This article is about the particular significance of the year 1851 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby (until 7 March); Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet (from 7 March) Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (from 4 May) Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall
Events May David Davies (Llandinam) marries Margaret Jones of Llanfair Caereinion. 24 September – Vale of Neath Railway opens from Neath to Aberdare. 27 August – William Bulkeley Hughes hosts a banquet at Bangor for Robert Stephenson. Richard Fothergill III is prosecuted for running a "truck shop" at Aberdare.
Arts and literature New books John Blackwell (Alun) – Ceinion Alun (posthumously published) Richard Williams Morgan – A Tragedy of Powys Castle
Music Thomas Jones (Gogrynwr) – Gweddi Habacuc (cantata) John Ambrose Lloyd – Teyrnasoedd y Ddaear (anthem) John Owen (Owain Alaw) Deborah a Barac (anthem) Gweddi Habacuc (cantata)
Births 8 February – Sir Marteine Lloyd, 2nd Baronet (d. 1933) 10 March – William Haggar, pioneer of the film industry (d. 1925) 24 March – Robert Ambrose Jones (Emrys ap Iwan) (d. 1906) 15 June – Ernest Howard Griffiths, physicist (d. 1932) 12 July – Elizabeth Phillips Hughes, promoter of women's education (died 1925) 27 December – Percy Gilchrist, industrialist
Deaths 1 January – George Insole, English-born coal shipper, 60 6 April – William Morgan Kinsey, travel writer, 62? 8 April – John Parry (Bardd Alaw), harpist and composer, 75 30 June Thomas Phillips, founder of Llandovery College, 80 William Saunders, Welsh-language poet, 45 17 July – Aneurin Owen, historian, 58 13 August – Benjamin Gibson, classical scholar, younger brother of John Gibson, 40 22 November – Thomas Morgan, navy chaplain, 81
See also 1851 in Ireland
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