1866 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1866 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1866 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1866 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 – George Pratt, 2nd Marquess Camden (until 8 August) Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar (from 27 September) http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/morgan-charles-1792-1875 Morgan, Charles Morgan Robinson (1792–1875), of Ruperra, Glam. and Tredegar, Mon. History of Parliament Online 3 July 2013June 2026 InternetArchiveBot Edwin 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 Baronet (until 14 September); Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (from 14 September)Edward 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 – Robert Myddelton Biddulphhttp://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 3 December 2021 29 October 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201029224834/https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/myddelton-biddulph-robert-1805-1872 dead Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronethttp://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/glynne-sir-stephen-1807-1874 Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint. 3 December 2021 21 September 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150921215928/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/glynne-sir-stephen-1807-1874 dead 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 – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron LlanoverJames Henry Clark History of Monmouthshire County Observer 1869 375 Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron SudeleyAmy Audrey Locke The Hanbury Family Arthur L. Humphreys 1916 170 Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington Smith Jenny Portraits for a King : the British military paintings of A-J Dubois Drahonet (1791-1834 National Army Museum London 1990 9780901721211 15 Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron OrmathwaiteWalsh, John Benn 59 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 – Thomas Vowler Shorts-SHOR-VOW-1790 Short, Thomas Vowler (1790-1872), bishop of St Asaph William Thomas Havard 1959 3 December 2021The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15 Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...  University Press 1854 307Annual Report Presented by the Council to the Court of Governors National Library of Wales 1962 59 Events 5 February — Railway contractor Thomas Savin goes bankrupt, resulting in a temporary halt in the construction of the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway.Reports of County Courts Cases and Appeals: Decided by All the Superior Courts, and of Decisions in the County Courts, Together with Cases in Bankruptcy https://books.google.com/books?id=JYdCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT18 1874 John Crockford 18 31 March — The last public execution in Wales takes place as Robert Coe is hanged in Swansea.Welsh Bibliographical Society The Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society https://books.google.com/books?id=8C5VAAAAYAAJ 1950 Welsh Bibliographical Society 69 1 May — Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway opens to passengers. July — Launch of Yr Australydd, a Welsh language Calvinistic Methodist newspaper, in Victoria (Australia), edited by William Meirion Evans and Theophilus Williams.August 2012 5 September — The Pembroke and Tenby Railway is extended for passengers to Whitland.Michael Quick Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: a Chronology Oxford 4th Railway and Canal Historical Society 2009 978-0-901461-57-5 6 September — Six people are killed in a railway derailment near Criccieth. September — The song Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau — later to become the official national anthem of Wales — is sung for the first time at the National Eisteddfod held at Chester. 17 October — First confirmed death from a cholera epidemic in Carnarvon.Keith Morris Cholera 1866 Carnarvon Traders http://www.carnarvontraders.com/epidemic1866.shtml 2015-12-04 December — The Talyllyn Railway officially opens.Boyd James I. C. James I. C. Boyd The Tal-y-llyn Railway Wild Swan Publications Ltd 1988 0-906867-46-0 Sir George Gilbert Scott begins work on the renovation of Bangor Cathedral. The Baptist Union of Wales is established. Whiteford Lighthouse on Gower, the only remaining large wave-swept cast-iron lighthouse built in the UK, is first lit.Whitford Point Lighthouse 34289 2014 20 October 2021 Edward Gordon Douglas is created Baron Penrhyn. Morris Brothers department store established at Tenby; it will still be trading 150 years later.Our Story Morris Brothers https://morris-brothers.co.uk/#History 2023-09-03 Arts and literature Awards The National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Chester in England. The harpist William Frost is awarded a pedal harp by Pencerdd Gwalia New books English language Rees Howell Gronow — Last Recollections Welsh language Richard Davies (Mynyddog) — Caneuon Mynyddogs-DAVI-RIC-1833 Davies, Richard (Mynyddog; 1833-1877), poet, singer, and eisteddfod conductor Thomas Hughes Jones 29 December 2019 Roger Edwards — Y Tri Brawd William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) — Nodiadau