1888 in Wales

none September 2019 February 2020 1888 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1888 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1888 in the United Kingdom#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 – John Ernest GreavesNational Museum of Wales Adroddiad Blynyddol The Museum 1935 3 Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse (until 29 May); Herbert Davies-Evans (from 16 July)The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland Dalcassian Publishing Company 1860 443 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 PryceThe 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 Joneshttp://www.llangynfelyn.org/dogfennau/william_basil_DNB.html William Basil Jones, Bishop of St Davids Dictionary of National Biography 21 April 2011 13 October 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181013093426/http://www.llangynfelyn.org/dogfennau/william_basil_DNB.html live 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 January – Plans are presented for a Welsh Presbyterian Chapel in Charing Cross Road, London.The Building News and Engineering Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=JcRJAQAAMAAJ 1888 Office for Publication and advertisements 90 3 February 2020 28 April 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240428023113/https://books.google.com/books?id=JcRJAQAAMAAJ live March – Construction work begins on the Dowlais steelworks at East Moors, Cardiff.Andrew Lorenz GKN: The Making of a Business, 1759–2009 https://books.google.com/books?id=8rB_vprP6-kC&pg=PA41 16 April 2012 John Wiley & Sons 978-0-470-68588-4 41 3 February 2020 28 April 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240428023229/https://books.google.com/books?id=8rB_vprP6-kC&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q&f=false live 11 April - Earthquake centred on Corwen.British Geological Survey UK Historical Earthquake Database 2022-12-28 http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/historical/query_eq/ 1 July 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220701075413/http://earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/historical/query_eq/ live May – Owen Glynne Jones climbs Cadair Idris by the east ridge of the Cyfrwy.Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion https://books.google.com/books?id=jTFWAAAAYAAJ 1967 The Society 304 3 February 2020 28 April 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240428023137/https://books.google.com/books?id=jTFWAAAAYAAJ live 13 May – The young Beatrix Potter records a trip to Machynlleth in her diary. 14 May – Five miners are killed in an accident at the Aber Colliery, Porth, Rhondda. August – Joshua Hughes, Bishop of St Asaph, has a seizure while staying in Scotland, and is paralysed until his death a few months later.Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Volume 28. 27 September – A new dock at Milford Haven is opened.The Railway News ... https://books.google.com/books?id=9Qo1AQAAIAAJ 1912 141 3 February 2020 28 April 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240428023141/https://books.google.com/books?id=9Qo1AQAAIAAJ live 5 October – Five sailors are drowned at Colwyn Bay while returning to their ship by boat. date unknown University of Wales, Bangor, opens its agriculture department – the first in a British university.David Roberts Bangor University 1884–2009 https://books.google.com/books?id=8nuvBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA8 1 November 2009 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-2280-2 8 3 February 2020 28 April 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240428023124/https://books.google.com/books?id=8nuvBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q&f=false live The Welsh Parliamentary Liberal Party is formed.John Davies Nigel Jenkins Menna Baines The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZEUAQAAIAAJ 2008 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1953-6 186 3 February 2020 28 April 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240428023139/https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZEUAQAAIAAJ live Henry Morton Stanley "discovers" Lake Edward and names it after the Prince of Wales.The World Book Encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=I1MlAQAAIAAJ 1989 World Book 838 978-0-7166-1289-6 3 February 2020 28 April 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240428023229/https://books.google.com/books?id=I1MlAQAAIAAJ live R. 