1864 in Wales

none thumb | right | Eisteddfod Programme of events, 1864. September 2019 September 2019 1864 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1864 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1864 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, 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 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 June - David Lloyd George's father dies and his family move from Pembrokeshire to Llanystumdwy to be cared for by his maternal uncle, Richard Lloyd, when he is aged 18 months. June 23 - Aberystwyth 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 October 6 - The Denbigh, Ruthin and Corwen Railway is completed throughout to Corwen. David Davies Llandinam takes a lease of coal in the Upper Rhondda Valley and sinks the Parc and Maindy pits. Opening of Rhosydd Quarry narrow gauge railway incline on the upper Croesor Tramway at the head of the Croesor valley. The Llandudno Improvement Commissioners attempt to ban Punch and Judy shows. In this year, the town first receives the title "Queen of Welsh Resorts".Ivor Wynne Jones Llandudno Queen of Welsh Resorts Chapter 3 19 Liverpool Mercury. Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Llandudno. The chair is won by Richard Foulkes Edwards (Rhisiart Ddu o Wynedd). New books English language R. D. Blackmore - Clara VaughanRichard Doddridge Blackmore Clara Vaughan; by R.D. Blackmore https://archive.org/details/claravaughanano00blacgoog 1864 Macmillan and CompanyJohn Sutherland The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction Taylor & Francis 2014 9781317863335 127 Sir John Henry Philipps - Lyrics Alfred Russel Wallace - The Origin of Human Races and the Antiquity of Man Deduced from the Theory of Natural Selection Frances Williams-Wynn - Diaries of a Lady of Quality (posthumously published)Frances Williams-Wynn Diaries of a Lady of Quality from 1797 to 1844 https://archive.org/details/diariesaladyqua00haywgoog 1864 Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green Welsh language Huw Derfel - Llawlyfr Carnedd LlywelynJohn Davies Nigel Jenkins Menna Baines The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZEUAQAAIAAJ 2008 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1953-6 125 Robert Jones Derfel - Traethodau ac AreithiauRobert Jones DERFEL Traethodau ac areithiau, etc https://books.google.com/books?id=j11iAAAAcAAJ 1864 J. Mendus Jones Daniel Silvan Evans (ed.) - Y Marchog Crwydrad: Hen Ffuglith Gymreig Music William Griffiths (Ifander) - Gwarchae Harlech (cantata)https://biography.wales/article/s-GRIF-WIL-1830 Griffiths, William (Ifander, 1830-1910), choral conductor and adjudicator David Hughes Lewis Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 2 June 2019 Sport Cricket South Wales Cricket Club play Gentlemen of Sussex. The South Wales team includes W. G. Grace, who scores 170. Football October 22 - The predecessor of Wrexham A.F.C. plays its first match, making it the oldest association football club in Wales and the world's sixth oldest football club. Births January 8 Prince Albert Victor, first child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1892)9 January 1864 Birth of a Prince https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001427/18640109/037/0005 Morning Advertiser 5 Thomas Allen Glenn, soldier and historian (died 1948)https://biography.wales/article/s2-GLEN-ALL-1864 Glenn, Thomas Allen (1864-1948), soldier, historian, genealogist, and archaeologist William Llewelyn Davies Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 2 June 2019 February 7 - Alfred Augustus Mathews, vicar and Wales international rugby player (died 1946) March 11 - John Silas Evans, astronomer (died 1953)https://biography.wales/article/s2-EVAN-SIL-1864 Evans, John Silas (1864-1953), priest and astronomer Mary Gwendoline Ellis Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 2 June 2019 May 4 - Harry Bowen, Wales international rugby player (died 1913) June 5 - Edward Pegge, Wales international rugby player (died 1915) July 5 - Lloyd Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon (died 1927)https://biography.wales/article/s-KENY-ON0-1694 KENYON family, Gredington, Flintshire, and Peel Hall, Lancashire Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 2 June 2019 August 19 - Charles Green, first Bishop of Monmouth (died 1944)Green, Charles Alfred Howell (1864-1944), second Archbishop of Wales Thomas Iorwerth Ellis National Library of Wales https://biography.wales/article/s2-GREE-HOW-1864 3 March 2026 September 15 Fred Andrews, Wales international rugby player (died 1929) Giotto Griffiths, Wales international rugby player (died 1938) September 21 - Ernest Rowland, priest and Wales international rugby player (died 1940) October 10 Edward Bishop - Wales international rugby union player (died 1919) Arthur Gould - Wales international rugby union captain (died 1919)https://biography.wales/article/s-GOUL-JOS-1864 Gould, Arthur Joseph (1864-1919), Rugby footballer Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 2 June 2019 October 17 - Sir John Morris-Jones, grammarian (died 1929)https://biography.wales/article/s-MORR-JOH-1864 Morris-Jones, Sir John (1864-1929), scholar, poet, and critic Thomas Parry Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 2 June 2019 November 4 - Margaret Owen, later wife of David Lloyd George (died 1941) Deaths 11 March - Richard Roberts, engineer, 74 Richard Roberts http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/7/73/Er18640325.pdf The Engineer 183 25 March 1864 7 January 2017 28 March - Ellis Evans, Baptist minister and author, 77https://biography.wales/article/s-EVAN-ELL-1786 Evans, Ellis (1786-1864), Baptist minister and author Tom Ellis Jones Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 30 December 2019 18 June Evan Davies, missionary, 59 Davies, Evan 14 135 William Smith O'Brien, Irish nationalist, 60 (in Bangor)http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/people/smithob.htm "William Smith O'Brien (1803–1864)", 'Clare People', Clare County Library 10 March 2016 29 March 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160329235848/http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/people/smithob.htm live 20 June - John Davies (Brychan), poet, 79https://biography.wales/article/s-DAVI-JHN-1784 Davies John (1784?-1864), known as ‘Brychan,’ poet, publisher, and promoter of the friendly society movement Robert Thomas Jenkins Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 2 June 2019 24 July - Lloyd Kenyon, 3rd Baron Kenyon, 59 1 August - Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (born 1777)Rees, Thomas (1777-1864) 29 December - Mary Jones, early owner of a Welsh Bible, 80 See also 1864 in Ireland References Wales Wales Category:1864 in Europe Category:1860s in Wales