# 1867 in Wales

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

## Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
* Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover (until 27 April); Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (from 21 May)
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite
* Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell
* Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant
* Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short
* Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall

## Events

* 3 June – The opening of the Anglesey Central Railway to passenger traffic links Amlwch to the rail network for the first time.
* 19 August – The Victoria pier at Rhyl, built at a cost of £23,000, opens to the public.
* 2 September – The Carnarvonshire Railway opens throughout, connecting Carnarvon and Portmadoc.
* 30 September – Mawddwy Railway opens.
* 10 October – Barmouth Bridge across the Mawddach estuary opens to rail traffic, linking Barmouth to the rail network for the first time.
* 26–27 October – Barque Earl of Chester is wrecked off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, with the loss of at least 17 lives.
* 8 November – 178 miners are killed in an accident at Ferndale Colliery, Rhondda.
* date unknown
** Celtic Congress held at Saint-Brieuc in Brittany.
** The Bronze Age cairns at Llanmadoc Hill are excavated and finds recorded.

## 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
* 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, 1st baronet, philanthropist, one of the Thomas baronets of Yapton (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)
* 13 May – Frank Brangwyn, artist (d. 1956)
* 15 May – Sir Henry Stuart Jones, academic (d. 1939)
* 21 May – John Thomas Job, poet (d. 1938)
* 26 May – Mary of Teck, member of the British royal family, 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)
* 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
* 18 February – Edward Roberts (Iorwerth Glan Aled), poet, 48
* 27 April – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist, 64
* 26 May – Thomas Phillips, politician and businessman, 65/66
* 4 August – William Crawshay II, industrialist, 79
* 9 September – John Propert, physician, 74
* 12 September – Robert Fulke Greville, landowner and politician, 67
* 16 November – Thomas Aubrey, Methodist minister, 59
* 1 December – William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines in Australia, 74