1847 in Wales

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• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st 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 – Penry Williams (until 16 January);{{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}} John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins (from 17 February){{cite news|title=Editorial|url=http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/4353246/ART15|access-date=17 January 2022|newspaper=Welshman|date=6 October 1865}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby{{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 – William Edward Powell
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph{{cite web|url=https://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=5 December 2021}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet{{cite web|url=https://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|website=History of Parliament Online|access-date=16 January 2022}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute{{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=612}}
• 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 – Capel Hanbury Leigh{{cite book|author=Amy Audrey Locke|title=The Hanbury Family|publisher=Arthur L. Humphreys|year=1916|page=147}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis{{cite DWB|id=s-POWY-HER-1674|title=Herbert family (earls of Powis)|author=Evan David Jones|year=1959|access-date=30 November 2021}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet{{cite web |last1=Thorne |first1=R.G. |title=John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/owen-john-1776-861 |website=History of Parliament |access-date=27 March 2020}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite{{cite book|author=Jonathan Williams|title=The History of Radnorshire|publisher=R. Mason|year=1859|page=115}}

• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell{{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=305}}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston
• Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short{{cite book|author=Nicholas Harris Nicolas|title=The historic peerage of England: Revised, corrected, and continued ... by William Courthope|publisher=John Murray|year=1857|page=533}}{{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|title=Old Yorkshire, volume 3|year=1882|page=90}}{{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=The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged|publisher=Porter|year=1780|page=95}}

• 14 January - All thirteen members of the Point of Ayr lifeboat crew are drowned when it capsizes off Rhyl.{{cite book|title=Reference Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-j0ro22GZU8C|year=1994|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-1234-6|page=245}}
• 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.{{cite book|author=Michael R. Bailey|title=Robert Stephenson – The Eminent Engineer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BzErDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA311|date=5 July 2017|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-351-90272-4|pages=311}}
• 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.

• Reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the state of education in Wales
• John Lloyd - Poems
• Morris Williams (Nicander) - Llyfr yr Homiliau{{Cite DWB |id=s-WILL-MOR-1809 |title=Williams, Morris (Nicander; 1809-1874), cleric and man of letters |author=Thomas Iorwerth Ellis |year=1959 |access-date=17 January 2022}}

• John Mills (Ieuan Glan Alarch) - Y Salmydd Eglwysig{{cite DWB|id=s-MILL-JOH-1812|title=Mills, John (Ieuan Glan Alarch; 1812-1873), Calvinistic Methodist minister, writer and musician|author=Gwilym Prichard Ambrose|date=1959|access-date=17 January 2022}}

• 27 January - Owen Owens Roberts, choirmaster and conductor (died 1926){{cite DWB|id=s-ROBE-OWE-1847|title=Roberts, Owen Owens (1847-1926), schoolmaster and choral conductor|author=John Hughes|year=1959|access-date=18 January 2022}}
• 9 February - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist social reformer (died 1902){{cite DWB|id=s-HUGH-PRI-1847|title=Hughes, Hugh Price (1847-1902), Wesleyan Methodist minister|author=Thomas Iorwerth Ellis|year=1959|access-date=18 January 2022}}
• 22 April - Charles Henry Wynn, landowner (died 1911){{cite DWB|id=s-WYNN-RUG-1775|title=Wynn family, of Rûg, Meironnydd, and Boduan (or Bodfean), Caernarvonshire|author=William Llewelyn Davies|year=1959|access-date=18 January 2022}}
• 20 June - Evan Thomas Davies (Dyfrig), clergyman and author (died 1927){{cite DWB|id=s-DAVI-THO-1847|title=Davies, Evan Thomas (Dyfrig; 1847-1927), cleric|author=Thomas Iorwerth Ellis|year=1959|access-date=18 January 2022}}
• 10 July - Alfred Neobard Palmer, historian and ancient monuments inspector (died 1915){{cite DWB|id=s-PALM-NEO-1847|title=Palmer, Alfred Neobard (1847-1915), historian|author=Arthur Herbert Dodd|year=1959|access-date=18 January 2022}}
• 12 September - John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, Cardiff landowner (died 1900){{cite book | last = Hannah | first = Rosemary | title = The Grand Designer : Third Marquess of Bute | publisher = Birlinn | location = Edinburgh | year = 2012 | isbn = 9780857902276 |page=1506}}
• 13 October - Owen Owen, draper (died 1910){{cite web|url=https://owenowentrust.org.uk/history/|title=Owen Owen Victorian Draper |website=Owen Owen Trust|access-date=18 January 2022}}
• 14 November - Roland Rogers, musician (died 1927){{cite DWB|id=s-ROGE-ROL-1847|title=Rogers, Roland (1847-1927), musician|author=Robert David Griffith|year=1959|access-date=18 January 2022}}
• date unknown - Llewelyn Kenrick, footballer (died 1933){{cite DWB|id=s-KENR-ICK-1741|title=Kenrick family of Wynn Hall, Denbighshire, and Bron Clydwr, Merionethshire|year=1959|access-date=18 January 2022}}

• 13 February - Sharon Turner, historian, 78
• 16 February - Taliesin Williams, poet and author, son of Iolo Morganwg, 59{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-WILL-TAL-1787|title=Williams, Taliesin (Taliesin ab Iolo; 1787-1847), poet and author|author=Griffith John Williams|website=Welsh Biography Online|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=18 September 2019}}
• 17 March - Sir Harford Jones Brydges, diplomat and author, 83{{cite book|author1=George Fisher Russell Barker|author2=Milverton Godfrey Dauglish|title=Historical and Political Handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fw0QAAAAYAAJ|year=1886|publisher=Chapman|page=339}}
• 29 March - Humphrey Gwalchmai, Calvinistic Methodist leader, 59
• 7 June - David Mushet, Scottish metallurgist (in Monmouth), 74{{cite book|author=Fred Marmaduke Osborn|title=The story of the Mushets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9o5IAAAAMAAJ|year=1952|publisher=T. Nelson|page=27}}
• 27 September - Lucy Thomas, colliery owner ('The Mother of the Welsh Steam Coal Trade'){{cite book|title=Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru: The National Library of Wales Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LWcaAAAAMAAJ|year=1958|publisher=Council of the National Library of Wales|page=416}}
• 6 October - John Evans (Methodist), 68{{DNB|wstitle=Evans, John (1779-1847)}}

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