ar yr Epistol at yr HebreaidWilliam Rees Nodiadau eglurhaol ac ymarferol ar yr Epistol at yr Hebreaid https://books.google.com/books?id=RpkHAAAAQAAJ 1866 Music John Owen (Owain Alaw) — Gŵyl Gwalia John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia) — The Bride of Neath Valley (cantata)https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/3005556 The bride of Neath Valley National Trust Collections 18 December 2021 The Eryri Music Festival (Gwyl Gerddorol Eryri) is founded. Sport Cricket — Hawarden Park Cricket Club is founded, reputedly by William Ewart Gladstone.Penelope Gladstone Portrait of a Family: The Gladstones, 1839-1889 T. Lyster 1989 9781871482027 53 Rugby football — First competitive game played in Wales, between college teams at Lampeter. Births 13 January — Frank Hill, Wales international rugby captain (died 1927)Jenkins John M. Who's Who of Welsh International Rugby Players 1991 Bridge Books Wrexham 1-872424-10-4 etal 71 21 January — Sir Owen Cox, politician and businessman in Australia (died 1932)Radi Heather Cox, Sir Edward John Owen (1866–1932) cox-sir-edward-john-owen-5798 6 May 2019 22 March — Willie Thomas, Wales international rugby captain (died 1921) 1 April — Sir William Henry Hoare Vincent, diplomat (died 1941)s-VINC-ENT-1650 Vincent family Robert Thomas Jenkins 1959 18 December 2021 18 April — Frederick Llewellyn-Jones, lawyer and politician (died 1941) Stenton Michael Who's who of British members of Parliament : a biographical dictionary of the House of Commons based on annual volumes of Dod's Parliamentary companion and other sources Harvester Press Humanities Press Hassocks, Sussex, Eng. Atlantic Highlands, N.J 1976 9780855273255 210 20 April — Sir John Milsom Rees, laryngologist (died 1952)s2-REES-MIL-1866 Rees, Sir John Milsom (1866-1952), surgeon and laryngologist Emyr Wyn Jones 29 December 2019 30 May — John Gruffydd Moelwyn Hughes, minister and poet (died 1944)s2-HUGH-MOE-1866 Hughes, John Griffydd Moelwyn (1866-1944), a Calvinistic Methodist minister William Morris 12 December 2025 5 August — Sir Edward Anwyl, Celtic scholar (died 1914)s-ANWY-EDW-1866 Anwyl, Sir Edward (1866-1914), Celtic scholar Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams yes 11 June 2019 7 August — Charles Granville Bruce, mountaineer (died 1939)s3-BRUC-GRA-1866 Bruce, Charles Granville (1866-1939), mountaineer and soldier Ioan Bowen Rees 2001 15 February 2022 13 August - William Finney, cricketer (died 1927) 24 August — Caesar Jenkyns, footballer (died 1941) 4 October — Robert Jones (Trebor Aled), poet (died 1917)s-JONE-ROB-1866 Jones, Robert (Trebor Aled; 1866-1917), poet and Baptist minister Ray Looker 1959 17 December 2021 12 October — James Ramsay MacDonald, politician (died 1937)Marquand, David: Ramsay MacDonald, London, 1977, pp. 4–5 4 November — Sir David William Evans, lawyer, public servant and Wales international rugby player, (died 1926) 5 November — Daniel Protheroe, conductor and choirmaster (died 1934)s-PROT-DAN-1866 Protheroe, Daniel (1866-1934), musician Robert David Griffith 1959 15 February 2022 14 November — Tom Morgan Wales international rugby player (died 1899) 24 November — Alexander Bland, Wales international rugby player (died 1947) 4 December — Dai Lewis (died 1943), rugby union forward who played international rugby for Wales 10 December — Stanley L. Wood, illustrator (died 1928 Peppin Brigid Book illustrators of the twentieth century Arco Pub New York 1984 9780668056700 330 15 December — William Williams, Wales national rugby union player (died 1945) date unknown — David Delta Evans (Dewi Hiraddug), journalist, author, and Unitarian minister (died 1948)s2-EVAN-DEL-1866 Evans, David Delta ('Dewi Hiraddug '; 1866-1948), journalist, author and Unitarian minister Aubrey John Martin 2001 17 December 2021 Deaths 16 January — David Owen (Brutus), literary editor, 70s-OWEN-DAV-1795 Owen, David (Brutus; 1795-1866), editor and litterateur Thomas Jones 17 December 2021 27 January — John Gibson, sculptor, 7510625 Gibson, John Martin Greenwood 31 January — Owen Owen Roberts, physician, 73s-ROBE-OWE-1793 Roberts, Owen (1793-1866), physician and social reformer Emyr Hywel Owen 17 December 2021 29 March - Thomas Jones (Glan Alun) cy, poet, 55 19 May — David Davis, Blaengwawr, industrialist, 69Davis family, of Hirwaun, Aberdare, and Ferndale, coalowners s1-DAVI-HIR-1797 Watkin William Price yes 29 December 2019 31 August (approx) — Robert Jermain Thomas, missionary (murdered in Korea), 26 October — Evan Bevan, humorous writer, 42/43Evan Bevan s-BEVA-EVA-1803 Griffith Milwyn Griffiths yes 29 December 2019 16 October — Angharad Llwyd, antiquary, 86Llwyd, Angharad (1780-1866), antiquary s-LLWY-ANG-1780 Evan Gilbert Wright yes 29 December 2019 27 October — William Rowlands, minister and author active in the USARowlands, William 49 30 October — George Lort Phillips, MP for Pembrokeshire, 55 (injuries from a fall)Funeral of the Late Mr Lort Phillips http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/3101455/ART11 13 December 2013 Potter's Electric News 7 November 1866June 2026 InternetArchiveBot 1 December (in London) — George Everest, surveyor and geographer, 769003 Everest, Sir George Baigent Elizabeth See also 1866 in Ireland References Wales Wales Category:1866 in Europe Category:1860s in Wales