1860 in Wales

none thumb | right | alt=Painting of Edward VII in his coronation robes | In 1860, Edward undertook the first tour of North America by a Prince of Wales September 2019 September 2019 1860 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1860 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1860 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of AngleseyEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 24J.C. Sainty John Sainty (civil servant) List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd London 1979 Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 695Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru University of Wales Press 1992 169 Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan WatkinsEditorial http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/4353246/ART15 17 January 2022 Welshman 6 October 1865 29 November 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20141129125341/http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/4353246/ART15 deadEdwin Poole 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 1886 378 Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th BaronetEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 26 Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward PryseThomas John Hughes The Welsh magistracy, by Adfyfr South Wales and Monmouthshire Liberal Federation Offices 1887 5 Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor (until 7 November) Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulphhttps://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/myddelton-biddulph-robert-1805-1872 Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx. History of Parliament Online 5 December 2021 Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronethttps://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/glynne-sir-stephen-1807-1874 Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint History of Parliament Online 16 January 2022 Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbothttp://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/talbot-christopher-1803-1890 TALBOT, Christopher Rice Mansel (1803-1890), of Penrice Castle and Margam Park, Glam. History of Parliament Online 18 January 2022 7 May 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240507032042/https://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/talbot-christopher-1803-1890 dead Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Robert Davies PryceEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 29 Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury LeighAmy Audrey Locke The Hanbury Family Arthur L. Humphreys 1916 147 Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st BaronetThorne R.G. John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/owen-john-1776-861 History of Parliament 27 March 2020 Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron OrmathwaiteJonathan Williams The History of Radnorshire R. Mason 1859 115 Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell Fryde E. B. Handbook of British chronology New York Cambridge University Press Cambridge England 1996 9780521563505 292 Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 305 Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred OllivantJoseph Jackson Howard Joseph Jackson Howard Frederick Arthur Crisp Visitation of England and Wales 6 https://archive.org/details/visitationofengl06howa/page/n28/mode/1up 1898 15 Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler ShortNicholas Harris Nicolas The historic peerage of England: Revised, corrected, and continued ... by William Courthope John Murray 1857 533The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15 Bishop of St Davids – Connop ThirlwallOld Yorkshire, volume 3 1882 90 Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 307The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged Porter 1780 95 Events 28 February — A paddle steamer, Nimrod, is wrecked off St David's Head, and 45 people are killed.https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DSC18600529.2.23 Loss of the Nimrod, Liverpool and Cork steamer, with all on board Daily Southern Cross 29 May 1860 27 July 2019 1 March — First section of Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway opens to a station in Carmarthen; on 3 September it extends over the course of what becomes known as the Gwili Railway to Conwil. 7 March — HMS Howe, the Royal Navy’s last, largest and fastest wooden first-rate three-decker ship of the line, is launched at Pembroke Dockyard but never completed for sea service.Howard J. Fuller Clad in Iron: The American Civil War and the Challenge of British Naval Power https://books.google.com/books?id=6u1xSQKx6IkC&pg=PA16 2008 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-34590-6 16 1 May — First section of Oswestry and Newtown Railway opens from Oswestry (Shropshire) to Pool Quay; on 14 August it extends to Welshpool and also opens between Abermule and Newtown. These lines have been built by David Davies Llandinam and Thomas Savin but on 29 October Davies dissolves their partnership.Rex Christiansen R. W. Miller The Cambrian Railways 1 new 1971 Newton Abbot David & Charles 0-7153-5236-9 31–2 23 August — Consecration of Marble Church, Bodelwyddan.John Hicklin (of Chester.) The illustrated hand-book of North Wales: being the 5th ed. of Hemingway's Panorama, with revisions and additions https://books.google.com/books?id=98QHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA50-IA1 1863 50 24 November — A statue of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey is added to the column built in his honour by Thomas Harrison earlier in the century.Gwyn Headley Wim Meulenkamp Follies, Grottoes & Garden Buildings https://books.google.com/books?id=iAkzAQAAIAAJ 1999 Aurum 978-1-85410-625-4 94 1 December — The sixth underground explosion in the Risca Black Vein Pit at Crosskeys in the Sirhowy Valley of Monmouthshire kills 142 coal miners.The development of Risca Risca Industrial History Museum & OHIHS Tony Jukes http://www.riscamuseum.org.uk/risca.html 2010-10-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20130929163039/http://www.riscamuseum.org.uk/risca.html 29 September 2013 deadRisca Colliery CoalHouse BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/coalhouse/sites/mines/pages/risca_colliery.shtml https://web.archive.org/web/20120302015126/http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/coalhouse/sites/mines/pages/risca_colliery.shtml dead 2 March 2012 2008 2010-10-18 Discovery of Gwynfynydd Gold Mine gold mine at Dolgellau. Founding of the Danygraig Copperworks.Charles Wilkins (of Merthyr-Tydfil.) The history of the iron, steel, tinplate and ... other trades of Wales: with descriptive sketches of the land and the people during the great industrial era under review https://books.google.com/books?id=yJQ1AQAAIAAJ 1903 371 The Beaufort Tinplate Works is set up on the River Tawe by John Jones Jenkins, 1st Baron Glantawe.John Newman Stephen R. Hughes Anthony Ward Glamorgan: (Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan) https://books.google.com/books?id=DpUMspCtpNIC&pg=PA398 1995 Penguin Books 978-0-14-071056-4 398 The Big Pit at Blaenavon begins producing coal.Industrial Archaeology https://books.google.com/books?id=nIt0AAAAIAAJ 1988 David & Charles 58 Nixon's Navigation Colliery at Mountain Ash opened, becoming the first true deep pit in South Wales.Evans Jonathan People, Politics and Print Ph.D The Age of Coal http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54147/1/U517037.pdf 2010 2014-04-29 Principality Building Society established in Cardiff as the Principality Permanent Benefit Building and Investment Society. Four gun batteries are installed on Flat Holm. A mosque is founded in Cardiff Bay; it is sometimes incorrectly claimed as the first mosque in the UK.Sophie Gilliat-Ray Muslims in Britain https://books.google.com/books?id=39pZYTUv-jMC&pg=PA36 10 June 2010 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-53688-2 36 Excavation of Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles. approx. date — Llanfairpwllgwyngyll on Anglesey adopts the long form of its name. Arts and literature Awards At the Denbigh eisteddfod, a decision is made to launch a national eisteddfod. An eisteddfod is held at Utica, New York. New books John Ceiriog Hughes — Oriau'r Hwyr Thomas Phillips — The Welsh Revival: Its Origin and Development William Rowlands — Dammeg y Mab Afradlon Music John Owen (Owain Alaw) — Gems of Welsh Melody (including the first Welsh lyric for March of the Men of Harlech, written by John Jones (Talhaiarn), and the first printing of Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau)Alison Latham The Oxford Dictionary of Musical Works https://books.google.com/books?id=8q3gOcsO9hoC&pg=PA91 2004 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-861020-5 91 Sport The first bowls club in Wales is founded at Abergavenny. Oswestry Town F.C. is founded.https://www.tnsfc.co.uk/club-information/ Club information The New Saints of Oswestry Town F.C. 23 March 2017 26 January 2022 Births 21 February – Sir William Goscombe John, sculptor (died 1952)https://biography.wales/article/s2-JOHN-GOS-1860 John, Sir William Goscombe (1860-1952), sculptor and medallist Paul Joyner Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 15 October 2019 25 March – Jack Powell, footballer (died 1947 29 March – Edward Peake, Wales international rugby union player (died 1945) 14 April – Howell Elvet Lewis (Elved), poet and archdruid (died 1953) 19 April – William Penfro Rowlands, composer (died 1937) 12 May – Sir John Ballinger, librarian (died 1933) 24 May – Sir Ellis Ellis-Griffith, lawyer and politician (died 1926) 6 June – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet (died 1944) 30 July – Richard Summers, Wales rugby union international (died 1941) 6 September – George Irby, 6th Baron Boston, landowner and scientist (died 1941)s2-IRBY-FLO-1860 Irby, George Florance, 6th Baron Boston (1860-1941), landowner and scientist Emyr Gwynne Jones 2001 26 January 2022 25 September – Thomas Francis Roberts, academic (died 1919) 31 December – Horace Lyne, Wales international rugby player and WRU president (died 1949) probable Sir William Price (died 1938)48123 Price, Sir William P. J. Atkins Deaths 26 January – Thomas Wood, politician, 82Thomas Wood, M.P., Parliamentary Representative for Brecknockshire, 1806-47 https://books.google.com/books?id=x8MqAQAAMAAJ 1978 Brecknock Museum Publication 31 21 March – John Lloyd Davies, politicianJohn Lloyd Davies https://biography.wales/article/s-DAVI-LLO-1801 Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales Williams Griffith John 18 July 2017 4 May – William Ormsby-Gore, politician, 81http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/ormsby-gore-william-1779-1860 Ormsby Gore (formerly Gore), William (1779-1860), of Porkington, Oswestry, Salop and Woodford, co. Leitrim History of Parliament Online 26 January 2022 17 March 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180317231807/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/ormsby-gore-william-1779-1860 dead 1 July – Robert Thomas, printer and newspaper proprietor who settled in Australia, 78Thomas, Robert 17 July – Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse, 71s-DAVI-ELI-1789 Davis, Elizabeth (1789-1860), Crimean nurse National Library of Wales 13 March 2019 31 August – John Parker, clergyman and artist, 61https://biography.wales/article/s-PARK-JOH-1798 Parker, John (1798-1860), cleric and artist William Llewelyn Davies Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 16 November 2019 7 November – John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor, Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire, 69The Death of the Earl of Cawdor https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4350992/4350996/16 20 February 2019 Welshman 9 November 1860 4 13 November – David Dale Owen, geologist in the USA, 53Estabrook, Arthur H. The Family History of Robert Owen Indiana Magazine of History 19 1 63–101 Indiana University Bloomington 1923 https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/view/6280 29 August 2017 27 November – Richard Richards, politician, 73Nobody's Friends, London The Club of "Nobody's Friends,": Since Its Foundation on 21 June 1800, to https://archive.org/details/clubofnobodysfri11920nobo 1885 41 See also 1860 in Ireland References Wales Wales Category:1860 in Europe Category:1860s in Wales