1844 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1844 to Wales and its people.

← 1843 1842 1841 1840 1839 1844 in Wales → 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1844 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

Incumbents

For United Kingdom incumbents, see 1844 in the United Kingdom § Incumbents.

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey^[1][2][3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williams^[5][6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis^[13]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet^[14]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite^[15][2]

• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell^[16][17]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston^[18]
• Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey^[19][20][18]
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall^[21][18][22]

Events

• 1 January - 11 or 12 men are killed in a mining accident at Dinas Middle Colliery, Rhondda.^[23]
• 14 February - 40 men are killed when the Cleddau floods the Garden Pit coal-mine at Landshipping, Pembrokeshire.^[24]
• 8 March - John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) embarks on the Blundell for transportation to Norfolk Island, his sentence for shooting at a man during the Rebecca Riots.^[25]
• 13 May - 7 or 8 men are killed in a mining accident at Broadmoor, Loveston, Pembrokeshire.^[26]
• 3 December - 6 men are killed in a mining accident at Fforest Level, Dinas, Rhondda.
• 31 December - David Williams takes out a lease on a mine at Cwmbach, in partnership with Lewis Lewis (of Cefn Coed.^[27]
• date unknown
  • A prospectus is issued to potential investors in a railway to be built through south Wales from a junction with the Great Western Railway at Standish in Gloucestershire.^[28]
  • Owen Owen Roberts is instrumental in setting up the first hospital for Caernarvonshire and Anglesey, at Bangor.^[29]

Arts and literature

New books

• Hugh Derfel Hughes - Blodau'r Gân
• David Owen (Brutus) - Eliasia

Music

• Rowland Prichard - Cyfaill y Cantorion (The Singer's Friend)
• Maria Jane Williams - Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morgannwg

Visual arts

• English watercolour landscape painter David Cox spends his first summer at Betws-y-Coed, which he will continue to do until 1856.

Sport

• Denbigh Cricket Club is founded.^[30]

Births

• 1 January - Robert Clayton, cricketer (died 1901)
• 7 March - Watkin Hezekiah Williams, poet and schoolmaster (died 1905)
• 28 April - Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet (died 1895)
• June - John Roland Phillips, historian (died 1887)
• 28 July - Gerard Manley Hopkins, Welsh-descended poet (died 1889)^[31]
• 3 August - Herbert Armitage James, clergyman and schoolmaster (died 1931)^[32]
• 1 December - Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales 1901-1910 (died 1925)

Deaths

• 18 January - Azariah Shadrach, minister and author, 69^[33][34]
• 7 April - Morgan Lewis, Welsh-descended American politician, 89
• 8 November - Iltid Nicholl, lawyer, 67/68^[35]
• 23 November - Thomas William, hymn-writer, 83

See also

• 1844 in Ireland

References

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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. "Penpont including attached conservatory and rear service ranges". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
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. "Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
9. "not known". Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. 3. "Old Wales" Office: 106. 1907.
10. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
11. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
12. Amy Audrey Locke (1916). The Hanbury Family. Arthur L. Humphreys. p. 147.
13. Evan David Jones (1959). "Herbert family (earls of Powis)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
14. Thorne, R.G. "John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire". History of Parliament. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
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17. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
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.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Carey, William (1769-1846)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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. The Cambrian: A Magazine for the Welsh in America. D.I. Jones. 1893. p. 330.
24. "The Landshipping mining disaster". www.bbc.co.uk. 2 November 2011. Archived from the original on 16 March 2017. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
25. David Williams. "Jones, John (fl. 1811-1858; 'Shoni Sguborfawr'), Rebecca rioter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
26. The Illustrated London News. Leighton. 1844. p. 16.
27. Watkin William Price. "Williams, David (Alaw Goch; 1809-1863), coal-owner and eisteddfodwr". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
28. The Supplement to the Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge: Habenaria- Ginziber. 2. C. Knight. 1846. p. 680.
29. Emyr Hywel Owen. "Roberts, Owen Owen (1793-1866), physician and social reformer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
30. Denbigh Cricket Club website. Accessed 21 March 2013
31. Norman White, "Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844–1889)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press.
32. "Memorial to Dr. H. A. James". The Times. 19 September 1935. p. 15. Retrieved 5 February 2008.
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35. "Iltid Nicholl, Esq.", The Gentleman's Magazine, NS, vol. 23 (January–June 1845), p. 316.