1836 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1836 to Wales and its people.

← 1835 1834 1833 1832 1831 1836 in Wales → 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1836 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - vacant
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• 20 April – Opening of the Ffestiniog Railway, the first narrow-gauge railway in the world.[1]
• 21 June – An Act of Parliament is passed, allowing the construction of the Taff Vale Railway.[2]
• June – Crawshay Bailey buys the Aberaman estate from the family of Anthony Bacon at auction.[3]
• date unknown
  • The final known duel in Wales takes place, fought with pistols at Gumfreston Hall in Pembrokeshire, between MP Sir John Owen and former Tenby mayor William Richards. Richards is badly wounded.[4]
  • Humphrey Gwalchmai launches the periodical Yr Athraw.[5]
  • The Philanthropic Order of True Ivorites is established in Wrexham by Thomas Robert Jones, it is Wales' first friendly society.[6]

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) - Hanes Cymru a Chenedl y Cymry o'r Cynoesoedd hyd at Farwolaeth Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, vol. 1[7]
• Rice Rees - An Essay on the Welsh Saints
• Thomas Roscoe - Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales
• Samuel Prideaux Tregelles - Passages in the Old Testament connected with the Revelation
• John Williams (Ab Ithel) - Eglwys Loegr yn Anymddibynol ar Eglwys Rhufain

Music

• John David Edwards - Original Sacred Music

Births

• 30 January – Lewis Jones, one of the founders of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia (d. 1904)
• 15 March - Griffith Jones (Glan Menai), teacher and author (d. 1906)
• 1 April - John Owen, balladeer (d. 1915)
• 26 May - Sir John Dillwyn-Llewellyn, 1st Baronet, politician (d. 1927)
• 5 July - Evan Herber Evans, Nonconformist leader (d. 1896)
• 6 October - Allen Raine, novelist (d. 1908)[8]
• 20 October - Daniel Owen, novelist (d. 1895)
• 9 November – Isaac Foulkes, newspaper proprietor (d. 1904)
• 9 November – Arthur Charles Humphreys-Owen, politician (d. 1905)

Deaths

• 11 August - William Williams (Gwilym Twrog), poet, 67[9]
• 24 August Sir Christopher Cole, Royal Navy officer and politician, 66[10]
• 22 November - Peter Bailey Williams, clergyman and writer, 73
• 27 December - Edward Jones, Maes y Plwm, hymn-writer, 75[11]

References

1. Donald J. Grant (31 October 2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain. Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 201. ISBN 978-1-78803-768-6.
2. Donald J. Grant (31 October 2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain. Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 553. ISBN 978-1-78803-768-6.
3. Morgannwg. Glamorgan History Society. 1976. p. 30.
4. May, John (1994). A Chronicle of Welsh Events. Swansea: Christopher Davies Ltd. p. 67. ISBN 0-7154-0723-6.
5. Bye-gones, Relating to Wales and the Border Counties. 1909. p. 57.
6. Meic Stephens (23 September 1998). The new companion to the literature of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-7083-1383-1.
7. George Long (1843). The penny cyclopædia [ed. by G. Long]. p. 222.
8. David Jenkins. "Puddicombe, Anne Adalisa ('Allen Raine'; 1836-1908), novelist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
9. Bob Owen. "Williams, William (Gwilym Twrog; 1768-1836), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
10. "COLE, Sir Christopher (1770-1836), of Penrice Castle, Glam". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
11. Evan David Jones. "Jones, Edward (1761-1836), poet, farmer, and schoolmaster". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 January 2020.