1879 in Wales

none September 2019 February 2020 1879 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1879 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1879 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – ClwydfarddGRIFFITH, DAVID (Clwydfardd; 1800–1894) s-GRIF-DAV-1800 Daniel Williams National Library of Wales 15 December 2019 Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – William Owen StanleyEdward 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 – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron GlanuskEdwin 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 – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron PenrhynEdward 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 PryseDeath of Colonel Pryse http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3344911/3344915/21 27 February 2018 Cambrian News 1 June 1888 4 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 TalbotCampbell Thomas Methuen C.R.M. Talbot 1803–1890 Morgannwg 2000 44 66–104 http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewobject/llgc-id:1174908/article/000041850 17 May 2014 Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron MostynEdward 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 – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of BeaufortJames Henry Clark History of Monmouthshire County Observer 1869 375 Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powiss-POWY-HER-1674 Herbert family (earls of Powis) Evan David Jones 1959 27 February 2022 Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite 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 266 Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua HughesThe Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15 Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 307s-JONE-BAS-1822 Jones, William Basil (Tickell) (1822–1897) 21 April 2011 Events 13 January – In a mining accident at Dinas Colliery, Llantrisant in the Rhondda, 63 men are killed.Dinas Colliery Explosion – Llantrisant – 1879 https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/accidents-disasters/glamorganshire/dinas-colliery-explosion-llantrisant-1879/ Northern Mine Research Society 2021-05-21 22–23 January – Rorke's Drift is successfully defended by 139 British soldiers from the South Wales Borderers against an assault by 3,000 to 4,000 Zulu warriors. 2 May – Eleven Victoria Crosses are awarded to soldiers active in the defence of Rorke's Drift, the recipients including Privates John Williams and Robert Jones.London Gazette, 2 May 1879. Retrieved 21 October 2012. 1 September – The ballroom of the Lord Nelson Hotel in Milford Haven becomes the first in the UK to be lit by electricity.The Electrician https://books.google.com/books?id=EhhbAAAAYAAJ 1879 James Gray 215 22 September – In a mining accident at Waunllwyd, Ebbw Vale, 84 men are killed. 3 October – Pryce Pryce-Jones opens his Royal Welsh Warehouse at Newtown, Montgomeryshire. 17 October – Official opening of the Severn Railway Bridge in Gloucestershire (destroyed in 1960). 29 November – Stradey Park opens as the home of Llanelli RFC.http://www.scarlets.co.uk/eng/heritage/2213.php Scarlets official website 21 October 2012 14 December 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20091214074612/http://www.scarlets.co.uk/eng/heritage/2213.php dead It remains the home for Llanelli RFC for nearly 130 years, and later for the regional side Scarlets, but closes in November 2008 when the teams' new home, Parc y Scarlets, opens in nearby Pemberton. date unknown Railway engine drivers and firemen from Griffithstown form a craft union which becomes the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen. The Croesor Tramway becomes the Portmadoc, Croesor and Beddgelert Tram Railway.Great Britain Local and Personal Laws https://books.google.com/books?id=a1gwAQAAMAAJ 1901 Butter (General) Market in Wrexham opens.The London Gazette https://books.google.com/books?id=Yx86AQAAMAAJ 1879 5255 Welsh draper D H Evans opens his shop in London's Oxford Street.Gordon Mackenzie Marylebone: great city north of Oxford Street https://books.google.com/books?id=16NWAAAAMAAJ 1972 Macmillan 80 Arts and literature New books English language D. Walter Thomas & Edward Hughes – The Cymric language Brinley Richards – The Songs of Wales (Royal Edition) Welsh language Beriah Gwynfe Evans – Owain Glyndwr (play)Professor Philip Schwyzer Professor Willy Maley Shakespeare and Wales: From the Marches to the Assembly https://books.google.com/books?id=28jOB3d33BkC&pg=PA213 28 April 2013 Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. 