1841 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1841 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 Robert Myddelton Biddulph[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire â Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire â Capel Hanbury Leigh[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis[13]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet[14]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney[15][2][16]
Events
- 19 February - The Governor Fenner, carrying emigrants to America, sinks off Holyhead after colliding with a steamer, with the loss of 123 lives.[24]
- 9 March - The first known photograph is taken in Wales, of Margam Castle by Calvert Jones.[25]
- 12 April - The Taff Vale Railway is extended to Merthyr Tydfil
- 26 July - The proprietors of The Skerries Lighthouse off Anglesey, the last privately owned light in the British Isles, are awarded £444,984 in compensation for its sale to Trinity House.
- 19 August - In the United Kingdom general election, William Edwards stands as a Chartist candidate in Monmouth Boroughs and becomes the only Parliamentary candidate in Wales, ever, not to win a single vote.
- 8 December - The month-old Albert Edward, eldest son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, is created Prince of Wales by letters patent.[26]
- date unknown
- Founding of Bala-Bangor Congregational College.[27]
- Poor Law Amendment Act 1841 is passed, largely thanks to the efforts of Sir George Cornewall Lewis.
- Mordecai Jones opens a brewery at Brecon.
- The Brymbo ironworks are bought out of Chancery after a long period of litigation and reopened by a limited company.
- Opening of Swansea Museum by the Royal Institution of South Wales.[28]
- Land is earmarked by Welsh immigrants in Ohio for the building of Tyn Rhos Chapel.[29]
Arts and literature
New books
- David Owen (Brutus) - Gweithrediadau yr Eglwys Sefydledig[30]
- Welsh Book of Common Prayer (new edition)
Music
Births
- 28 January - Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer (as John Rowlands;[31] died 1904)
- 14 February
- Sir John Gibson, journalist (died 1915)
- William Reginald Herbert, horseman (died 1929)
- 5 April - Robert Rees, singer and musician (died 1892)
- 23 April - Henry Hughes, minister and historian (died 1924)
- 29 April - Francis Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell, soldier (died 1925)[32]
- 21 May - Joseph Parry, composer (died 1903)[33]
- 26 June (in London) - James Cholmeley Russell, railway entrepreneur (died 1912)
- 9 November (in London) - Edward Albert, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII of the United Kingdom (died 1910)[34]
Deaths
- 17 January - David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), poet, 56[35]
- 12 May - Joseph Tudor Hughes, harpist, 13 (drowning)
- 1 May - David Jones, missionary, 44[36]
- 24 May - Thomas Roberts, Llwyn'rhudol, co-founder of Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion, 75-80[37]
- 8 June - John Elias, preacher, 67[38]
- 4 December - David Daniel Davis, physician, 64[39]
