1884 in Wales

none September 2019 February 2020 1884 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1884 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1884 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 Mostyn (until 17 March)Edward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 29 Robert Davies Pryce (from 17 May)The Annual Register Rivingtons Edmund Burke 1892 179 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 – Richard Lewis (from 25 April) 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 18 January – Physician William Price attempts to cremate his son, Iesu Grist (died 10 January aged 5 months), at Llantrisant. Later tried at Cardiff Assizes and acquitted on the grounds that cremation is not contrary to law, he is thus able to carry out the ceremony (the first in the U.K. in modern times) on 14 March.Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain Ronald Hutton Hutton Ronald 2009 Yale University Press New Haven 978-0-300-14485-7 27 January – 14 miners are killed in an accident at the Naval Colliery, Penygraig. 4 March – A Royal Commission on the Housing of the Working Classes is established. The Prince of Wales accepts nomination to the Commission and offends protocol by trying to have Octavia Hill included as a member.https://jvc.oup.com/2011/06/07/philanthropic-princes-charles-prince-of-wales-edward-vii-and-victorian-cultures-of-charity/ Philanthropic princes 7 June 2011 Journal of Victorian Culture Online 22 August 2021 18 October – Opening of the University College of North Wales, Bangor in the former Penrhyn Arms Hotel. Roberts David Bangor University 1884-2009 University of Wales Press Cardiff 2009 9780708322802 7 22 October – The Argentine Congress authorises the construction of the Central Chubut Railway by Lewis Jones y Cia.Railways of South America: Part I. Argentina U.S. Government Printing Office 1926 222 8 November – 15 miners are killed in an accident at the Pochin Colliery, Tredegar. unknown dates Isolation hospital for cholera patients opens on Flat Holm. A Chair of Celtic Studies is founded at the University College of South Wales, Cardiff. Closure of Talargoch lead mine, near Dyserth. Slate industry in Wales: A flood at Dorothea quarry in the Nantlle Valley kills 7 and there is a major rockfall in the underground Cwmorthin quarry in the Blaenau Ffestiniog district.Alun John Richards Slate Quarrying in Wales Gwasg Carreg Gwalch 0-86381-319-4 Llanrwst 1995 129-31 Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Liverpool Chair – Evan Rees ("Dyfed"), "Gwilym Hiraethog"Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair 2021-02-27 eisteddfod.wales 13 February 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair dead Crown – Edward Foulkes New books Amy Dillwyn – Jill Robert Owen – Institutes of Canon Law Music Joseph Parry – Nebuchadnezzar (cantata) Sport Football – Oswestry win the Welsh Cup for the first time. Rugby union – The first international match is played at Cardiff Arms Park (between Wales and Ireland). Births 9 January – William Llewellyn Morgan, Wales international rugby union player (died 1960) 19 February – Clement Davies, politician, leader of the Liberal Party (UK) (died 1962) 6 April – J. G. Parry-Thomas, engineer and racing driver (died 1927) 7 April – C. H. Dodd, theologian (died 1973) 12 April – Tenby Davies, half-mile world champion runner (died 1932) 20 June – John Dyke, Wales international rugby union player (died 1960) 31 July – Lionel Rees, aviator, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1955) 15 August – Ivor Morgan, Wales international rugby union player (died 1943) 21 August – John Chandless, cricketer (died 1968) 24 November – Jack Jones, novelist (died 1970) 3 December – Bailey Davies, Wales international rugby union player (died 1968) 14 December – Margaret Davies, patron of the arts (died 1963) 15 December – Florrie Evans, revivalist and missionary (died 1967)EVANS, ANNIE FLORENCE ('Florrie') (1884 - 1967), revivalist and missionary Dictionary of Welsh Biography https://biography.wales/article/s12-EVAN-FLO-1884 Dictionary of Welsh Biography 8 September 2022 date unknown – Thomas Jones, footballer (died 1958) Deaths 12 February – Henry Morgan-Clifford, politician, 77 17 March – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn, 89https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/lloyd-mostyn-edward-1795-1884 Lloyd Mostyn, Edward Mostyn (1795-1884), of Mostyn Hall, Flint and 14 Park Place, Mdx. History of Parliament Online 4 March 2022 11 April – Thomas William Davids, nonconformist minister and ecclesiastical historian, 67Davids, Thomas William 14 24 May – Henry Thomas Edwards, preacher, 46 (suicide)Boase, George Clement (1889). "Edwards, Henry Thomas" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 17. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 17 July – Charles James Watkin Williams, judge, doctor and politician, 55 27 August – Dewi Havhesp, poet, 53s-ROBE-DAV-1831 Roberts, David (Dewi Havhesp; 1831-1884), poet Robert Thomas Jenkins 3 January 2022 6 November – George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry, industrialist and owner of Plas Machynlleth, 63Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society Adnitt and Naunton 1892 206 16 December – John Davies, Congregational minister, writer, linguist and poet, 80s-DAVI-JOH-1804 Davies, John (Siôn Gymro; 1804-1884) 23 January 2017 20 December – Philip Jacob, Archdeacon of Winchester, 80Deaths 23 December 1884 The Times 31324 1 See also 1884 in Ireland References Wales Category:1884 in Europe Category:1880s in Wales