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

Incumbents

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  • Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=24}}{{cite book | author=J.C. Sainty | author-link=John Sainty (civil servant) | title=List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 | publisher=Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd | location=London | year=1979}}{{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=695}}{{cite book|title=Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru|publisher=University of Wales Press|year=1992|page=169}}
  • Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar{{cite web| url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/morgan-charles-1792-1875| title=Morgan, Charles Morgan Robinson (1792–1875), of Ruperra, Glam. and Tredegar, Mon.|publisher= History of Parliament Online|accessdate = 3 July 2013}}{{cite book| author=Edwin Poole|title=The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions|publisher=Edwin Poole|year=1886|page=378}}
  • Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=26}}
  • Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse{{cite news|title=Death of Colonel Pryse|url=http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3344911/3344915/21|access-date=27 February 2018|agency=Cambrian News|date=1 June 1888|page=4}}
  • Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
  • Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/myddelton-biddulph-robert-1805-1872|title=Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx.|website=History of Parliament Online|access-date=3 December 2021}}
  • Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/glynne-sir-stephen-1807-1874|title=Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint.|access-date=3 December 2021}}
  • Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot{{cite journal|last=Campbell|first=Thomas Methuen|title=C.R.M. Talbot 1803–1890|journal=Morgannwg|date=2000|volume=44|pages=66–104|url=http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewobject/llgc-id:1174908/article/000041850|access-date=17 May 2014}}
  • Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=29}}
  • Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover (until 27 April);{{cite book|author=James Henry Clark|title=History of Monmouthshire|publisher=County Observer|year=1869|page=375}} Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (from 21 May){{cite book |last= Doyle | first=James E. |title=The Official Baronage of England | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CFpmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA139 | volume= I | year=1886 | publisher=Longmans, Green and Co. | page=139 | access-date=7 March 2009}}
  • Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley{{cite book|author=Amy Audrey Locke|title=The Hanbury Family|publisher=Arthur L. Humphreys|year=1916|page=170}}
  • Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington{{cite book | last = Smith | first = Jenny | title = Portraits for a King : the British military paintings of A-J Dubois Drahonet (1791-1834 | publisher = National Army Museum | location = London | year = 1990 | isbn = 9780901721211 | page=15}}
  • Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite{{cite DNB|wstitle=Walsh, John Benn|volume=59}}
  • Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell{{cite book | last = Fryde | first = E. B. | title = Handbook of British chronology | publisher = New York Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge England | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780521563505 | page=292}}{{cite book|author= Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=266}}
  • Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant
  • Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short{{cite DWB|id=s-SHOR-VOW-1790|title=Short, Thomas Vowler (1790-1872), bishop of St Asaph|author=William Thomas Havard|year=1959|access-date=3 December 2021}}{{cite book|title=The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England|publisher=James Parkes and Company|year=1866|page=15}}
  • Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall{{cite book|author= Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=307}}{{cite book|title=Annual Report Presented by the Council to the Court of Governors|publisher=National Library of Wales|year=1962|page=59}}

Events

  • 3 June – The opening of the Anglesey Central Railway to passenger traffic links Amlwch to the rail network for the first time.{{cite book|first=Michael|last=Quick|title=Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: a Chronology|location=Oxford|edition=4th|publisher=Railway and Canal Historical Society|year=2009|isbn=978-0-901461-57-5}}
  • 19 August – The Victoria pier at Rhyl, built at a cost of £23,000, opens to the public.{{cite book|author=Marjorie Howe|title=Old Rhyl: From 1850s - 1910|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lxvp6HyZuhMC&pg=PA29|year=2000|publisher=Gwasg Helygain Ltd|isbn=978-0-9522755-4-1|pages=29}}
  • 2 September – The Carnarvonshire Railway opens throughout, connecting Carnarvon and Portmadoc.
  • 30 September – Mawddwy Railway opens.{{cite news|work=Wrexham Advertiser|date=12 October 1867|title=Mawddwy Railway|page=4|url=http://newspapers.library.wales/view/4582790/4582794/4/|accessdate=2022-12-27}}
  • 10 October – Barmouth Bridge across the Mawddach estuary opens to rail traffic, linking Barmouth to the rail network for the first time.{{cite web|url=https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/celebrations-mark-150th-anniversary-barmouth-13726951|title=Celebrations to mark 150th anniversary of Barmouth Bridge that is 'outstanding example of 19th Century engineering'|date=7 October 2017|author=Eryl Crump|website=North Wales Live|access-date=30 December 2019}}
  • 26–27 October – Barque Earl of Chester is wrecked off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, with the loss of at least 17 lives.{{Cite news|newspaper=The Times|location=London|title=The Gale|date=30 October 1867|page=9|issue=25955}}
  • 8 November – 178 miners are killed in an accident at Ferndale Colliery, Rhondda.
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  • Celtic Congress held at Saint-Brieuc in Brittany.
  • The Bronze Age cairns at Llanmadoc Hill are excavated and finds recorded.{{cite book|author=Glanmor Williams|title=Early Glamorgan: pre-history and early history|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WjFWAAAAYAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Printed and published for the Committee by W. Lewis (printers) limited|isbn=978-0-904730-04-3|page=428}}

Arts and literature

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Sport

Births

Deaths

  • 15 February – Walter Coffin, industrialist, 82{{cite DWB|id=s-COFF-WAL-1784|title=Coffin, Walter (1784-1867), colliery pioneer|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|fewer-links=yes|access-date=30 December 2019}}
  • 18 February – Edward Roberts (Iorwerth Glan Aled), poet, 48
  • 27 April – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist, 64{{cite DWB|id=s11-HALL-BEN-1802|title=Hall, Benjamin, Lord Llanover (1802-1867), politician and reformer|author=Marion Löffler|fewer-links=yes|access-date=30 December 2019}}
  • 26 May – Thomas Phillips, politician and businessman, 65/66{{cite DNB|wstitle=Phillips, Thomas (1801-1867)}}
  • 4 August – William Crawshay II, industrialist, 79{{cite DWB|id=s-CRAW-CYF-1739|title=Crawshay family|author=Watkin William Price|fewer-links=yes|access-date=30 December 2019}}
  • 9 September – John Propert, physician, 74{{cite DWB|id=s-PROP-JOH-1793|title=Propert, John (1793-1867), physician, founder of the Medical Benevolent College, Epsom|author=Moelwyn Idwal Williams|year=1959|access-date=16 February 2022}}
  • 12 September – Robert Fulke Greville, landowner and politician, 67{{cite DWB|id=s-GREV-FRA-1749|title=Greville, Charles|author=James Frederick Rees|fewer-links=yes|access-date=30 December 2019}}
  • 16 November – Thomas Aubrey, Methodist minister, 59{{cite DWB|title=Thomas Aubrey|id=s-AUBR-THO-1808|author=Albert Hughes Williams|year=1959|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=30 December 2019}}
  • 1 December – William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines in Australia, 74

See also

References

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Category:Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom

Category:1867 in Europe

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