1862 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1862 to Wales and its people.
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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
Births
- 5 January – John Fisher, 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 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 (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 – Anthony Hill, 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 – Robert Edwards, hymn writer, 66?[16]
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 (34158)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- 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.
- Robert David Griffith. "Edwards, Robert (1796-1862), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
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