1867 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1867 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey â Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire â Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar[5][6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â Edward Pryse[8][2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire â John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire â Robert Myddelton Biddulph[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire â Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire â Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover (until 27 April);[13] Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (from 21 May)[14]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley[15]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington[16]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite[17][2]
- Bishop of Bangor â James Colquhoun Campbell[18][19]
- Bishop of Llandaff â Alfred Ollivant[20]
- Bishop of St Asaph â Thomas Vowler Short[21][22][20]
- Bishop of St Davids â Connop Thirlwall[20][23]
Events
- 3 June â The opening of the Anglesey Central Railway to passenger traffic links Amlwch to the rail network for the first time.[24]
- 19 August â The Victoria pier at Rhyl, built at a cost of £23,000, opens to the public.[25]
- 2 September â The Carnarvonshire Railway opens throughout, connecting Carnarvon and Portmadoc.[24]
- 30 September â Mawddwy Railway opens.[26]
- 10 October â Barmouth Bridge across the Mawddach estuary opens to rail traffic, linking Barmouth to the rail network for the first time.[27]
- 26â27 October â Barque Earl of Chester is wrecked off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, with the loss of at least 17 lives.[28]
- 8 November â 178 miners are killed in an accident at Ferndale Colliery, Rhondda.
- date unknown
- Celtic Congress held at Saint-Brieuc in Brittany.
- The Bronze Age cairns at Llanmadoc Hill are excavated and finds recorded.[29]
Arts and literature
Awards
- At the National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Carmarthen, a crown is presented for the first time.
New books
- Rhoda Broughton â Cometh Up as a Flower[30]
- Edward Hamer â The Chartist Outbreak at Llanidloes
- Jabez Edmund Jenkins â Egin Awen, yn cynnwys awdlau, cywyddau
- Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan - Penhow Castle
- William Thomas (Islwyn) â Caniadau
- Alfred Russel Wallace â The Malay Archipelago
- Charles Wilkins â The History of Merthyr Tydfil
Music
- David Roberts (Alawydd) â Llyfr y Psalmau
Sport
- Boxing â The "Marquess of Queensberry rules", formulated by John Graham Chambers, are published.
Births
- 10 March
- Sir William James Thomas, 1st baronet, philanthropist, one of the Thomas baronets of Yapton (d. 1945)[31]
- William Llewelyn Williams, politician (d. 1922)
- 10 April â Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, peer (d. 1934)[32]
- 2 May â Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn), poet (d. 1926)[33]
- 13 May â Frank Brangwyn, artist (d. 1956)[34]
- 15 May â Sir Henry Stuart Jones, academic (d. 1939)
- 21 May â John Thomas Job, poet (d. 1938)[35]
- 26 May â Mary of Teck, member of the British royal family, Princess of Wales 1901â1910 (d. 1953)[36]
- 29 September â John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy), poet (d. 1924)[37]
- 6 October â Rosser Evans, Wales international rugby player
- 12 October â Lyn Harding, actor (d. 1952)
- 2 November â Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer (d. 1899)[38]
- 28 November â James Richard Atkin, judge (born in Australia) (d. 1944)
- 18 December â David Watts Morgan, Member of Parliament for Rhondda East (d. 1933)[39]
- date unknown
- Mia Arnesby Brown, born Mia Sarah H. Edwards, painter of children's portraits (d. 1931)
- Fred Hutchinson, rugby player (d. 1941)
Deaths
- 15 February â Walter Coffin, industrialist, 82[40]
- 18 February â Edward Roberts (Iorwerth Glan Aled), poet, 48
- 27 April â Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist, 64[41]
- 26 May â Thomas Phillips, politician and businessman, 65/66[42]
- 4 August â William Crawshay II, industrialist, 79[43]
- 9 September â John Propert, physician, 74[44]
- 12 September â Robert Fulke Greville, landowner and politician, 67[45]
- 16 November â Thomas Aubrey, Methodist minister, 59[46]
- 1 December â William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines in Australia, 74