1840s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1840 - 1849 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - Edward Albert, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (from 1841)
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"

Events

*1840
*1841
*1842
*1843
*1844
*1845
*1846
*1847
*1848
*1849

Arts and literature

New books

*Anne Beale - "Traits and Stories of the Welsh Peasantry" (1849)
*Robert Elis (Cynddelw) - "Yr Adgyfodiad" (1849)
*John Hughes - "The Self-Searcher" (1848)
*John Jenkins - "National Education" (1848)
*Samuel Lewis - "Topographical Dictionary of Wales" (1849)
*John Lloyd
**"Poems" (1847)
**"The English Country Gentleman" (1849)
*Richard Williams Morgan - "Maynooth and St. Asaph" (1848)
*Edward Parry - "Railway Companion from Chester to Holyhead" (1848)
*Thomas Stephens - "The Literature of the Kymry" (1849)
*Morris Williams (Nicander)
**"Y Flwyddyn Eglwysig" (1843)
**"Llyfr yr Homiliau" (1847)

Music

*Rosser Beynon - "Telyn Seion" (1845)
*John Ambrose Lloyd - "Y Ganaan Glyd" (1845)
*Rowland Prichard - "Cyfaill y Can­to­ri­on (The Singer's Friend)" (1844)
*Robert Herbert Williams - "Alawydd Trefriw" (1848)

Births

*1840
**September 16 - Alfred Thomas, 1st Baron Pontypridd (died 1927)
**November 29 - Rhoda Broughton, novelist (died 1920)
**December 3 - Francis Kilvert, diarist (died 1879)
**December 5 - John E. Jones, governor of Nevada (died 1896)
**December 17 - Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, politician (died 1935)
**"date unknown" - John Rhŷs, educationist (died 1915)
*1841
**January 28 - Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer (died 1904)
**May 21 - Joseph Parry, composer (died 1903)
**November 9 - Edward Albert, Prince of Wales (died 1910)
*1842
**June 14 - William Abraham (Mabon), politician (died 1922)
**September 28 - William John Parry, quarrymen's leader (died 1927)
*1843
**May 12 - Thomas William Rhys Davids, founder of the Pali Text Society (died 1922)
**December 20 - Frances Hoggan, first British woman to qualify as a doctor (died 1927)
*1844
**April 28 - Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet (died 1895)
**July 28 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, Welsh-descended poet (died 1889)
**December 1 - Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales 1901-1910
*1845
**June 21 - Samuel Griffith, Premier of Queensland (died 1920)
**October 10 - Timothy Richard, missionary
**"date unknown" - Alfred Lewis Jones, shipping magnate (died 1909)
*1847
**"date unknown"
**Daniel James, hymn-writer (died 1920)
**Llewelyn Kenrick, footballer (died 1933)
*1848
**September 18 - Robert Harris, painter (died 1919)
**December 30 - David Jenkins, composer (died 1915)
*1849

Deaths

*1841
**June 8 - John Elias, preacher (born 1774)
**"date unknown" - John Blackwell (Alun), poet (born 1797)
*1842
**August 20 - Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian, relation of the Vivian family of Swansea (born 1775)
*1843
**March 26 - Robert Richford Roberts, Welsh-descended Methodist leader in the USA
**March 27 - Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny (born 1755)
*1845
**January 1 - Sir William Nott, military leader (born 1782)
*1848
**March 18 - John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, creator of modern Cardiff (born 1793)
**"date unknown" - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), poet and historian (born 1787)
*1849
**March 21 - William Sherley Williams, Welsh-descended pioneer
**September 16 - Thomas Jones, missionary