978-1-4094-7566-8 213 Daniel Owen – Offrymau NeilltuaethDavid Daiches The Penguin companion to literature: Britain and the Commonwealth https://books.google.com/books?id=AeK1hNrXRlIC 1971 Penguin 978-0-14-051034-8 407 Music Joseph Parry "Aberystwyth" (first published)Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series https://books.google.com/books?id=KjAhAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA697 1953 Copyright Office, Library of Congress. 697 "Man of Sorrows" Edward Stephen – Ail Lyfr Tonau ac Emynau ("The Second Book of Tunes and Hymns") Sport Football 18 January – Wales play England for the first time, at Kennington Oval. Wales lose 2–1, but see their first international goal, scored by William Davies. Newtown win the Welsh Cup in the second year of its existence. Rugby union 18 January – Treherbert RFC play Cardiff for the first time. Brecon RFC and Ebbw Vale RFC are founded. Tennis – The first tennis club in Wales is formed by the Newport Athletic Club. Births 1 January Ernest Jones, psychiatrist (died 1958) Willie Llewellyn, Wales international rugby union (died 1973) 15 March – David John Thomas, Wales international rugby union (died 1925) 7 April – Philip Turnbull, hockey player (died 1930) 23 June – Percy Bush, Wales international rugby union player (died 1955) 8 August – Arthur Harding, Wales international rugby union captain (died 1947) 28 August – E. E. Clive, actor and director (died 1940 in Hollywood)E.E. Clive, Actor, Dead in the West. Veteran of Stage and Screen Former Manager of Copley Theatre in Boston. Appeared in 1,159 Legitimate Plays Before Going into Moving Pictures. https://www.nytimes.com/1940/06/07/archives/ee-clive-actor-dead-in-the-west-veteran-of-stage-and-screen-former.html The New York Times 7 June 1940 17 July 2009 29 August – Donough O'Brien, cricketer (died 1953) 3 September – Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans, botanist (died 1968)Bothalia, volume 10 South Africa Government Printing and Stationery Office 1969 131 4 September – Eliot Crawshay-Williams, politician and writer (died 1962)Charles Roger Dod Robert Phipps Dod Dod's Parliamentary Companion https://books.google.com/books?id=ZW4qCSsyhwgC 1911 Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Limited 257 12 September – Rupert Davies, Welsh-Canadian politician (died 1967) 2 October – Idris Bell, papyrologist (died 1967)Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=XAQiAQAAMAAJ 1944 Druid Press 103 6 November – George Daggar MP, politician (died 1950)https://biography.wales/article/s3-DAGG-GEO-1879 Daggar, George (1879–1950), trade unionist and Member of Parliament John Davies Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 26 May 2019 9 November – S. O. Davies, politician (died 1972) Deaths 22 January – John Vivian, MP, English-born member of the Vivian family, 60In Memoriam The Cornishman 48 12 June 1879 4 20 February – John Orlando Parry, actor, pianist, artist, comedian and singer, 69s-PARR-JOH-1776 Parry, John ('Bardd Alaw'; 1776-1851), musician Robert David Griffith 1959 28 February 2022 5 March – John Davies of Nercwys, minister and writer, 79John Davies https://biography.wales/article/s-DAVI-JOH-1799 Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales Williams Griffith John 13 June 2017 28 March – Robert Jones, Anglican priest and writer, 69 10 May – Robert Thompson Crawshay, ironmaster, 62s-CRAW-CYF-1739 Crawshay family Watkin William Price Watkin William Price 1959 3 November 2021 14 May – Thomas Nicholas, antiquary, 63Nicholas, Thomas (1820-1879) John Austin Jenkins 40 433 1 13 August – Edward Edwards, zoologist, 75Edwards, Edward (1803-1879) Robert Hunt 17 sources: [Athenæum, No. 2706, 6 Sept. 1879; information from friends in Anglesea, and from Edwards's son, Mr. John R. Edwards of Liverpool.] 25 August – John Evans, Welsh-born Canadian politician, 63Smith Dorothy Blakey John Evans Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online 1972 http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=4975 26 July 2011 23 September – Francis Kilvert, diarist, 39s-KILV-FRA-1840 Kilvert, Robert Francis (1840-1879), cleric and diarist Robert Thomas Jenkins 1959 28 February 2022 11 December – William Thomas (Gwilym Marles), minister and writer, uncle of Dylan Thomas, 45s-THOM-WIL-1834 THOMAS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Marles; 1834–1879), Unitarian minister, social reformer, writer, and schoolmaster David Jacob Davies National Library of Wales 6 March 2019 See also 1879 in Ireland References 1879 Wales Category:1879 in Europe Category:1870s in the United Kingdom