1862 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1840s; 1850s; 1860s; 1870s; 1880s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; Timeline of Welsh history 1862 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

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

Incumbents

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.^[23]
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.^[24]
7 August – Ferry from Porthmadog to Talsarnau sinks with the loss of 8 lives.^[25]
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.^[26]
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^[27]
Rees Howell Gronow – Reminiscences of Captain Gronow^[28]
Jane Williams (Ysgafell) – Celtic Fables, Fairy Tales and Legends versified

Welsh language

John Ceiriog Hughes – Oriau'r Bore^[29]^[30]

Music

Henry Brinley Richards – "God Bless the Prince of Wales"^[31]
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)^[32]
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)^[33]
- Philip Tanner, folk singer (d. 1950)^[34]
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)^[35]
28 April – William Norton, Wales international rugby player (d. 1898)
17 May – Sir William Rice Edwards, surgeon (d. 1923)^[36]
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)^[37]
16 November – Sir David Rocyn-Jones, medical practitioner and President of the WRU (d. 1953)^[38]
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^[39]
25 March – Timothy Davies, clergyman^[40]
1 May – Frederick Richard West, politician, 62/63^[41]
28 May – James Henry Cotton, Dean of Bangor, 82^[42]
2 August – Anthony Hill, industrialist, 78^[43]
27 August – John Williams (Ab Ithel), antiquary, 51
9 December – Edward Hughes (Eos Maldwyn), harpist, age unknown (tuberculosis)^[44]
31 December – Daniel Jones, Baptist minister, 74^[45]
date unknown – Robert Edwards, hymn writer, 66?^[46]

References

^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
^ ^a ^b J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
^ "Editorial". Welshman. 6 October 1865. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
^ Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
^ Thomas John Hughes (1887). The Welsh magistracy, by Adfyfr. South Wales and Monmouthshire Liberal Federation Offices. p. 5.
^ "Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
^ "Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
^ "TALBOT, Christopher Rice Mansel (1803-1890), of Penrice Castle and Margam Park, Glam". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
^ "Past Lord Lieutenants". Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
^ Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
^ Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780521563505.
^ Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
^ Frederick Arthur Crisp; Joseph Jackson Howard (1898). Visitation of England and Wales. p. 15.
^ ^a ^b ^c Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.
^ Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1857). The historic peerage of England: Revised, corrected, and continued ... by William Courthope. John Murray. p. 533.
^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
^ Old Yorkshire, volume 3. 1882. p. 90.
^ The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
^ 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.
^ Prys Morgan, "Early Victorian Wales and its crisis of identity" in Brockliss, L. W. B. (1997). A union of multiple identities: the British Isles, c. 1750-c. 1850. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. p. 93. ISBN 9780719050466.
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Gronow, Rees Howell (1794-1865), writer of memoirs". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
^ Jones, David Gwenallt (1959). "Hughes, John (Ceiriog; 1832-1887), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
^ The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (in Welsh). The Society. 1986. p. 100.
^ Stephens, Meic (1998). The new companion to the literature of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 266. ISBN 9780708313831.
^ 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.
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins (1959). "Vincent family". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
^ Idwal Lewis (1959). "Edwards, Sir William Rice (1862-1923), surgeon, director-general, Indian Medical Service". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
^ Idwal Lewis (1959). "Evan-Thomas, Sir Hugh (1862-1928), admiral". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
^ Emyr Wyn Jones (2001). "Rocyn-Jones, Sir David Thomas (1862-1953), medical officer of health and a public figure". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
^ 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.

[1] Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.

[Sainty-2] J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.

[3] Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.

[4] Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.

[5] "Editorial". Welshman. 6 October 1865. Retrieved 17 January 2022.

[6] Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.

[7] Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.

[8] Thomas John Hughes (1887). The Welsh magistracy, by Adfyfr. South Wales and Monmouthshire Liberal Federation Offices. p. 5.

[9] "Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 5 December 2021.

[10] "Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 16 January 2022.

[11] "TALBOT, Christopher Rice Mansel (1803-1890), of Penrice Castle and Margam Park, Glam". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 January 2022.

[12] Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.

[13] "Past Lord Lieutenants". Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire. Retrieved 28 January 2022.

[14] Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.

[15] Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780521563505.

[Fasti305-16] Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.

[17] Frederick Arthur Crisp; Joseph Jackson Howard (1898). Visitation of England and Wales. p. 15.

[Fasti307-18] Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.

[19] Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1857). The historic peerage of England: Revised, corrected, and continued ... by William Courthope. John Murray. p. 533.

[20] The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.

[21] Old Yorkshire, volume 3. 1882. p. 90.

[22] The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.

[23] Gethin Pit Disaster 1862 Archived 2011-10-05 at the Wayback Machine pp. 22–23.

[24] "Brecon & Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway". Welsh Railways Research Circle. Retrieved 31 October 2018.

[25] "Sinking of the Ferry". gwefan gymundedol Talsarnau. Retrieved 31 October 2018.

[26] "Great Orme's Head Lighthouse (34158)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 30 September 2021.

[27] Prys Morgan, "Early Victorian Wales and its crisis of identity" in Brockliss, L. W. B. (1997). A union of multiple identities: the British Isles, c. 1750-c. 1850. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. p. 93. ISBN 9780719050466.

[28] Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Gronow, Rees Howell (1794-1865), writer of memoirs". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.

[29] Jones, David Gwenallt (1959). "Hughes, John (Ceiriog; 1832-1887), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 November 2021.

[30] The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (in Welsh). The Society. 1986. p. 100.

[31] Stephens, Meic (1998). The new companion to the literature of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 266. ISBN 9780708313831.

[32] 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.

[33] Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "Bebb, Llewellyn John Montfort (1862-1915), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.

[34] Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Tanner, Philip (1862-1950), folk singer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.

[35] Robert Thomas Jenkins (1959). "Vincent family". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 February 2022.

[36] Idwal Lewis (1959). "Edwards, Sir William Rice (1862-1923), surgeon, director-general, Indian Medical Service". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 February 2022.

[37] Idwal Lewis (1959). "Evan-Thomas, Sir Hugh (1862-1928), admiral". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 February 2022.

[38] Emyr Wyn Jones (2001). "Rocyn-Jones, Sir David Thomas (1862-1953), medical officer of health and a public figure". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 February 2022.

[39] Sir Alfred Edward Pease (1923). Edmund Loder, Naturalist, Horticulturist, Traveller and Sportsman. J. Murray. p. 37.

[40] John Williams James. "Davies, Timothy (1802-1862), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.

[41] 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.

[42] 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.

[43] Watkin William Price. "HILL family, of the Plymouth iron-works, Merthyr Tydfil". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.

[44] "Hughes, Edward ('Eos Maldwyn'; died 1862), harpist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.

[45] Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones, Daniel (1788-1862), Baptist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.

[46] Robert David Griffith. "Edwards, Robert (1796-1862), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 November 2021.

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1862 in Wales

Incumbents

Events

Arts and literature

Awards

New books

English language

Welsh language

Music

Sport

Births

Deaths

See also

References