1867 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1867 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn
• 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 (until 27 April); Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (from 21 May)
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd 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

• 3 June – The opening of the Anglesey Central Railway to passenger traffic links Amlwch to the rail network for the first time.
• 19 August – The Victoria pier at Rhyl, built at a cost of £23,000, opens to the public.
• 2 September – The Carnarvonshire Railway opens throughout, connecting Carnarvon and Portmadoc.
• 30 September – Mawddwy Railway opens.
• 10 October – Barmouth Bridge across the Mawddach estuary opens to rail traffic, linking Barmouth to the rail network for the first time.
• 26–27 October – Barque Earl of Chester is wrecked off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, with the loss of at least 17 lives.
• 8 November – 178 miners are killed in an accident at Ferndale Colliery, Rhondda.
• date unknown
• Celtic Congress held at Saint-Brieuc in Brittany.
• The Bronze Age cairns at Llanmadoc Hill are excavated and finds recorded.

Arts and literature

Awards

• At the National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Carmarthen, a crown is presented for the first time.

New books

• Rhoda Broughton – Cometh Up as a Flower
• Edward Hamer – The Chartist Outbreak at Llanidloes
• Jabez Edmund Jenkins – Egin Awen, yn cynnwys awdlau, cywyddau
• Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan - Penhow Castle
• William Thomas (Islwyn) – Caniadau
• Alfred Russel Wallace – The Malay Archipelago
• Charles Wilkins – The History of Merthyr Tydfil

Music

• David Roberts (Alawydd) – Llyfr y Psalmau

Sport

• Boxing – The "Marquess of Queensberry rules", formulated by John Graham Chambers, are published.

Births

• 10 March
• Sir William James Thomas, 1st baronet, philanthropist, one of the Thomas baronets of Yapton (d. 1945)
• William Llewelyn Williams, politician (d. 1922)
• 10 April – Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, peer (d. 1934)
• 2 May – Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn), poet (d. 1926)
• 13 May – Frank Brangwyn, artist (d. 1956)
• 15 May – Sir Henry Stuart Jones, academic (d. 1939)
• 21 May – John Thomas Job, poet (d. 1938)
• 26 May – Mary of Teck, member of the British royal family, Princess of Wales 1901–1910 (d. 1953)
• 29 September – John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy), poet (d. 1924)
• 6 October – Rosser Evans, Wales international rugby player
• 12 October – Lyn Harding, actor (d. 1952)
• 2 November – Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer (d. 1899)
• 28 November – James Richard Atkin, judge (born in Australia) (d. 1944)
• 18 December – David Watts Morgan, Member of Parliament for Rhondda East (d. 1933)
• date unknown
• Mia Arnesby Brown, born Mia Sarah H. Edwards, painter of children's portraits (d. 1931)
• Fred Hutchinson, rugby player (d. 1941)

Deaths

• 15 February – Walter Coffin, industrialist, 82
• 18 February – Edward Roberts (Iorwerth Glan Aled), poet, 48
• 27 April – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist, 64
• 26 May – Thomas Phillips, politician and businessman, 65/66
• 4 August – William Crawshay II, industrialist, 79
• 9 September – John Propert, physician, 74
• 12 September – Robert Fulke Greville, landowner and politician, 67
• 16 November – Thomas Aubrey, Methodist minister, 59
• 1 December – William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines in Australia, 74

See also

• 1867 in Ireland

References