1841 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1841 to Wales and its people.

← 1840 1839 1838 1837 1836 1841 in Wales → 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1841 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Albert Edward (from 8 December)
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• 19 February - The Governor Fenner, carrying emigrants to America, sinks off Holyhead after colliding with a steamer, with the loss of 123 lives.[1]
• 9 March - The first known photograph is taken in Wales, of Margam Castle by Calvert Jones.[2]
• 12 April - The Taff Vale Railway is extended to Merthyr Tydfil
• 26 July - The proprietors of The Skerries Lighthouse off Anglesey, the last privately owned light in the British Isles, are awarded £444,984 in compensation for its sale to Trinity House.
• 19 August - In the United Kingdom general election, William Edwards stands as a Chartist candidate in Monmouth Boroughs and becomes the only Parliamentary candidate in Wales, ever, not to win a single vote.
• date unknown
  • Founding of Bala-Bangor Congregational College.[3]
  • Poor Law Amendment Act is passed, largely thanks to the efforts of Sir George Cornewall Lewis.
  • Mordecai Jones opens a brewery at Brecon.
  • The Brymbo ironworks are bought out of Chancery after a long period of litigation and reopened by a limited company.
  • Opening of Swansea Museum by the Royal Institution of South Wales.[4]
  • Land is earmarked by Welsh immigrants in Ohio for the building of Tyn Rhos Chapel.[5]

Arts and literature

New books

• David Owen (Brutus) - Gweithrediadau yr Eglwys Sefydledig[6]
• Welsh Book of Common Prayer (new edition)

Music

Births

• 28 January - Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer (as John Rowlands;[7] died 1904)
• 14 February
  • Sir John Gibson, journalist (died 1915)
  • William Reginald Herbert, horseman (died 1929)
• 5 April - Robert Rees, singer and musician (died 1892)
• 23 April - Henry Hughes, minister and historian (died 1924)
• 29 April - Francis Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell, soldier (died 1925)[8]
• 21 May - Joseph Parry, composer (died 1903)[9]
• 26 June (in London) - James Cholmeley Russell, railway entrepreneur (died 1912)
• 9 November (in London) - Edward Albert, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII (died 1910)

Deaths

• 17 January - David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), poet, 56[10]
• 12 May - Joseph Tudor Hughes, harpist, 13 (drowning)
• 19 May - John Blackwell (Alun), poet, 42[11]
• 1 May - David Jones, missionary, 44[12]
• 24 May - Thomas Roberts, Llwyn'rhudol, co-founder of Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion
• 8 June - John Elias, preacher, 67[13]
• 4 December - David Daniel Davis, physician, 64[14]

References

1. Joseph Haydn; Benjamin Vincent (1860). A Dictionary of Dates Relating to All Ages and Nations: For Universal Reference; Comprehending Remarkable Occurrences, Ancient and Modern ...particularly of the British Empire. E. Moxon. p. 721.
2. National Library of Wales (1987). Annual Report - National Library of Wales.
3. Alan P. F. Sell (24 October 2014). One Ministry, Many Ministers: A Case Study from the Reformed Tradition. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-62564-892-1.
4. Glanmor Williams (1 January 1990). Swansea: An Illustrated History. Christopher Davies. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-7154-0714-1.
5. Anne Kelly Knowles (February 1997). Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier. University of Chicago Press. pp. 145. ISBN 978-0-226-44853-4.
6. Catalogue of Welsh Books, Books on Wales, and Books by Welshmen, A.D. 1800-1862, at Glan Aber, Chester. 1870. p. 37.
7. William G. Stairs; Roy D. MacLaren (18 March 1998). African Exploits: The Diaries of William Stairs, 1887-1892. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-7735-1640-3.
8. "Francis Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
9. Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. A&C Black. p. 258. ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2.
10. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Owen, David (1784-1841)" . Dictionary of National Biography. 42. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
11. Cooper, Thompson (1886). "Blackwell, John" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 5. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 146–147.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
12. Evan Lewis Evans. "Jones, David (1797-1841), missionary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
13. Edward Morgan (1973). John Elias - life, letters and essays. Banner of Truth Trust, Edinburgh. ISBN 0-85151-174-0.
14. The London and Edinburgh Monthly Journal of Medical Science. 1842. p. 82.