1847 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1847 to Wales and its people.

← 1846 1845 1844 1843 1842 1847 in Wales → 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1847 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
• Princess of Wales – vacant

Events

• 14 January - All thirteen members of the Point of Ayr lifeboat crew are drowned when it capsizes off Rhyl.[1]
• 8 April - John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) is transferred from Norfolk Island to Tasmania.
• In the UK general election:
  • Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis becomes MP for Radnor Boroughs.
  • Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet, loses his Flintshire seat to Edward Lloyd-Mostyn for the second time.
• 24 May - Five people are killed in the Dee bridge disaster, when Robert Stephenson's railway bridge on the Chester and Holyhead Railway at Chester collapses.[2]
• 1 July - Publication of the government report on education in Wales (the "Blue Books"), containing opinions hostile to Welsh culture.
• Prince Albert, is unsuccessfully challenged for the chancellorship of the University of Cambridge by The Earl of Powis. The winning margin is less than 120 votes.
• Sir William Robert Grove is awarded the medal of the Royal Society.

Arts and literature

New books

• Reports of the commissioners of enquiry into the state of education in Wales
• John Lloyd - Poems
• Morris Williams (Nicander) - Llyfr yr Homiliau

Music

• John Mills (Ieuan Glan Alarch) - Y Salmydd Eglwysig

Births

• 13 January - Daniel James (Gwyrosydd), hymn-writer (died 1920)
• 27 January - Owen Owens Roberts, choirmaster and conductor (died 1926)
• 9 February - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist social reformer (died 1902)
• 22 April - Charles Henry Wynn (died 1911)
• 20 June - Evan Thomas Davies (Dyfrig), clergyman and author (died 1927)
• 10 July - Alfred Neobard Palmer, historian and ancient monuments inspector (died 1915)
• 12 September - John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, Cardiff landowner (died 1900)
• 13 October - Owen Owen, draper (died 1910 in London)
• 14 November - Roland Rogers, musician (died 1927)
• date unknown - Llewelyn Kenrick, footballer (died 1933)

Deaths

• 13 February - Sharon Turner, historian, 78
• 16 February - Taliesin Williams, poet and author, son of Iolo Morganwg, 59[3]
• 17 March - Sir Harford Jones Brydges, diplomat and author, 83[4]
• 29 March - Humphrey Gwalchmai, Calvinistic Methodist leader, 59
• 7 June - David Mushet, Scottish metallurgist (in Monmouth), 74[5]
• 27 September - Lucy Thomas, colliery owner ('The Mother of the Welsh Steam Coal Trade')[6]
• 6 October - John Evans (Methodist), 68[7]

References

1. Reference Wales. University of Wales Press. 1994. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-7083-1234-6.
2. Michael R. Bailey (5 July 2017). Robert Stephenson – The Eminent Engineer. Taylor & Francis. p. 311. ISBN 978-1-351-90272-4.
3. Griffith John Williams. "Williams, Taliesin (Taliesin ab Iolo; 1787-1847), poet and author". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
4. George Fisher Russell Barker; Milverton Godfrey Dauglish (1886). Historical and Political Handbook. Chapman. p. 339.
5. Fred Marmaduke Osborn (1952). The story of the Mushets. T. Nelson. p. 27.
6. Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru: The National Library of Wales Journal. Council of the National Library of Wales. 1958. p. 416.
7.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Evans, John (1779-1847)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.