1851 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1851 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby (until 7 March); Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet (from 7 March)
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (from 4 May)
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite
• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell
• Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant
• Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall

Events

• May
• David Davies (Llandinam) marries Margaret Jones of Llanfair Caereinion.
• 24 September – Vale of Neath Railway opens from Neath to Aberdare.
• 27 August – William Bulkeley Hughes hosts a banquet at Bangor for Robert Stephenson.
• Richard Fothergill III is prosecuted for running a "truck shop" at Aberdare.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Blackwell (Alun) – Ceinion Alun (posthumously published)
• Richard Williams Morgan – A Tragedy of Powys Castle

Music

• Thomas Jones (Gogrynwr) – Gweddi Habacuc (cantata)
• John Ambrose Lloyd – 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)
• 10 March – William Haggar, pioneer of the film industry (d. 1925)
• 24 March – Robert Ambrose Jones (Emrys ap Iwan) (d. 1906)
• 15 June – Ernest Howard Griffiths, physicist (d. 1932)
• 12 July – Elizabeth Phillips Hughes, promoter of women's education (died 1925)
• 27 December – Percy Gilchrist, industrialist

Deaths

• 1 January – George Insole, English-born coal shipper, 60
• 6 April – William Morgan Kinsey, travel writer, 62?
• 8 April – John Parry (Bardd Alaw), harpist and composer, 75
• 30 June
• Thomas Phillips, founder of Llandovery College, 80
• William Saunders, Welsh-language poet, 45
• 17 July – Aneurin Owen, historian, 58
• 13 August – Benjamin Gibson, classical scholar, younger brother of John Gibson, 40
• 22 November – Thomas Morgan, navy chaplain, 81

See also

• 1851 in Ireland

References