# 1847 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1847 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williams (until 16 January); John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins (from 17 February)
* 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 – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
* Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
* 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 – Edward Copleston
* Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short
* Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall

## Events

* 14 January - All thirteen members of the Point of Ayr lifeboat crew are drowned when it capsizes off Rhyl.
* 8 April - John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) is transferred from Norfolk Island to Tasmania.
* In the UK general election:
** Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis becomes MP for Radnor Boroughs.
** Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet, loses his Flintshire seat to Edward Lloyd-Mostyn for the second time.
* 24 May - Five people are killed in the Dee bridge disaster, when Robert Stephenson's railway bridge on the Chester and Holyhead Railway at Chester collapses.
* 1 July - "Treachery of the Blue Books": Publication of a government report ("blue book") on education in Wales containing opinions hostile to Welsh culture.
* Prince Albert is unsuccessfully challenged for the chancellorship of the University of Cambridge by The Earl of Powis. The winning margin is less than 120 votes.
* Sir William Robert Grove is awarded the medal of the Royal Society.

## Arts and literature
### New books

* Reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the state of education in Wales
* John Lloyd - Poems
* Morris Williams (Nicander) - Llyfr yr Homiliau

### Music

* John Mills (Ieuan Glan Alarch) - Y Salmydd Eglwysig

## Births

* 27 January - Owen Owens Roberts, choirmaster and conductor (died 1926)
* 9 February - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist social reformer (died 1902)
* 22 April - Charles Henry Wynn, landowner (died 1911)
* 20 June - Evan Thomas Davies (Dyfrig), clergyman and author (died 1927)
* 10 July - Alfred Neobard Palmer, historian and ancient monuments inspector (died 1915)
* 12 September - John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, Cardiff landowner (died 1900)
* 13 October - Owen Owen, draper (died 1910)
* 14 November - Roland Rogers, musician (died 1927)
* date unknown - Llewelyn Kenrick, footballer (died 1933)

## Deaths

* 13 February - Sharon Turner, historian, 78
* 16 February - Taliesin Williams, poet and author, son of Iolo Morganwg, 59
* 17 March - Sir Harford Jones Brydges, diplomat and author, 83
* 29 March - Humphrey Gwalchmai, Calvinistic Methodist leader, 59
* 7 June - David Mushet, Scottish metallurgist (in Monmouth), 74
* 27 September - Lucy Thomas, colliery owner ('The Mother of the Welsh Steam Coal Trade')
* 6 October - John Evans (Methodist), 68