 1887. 5.
9. Web site: Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx.. History of Parliament Online. 5 December 2021.
10. Web site: Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint. History of Parliament Online. 16 January 2022.
11. Web site: TALBOT, Christopher Rice Mansel (1803-1890), of Penrice Castle and Margam Park, Glam.. History of Parliament Online. 18 January 2022.
12. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 29.
13. Web site: Past Lord Lieutenants. Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire. 28 January 2022.
14. Book: Jonathan Williams. The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. 1859. 115.
15. Book: Fryde, E. B. . Handbook of British chronology . New York Cambridge University Press . Cambridge England . 1996 . 9780521563505 . 292.
16. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 305.
17. Book: Frederick Arthur Crisp. Joseph Jackson Howard. Visitation of England and Wales. 1898. 15.
18. Book: Nicholas Harris Nicolas. The historic peerage of England: Revised, corrected, and continued ... by William Courthope. John Murray. 1857. 533.
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. http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/cms/document/1860_62.pdf Gethin Pit Disaster 1862
24. Web site: Brecon & Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway. Welsh Railways Research Circle. 2018-10-31.
25. Web site: Sinking of the Ferry. gwefan gymundedol Talsarnau. 2018-10-31.
26. [Prys Morgan]
27. s-GRON-HOW-1794. Gronow, Rees Howell (1794-1865), writer of memoirs. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 2 June 2019.
28. s-HUGH-CEI-1832 . Hughes, John (Ceiriog; 1832-1887), poet . David Gwenallt . Jones . D. Gwenallt Jones . 1959 . 2 November 2021.
29. Book: The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. 1986. 100. cy.
30. Book: Stephens, Meic . The new companion to the literature of Wales . University of Wales Press . Cardiff . 1998 . 9780708313831 . 266.
31. s3-JONE-LEI-1862. Jones, Leifchild Stratten (1862-1939), Liberal politician and temperance advocate. Llewelyn Gwyn Chambers. yes. 2 June 2019.
32. s3-BEBB-MON-1862. Bebb, Llewellyn John Montfort (1862-1915), cleric. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. yes. 2 June 2019.
33. s2-TANN-PHI-1862. Tanner, Philip (1862-1950), folk singer. Robert Thomas Jenkins. yes. 2 June 2019.
34. s-VINC-ENT-1650. Vincent family. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 1959. 13 February 2022.
35. s-EDWA-RIC-1862. Edwards, Sir William Rice (1862-1923), surgeon, director-general, Indian Medical Service. Idwal Lewis. 1959. 13 February 2022.
36. s-EVAN-HUG-1862. Evan-Thomas, Sir Hugh (1862-1928), admiral. Idwal Lewis. 1959. 13 February 2022.
37. s2-ROCY-THO-1862. Rocyn-Jones, Sir David Thomas (1862-1953), medical officer of health and a public figure. Emyr Wyn Jones. 2001. 13 February 2022.
38. Book: Sir Alfred Edward Pease. Edmund Loder, Naturalist, Horticulturist, Traveller and Sportsman. 1923. J. Murray. 37.
39. s-DAVI-TIM-1802. Davies, Timothy (1802-1862), cleric. John Williams James. yes. 2 June 2019.
40. Book: Frederic Boase. Modern English Biography: Containing Many Thousand Concise Memoirs of Persons who Have Died Between the Years 1851-1900. 1965. Frank Cass. 829.
41. Book: William HUGHES (Vicar of Llanuwchllyn, Bala.). The Life and Speeches of the Very Rev. J. H. Cotton ... Edited by the Rev. William Hughes. 1874. Nixon & Jarvis; London: Simpkin Marshall & Company. 144.
42. s-HILL-PLY-1786. HILL family, of the Plymouth iron-works, Merthyr Tydfil. Watkin William Price. yes. 2 June 2019.
43. s3-HUGH-EDW-1862. Hughes, Edward ('Eos Maldwyn'; died 1862), harpist. yes. 2 June 2019.
44. s-JONE-DAN-1788. Jones, Daniel (1788-1862), Baptist minister. Robert Thomas Jenkins. yes. 2 June 2019.
45. s-EDWA-ROB-1796. Edwards, Robert (1796-1862), musician. Robert David Griffith. yes. 30 November 2021.