1869 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1869 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
[edit]- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey (until 7 February); William Owen Stanley (from 2 March)[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar[5][6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse[8][2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort[13]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley[14]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington[15]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite[16][2]
- Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell[17][18]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant[19]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short[20][21][19]
- Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall[19][22]
Events
[edit]- January
- Henry Austin Bruce becomes MP for Renfrewshire.
- Timothy Richards Lewis goes to India to study cholera.
- 1 May – The Western Mail is published for the first time.[23]
- 19 May – Two days after John Young, the English manager of the Leeswood Green colliery, announces a pay cut, he is attacked by some of his workers.[24]
- 2 June – Seven men are tried at Mold for attacking John Young. A riot breaks out as those convicted are being transported to the railway station; soldiers fire on the crowd, killing four people.[25]
- 10 June
- 53 men and boys are killed in the second underground explosion within two years at Ferndale Colliery in the Rhondda.
- Three people are killed in a train derailment at Maesycwmmer in Glamorgan.
- August – Anti-Irish riots at Pontlottyn in the Rhymney Valley result in one death.[26]
- 1 September – The Dyserth branch line is opened for goods traffic.
- 30 October – The first edition of the Welsh-language periodical Y Goleuad is published.[27]
- unknown date
- Landore steelworks at Swansea established by Carl Wilhelm Siemens.[28]
- John Hughes of Merthyr Tydfil buys land near the Sea of Azov, where he develops an ironworks and founds the city of Yuzovka (later Donetsk).
- Joseph Leycester Lyne (Father Ignatius of Jesus) acquires land at Capel-y-ffin and begins construction of an Anglican Benedictine community, Llanthony Abbey.[29]
- Construction of the fort at St Catherine's Island, off Tenby.
- Prehistoric burial remains are discovered at Parc le Breos on the Gower Peninsula.
- John Owen of Tyn-llwyn is evicted from his farm for voting Tory.[citation needed]
Arts and literature
[edit]Awards
[edit]- The first official National Eisteddfod of Wales takes place at Holywell.
New books
[edit]- J. H. Clark – History of Monmouthshire
- John Hugh Evans – Pryddest Goffa i Thomas Aubrey
- Jane Hughes – Galargan am y diweddar Barch. Henry Rees, Liverpool
- David Watkin Jones (Dafydd Morgannwg) – Yr Ysgol Farddol
- Nathaniel Jones (Cynhafal) – Elias y Thesbiad
- John Petherick – Travels in Central Africa and Explorations of the Western Nile Tributaries
- William Rowlands – Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry (Bibliography of the Welsh) (posthumous; ed. Daniel Silvan Evans)
- Jane Williams (Ysgafell) – A History of Wales derived from Authentic Sources[30]
- Robert Williams (Trebor Mai) – Y Geninen
Music
[edit]- Owen Jones – Hymnau Hen a Diweddar (collection of hymns)
Sport
[edit]- Football – Ruabon footballers set up a club at Plas Madoc.
- Mountaineering – Emmeline Lewis Lloyd attempts an ascent of the Matterhorn.
Births
[edit]- 11 January – Ralph Sweet-Escott, English born, Wales rugby international (died 1907)
- 9 April – John Hugh Edwards, politician (died 1945)[31]
- 19 May – John Henry Williams, Welsh politician (died 1936)
- 20 May – Robert Griffith Berry, minister and writer (died 1945)
- 12 August – Fred Parfitt, Wales international rugby player (died 1953)
- 6 September – Walford Davies, composer (died 1944)[32]
- 24 September – Maud Cunnington, archaeologist (died 1951)
- 29 October – Bill Morris, Wales international rugby player (died 1946)
- 15 November – Percy Bennett, Wales international rugby player (died 1936)
- 20 November – Herbert Tudor Buckland, architect working in Birmingham (died 1951)
Deaths
[edit]- 23 March – William Williams (Caledfryn), poet, 68
- 31 March – David Rees (Y Cynhyrfwr), Nonconformist leader and author, 67[33]
- 16 April – James Davies (Iago ap Dewi), poet, 68
- 1 July – David Jones, banker and politician, 58
- 14 July – Lloyd Kenyon, 3rd Baron Kenyon, 64
- 26 August – William Williams (Creuddynfab), 55[34]
- October – John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet, 59 (suicide)[35]
- 7 October – George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor, politician, 74[36]
- 9 November – Harriet Windsor-Clive, 13th Baroness Windsor, philanthropist,[37]
- 15 December – David Williams, politician, 70
- 17 December – Sarah Jacob, "the fasting girl", 12
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
- ^ a b c J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
- ^ "Morgan, Charles Morgan Robinson (1792–1875), of Ruperra, Glam. and Tredegar, Mon". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
- ^ Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
- ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
- ^ "Death of Colonel Pryse". Cambrian News. 1 June 1888. p. 4. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
- ^ "Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
- ^ "Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint". Retrieved 3 December 2021.
- ^ Campbell, Thomas Methuen (2000). "C.R.M. Talbot 1803–1890". Morgannwg. 44: 66–104. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
- ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
- ^ James Henry Clark (1869). History of Monmouthshire. County Observer. p. 375.
- ^ Amy Audrey Locke (1916). The Hanbury Family. Arthur L. Humphreys. p. 170.
- ^ Smith, Jenny (1990). Portraits for a King : the British military paintings of A-J Dubois Drahonet (1791-1834. London: National Army Museum. p. 15. ISBN 9780901721211.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780521563505.
- ^ Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 266.
- ^ a b c Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.
- ^ William Thomas Havard (1959). "Short, Thomas Vowler (1790-1872), bishop of St Asaph". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
- ^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
- ^ Annual Report Presented by the Council to the Court of Governors. National Library of Wales. 1962. p. 59.
- ^ Wales Online, "First ever Western Mail edition: May 1, 1869". Accessed 12 December 2013
- ^ Radford, Ken (1982). Tales of North Wales. Edinburgh: Skilton & Shaw. p. 37. ISBN 9780284986146.
- ^ "The Riot in Wales". The Times. No. 26455. London. 4 June 1869. p. 12.
- ^ Leary, Paul (2004). Irish migrants in modern Wales. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. p. 105. ISBN 9780853238485.
- ^ Ifano Jones (1925). A History of Printing and Printers in Wales to 1810, and of Successive and Related Printers to 1923: Also, A History of Printing and Printers in Monmouthshire to 1923. W. Lewis (printers) Limited. p. 180.
- ^ The Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2008.
- ^ Barton, John (1994). Off the beaten track. Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England Old Saybrook, Conn: Mooreland Pub. Globe Pequot Press. p. 123. ISBN 9781564402943.
- ^ Roberts, Gwyneth (2020). Jane Williams (Ysgafell. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 152. ISBN 9781786835642.
- ^ Davies, William Llewelyn (2001). "Edwards, John Hugh (1869-1945)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.
- ^ John Charles McLean (2001). "Davies, Sir Henry Walford (1869-1941), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
- ^ John Dyfnallt Owen (1959). "Rees, David (1801-1869), Congregational minister, and editor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
- ^ Margaret Beatrice Davies (1959). "Williams, William (Creuddynfab; 1814-1869), poet and literary critic". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
- ^ David Gwenallt Jones (1959). "Jones, John (Talhaiarn; 1810-1869), architect and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
- ^ "The Death of Lord Dynevor (editorial)". Welshman. 15 October 1869. p. 5. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
- ^ "Death of the Baroness Windsor", The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian, 13 November 1869, p.5