1859 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1859 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
- Princess of Wales – vacant
Events
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The clipper Royal Charter, wrecked off Anglesey on 26 October
- January - Y Brython changes from weekly to monthly publication.
- February - First race at Bangor-on-Dee racecourse.
- 1 April - Opening of the Corris Railway.
- 5 April - 27 men are killed by flooding at Neath Chain Colliery.
- 31 May - U.K. general election. This is the last general election in which the Conservative Party's vote share in Wales exceeds that in England.
- 29 June - Benjamin Hall is raised to the peerage as 1st Baron Llanover.
- 15 October–17 October - Queen Victoria stays at Penrhyn Castle.
- 25 October–26 October - 'Royal Charter Storm':
- Steam clipper Royal Charter is wrecked off the north-east Anglesey coast, with the estimated loss of around 459 lives, the greatest loss of life in any maritime accident in Welsh waters.[1]
- St Brynach's Church, Cwm-yr-Eglwys, is destroyed.
- Peak year for copper production in Wales.
- The final stage of the East Bute Dock, Cardiff, is completed and opened.[2]
- Merger of Yr Amserau and Baner Cymru.
- Religious revival led by Humphrey Jones.
- The Cymanfa Ganu movement is launched in Aberdare.[3]
- Sir Charles Morgan, 3rd Baronet, is created Baron Tredegar.[4]
Arts and literature
Awards
- Lewis William Lewis (Llew Llwyfo) wins the chair at the Merthyr Tydfil eisteddfod.
New books
- Hugh Hughes (Tegai) - Y Drydedd Oruchwyliaeth[5]
- Nathaniel Jones - Fy Awenydd
- Richard Parry (Gwalchmai) - Adgofion am John Elias[6]
- Thomas Stephens & Gweirydd ap Rhys - Orgraff yr Iaith Gymraeg
- William Thomas (Gwilym Marles) - Prydyddiaeth
Music
- John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt) - Llyfr Tonau Cynulleidfaol[7]
Births
- 11 January - Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney, historian (died 1933)[8]
- 29 January - Sir George Lockwood Morris, industrialist and Welsh international rugby player (died 1947)[9]
- 7 February - Frank Hancock, Wales international rugby union international (died 1943)
- 16 February - T. E. Ellis, politician (died 1899)[10]
- 18 April - Sir Evan Davies Jones, 1st Baronet, civil engineer (died 1949)
- 4 May - Sir Samuel Thomas Evans, politician and judge (died 1918)
- 22 May - Jonathan Ceredig Davies, travel writer (died 1932)
- 17 July - Ernest Rhys, writer (died 1946)
- 11 Oct – Aneurin Williams, politician (died 1924)
- 5 December - Edward John Lewis, Wales international rugby union player (died 1925)
- 7 December - Leonard Watkins, Wales international rugby union player (died 1901)
- 25 December - John Goulstone Lewis Wales international rugby union player (died 1935)
- November - Richard Bell, politician (died 1930)
Deaths
- 19 January - Charles Vachell, alderman and former mayor of Cardiff, 75[11]
- 19 April - Christopher Bethell, Bishop of Bangor, 85?[12]
- 20 May - Thomas Penson the younger, county surveyor of Denbighshire, 69[13]
- 21 June - John Bowen, Bishop of Sierra Leone, 43 (yellow fever)[14]
- 8 July - John Thomas (Siôn Wyn o Eifion), poet, 78
- 10 September - Sir John Hay Williams, landowner, 65[15]
- 24 September – Joseph Murray Ince, painter, 53
- October - Evan Jones (Ifan y Gorlan), harpist
References
- Carradice, Phil. "The great storm of 1859". BBC Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- "Bute East Dock, Cardiff". Coflein. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- Gareth Williams (1998). Valleys of Song: Music and Society in Wales 1840-1914. University of Wales Press. pp. 38–39. ISBN 978-0-7083-1480-7.
- Thomas Nicholas (1872). Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales: Containing a Record of All Ranks of the Gentry ... with Many Ancient Pedigrees and Memorials of Old and Extinct Families. Longmans, Green, Reader. p. 785.
- Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). . Dictionary of National Biography. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Harvard University Library (1970). Celtic literatures: classification schedule, classified listing by call number, chronological listing, author and title listing. Distributed by the Harvard University Press. p. 78.
- Geraint H. Jenkins (2007). A Concise History of Wales. Cambridge University Press. p. 209. ISBN 978-0-521-82367-8.
- Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (1910). Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour. T.C. & E.C. Jack. p. 178.
- Who was who: a companion to Who's who : containing the biographies of those who died during the period. A. & C. Black. 1967. p. 816.
- Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "Ellis, Thomas Edward (1859-1899), M.P. for Merioneth (1886-99) and chief Liberal whip (1894-5)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
- "Births, Marriages, and Deaths". The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian. (Glamorgan, Monmouthshire and Breconshire). 22 January 1859. p. 5 – via Welsh Newspapers Online.
- Joseph Haydn (1866). Haydn's Dictionary of Dates Relating to All Ages and Nations: For Universal Reference. E. Moxon and Company. pp. 76.
- Colvin H. A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600–1840. Yale University Press 3rd ed 1995, pages 748-49
- Bowen, John (1862). Memorials of John Bowen, late Bishop of Sierra Leone;. London: James Nisbet. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- Joseph Jackson Howard; Frederick Arthur Crisp (1905). Visitation of England and Wales. Privately printed. p. 12.
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