1881 in Wales

none thumb | right | alt=Front page of the earliest surviving copy of the Welsh newspaper The Pontypridd Chronicle, January 1881 | Front page of the earliest surviving copy of the Welsh newspaper The Pontypridd Chronicle, January 1881 September 2017 February 2020 1881 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1881 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1881 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – ClwydfarddGRIFFITH, DAVID (Clwydfardd; 1800–1894) s-GRIF-DAV-1800 Daniel Williams National Library of Wales 15 December 2019 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 – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powiss-POWY-HER-1674 Herbert family (earls of Powis) Evan David Jones 1959 27 February 2022 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 Events January – At least five people freeze to death during blizzards and extreme low temperatures throughout Wales. 4 March – Physician William Price marries 22-year-old Gwenllian Llywelyn in a Druidic ceremony at Pontypridd on his 81st birthday. 27 August – The Sunday Closing (Wales) Act prohibits the sale of alcohol on a Sunday. This is the first Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom since the 1542 Act of Union whose application is restricted to Wales.Neil Prior 130 years since Sunday drinking was banned in Wales https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14136013 BBC News Wales 4 August 2011 2011-08-04 13 October – 19 people drown when the Cyprian is wrecked off the Lleyn peninsula. date unknown Welsh Regiment formed as part of the Childers Reforms of the British Army, incorporating the 41st (Welsh) Regiment of Foot.Richard A Rinaldi Order of Battle of the British Army 1914 https://books.google.com/books?id=hzUZ-26KYQ4C&pg=PA195 15 July 2008 Ravi Rikhye 978-0-9776072-8-0 195 River Vyrnwy is dammed to create Lake Vyrnwy. Arts and literature The Cambrian Academy of Art is formed by English and Welsh artists in North Wales. Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Merthyr Tydfil Chair – Evan Rees ("Dyfed"), "Cariad"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod of Wales 3 October 2019 11 March 2020 13 February 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair dead Crown – Watkin Hezekiah Williams New books Amy Dillwyn – Chloe Arguelle Daniel Owen – Y Dreflan Music Sport Rugby union 19 February – First Wales national game, played at Blackheath against England. Wales lose heavily. 12 March – The Welsh Rugby Union is formed as the Welsh Football Union in a meeting in Neath. Births 1 January – George Latham, footballer (died 1939) 3 January – Lewis Pugh Evans, VC recipient (died 1962)David Harvey Monuments to Courage: 1917–1982 https://books.google.com/books?id=Bls-AQAAIAAJ 1999 K. and K. Patience 61 14 February – William John Gruffydd, academic and politician (died 1954) 9 April – John Hart Evans, Wales international rugby player (died 1959) 15 April – David Thomas ("Afan"), composer (died 1928) 16 April – Ifor Williams, academic (died 1965)s2-WILL-IFO-1881 Williams, Sir Ifor (1881-1965), Welsh scholar Thomas Parry 2001 1 March 2022 5 May – Rupert Price Hallowes, VC recipient (died 1915) 16 June – David Grenfell, politician (died 1968)s8-GREN-RHY-1881 Williams, Grenfell, David Rhys (1881-1965), Labour politician John Graham Jones 2013 1 March 2022 20 June – John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, landowner (died 1947)Bernard Burke Ashworth Peter Burke A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage https://books.google.com/books?id=INwNAQAAMAAJ 1910 Harrison 322 August – John Lewis, footballer (died 1954) 30 September – Philip Lewis Griffiths, lawyer (died 1945) 1 October – Cliff Pritchard, Wales international rugby player (died 1954) 28 October – Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, explorer (died 1957) 10 December – David Phillips Jones, Wales international rugby player (died 1936) December – George Hall, politician (died 1965) date unknown Robert Williams, trade union leader (died 1936) Deaths 3 January – William H. C. Lloyd, clergyman, 78 19 January – John Roose Elias, poet, 60Pharmaceutical Journal https://archive.org/details/pharmaceuticaljo3111unse 1881 J. Churchill 1038 11 March – Thomas Brigstocke, portrait painter, 71 20 April – William Burges, architect, 53 Godwin Edward William Edward William Godwin Juliet Kinchin Paul Stirton 2005 Is Mr Ruskin Living Too Long? - Selected Writings of E. W. Godwin Oxford White Cockade Publishing 978-18734-8712-9 470551179 137 7 June – William Milbourne James, judge, 74s-JAME-MIL-1807 James, Sir William Milbourne (1807–1881), Lord Justice Walter Thomas Morgan National Library of Wales 26 September 2019 26 July – George Borrow, author of Wild Wales, 78John Sutherland John Sutherland (author) https://books.google.com/books?id=QzJ3yNVVqtUC&pg=PA77 Borrow, George 77 The Stanford Companion to Victorian Literature 1989 1990 9780804718424 13 October – Edwin Barber Morgan, Welsh-descended president of Wells Fargo, 67https://books.google.com/books?id=P8DOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA29 General Catalogue of the Officers & Students: With Historical Sketches of the Founder, Henry Wells, & the Hon. Edwin Barber Morgan, Its Principal Benefactor...1868-1894 1894 29– 9781342470959 20 November – Hugh Owen, educationist, 77Owen, Hugh (1804-1881) 22 November – John Owen Griffith (Ioan Arfon), poet and critic, 53s-GRIF-OWE-1828 Griffith, John Owen (Ioan Arfon, 1828-1881), poet and critic Griffith Thomas Roberts 1959 1 March 2022 10 December – Walter Powell, industrialist and politician, 39 See also 1881 in Ireland References Wales Category:1881 in Europe Category:1880s in the United Kingdom