1857 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1857 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1857 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1857 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 – Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore (until 12 July); Edward Pryse (from 14 September)Thomas 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 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 – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/hanbury-tracy-charles-1778-1858 Hanbury Tracy, Charles (1778–1858), of Toddington, Glos. and Gregynog, Mont. History of Parliament Online 2 July 2013 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 – Christopher Bethell 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 Privately printed London 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 thumb|350px|Crumlin Viaduct 4 March — Thomas Gee launches the radical nonconformist newspaper Baner Cymru in Denbigh.Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorian https://books.google.com/books?id=iA4iAQAAIAAJ 2001 The Society 112 24 March — 1857 United Kingdom general election, concludes. Anglesey antiquarian William Owen Stanley becomes Whig MP for the Beaumaris District of Boroughs.Thomas Nicholas Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=iD4LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA48 1872 Longmans, Green, Reader 48– 6 May — Samuel Roberts (S. R.) sails for Tennessee. 1 June — Opening of the Crumlin Viaduct, built to carry the Taff Vale Extension of the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway.John Elliott The Industrial Development of the Ebbw Valleys, 1780-1914 https://books.google.com/books?id=aRjtAAAAMAAJ 2004 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1890-4 111 10 August — John Bowen is consecrated as Bishop of Sierra Leone. 13 August — Eugene Goddard crosses the Menai Strait in his gas balloon Aurora from Caernarfon Castle to Llanidan.T. Meirion Hughes Caernarfon Through the Eye of Time Talybont Y Lolfa 2014 978-1-847-71930-0 Some Feat over a Century and a Half Ago 77–81 3 October — The Newport Gazette is founded by William Nicholas Johns. 14 October — Four people are killed in a railway accident near Pyle. 29 October — St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden, badly damaged by arson. Autumn — Aberdare Strike 1857-8 against reductions in coal miners' pay begins. Railway workers go on strike at Aberdare.July 2015 Arts and literature New books English language Richard Williams Morgan — The British Kymry or Britons of CambriaNeil Evans Writing a Small Nation's Past: Wales in Comparative Perspective, 1850–1950 https://books.google.com/books?id=VrmXCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA84 17 February 2016 Routledge 978-1-134-78661-9 84 Welsh language Owen Wynne Jones — Dafydd Llwyd Robert Parry (Robyn Ddu Eryri) — Teithiau a Barddoniaeth Robyn Ddu EryriNational Library of Wales Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru https://books.google.com/books?id=trq5AAAAIAAJ 1985 Council of the National Library of Wales Music John Ashton — "Trefeglwys" (hymn tune) Births 2 February — Sir James Cory, 1st Baronet, politician and ship-owner (died 1933)s-CORY-SON-1850 CORY (John Cory and Sons, Ltd.) Watkin William Price Watkin William Price 1959 18 October 2018 7 February — Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl Dunraven (died 1952) 28 February — Charlie Newman, Wales rugby union captain (died 1922) 27 April — Alfred Cattell, Wales international rugby player (died 1933) 12 May — Sarah Jacob, the "fasting girl" (died 1869) 20 June — Dan Griffiths, Wales international rugby player (died 1936) 28 June — Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet, orthopaedic surgeon (died 1933) 1 July — Martha Hughes Cannon, women's rights activist and politician in the United States (died 1932) 19 September — James Bridie, Scottish-born Wales international rugby union player (died 1893 in England) 8 November — Frank Purdon, Wales rugby union international 14 November — John Thomas Rees, musician (died 1949) 2 December — Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, surgeon (died 1943) Llewellyn Cadwaladr, operatic tenor (died 1909) Deaths 3 January — Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (second creation), 55 23 January — Edward Anwyl, Wesleyan minister and teacher, 70s-ANWY-EDW-1786 Anwyl, Edward (1786-1857), Wesleyan minister Robert Thomas Jenkins 1959 25 January 2022 10 February — David Thompson, explorer of Welsh parentage, 86Nicks John Thompson, David (1770–1857) http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/thompson_david_1770_1857_8E.html 8 29 March — Elijah Waring, writer, ±69s-WARI-ELI-1788 Waring, Elijah (c.1788-1857) merchant, author and publisher Griffith John Williams 1959 25 January 2022 16 May — Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer, 74s3-LLOY-WIL-1782 Lloyd, Sir William (1782-1857), soldier and one of the first Europeans to reach the peak of any Himalayan snow-capped mountain Ioan Bowen Rees 2001 25 January 2022 13 June — Daniel Rees, hymn-writer, 64s-REES-DAN-1793 Rees, Daniel (1793–1857), cleric and hymnwriter Roberts Gomer Morgan 20 August 2008 12 July — Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore, Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire, 64Family Notices http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3054851/3054854/20 23 January 2018 Pembrokeshire Herald 17 July 1857 3 12 August — William Daniel Conybeare, dean of Llandaff, 70(Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine Sept. 1857, p. 335) 16 August — John Jones, Talysarn, leading non-conformist minister, 61s-JONE-JOH-1796 Jones, John (Talysarn) Gwilym Arthur Edwards 1959 25 January 2022 See also 1857 in Ireland References Wales Wales Category:1857 in Europe Category:1850s in Wales