1839 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1839 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey â Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire â Penry Williams[5][6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â William Edward Powell[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire â George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire â Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire â Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire â Capel Hanbury Leigh[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet[13]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney[14][2][15]
Events
- March â John Frost, former mayor of Newport, is deprived of his position as a magistrate because of his Chartist sympathies.
- 30 April â Chartists riot in Llanidloes and seize control of the town for five days.
- 7 May â Henry Vincent is arrested after addressing a Chartist meeting and taken to prison at Monmouth.[24]
- 13 May â Beginning of the Rebecca Riots.
- 25 July â William Ewart Gladstone marries Catherine Glynne of Hawarden.[25]
- 28 August â Mary Anne Lewis, widow of Cardiff MP Wyndham Lewis, marries Benjamin Disraeli.[26]
- 5 October â Opening of West Bute Dock.
- 4 November â Newport Rising: between 5,000 and 10,000 Chartist sympathisers led by John Frost, many of them coal miners, march on the Westgate Hotel in Newport, Monmouthshire, to liberate Chartist prisoners; around 22 are killed when troops, directed by Thomas Phillips, the mayor, fire on the crowd.[27] This is the last large-scale armed civil rebellion against authority in mainland Britain and sees the most deaths.
- 23 November â Zephaniah Williams, one of the leaders of the Chartist march on Newport, is arrested on board ship at Cardiff.[28]
- date unknown â Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis resigns as chairman of the Poor Law Commission, to be replaced by his son, George Cornewall Lewis.
Arts and literature
New books
- William Bingley â Excursions in North Wales
- Maria James â Wales and other Poems
- William Williams (Caledfryn) â Drych Barddonol
Music
- John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt) â Hafilah (hymn tune)
Births
- 9 January â Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen), writer (d. 1916)[29]
- 13 February (in England) â Robert Bird, politician (d. 1909)
- 7 March (in Germany) â Ludwig Mond, German-born industrialist (d. 1909)[30]
- 31 March â Thomas Henry Thomas (Arlunydd Penygarn) later known as T. H. Thomas, artist (d. 1915)[31]
- 24 September (in England) â John Neale Dalton, royal chaplain and tutor (d. 1931)[32]
Deaths
- 27 January â Sir Charles Paget, MP for Caernarfon, 60 (yellow fever)[33]
- 11 May â "Doctor" John Harries, Cwrt-y-cadno, physician, 54[34]
- 16 May â Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis, 84[35]
- 20 May â Rice Rees, historian, 35[36]
- 29 December â Hopkin Bevan, minister and author, 74[37]
