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1865
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1865 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
United Kingdom incumbents 1865 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 Watkins (until 28 September)Editorial 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 George Pratt, 2nd Marquess Camden (from 4 November)
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, 2nd 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 – 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 – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanoverhttps://www.lordlieutenantofgwent.co.uk/history-duties/past-lord-lieutenants/ Past Lord Lieutenants Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire 28 January 2022
Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron SudeleyHerbert Arthur Doubleday George Cokayne The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom: Extant, Extinct, Or Dormant St. Catherine Press, Limited 1953 423
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington
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 292Thomas 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 90Thomas 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
5 January — The Festiniog Railway officially opens to passengers, the first narrow gauge railway in the British Isles to do so.Johnson Peter An Illustrated History of the Festiniog Railway 1832–1954 Hersham Oxford Publishing Co 2007 978-0-86093-603-9
14 January — American Confederate paddle steamer Lelia sinks off the north Wales coast with the loss of eighteen lives.
1 February — The Vale of Neath Railway is amalgamated with the Great Western Railway.
14 April
Opening of the Royal Pier, Aberystwyth, built by Eugenius Birch at a cost of £13,600.
Paddle steamer Great Empress collides with Beaumaris Pier.
May
Opening of Talyllyn Railway.J. I. C. Boyd James I. C. Boyd The Tal-y-Llyn Railway Didcot Wild Swan Publications 1988 0-906867-46-0 45
A branch of The Philanthropic Order of True Ivorites Friendly Society is established and registered at Colwinston.http://www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/files/Living/Planning/Policy/County_Treasures/Colwinston.pdf County Treasures Vale of Glamorgan Council 19 April 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20160303184220/http://www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/files/Living/Planning/Policy/County_Treasures/Colwinston.pdf 3 March 2016
28 May — The Mimosa sets sail with emigrants for Patagonia.http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/casamirror/mimosa1.htm Welsh immigrants in Patagonia: Mimosa, the old ship that sailed into history 2010-11-26 Wilkinson Susan September 1998 Buenos Aires Herald https://web.archive.org/web/20070305160823/http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/casamirror/mimosa1.htm 5 March 2007 dead
10 June — Opening of Penarth Dock.
3 July — Opening of Barmouth Junction on the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway.
28 July — The town of Puerto Madryn and the Patagonian colony is founded by Michael D. Jones.R. Bryn Williams The Welsh colony in Patagonia 1865–2000 Llanrwst Gwasg Carreg Gwalch 2000 0-86381-653-3
2 August — The Wales memorial to the late Prince Albert at Tenby, sculpted by John Evan Thomas, is unveiled by Albert and Victoria's 3rd son, 15-year-old Prince Arthur on his first public engagement.Peter Ellis Jones The Wales memorial to Prince Albert in Tenby Pembrokeshire: The Journal of the Pembrokeshire Historical Society 20 2011 53–60
9 September — First of fifteen deaths in the only outbreak of yellow fever ever to occur in Britain, at Swansea.
21 October — Opening of Howells (department store) in Cardiff as a drapery.Peter Finch Real Cardiff. Volume 2: The Greater City Seren 2004 1-85411-384-4 50, 83
29 November — Two men die when a coal train falls into the North Dock at Swansea.
1 December — Llandrindod Wells is linked to the rail network for the first time.Michael Quick Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: a Chronology Oxford 4th Railway and Canal Historical Society 2009 978-0-901461-57-5
20 December — Gethin Pit disaster, Abercanaid: the second of two firedamp explosions at this colliery near Merthyr Tydfil kills 34 miners.Gethin Pit Disaster 1865 https://web.archive.org/web/20111005081434/http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/cms/document/1860_62.pdf 2011-10-05 pp. 41–44.
Francis Kilvert becomes curate of Clyro in Radnorshire.
Sale of the Pwyllycrochan estate, leading to the development of Colwyn Bay.
John Crichton-Stuart, Marquess of Bute, meets architect and designer William Burges.
Robert Jones Derfel retires from the ministry and sets up a Welsh bookshop and press in Manchester.
