1867 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1867 to Wales and its people.

← 1866 1865 1864 1863 1862 1867 in Wales → 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1867 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• 3 June – The opening of the Anglesey Central Railway to passenger traffic links Amlwch to the rail network for the first time.[1]
• 19 August – The Victoria pier at Rhyl, built at a cost of £23,000, opens to the public.[2]
• 2 September – The Carnarvonshire Railway opens throughout, connecting Carnarvon and Portmadoc.[1]
• 10 October – Barmouth Bridge across the Mawddach estuary opens to rail traffic, linking Barmouth to the rail network for the first time.[3]
• 27 October – A sailing ship, the Earl of Chester, is wrecked off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, with the loss of 14 lives.
• 8 November – 178 miners are killed in an accident at Ferndale Colliery, Rhondda.
• date unknown
  • John Graham Chambers revises the Marquess of Queensberry rules for boxing.
  • Celtic Congress held at Saint-Brieuc in Brittany.
  • The Bronze Age cairns at Llanmadoc Hill are excavated and finds recorded.[4]

Arts and literature

Awards

• At the National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Carmarthen, a crown is presented for the first time.

New books

• Rhoda Broughton – Cometh Up as a Flower[5]
• Edward Hamer – The Chartist Outbreak at Llanidloes
• Jabez Edmund Jenkins – Egin Awen, yn cynnwys awdlau, cywyddau
• Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan - Penhow Castle
• William Thomas (Islwyn) – Caniadau
• Alfred Russel Wallace – The Malay Archipelago
• Charles Wilkins – The History of Merthyr Tydfil

Music

• David Roberts (Alawydd) – Llyfr y Psalmau

Sport

• Boxing – The "Marquess of Queensberry rules", formulated by John Graham Chambers, are published.

Births

• 10 March
  • Sir William James Thomas, Baronet, philanthropist (d. 1945)
  • William Llewelyn Williams, politician (d. 1922)
  • 10 April – Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, peer (d. 1934)
• 2 May – Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn), poet (d. 1926)[6]
• 13 May – Frank Brangwyn, artist (d. 1956)[7]
• 15 May – Sir Henry Stuart Jones, academic (d. 1939)
• 21 May – John Thomas Job, poet (d. 1938)[8]
• 26 May – Mary of Teck, later Princess of Wales 1901–1910 (d. 1953)
• 29 September – John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy), poet (d. 1924)
• 6 October – Rosser Evans, Wales international rugby player
• 12 October – Lyn Harding, actor (d. 1952)
• 2 November – Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer (d. 1899)
• 28 November – James Richard Atkin, judge (born in Australia) (d. 1944)
• 18 December – David Watts Morgan, Member of Parliament for Rhondda East (d. 1933)[9]
• date unknown
  • Mia Arnesby Brown, born Mia Sarah H. Edwards, painter of children's portraits (d. 1931)
  • Fred Hutchinson, rugby player (d. 1941)

Deaths

• 15 February – Walter Coffin, industrialist, 82[10]
• 18 February – Edward Roberts (Iorwerth Glan Aled), poet, 48
• 27 April – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist, 64[11]
• 4 August – William Crawshay II, industrialist, 79[12]
• 12 September – Robert Fulke Greville, landowner and politician, 67[13]
• 16 November – Thomas Aubrey, Methodist minister, 59[14]
• 1 December – William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines in Australia, 74

References

1. Quick, Michael (2009). Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: a Chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5.
2. Marjorie Howe (2000). Old Rhyl: From 1850s - 1910. Gwasg Helygain Ltd. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-9522755-4-1.
3. Eryl Crump (7 October 2017). "Celebrations to mark 150th anniversary of Barmouth Bridge that is 'outstanding example of 19th Century engineering'". North Wales Live. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
4. Glanmor Williams (1984). Early Glamorgan: pre-history and early history. Printed and published for the Committee by W. Lewis (printers) limited. p. 428. ISBN 978-0-904730-04-3.
5. Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
6. Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams. "Williams, Eliseus (1867-1926), poet". Retrieved 30 December 2019.
7. Evan David Jones. "Brangwyn, Sir Frank Francois Guillaume (1867-1956), painter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
8. Enaf Morrice Job. "Job, John Thomas (1867-1938), Calvinistic Methodist minister, hymn writer, and poet". Retrieved 30 December 2019.
9. Chris Williams. "Morgan, David Watts (1867–1933), miners' leader and politician". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
10. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Coffin, Walter (1784-1867), colliery pioneer". Retrieved 30 December 2019.
11. Marion Löffler. "Hall, Benjamin, Lord Llanover (1802-1867), politician and reformer". Retrieved 30 December 2019.
12. Watkin William Price. "Crawshay family". Retrieved 30 December 2019.
13. James Frederick Rees. "Greville, Charles". Retrieved 30 December 2019.
14. Albert Hughes Williams (1959). "Thomas Aubrey". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 December 2019.