1848 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1848 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 John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins[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 Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute (until 18 March);[10] Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (from 4 May)[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire â Capel Hanbury Leigh[13]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (until 17 January);[14] Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley (from 26 February)[15]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet[16]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite[17][2]
Events
- 1 March â Llandovery College opens in the building known as the "Depot".[25]
- 1 May â Opening for Chester and Holyhead Railway traffic of the first tube of Robert Stephenson's Conwy Railway Bridge.[26]
- 1 August â Opening of an isolated section of the Chester and Holyhead Railway across Anglesey from Llanfair to Holyhead.[26]
- 24 August â The American barque Ocean Monarch, loaded with would-be immigrants, catches fire off Colwyn Bay, with the loss of 178 lives.[27]
- 24 October â Trinity College, Carmarthen is established (as the South Wales and Monmouthshire Training College), to train teachers for Church of England schools.[28]
- 14 November â Opening of the North Wales County Pauper Lunatic Asylum (North Wales Hospital), Denbigh.[29]
- The new Llandeilo Bridge is completed, with a span of 145 feet (44 m) over the River Towy.[30]
- Merthyr Tydfil Hebrew Congregation formed.
- Butchers' Market in Wrexham opened.
- Michael D. Jones becomes a minister in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Arts and literature
New books
- John Hughes - The Self-Searcher
- John Jenkins - National Education
- Richard Williams Morgan - Maynooth and St. Asaph
- Edward Parry - Railway Companion from Chester to Holyhead
Music
- Robert Herbert Williams - Alawydd Trefriw[31]
Visual arts
- John Evan Thomas - Death of Tewdric Mawr, King of Gwent (sculpture)
Births
- 12 February â Beriah Gwynfe Evans, journalist and dramatist (died 1927)[32]
- 18 September â Robert Harris, painter (died 1919)
- 5 October â Sir John Purser Griffiths, civil engineer (died 1938)
- 2 November â A. G. Edwards, first Archbishop of Wales (died 1917)
- 30 December â David Jenkins, composer (died 1915)[33]
- Charles Ashton police officer, literary historian and bibliophile (suicide 1899)
Deaths
- 17 January â Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, 63 (accidentally shot by his son)[14]
- 23 February â Lord Granville Somerset, MP for Monmouthshire, 55
- 18 March â John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, creator of modern Cardiff, 54[10]
- 27 March â William Ellis Jones, poet, 52
- 2 April â Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, antiquary, 64
- 7 November â Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), poet and historian, 61[34]
- 15 November â David Hiram Williams, geologist and surveyor, 36[35]
- 23 December â James Cowles Prichard, physician and ethnologist of Welsh parentage, 62