Arts and literature
Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Aberystwyth. The chair is won by Lewis William Lewis (Llew Llwyfo).
New books
Morris Davies — Cofiant Ann Griffiths
John Evans (I. D. Ffraid) — Coll Gwynfa (translation of Milton's Paradise Lost)
John Ceiriog Hughes — Y Bardd a'r CerddorCeltic Culture: A-Celti https://books.google.com/books?id=f899xH_quaMC&pg=PA940 2006 ABC-CLIO 978-1-85109-440-0 940
John Jones (Mathetes) — Pregeth i Fyfyrwyr Coleg Hwlffordd ...
John Thomas (Ifor Cwmgwys) — Diferion MeddyliolY Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940. Paratowyd dan nawdd Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion https://books.google.com/books?id=AXJIAQAAIAAJ 1953 Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion cy 1064
Music
Thomas Gruffydd Jones (Tafalaw Bencerdd) — Gwarchae Harlech (cantata)
Sport
Cricket
17 July — South Wales Cricket Club travels to Gravesend to play the Gentlemen of Kent.
August — Morriston Cricket Club is founded.
Births
2 February — Henry Davies, cricketer (died 1934)
28 February — Arthur Symons, poet and critic (died 1945)y Symons, Arthur 26 287
7 March — Martyn Jordan, Wales international rugby player (died 1902)
30 April — Max Nettlau, German historian and Welsh learner (died 1944)
3 June — Prince George, second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales and himself Prince of Wales 1901–1910 (later King George V of the United Kingdom; died 1936)3 June 1865 Birth of a Prince https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002408/18650603/022/0005 Morning Herald (London) 5
6 August — Lewis Cobden Thomas, Wales international rugby player (died 1928)
22 August — Stephen Thomas Wales international rugby player (died 1937)
8 September — David Williams, Swansea politician (died 1941)
23 September — William Brace, politician (died 1947)s2-BRAC-WIL-1865 Brace, William (1865-1947), miners' leader and M.P. Griffith Milwyn Griffiths National Library of Wales 29 December 2019
20 October — Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams, 1st Baronet, judge (died 1955)s2-RHYS-RHY-1865 Rhys-Williams, Sir Rhys (1865-1955), first Baronet created 1918, and a judge Mary Auronwy James 2001 15 February 2022
26 October — Hugh Ingledew, Wales international rugby player (died 1937)
October — Jack Doughty, footballer (died 1937)
16 December — George Rowles, footballer (died 1922)
December — Richard Bagnall-Oakeley, Olympic archer (died 1947)
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Dickie Garrett, rugby player (died 1908)
Albert Hybart, rugby player (died 1945)
George Owen, footballer (died 1922)
Robert Roberts, footballer (died 1945)
Deaths
21 February — Stapleton Cotton, military leader, 91https://biography.wales/article/s-COTT-STA-1773 Cotton, Sir Stapleton (1773-1865), 6th baronet, afterwards 1st viscount Combermere, field-marshal Robert Thomas Jenkins Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 8 August 2019
26 April — William Williams, MP, 77https://biography.wales/article/s-WILL-WIL-1788 Williams, William (1788-1865), Member of Parliament David Williams Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 8 August 2019
29 April — Thomas Evans (Telynog), poet, 24https://biography.wales/article/s-EVAN-THO-1840 Evans, Thomas (Telynog; 1840-1865), poet Walter Thomas Morgan Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 8 August 2019
18 June — William Parker Foulke, Welsh-descended American geologist, 49
10 August — Hugh Pugh, mariner, 71https://biography.wales/article/s-PUGH-HUG-1794 Pugh, Hugh (1794/5-1865), master mariner David Thomas Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 8 August 2019
28 September — John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins, politician, Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire, 63
20 November — Rees Howell Gronow, soldier, politician and memoirist, 70https://biography.wales/article/s-GRON-HOW-1794 Gronow, Rees Howell (1794-1865), writer of memoirs Robert Thomas Jenkins Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 8 August 2019
See also
1865 in Ireland
References
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