1862 in Wales

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

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite
• Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell
• Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant
• Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall

Events

• 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.
• 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.
• 7 August – Ferry from Porthmadog to Talsarnau sinks with the loss of 8 lives.
• 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.
• 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

English language

• George Borrow – Wild Wales
• Rees Howell Gronow – Reminiscences of Captain Gronow
• Jane Williams (Ysgafell) – Celtic Fables, Fairy Tales and Legends versified

Welsh language

• John Ceiriog Hughes – Oriau'r Bore

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 – John Fisher, Celtic scholar (d. 1930)
• 16 January – Leifchild Jones, 1st Baron Rhayader, politician (d. 1939)
• 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)
• Philip Tanner, folk singer (d. 1950)
• 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 William Rice Edwards, 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 – John John Evans, journalist (d. 1942)
• date unknown
• John Daniel Evans, Patagonia settler (died 1943)
• Seth Powell, footballer (d. 1945)

Deaths

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

See also

• 1862 in Ireland

References