1862 in Wales

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

← 1861 1860 1859 1858 1857 1862 in Wales → 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1862 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

Plaque at Llandudno Lighthouse, erected 1862

• 1 January – South Wales Railway leased to Great Western Railway prior to merger.
• 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.[1]
• 7 August – Ferry from Porthmadog to Talsarnau sinks with the loss of 8 lives.[2]
• 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.[3]
• 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

• George Borrow – Wild Wales
• Rees Howell Gronow – Reminiscences of Captain Gronow[4]
• John Ceiriog Hughes – Oriau'r Bore
• Jane Williams (Ysgafell) – Celtic Fables, Fairy Tales and Legends versified

Music

• Henry Brinley Richards – "God Bless the Prince of Wales"
• 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)[5]
• 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)[6]
  • Philip Tanner, folk singer (d. 1950)[7]
• 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)
• 28 April – William Norton, Wales international rugby player (d. 1898)
• 17 May – Sir William Rice Edwards, surgeon (d. 1923)
• 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)
• 16 November – Sir David Rocyn-Jones, medical practitioner and President of the WRU (d. 1953)
• 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[8]
• 25 March – Timothy Davies, clergyman[9]
• 1 May – Frederick Richard West, politician, 62/63[10]
• 28 May – James Henry Cotton, Dean of Bangor, 82[11]
• 2 August – Anthony Hill, industrialist, 78[12]
• 27 August – John Williams (Ab Ithel), antiquary, 51
• 9 December – Edward Hughes (Eos Maldwyn), harpist, age unknown (tuberculosis)[13]
• 31 December – Daniel Jones, Baptist minister, 74[14]
• date unknown – Robert Edwards, hymn writer, 66?

References

1. "Brecon & Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway". Welsh Railways Research Circle. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
2. "Sinking of the Ferry". gwefan gymundedol Talsarnau. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
3. "Great Orme's Head Lighthouse". Coflein. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. December 2008. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
4. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Gronow, Rees Howell (1794-1865), writer of memoirs". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
5. 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.
6. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "Bebb, Llewellyn John Montfort (1862-1915), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
7. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Tanner, Philip (1862-1950), folk singer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
8. Sir Alfred Edward Pease (1923). Edmund Loder, Naturalist, Horticulturist, Traveller and Sportsman. J. Murray. p. 37.
9. John Williams James. "Davies, Timothy (1802-1862), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. Watkin William Price. "HILL family, of the Plymouth iron-works, Merthyr Tydfil". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
13. "Hughes, Edward ('Eos Maldwyn'; died 1862), harpist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
14. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones, Daniel (1788-1862), Baptist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.