1877 in Wales

none September 2019 February 2020 1877 thumb | 220x124px | right This article is about the particular significance of the year 1877 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1877 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – William Owen StanleyEdward 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 – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron GlanuskEdwin 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 – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron PenrhynEdward 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 – William Cornwallis-West Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes 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 – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of BeaufortJames 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, 4th Baron Kensington Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite 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 – Joshua HughesThe Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15 Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 307s-JONE-BAS-1822 Jones, William Basil (Tickell) (1822–1897) 21 April 2011 Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – ClwydfarddGRIFFITH, DAVID (Clwydfardd; 1800–1894) https://biography.wales/article/s-GRIF-DAV-1800 Daniel Williams Welsh Biography Online National Library of Wales 15 December 2019 Events 8 March – In an explosion at Worcester Colliery, Swansea, seventeen men are killed.Colliery Explosions in South Wales United States Congressional Serial Set https://books.google.com/books?id=hyVHAQAAIAAJ 1897 U.S. Government Printing Office 593 2025-08-24 11 April – In the Tynewydd Colliery disaster in the Rhondda, five men are killed by flooding.https://museum.wales/articles/2012-06-19/The-Tynewydd-Mining-Disaster/ The Tynewydd Mining Disaster Ceri Thompson Museum of Wales 15 December 2019 Twenty-five of the rescue team are awarded the Albert Medal for Lifesaving, the first time this is awarded for service on land, and the first BMA medal is awarded to Dr Henry Naunton Davies. 10 July – Consecration of new Merthyr Synagogue, the oldest surviving synagogue building in Wales. 1 August – Opening of new Llandudno Pier.Frank Crossley Thornley Steamers of North Wales, past and present https://books.google.com/books?id=HhcZAAAAIAAJ 1952 T. Stephenson 66 15 August – Opening to passengers of the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways from Dinas to Tryfan Junction and Bryngwyn.Donald J. Grant Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain https://books.google.com/books?id=ok88DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA419 31 October 2017 Troubador Publishing Ltd 978-1-78803-768-6 419 30 November – Opening of the new market hall at Builth Wells by Sir Joseph Bailey M.P. unknown dates Opening of Stepaside, Pembrokeshire village school (part of modern-day Stepaside Heritage Park). Closure of lead mine at Loggerheads, Denbighshire. Arts and literature Islwyn wins a bardic chair at Treherbert. New books Richard Davies (Mynyddog) – Y Trydydd CynnigMeic Stephens The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic registration April 1986 Oxford University Press 136 William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) – Helyntion Bywyd Hen Deiliwr Music Joseph Parry resigns from his position as Professor of Music at University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Williams Gareth Valleys of song: music and society in Wales 1840-1914 University of Wales Press Cardiff 1998 9780708314807 80 Sport Football The Racecourse Ground at Wrexham hosts Wales' first ever home international match, making it the world's oldest international football stadium still to host international matches.http://www.dailypost.co.uk/sport-news/wrexham-fc/2008/06/18/guinness-cheers-racecourse-with-official-record-55578-21092141/ Guinness cheers Racecourse with official record Daily Post North Wales 18 June 2008 18 June 2008 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110720014121/http://www.dailypost.co.uk/sport-news/wrexham-fc/2008/06/18/guinness-cheers-racecourse-with-official-record-55578-21092141/ 20 July 2011 The Welsh Cup is inaugurated. Rugby union 8 November – Blaenavon RFC play their first game, against Abergavenny. Births 2 May – Sid Bevan, Welsh international rugby union player (died 1933) 6 June (in Guernsey) – Herbert John Fleure, zoologist and geographer (died 1969) Garnett A. 10.1098/rsbm.1970.0009 Herbert John Fleure. 1877-1969 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 16 253–278 1970 73303585 free 9 June – George Travers, Wales international rugby union player (died 1945) 21 June – Elizabeth Mary Jones (Moelona), Welsh-language children's novelist (died 1953)s2-JONE-MAR-1877 JONES, ELIZABETH MARY ('Moelona'; 1877-1953), teacher and novelist Jenkins David 2001 2020-03-09 1 July – Llewellyn Lloyd, Wales international rugby union player (died 1957) 19 August – John Evans, supercentenarian (died 1990)https://www.grg-supercentenarians.org/world-supercentenarian-rankings-list/ World Supercentenarian Rankings List Gerontology Research Group 5 September 2024 17 September – Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist (died 1928)s2-BERR-BUC-1847 Berry (family), (Lords Buckland, Camrose and Kemsley,) industrialists and newspaper proprietors Mary Auronwy James 2001 National Library of Wales 15 December 2019 26 September (in Wandsworth) – Edmund Gwenn, actor (died 1959) (long believed to have been born in Wales) 5 October – Lily Gower, croquet player (died 1959)Frederick Arthur Crisp Visitation of England and Wales 19 https://archive.org/details/visitationofengl19howa/page/51/mode/1up 1906 51 27 October – David Harris Davies, Wales international rugby union player (died 1944) 7 November – Maurice Parry, footballer (died 1935) 27 November – Leigh Richmond Roose, football goalkeeper (killed in battle 1916) 2 December – John Strand-Jones, Wales international rugby union player (died 1958) Deaths 9 January – Thomas Thomas, clergyman, 72 24 June – Robert Dale Owen, Welsh-American politician, 75Owen, Robert Dale (1801–1877) Biographical Directory of the United States Congress U.S. Congress http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000152 12 September 2017 14 July – Richard Davies (Mynyddog), poet, 44Montgomery-shire Collections https://books.google.com/books?id=sshAAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA2 1877 Powys-land Club 2 18 July – Thomas Richards, "father of Tasmanian journalism", 77 27 July – John Frost, Chartist leader, 93The Annual summary, by J. Mason https://books.google.com/books?id=FzoIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA276 1877 276 5 August – Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet, 47s-WILL-ROB-1830 Williams, Robert (Trebor Mai; 1830–1877), poet Iwan Meical Jones National Library of Wales 15 December 2019 17 October – Charles Williams, academic, 73? 7 November – Calvert Jones, painter and pioneer photographer, 72s3-JONE-RIC-1802 Jones, Calvert Richard (1802–1877), pioneer photographer, artist and priest Iwan Meical Jones National Library of Wales 15 December 2019 13 December – John Griffith (journalist), journalist who wrote under the pseudonym Y Gohebydd, 56John Davies John Davies (historian) Nigel Jenkins Nigel Jenkins Baines Menna Peredur I. Lynch etal The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales 2008 University of Wales Press Cardiff 978-0-7083-1953-6 See also 1877 in Ireland References Wales Category:1877 in Europe Category:1870s in Wales