1850 in Wales
Encyclopedia
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1850 to Wales
and its people
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Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
and its people
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
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Incumbents
- Prince of WalesPrince of WalesPrince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
— The Prince Albert EdwardEdward VII of the United KingdomEdward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910...
, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom - Princess of WalesPrincess of WalesPrincess of Wales is a British courtesy title held by the wife of The Prince of Wales since the first "English" Prince of Wales in 1283.Although there have been considerably more than ten male heirs to the throne, there have been only ten Princesses of Wales. The majority of Princes of Wales...
— vacant
Events
- 5 March — Opening of the Britannia BridgeBritannia BridgeBritannia Bridge is a bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales. It was originally designed and built by Robert Stephenson as a tubular bridge of wrought iron rectangular box-section spans for carrying rail traffic...
. - 16 June — Opening of the South Wales RailwaySouth Wales RailwayThe South Wales Railway was a broad gauge railway that linked the Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway with Neyland in Wales.-History:The need for the railway was created by the need to ship coal from the South Wales Valleys to London, and secondly to complete Brunel's vision of linking London with...
between Chepstow and Swansea. - November — Launch of the periodical Y Drych.
- 14 December — 13 men are killed in a mining accident at New Duffryn Colliery, Mountain AshMountain Ash, WalesMountain Ash is a town and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, deep in the South Wales Valleys of Wales. Mountain Ash is situated in the Cynon Valley and has a population of 7,039...
. - G. T. ClarkG. T. ClarkColonel George Thomas Clark was a British engineer and antiquary, particularly associated with the management of the Dowlais Iron Company.-Early life:...
marries Ann Price Lewis, a descendant of one of the original partners in the Dowlais IronworksDowlais IronworksThe Dowlais Ironworks was a major ironworks and steelworks located at Dowlais near Merthyr Tydfil, in Wales. Founded in the 18th century, it operated until the end of the 20th, at one time in the 19th century being the largest steel producer in the UK...
. - The Llanelli Board of Health is founded, with William ChambersWilliam Chambers (politician)William Chambers , was a politician, the illegitimate son of the industrialist William Chambers of Llanelli....
as its first chairman. - The Merthyr Board of Health is founded, with John Josiah GuestJohn Josiah GuestSir Josiah John Guest, 1st Baronet, known as John Josiah Guest, was a Welsh engineer and entrepreneur.-Life:Born in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, as the son of Thomas Guest, a partner in the Dowlais Iron Company...
as its first chairman.
New books
- Thomas Edwards (Caerfallwch) — Geirlyfr Saesoneg a Chymraeg, An English and Welsh Dictionary
- Elijah WaringElijah WaringElijah Waring , was an Anglo-Welsh writer.Born at Alton, Hampshire, Waring was the son of a Jeremiah Waring, and settled in South Wales in about 1810. He founded and English-language periodical, The Cambrian Visitor: a Monthly Miscellany, at Swansea in 1813, and moved to Neath in the following...
— Recollections and Anecdotes of Edward WilliamsIolo MorganwgEdward Williams, better known by his bardic name Iolo Morganwg , was an influential Welsh antiquarian, poet, collector, and literary forger. He was widely considered a leading collector and expert on medieval Welsh literature in his day, but after his death it was revealed that he had forged a... - Morris Williams (Nicander) — Y Psalmwyr
Births
- 4 January — Griffith J. GriffithGriffith J. GriffithGriffith Jenkins Griffith was a Welsh-American industrialist and philanthropist. After amassing a significant fortune from a mining syndicate in the 1880s, Griffith donated to the City of Los Angeles which became Griffith Park, and he bequeathed the money to build the park's Greek Theatre and...
, industrialist (died 1919) - 16 April — Sidney Gilchrist ThomasSidney Gilchrist ThomasSidney Gilchrist Thomas was an English inventor.-Life:Thomas was born at Canonbury, London and was educated at Dulwich College....
, inventor (died 1885)
Deaths
- 11 April
- David HughesDavid Hughes (cleric)David Hughes was a Welsh Anglican priest and writer.-Life:Hughes was born in 1785. He went to school in Ystrad Meurig, Wales before attending Jesus College, Oxford, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1806 and a Master of Arts degree in 1809...
, clergyman and writer, 64? - Edward Hughes (Y Dryw)Edward Hughes (poet)Edward Hughes was a Welsh clergyman and prize-winning Welsh language poet, whose bardic name was .-Life:...
, poet, 77
- David Hughes
- 18 April — John RichardsJohn Richards (US politician)John Richards was an American politician from New York.-Life:...
, Welsh-born US politician, 85 - 19 April — Sir John Edwards of GarthSir John Edwards, 1st Baronet, of GarthSir John Edwards, 1st Baronet , served as Member of Parliament for Montgomery from 8th April 1833 to 23rd June 1841 and the Edwards Baronetcy, of Garth in the County of Montgomery, was created for him in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1838...
, politician, 80 - 11 July — Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), poet and hymn-writer, 83
- 28 July — David LewisDavid Lewis (Carmarthenshire clergyman)David Lewis was a Welsh Anglican priest and writer.-Life:Lewis was born in 1760 in Abergwili, Carmarthenshire and studied in Llanpumpsaint and at the Presbyterian Academy in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire. He then matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford but there is no record of him obtaining a degree...
, Carmarthenshire clergyman and writer, 90? - 2 September — Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, politician, 74
- 19 December — George WilliamsGeorge Williams (UK politician)Lieutenant-Colonel George Williams was a British army officer and Liberal politician. Although Williams was of Welsh descent, he was born in St Johns, Newfoundland, where his father was lord chief justice of the province....
, politician, 85