1886 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1886 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1886 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Richard Daviess-DAVI-RIC-1818 Davies, Richard (1818-1896), M.P. Robert Thomas Jenkins 1959 24 November 2021 Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron GlanuskDod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes Dod 1921 356 Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (until 31 March); John Ernest Greaves (from 17 May)National Museum of Wales Adroddiad Blynyddol The Museum 1935 3 Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl CawdorEdward Arthur Copleston Where's where? Pt. 1. A concise gazetteer of Somerset. Pt. 2. Statistical, educational, parliamentary and practical information 1878 80 Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West Potter Matthew The concept of the 'master' in art education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the present Routledge Abingdon, Oxon 2016 9781351545471 149 Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert HughesJournal of the Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales Popish recusants in Flintshire in 1625 Henry Taylor Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales 1895 304 Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbots-TALB-MAR-1700 William Llewelyn Davies Talbot family, of Margam Abbey and Penrice Castle Glamorganshire yes 1959 24 November 2021 Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Robert Davies Pryce The Annual Register Rivingtons 1892 179 Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort Reese M. M. The royal office of Master of the Horse Threshold Books Ltd London 1976 9780901366900 348 Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of PowisWeyman Henry T. Shropshire M.P.s - Memoirs T.S.A.S., Series 4, Volume XII 1929 28 Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington Lodge Edmund Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire... Salzwasser-Verlag GMBH 2020 9783752502664 318 Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron OrmathwaiteBurke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage Burke's Peerage Limited 1885 1027 Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun CampbellCMBL831JC Campbell, John Colquhoun Bishop of Llandaff – Richard LewisDeath Of The Bishop Of Llandaff, The Times, 25 January 1905; page 4; Issue 37613; col A Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua Hughess-HUGH-JOS-1807 Hughes, Joshua (1807-1889), bishop 1959 William Thomas Havard William Havard yes 26 October 2021 Bishop of St Davids – Basil Joneshttps://www.llangynfelyn.org/dogfennau/william_basil_DNB.html William Basil Jones, Bishop of St Davids Dictionary of National Biography 21 April 2011 Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardds-GRIF-DAV-1800 Griffith, David (Clwydfardd; 1800-1894), eisteddfodic bard and arch-druid Daniel Williams 1959 yes 24 November 2021 Events 9 June – Soprano Adelina Patti marries tenor Ernesto Nicolini in south Wales. 1 September – The Great Western Railway opens the Severn Tunnel to regular goods and mineral traffic (and to passengers on 1 December). September – Opening of the Llandudno Pier Pavilion Theatre. 15 October 20 people are drowned when the sailing ship Malleny is wrecked on Tusker Rocks, Porthcawl. 18 people are drowned when the sailing ship Teviotdale is wrecked on Cefn Sidan Sands in Carmarthenshire. 16 October Statue of the Liberal politician John Batchelor unveiled in Cardiff November Serious flooding in Aberystwyth. The keeper of the Mumbles lighthouse is swept out to sea and drowned. The rivers Mawddach, Dee and Taff all flood. unknown dates Cantref Reservoir on the Taff Fawr is completed. Opening of the Cardiff Stock Exchange. Cymru Fydd is founded by the Liberal Party to further the cause of home rule. The Welsh Land League is founded. Beginning of the tithe revolt in Denbighshire. The corporation of the Borough of Holt is dissolved. Japanese knotweed is recorded at Maesteg - the first record of it growing wild in the UK.Proceedings of the XII International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds CABI 2008 9781845935061 464 Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Caernarfon Chair – Richard Davies, "Gobaith"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 – John Cadfan Davies New books Rhoda Broughton – Doctor Cupid Music William Owen "of Prysgol" – Y Perl Cerddorol yn cynnwys tonau ac anthemau, cysegredig a moesol (sol-fa edition)Dictionary of Welsh Biography entry Sport Football – Druids win the Welsh Cup for the fifth time in its nine-year history. Rugby union – Abercynon RFC and Treorchy RFC are founded. Births 3 March – Jack Jones, Wales international rugby player (died 1951) 4 March – Rowland Griffiths, Wales international rugby player (died 1914) 5 March Paul Radmilovic, competitive swimmer, four-time Olympic gold medal winner (died 1968) Freddie Welsh, né Thomas, World lightweight boxing champion (died 1927 in the United States) 14 March – David Watts, Wales international rugby union player (died 1916) 16 March – James Llewellyn Davies, VC winner (died 1917) 3 May – Morgan Jones, politician (died 1939) 4 May – Olive Wheeler, educationalist (died 1963) 6 June – John Morgan, Archbishop of Wales (died 1957) 17 June – David Brunt, meteorologist (died 1965) 11 July – Ernest Willows, aviation pioneer (died 1926) 13 July – Huw Menai (Huw Owen Williams), poet (died 1961) 22 September – Bill Perry, Welsh international rugby player (died 1970) 29 September – Jack Williams, VC recipient (died 1953) 9 November (probably) – S. O. Davies, politician (died 1972) 10 November – Fred Birt, Wales international rugby union player (died 1956) 22 December – David James Jones, philosopher and academic (died 1947) Deaths 28 February – John Jones, politician, 73Sudden Death of Mr Jones, Bluenose, Llandovery http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3365068/3365075/196 13 December 2012 Weekly Mail 6 March 1886 7 12 March – Edward Arthur Somerset, politician, 69William Retlaw Williams The Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales, from the Earliesr Times to the Present Day E. Davis and Bell for the author 1895 132 31 March – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, 85s-PENN-ANT-1734 Pennant (and Douglas-Pennant), family, of Penrhyn, Llandygâi, Caernarfonshire Thomas Richards 1959 13 December 2021 7 May – Timothy Richards Lewis, surgeon and pathologist, 44 10.1038/148562a0 Dr. Timothy Richards Lewis (1841–1886) Nature 148 3758 562 1941 free 9 June – Edward Williams, iron-master, 60)s-WILL-EDW-1826 Williams, Edward (1826-1886), iron-master Walter Thomas Morgan 1959 28 November 2021 9 July – Roger Edwards, minister and writer, 75s-EDWA-ROG-1811 Edwards, Roger (1811-1886), Calvinistic Methodist minister Gwilym Thomas Jones 1959 13 December 2021 13 October – John Prichard, architect, 69The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales John Davies Nigel Jenkins Menna Baines Peredur Lynch 2008 710 978-0-7083-1953-6 29 October – Evan Evans, ("Evans Bach Nantyglo"), minister, 82s-EVAN-EVA-1804 Evans, Evan (1804-1886), Independent minister and author Nansi Ceridwen Jones 1959 13 December 2021 See also 1886 in Ireland References Wales Category:1886 in Europe Category:1880s in Wales