1851 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1851 to Wales and its people.
Incumbent[]
- Monarch - Victoria
Events[]
- 24 September – Vale of Neath Railway opens from Neath to Aberdare.
- 27 August – William Bulkeley Hughes hosts a banquet at Bangor for Robert Stephenson.[1]
- Richard Fothergill III is prosecuted for running a "truck shop" at Aberdare.
- David Davies (Llandinam) marries Margaret Jones of Llanfair Caereinion.
Arts and literature[]
New books[]
- John Blackwell (Alun) – Ceinion Alun (posthumously published)
- Richard Williams Morgan – A Tragedy of Powys Castle[2]
Music[]
- – Gweddi Habacuc (cantata)[3]
- – Teyrnasoedd y Ddaear (anthem)
- John Owen (Owain Alaw)
- Deborah a Barac (anthem)
- Gweddi Habacuc (cantata)
Births[]
- 8 February – Sir Marteine Lloyd, 2nd Baronet (d. 1933)[4]
- 10 March – William Haggar, pioneer of the film industry (d. 1925)
- 24 March – Robert Ambrose Jones (Emrys ap Iwan) (d. 1906)[5]
- 15 June – Ernest Howard Griffiths, physicist (d. 1932)
- 8 July – Sir Arthur Evans, archaeologist (d. 1941)
- 12 July – Elizabeth Phillips Hughes, promoter of women's education (died 1925)[6]
- 27 December – Percy Gilchrist, industrialist[7]
Deaths[]
- 1 January – George Insole, English-born coal shipper, 60
- 6 April – , travel writer, 62?[8]
- 8 April – John Parry (Bardd Alaw), harpist and composer, 75[9]
- 30 June
- Thomas Phillips, founder of Llandovery College, 80
- William Saunders, Welsh-language poet, 45[10]
- 17 July – Aneurin Owen, historian, 58[11]
- 13 August – Benjamin Gibson, classical scholar, younger brother of John Gibson, 40[12]
- 22 November – Thomas Morgan, navy chaplain, 81[13]
References[]
- ^ The Annals of Our Time. A Diurnal of Events, Social and Political, which Have Happened In, Or Had Relation To, the Kingdom of Great Britain, from the Accession of Queen Victoria to the Opening of the Present Parliament. [1837–1868.]. 1869. p. 211.
- ^ Cave, Edward; Nichols, John (November 1851). "Notes of the month". The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Vol. XXXVI. p. 524.
- ^ Robert David Griffith. "Jones, Thomas ('Gogrynwr'; 1822–1854), doctor and musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ^ "The" Illustrated London News. Elm House. 1877. p. 1877.
- ^ Catholic University of America (2003). New Catholic Encyclopedia: Ead-Fre. Thomson/Gale. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-7876-4004-0.
- ^ Megan Lewis. "Hughes, Elizabeth Phillips (18–1925), educationalist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
- ^ Carpenter, H. C. H. (1936). "Percy Carlyle Gilchrist. 1851–1935". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2 (5): 19–99. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1936.0002.
- ^ Leslie Stephen; Sir Sidney Lee (1892). DNB. Smith, Elder, & Company. p. 193.
- ^ Robert David Griffith. "Parry, John ('Bardd Alaw'; 1776–1851), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
- ^ William Roger Hughes. "Saunders, William (1806–1851, poet and writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
- ^ robert dunlop (1895). Dictionary of National Biography. p. 399.
- ^ Megan Ellis. "Gibson, John (1790–1866), sculptor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Morgan, Thomas (1769–1851), navy chaplain". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
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