This article is about the particular significance of the year 1850 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 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 18 March – Opening of the Britannia Bridge. 3 April – G. T. Clark marries Ann Price Lewis, a descendant of one of the original partners in the Dowlais Ironworks. 18 June – Opening of the South Wales Railway between Chepstow and Swansea. October – The Merthyr Board of Health is founded, with John Josiah Guest as its first chairman. November – The first issue of the periodical Y Drych is printed, though not in circulation for another two months 14 December – 13 men are killed in a mining accident at New Duffryn Colliery, Mountain Ash. unknown dates The Llanelli Board of Health is founded, with William Chambers as its first chairman. Vaendre Hall in the village of St Mellons is completed, the home of the industrialist John Cory.
Arts and literature New books Thomas Edwards (Caerfallwch) – Geirlyfr Saesoneg a Chymraeg, An English and Welsh Dictionary 'Elen Egryn' (Elin Evans) – Telyn Egryn (poems) Elijah Waring – Recollections and Anecdotes of Edward Williams Morris Williams (Nicander) – Y Psalmwyr
Music September – North Wales Musical Festival is held at Rhuddlan Castle.
Births 1 January – Evan Rees (Dyfed), minister, poet and archdruid (died 1923) 4 January – Griffith J. Griffith, industrialist (died 1919) 16 April – Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, inventor (died 1885) 24 November – John Aeron Thomas, politician (died 1935) date unknown Alfred Davies, footballer (died 1891) John Evan Davies, minister and author (died 1929) Owen Owen, teacher and schools inspector (died 1920)
Deaths 11 April David Hughes, clergyman and writer, 64? Edward Hughes (Y Dryw), poet, 77 18 April – John Richards, Welsh-born US politician, 85 19 April – Sir John Edwards of Garth, politician, 80 11 July – Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), poet and hymn-writer, 83 28 July – David Lewis, Carmarthenshire priest and writer, 90? 2 September – Charles Williams-Wynn, politician, 74 19 December – George Williams, politician, 85
See also 1850 in Ireland
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