1878 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1878 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
[edit]- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – William Owen Stanley[2][3][4][5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse[8][3]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington[3]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite
- Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell[13][14]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant[15]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua Hughes[16][15]
- Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones[15][17]
Events
[edit]- March
- The 'basic' process, enabling the use of phosphoric iron ore in steelmaking, developed at the failing Blaenavon Ironworks by Percy Gilchrist and Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, is first made public.[18]
- The Swansea Improvements and Tramway Company SITC) opens a street tramway from Gower Street, Swansea, to join up with the Oystermouth Railway.[19]
- 16–17 July – Spanish seaman Joseph Garcia, just released from Usk Prison, murders all 5 members of the Watkins family at Llangybi, Monmouthshire.[20]
- 17 July – Swansea tramways are forced by legal action to return to horse-drawn operation after experimenting with steam locomotives.[21]
- 11 September – In a mining accident at the Prince of Wales Colliery, Abercarn, 268 men are killed.[22]
- Founding of Dr Williams School for Girls at Dolgellau with Eliza Ann Fewings as first head.[23]
- Opening of Marine Drive around the Great Orme at Llandudno.
- A passenger ferry service is established between Bangor and Porthaethwy on the Menai Strait.
- Industrialist John Corbett buys Ynysymaengwyn.
- Slate industry in Wales: The Oakeley quarry at Blaenau Ffestiniog absorbs the previously independently-worked Upper and Middle quarries.[24]
- The prison system in Wales is nationalised and brought under centralised government control.[25]
- Nanteos Cup first exhibited.
Arts and literature
[edit]New books
[edit]- Daniel Silvan Evans – Celtic Remains
- William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) – Llythyrau 'Rhen Ffarmwr
Music
[edit]- John Owen (Owain Alaw) – Jeremiah (oratorio)
Sport
[edit]Births
[edit]- 4 January – Augustus John, painter (died 1961)[26]
- 30 January – Reg Skrimshire, Wales and British Lions rugby union player (died 1963)
- 24 February – Lou Phillips, Wales international rugby player (killed in action 1916)
- 3 March – Edward Thomas, poet (killed in action 1917)
- 12 March – Mary Sophia Allen, women's rights activist (died 1964)
- 15 March – Thomas Richards, historian and librarian (died 1962)[27]
- 21 March – Edwin Thomas Maynard, Wales international rugby player (died 1961)
- 16 April – Owen Thomas Jones, geologist (died 1967)
- 26 May – Abel J. Jones, writer (died 1949)
- 5 June – Billy O'Neill, Wales national rugby player (died 1955)
- 8 June – Evan Roberts, religious revivalist (died 1951)[28]
- 20 June – Seymour Farmer, politician in Canada (died 1951)
- 1 July – Billy Trew, rugby player and Welsh Triple Crown winning captain (died 1926)
- 27 August – Edgar Rees Jones, lawyer and politician (died 1962)
- 28 October – Charles Benjamin Redrup, aeronautical engineer (died 1961)
- 30 October – Caradog Roberts, musician (died 1935)[29]
- 8 November – Dorothea Bate, palaeontologist (died 1951)
- 31 December – Caradoc Evans, writer (died 1945)
- date unknown – Richard Hughes Williams (Dic Tryfan), Welsh language short story writer (died 1919)[30]
Deaths
[edit]- 16 February – Alexander Jones, footballer, 23 (accidentally shot)[31]
- 25 February – Townsend Harris, Welsh-descended American diplomat, 73[32]
- 30 March – Peter Maurice, priest and writer, 74[33]
- 4 July – William Roos, Welsh artist and engraver, 70[34]
- 13 August – Francis Rice, 5th Baron Dynevor, 74[35]
- 30 September – Evan James, poet, lyricist of the Welsh national anthem, 69[36]
- 18 November – John Jones (Mathetes), clergyman and writer, 57[37]
- 20 November – William Thomas (Islwyn), poet, 46[38]
- 25 November – Llewelyn Lewellin, clergyman and academic, 80[39]
- 5 December – David Price, minister, 67[40]
- 13 December – David Charles, secretary of the University for Wales movement, 56
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Daniel Williams. "GRIFFITH, DAVID (Clwydfardd; 1800–1894)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Evan David Jones (1959). "Herbert family (earls of Powis)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
- ^ "Jones, William Basil (Tickell) (1822–1897)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
- ^ Davies, William Llewelyn (2009). "Thomas, Sidney Gilchrist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- ^ The Tramway Review. Light Railway Transport League. 1993. p. 97.
- ^ Williams, Roger (2004). Their Deadly Trade: Murders in Monmouthshire. Llandysul: Gomer Press. ISBN 1-84323-389-4.
- ^ The Tramway Review. Light Railway Transport League. 1993. p. 100.
- ^ United States Department of State (1897). Commercial Relations of the United States with Foreign Countries. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 593.
- ^ W. Gareth Evans (1 January 1990). Education and Female Emancipation: The Welsh Experience, 1847–1914. University of Wales Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-7083-1079-3.
- ^ Richards, Alun John (1995). Slate Quarrying in Wales. Llanrwst: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch. p. 131. ISBN 0-86381-319-4.
- ^ Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
- ^ Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan (2001). "John, Augustus Edwin (1878-1961), artist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
- ^ Gwilym Beynon Owen. "Richards, Thomas (1878–1962), librarian and historian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Roberts, Evan (1878–1951), 'Y Diwygiwr (the Revivalist)' revivalist preacher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ Robert David Griffith. "Roberts, Caradog (1878–1935), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ Edward Morgan Humphreys (1959). "Williams, Richard Hughes (Dic Tryfan; 1878?-1919), journalist and short story writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
- ^ Davies, Gareth; Garland, Ian (1991). Who's Who of Welsh International Soccer Players. Bridge Books. ISBN 1-872424-11-2.
- ^ David Shavit (1990). The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 218. ISBN 978-0-313-26788-8.
- ^ Thomas Mardy Rees (1908). Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. Herald Office. p. 353.
- ^ Thomas Mardy Rees (1912). Welsh Painters, Engravers, Sculptors (1527–1911). Welsh Publishing Company. p. 125.
- ^ The Illustrated London News. William Little. 1878. p. 167.
- ^ Watkin William Price (1959). "James, Evan (Ieuan ap Iago; 1809-1878), author of the words of 'Hen Wlad fy Nhadau'". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
- ^ Benjamin George Owens (1959). "Jones, John (Mathetes, 1821-1878), Baptist minister and littérateur". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
- ^ David Gwenallt Jones. "THOMAS, WILLIAM (Islwyn; 1832–1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- ^ Thomas Iorwerth. "Lewellin, Llewelyn (1798–1878), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ "Funeral of a Dissenting Minister at Aberdare". Cardiff Times. 14 December 1878. Retrieved 22 January 2014.