1862 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1840s; 1850s; 1860s; 1870s; 1880s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1862 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1862 to Wales and its people.

Incumbent[]

Monarch - Victoria

Events[]

Plaque at Llandudno Lighthouse, erected 1862

1 January – South Wales Railway leased to Great Western Railway prior to merger.
19 February – Gethin Pit disaster, Abercanaid: the first of two firedamp explosions at this colliery near Merthyr Tydfil kills 47 men and boys.^[1]
5 May – Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, makes an important speech on the subject of education in Wales. He is later appointed vice-president of the Committee of Council on Education.
2 June – Llangollen is linked to the rail network for the first time.
4 July – Sarah Edith Wynne, noted soprano, makes her London début.
c. August – First train through the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway's Torpantau Tunnel.^[2]
7 August – Ferry from Porthmadog to Talsarnau sinks with the loss of 8 lives.^[3]
28 October – The incomplete Moel Famau Jubilee Tower collapses in a storm.
1 December – Great Orme's Head lighthouse at Llandudno, erected by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, is first illuminated.^[4]
Guillermo Rawson, Interior Minister of Argentina, meets Love Jones-Parry and Lewis Jones to discuss the Welsh colonisation of Patagonia.
The Clogau mine begins producing gold.
Snowdon Mill, a steam-powered flour mill, is opened at Porthmadog.

Arts and literature[]

"Religion", by Joseph Edwards, and "The Tinted Venus" by John Gibson are among sculptures shown at the Great Exhibition.

Awards[]

National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Caernarfon. The chair is won by Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn).

New books[]

George Borrow – Wild Wales
Rees Howell Gronow – Reminiscences of Captain Gronow^[5]
John Ceiriog Hughes – Oriau'r Bore
Jane Williams (Ysgafell) – Celtic Fables, Fairy Tales and Legends versified

Music[]

Henry Brinley Richards – "God Bless the Prince of Wales"
Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd) – Hymnau

Sport[]

Cricket
- 21 July – South Wales Cricket Club defeat Surrey at The Oval.
- 24 July – South Wales Cricket Club defeat MCC at Lord's.

Births[]

5 January – , Celtic scholar (d. 1930)
16 January – Leifchild Jones, 1st Baron Rhayader, politician (d. 1939)^[6]
17 January – Buckley Roderick, Wales international rugby player (d. 1908)
23 January – Evan Richards, Wales international rugby player (d. 1931)
1 February – Thomas Pryce-Jenkins, Wales international rugby player (d. 1922)
16 February
- Llewellyn John Montfort Bebb, academic (d. 1915)^[7]
- Philip Tanner, folk singer (d. 1950)^[8]
22 March – Edward Treharne, Wales international rugby player (d. 1904)
11 April – Charles Evans Hughes, American politician of Welsh parentage (d. 1948)
27 April – Sir Hugh Vincent, solicitor and Wales international rugby player (d. 1931)
28 April – William Norton, Wales international rugby player (d. 1898)
17 May – Sir , surgeon (d. 1923)
5 August - Robert Mills-Roberts, footballer (d. 1935)
16 September – Thomas Baker Jones, Wales international rugby player (d. 1959)
27 October – Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas, admiral (d. 1928)
16 November – Sir David Rocyn-Jones, medical practitioner and President of the WRU (d. 1953)
7 December – Humphrey Jones, footballer (d. 1946)
9 December – , journalist (d. 1942)
date unknown
- , Patagonia settler (d. 1943)
- Seth Powell, footballer (d. 1945)

Deaths[]

3 January – Dan Jones, Mormon missionary, 51
8 February - Hans Busk, poet, 89^[9]
25 March – Timothy Davies, clergyman^[10]
1 May – Frederick Richard West, politician, 62/63^[11]
28 May – James Henry Cotton, Dean of Bangor, 82^[12]
2 August – , industrialist, 78^[13]
27 August – John Williams (Ab Ithel), antiquary, 51
9 December – Edward Hughes (Eos Maldwyn), harpist, age unknown (tuberculosis)^[14]
31 December – Daniel Jones, Baptist minister, 74^[15]
date unknown – , hymn writer, 66?

References[]

^ Gethin Pit Disaster 1862 Archived 2011-10-05 at the Wayback Machine pp. 22–23.
^ "Brecon & Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway". Welsh Railways Research Circle. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
^ "Sinking of the Ferry". gwefan gymundedol Talsarnau. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
^ "Great Orme's Head Lighthouse". Coflein. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. December 2008. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Gronow, Rees Howell (1794-1865), writer of memoirs". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
^ Llewelyn Gwyn Chambers. "Jones, Leifchild Stratten (1862-1939), Liberal politician and temperance advocate". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
^ Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "Bebb, Llewellyn John Montfort (1862-1915), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Tanner, Philip (1862-1950), folk singer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
^ Sir Alfred Edward Pease (1923). Edmund Loder, Naturalist, Horticulturist, Traveller and Sportsman. J. Murray. p. 37.
^ John Williams James. "Davies, Timothy (1802-1862), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
^ Frederic Boase (1965). Modern English Biography: Containing Many Thousand Concise Memoirs of Persons who Have Died Between the Years 1851-1900. Frank Cass. p. 829.
^ William HUGHES (Vicar of Llanuwchllyn, Bala.) (1874). The Life and Speeches of the Very Rev. J. H. Cotton ... Edited by the Rev. William Hughes. Nixon & Jarvis; London: Simpkin Marshall & Company. p. 144.
^ Watkin William Price. "HILL family, of the Plymouth iron-works, Merthyr Tydfil". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
^ "Hughes, Edward ('Eos Maldwyn'; died 1862), harpist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones, Daniel (1788-1862), Baptist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.

[1] Gethin Pit Disaster 1862 Archived 2011-10-05 at the Wayback Machine pp. 22–23.

[2] "Brecon & Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway". Welsh Railways Research Circle. Retrieved 31 October 2018.

[3] "Sinking of the Ferry". gwefan gymundedol Talsarnau. Retrieved 31 October 2018.

[4] "Great Orme's Head Lighthouse". Coflein. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. December 2008. Retrieved 31 October 2018.

[5] Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Gronow, Rees Howell (1794-1865), writer of memoirs". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.

[6] Llewelyn Gwyn Chambers. "Jones, Leifchild Stratten (1862-1939), Liberal politician and temperance advocate". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.

[7] Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "Bebb, Llewellyn John Montfort (1862-1915), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.

[8] Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Tanner, Philip (1862-1950), folk singer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.

[9] Sir Alfred Edward Pease (1923). Edmund Loder, Naturalist, Horticulturist, Traveller and Sportsman. J. Murray. p. 37.

[10] John Williams James. "Davies, Timothy (1802-1862), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.

[11] Frederic Boase (1965). Modern English Biography: Containing Many Thousand Concise Memoirs of Persons who Have Died Between the Years 1851-1900. Frank Cass. p. 829.

[12] William HUGHES (Vicar of Llanuwchllyn, Bala.) (1874). The Life and Speeches of the Very Rev. J. H. Cotton ... Edited by the Rev. William Hughes. Nixon & Jarvis; London: Simpkin Marshall & Company. p. 144.

[13] Watkin William Price. "HILL family, of the Plymouth iron-works, Merthyr Tydfil". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.

[14] "Hughes, Edward ('Eos Maldwyn'; died 1862), harpist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.

[15] Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones, Daniel (1788-1862), Baptist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.

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