en 1844 in Wales

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

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

Incumbents

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

References

^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
^ ^a ^b ^c J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
^ "Penpont including attached conservatory and rear service ranges". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
^ 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.
^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
^ "Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
^ "not known". Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. 3. "Old Wales" Office: 106. 1907.
^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
^ Amy Audrey Locke (1916). The Hanbury Family. Arthur L. Humphreys. p. 147.
^ Evan David Jones (1959). "Herbert family (earls of Powis)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
^ Thorne, R.G. "John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire". History of Parliament. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
^ Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
^ Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780521563505.
^ Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
^ ^a ^b ^c Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.
^ 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.
^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
^ Old Yorkshire, volume 3. 1882. p. 90.
^ The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
^ The Cambrian: A Magazine for the Welsh in America. D.I. Jones. 1893. p. 330.
^ "The Landshipping mining disaster". www.bbc.co.uk. 2 November 2011. Archived from the original on 16 March 2017. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
^ David Williams. "Jones, John (fl. 1811-1858; 'Shoni Sguborfawr'), Rebecca rioter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
^ The Illustrated London News. Leighton. 1844. p. 16.
^ 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.
^ The Supplement to the Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge: Habenaria- Ginziber. 2. C. Knight. 1846. p. 680.
^ Emyr Hywel Owen. "Roberts, Owen Owen (1793-1866), physician and social reformer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
^ Denbigh Cricket Club website. Accessed 21 March 2013
^ Norman White, "Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844–1889)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press.
^ "Memorial to Dr. H. A. James". The Times. 19 September 1935. p. 15. Retrieved 5 February 2008.
^ Williams, Mari A. "Shadrach, Azariah". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25189. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Shadrach, Azariah (1774–1844), schoolmaster, Independent minister, and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
^ "Iltid Nicholl, Esq.", The Gentleman's Magazine, NS, vol. 23 (January–June 1845), p. 316.

[1] Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.

[Sainty-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.

[15] Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.

[16] Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780521563505.

[Fasti305-17] Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.

[Fasti307-18] 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.

[33] Williams, Mari A. "Shadrach, Azariah". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25189. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[34] "Shadrach, Azariah (1774–1844), schoolmaster, Independent minister, and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 7 April 2017.

[35] "Iltid Nicholl, Esq.", The Gentleman's Magazine, NS, vol. 23 (January–June 1845), p. 316.

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1844 in Wales

Incumbents

Events

Arts and literature

New books

Music

Visual arts

Sport

Births

Deaths

See also

References