1847 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1847 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 (until 16 January);[5] John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins (from 17 February)[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 Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet[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 John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite[15][2]
Events
- 14 January - All thirteen members of the Point of Ayr lifeboat crew are drowned when it capsizes off Rhyl.[23]
- 8 April - John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) is transferred from Norfolk Island to Tasmania.
- 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.
- 24 May - Five people are killed in the Dee bridge disaster, when Robert Stephenson's railway bridge on the Chester and Holyhead Railway at Chester collapses.[24]
- 1 July - "Treachery of the Blue Books": Publication of a government report ("blue book") on education in Wales containing opinions hostile to Welsh culture.
- Prince Albert is unsuccessfully challenged for the chancellorship of the University of Cambridge by The 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 Inquiry into the state of education in Wales
- John Lloyd - Poems
- Morris Williams (Nicander) - Llyfr yr Homiliau[25]
Music
- John Mills (Ieuan Glan Alarch) - Y Salmydd Eglwysig[26]
Births
- 13 January - Daniel James, hymn-writer (died 1920)[27]
- 27 January - Owen Owens Roberts, choirmaster and conductor (died 1926)[28]
- 9 February - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist social reformer (died 1902)[29]
- 22 April - Charles Henry Wynn, landowner (died 1911)[30]
- 20 June - Evan Thomas Davies (Dyfrig), clergyman and author (died 1927)[31]
- 10 July - Alfred Neobard Palmer, historian and ancient monuments inspector (died 1915)[32]
- 12 September - John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, Cardiff landowner (died 1900)[33]
- 13 October - Owen Owen, draper (died 1910)[34]
- 14 November - Roland Rogers, musician (died 1927)[35]
- date unknown - Llewelyn Kenrick, footballer (died 1933)[36]
Deaths
- 13 February - Sharon Turner, historian, 78
- 16 February - Taliesin Williams, poet and author, son of Iolo Morganwg, 59[37]
- 17 March - Sir Harford Jones Brydges, diplomat and author, 83[38]
- 29 March - Humphrey Gwalchmai, Calvinistic Methodist leader, 59
- 7 June - David Mushet, Scottish metallurgist (in Monmouth), 74[39]
- 27 September - Lucy Thomas, colliery owner ('The Mother of the Welsh Steam Coal Trade')[40]
- 6 October - John Evans (Methodist), 68[41]
