1840s in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1840 - 1849 to Wales and its people.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - Edward Albert, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (from 1841)
- Princess of Wales - vacant
[edit] Events
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] New books
- Anne Beale - Traits and Stories of the Welsh Peasantry (1849)
- Robert Elis (Cynddelw) - Yr Adgyfodiad (1849)
- John Hughes - The Self-Searcher (1848)
- John Jenkins - National Education (1848)
- Samuel Lewis - Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1849)
- John Lloyd
- Poems (1847)
- The English Country Gentleman (1849)
- Richard Williams Morgan - Maynooth and St. Asaph (1848)
- Edward Parry - Railway Companion from Chester to Holyhead (1848)
- Thomas Stephens - The Literature of the Kymry (1849)
- Morris Williams (Nicander)
- Y Flwyddyn Eglwysig (1843)
- Llyfr yr Homiliau (1847)
[edit] Music
- Rosser Beynon - Telyn Seion (1845)
- John Ambrose Lloyd - Y Ganaan Glyd (1845)
- Rowland Prichard - Cyfaill y Cantorion (The Singer's Friend) (1844)
- Robert Herbert Williams - Alawydd Trefriw (1848)
[edit] Births
- 1840
- September 16 - Alfred Thomas, 1st Baron Pontypridd (died 1927)
- November 29 - Rhoda Broughton, novelist (died 1920)
- December 3 - Francis Kilvert, diarist (died 1879)
- December 5 - John E. Jones, governor of Nevada (died 1896)
- December 17 - Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, politician (died 1935)
- date unknown - John Rhŷs, educationist (died 1915)
- 1841
- January 28 - Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer (died 1904)
- May 21 - Joseph Parry, composer (died 1903)
- November 9 - Edward Albert, Prince of Wales (died 1910)
- 1842
- June 14 - William Abraham (Mabon), politician (died 1922)
- September 28 - William John Parry, quarrymen's leader (died 1927)
- 1843
- May 12 - Thomas William Rhys Davids, founder of the Pali Text Society (died 1922)
- December 20 - Frances Hoggan, first British woman to qualify as a doctor (died 1927)
- 1844
- April 28 - Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet (died 1895)
- July 28 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, Welsh-descended poet (died 1889)
- December 1 - Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales 1901-1910
- 1845
- June 21 - Samuel Griffith, Premier of Queensland (died 1920)
- October 10 - Timothy Richard, missionary
- date unknown - Alfred Lewis Jones, shipping magnate (died 1909)
- 1847
- date unknown
- Daniel James, hymn-writer (died 1920)
- Llewelyn Kenrick, footballer (died 1933)
- 1848
- September 18 - Robert Harris, painter (died 1919)
- December 30 - David Jenkins, composer (died 1915)
- 1849
[edit] Deaths
- 1841
- June 8 - John Elias, preacher (born 1774)
- date unknown - John Blackwell (Alun), poet (born 1797)
- 1842
- August 20 - Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian, relation of the Vivian family of Swansea (born 1775)
- 1843
- March 26 - Robert Richford Roberts, Welsh-descended Methodist leader in the USA
- March 27 - Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny (born 1755)
- 1845
- January 1 - Sir William Nott, military leader (born 1782)
- 1848
- March 18 - John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, creator of modern Cardiff (born 1793)
- date unknown - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), poet and historian (born 1787)
- 1849
- March 21 - William Sherley Williams, Welsh-descended pioneer
- September 16 - Thomas Jones, missionary