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Lloyd Price opens a whisky distillery at Frongoch.Stuart Perry The New Zealand Whisky Book https://books.google.com/books?id=0c3iAAAAMAAJ 1980 Collins 978-0-00-216973-8 103 3 February 2020 28 April 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240428024128/https://books.google.com/books?id=0c3iAAAAMAAJ live The remains of Llantwit Major Roman Villa are discovered.National Museum of Wales Annual Report https://books.google.com/books?id=ctQ9AQAAIAAJ 1928 The Museum 20 3 February 2020 28 April 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240428024149/https://books.google.com/books?id=ctQ9AQAAIAAJ live Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Wrexham Chair – Thomas Tudno Jones, "Peroriaeth"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod of Wales 3 February 2020 3 February 2020 13 February 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair dead Crown – Howell Elvet Lewis, "Y Sabath yng Nghymru"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners Winners of the Crown National Eisteddfod of Wales 3 February 2020 3 February 2020 7 November 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191107194429/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners dead New books Daniel Owen – Y Siswrn J. Rhys – Lectures of the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by Celtic Music William Griffith – "I Will Extol Thee"s-GRIF-WIL-1832 GRIFFITH, WILLIAM (Gwilym Caledffrwd, 1832–1913) Robert David Griffith 3 June 2016 Sport Cricket – Glamorgan County Cricket Club founded.Bamber Gascoigne Encyclopedia of Britain https://books.google.com/books?id=LxAqKFGI3T4C 1994 Macmillan 978-0-333-63739-5 259 Golf – Tenby Links becomes the first golf course in Wales.The Golfing Annual https://books.google.com/books?id=Gi4PAQAAMAAJ 1898 H. Cox 518 3 February 2020 28 April 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240428024251/https://books.google.com/books?id=Gi4PAQAAMAAJ live The first competition held by the club is held on 25 October over 9 holes and is won by Mr T A Rees. Rugby union Briton Ferry RFC, Builth Wells RFC, Llantrisant RFC, Newbridge RFC and Tonna RFC are founded. Willie Thomas is the only Welsh international to take part in the first overseas tour by a British rugby union team. Wales win their first international game against Scotland, during the 1888 Home Nations Championship. Wales face their first international opposition, the New Zealand Native football team. Wales win by a goal to nil. Births February – Grace Wynne Griffith, novelist (died 1963)s2-GRIF-WYN-1888 Griffith, Grace Wynne (1888-1963), novelist Gomer Morgan Roberts 2001 20 December 2021 23 March – Fred Hando, writer and artist (died 1970)Hando's Gwent 1987 Chris Barber 978-0951044452 Blorenge Books 29 April – Fred Dyer, boxer and baritone singer (died after 1934) 14 May – Nansi Richards, harpist (died 1979)Evans Nia Gwyn Jones, Nansi Richards ('Telynores Maldwyn ') (1888-1979), harpist s10-RICH-NAN-1888 National Library of Wales 20 December 2021 2016 21 May – William Cove, politician (died 1963) 24 May – Howell Lewis, Wales international rugby player (died 1971) 18 June – Margaret Lindsay Williams, artist (died 1960)Peter Lord Williams, Margaret Lindsay s2-WILL-LIN-1888 National Library of Wales 23 August 2015 16 August – T. E. Lawrence, writer and war hero (died 1935) Legg Rodney Lawrence of Arabia in Dorset Dorset Pub Sherborne 1988 9780902129962 8 24 August – Valentine Baker, pilot and war hero (died 1942) 5 September – Rhys Hopkin Morris, politician (died 1956) 7 October – Frances Stevenson, secretary and later wife of David Lloyd George (died 1972) 19 October – Peter Freeman, politician (died 1956)Mr. P. Freeman, M.P - An energetic reformer 21 May 1956 10 53536 27 November – Ezer Griffiths, physicist (died 1962) 29 December – Reg Plummer, Wales and British Lion rugby union player (died 1953) Deaths 23 February – Evan Davies (Myfyr Morganwg), poet and archdruid, 87s-DAVI-EVA-1801 DAVIES, EVAN (Myfyr Morganwg; 1801 – 1888), bard and 'archdruid' 14 January 2020 29 February – Thomas Price, Baptist minister and author, 67Price Watkin William Thomas Price s-PRIC-THO-1820 4 May 2020 7 March – Hugh Hughes (Cadfan), Patagonian colonist, 63 16 March – Thomas Thomas, chapel architect and minister, c. 81 22 March – Henry Robertson, Scottish engineer and founder of Brymbo Steel Works, 72Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=TFE-AQAAMAAJ 1888 4 4 May 2020 28 April 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240428024138/https://books.google.com/books?id=TFE-AQAAMAAJ live 24 March – Benjamin Piercy, civil engineer, 61Thomas Mardy Rees Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities https://books.google.com/books?id=sXM_AQAAMAAJ 1908 Herald Office 400 29 May – Edward Pryse, politician, 70Death of Colonel Pryse http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3344911/3344915/21 27 February 2018 Cambrian News 1 June 1888 4 28 February 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180228041436/http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3344911/3344915/21 live 7 June – Charles William Nevill, industrialist and politician, 72 2 August – David Davies (Dewi Emlyn), poet, 70 5 August – Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan, politician, historian and antiquary, 84s-MORG-SWI-1803 Morgan, Charles Octavius Swinnerton (1803–1888), antiquary and local historian William Llewelyn Davies 4 May 2020 20 August – Henry Richard, politician and peace campaigner, 76Death of Mr. Henry Richard, M.P. Huddersfield Chronicle 25 August 1888 20 December 2015 http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000167/18880825/042/0003 British Newspaper Archive subscription 3 September – Robert H. Roberts, Welsh-born US senator, 51 (boatyard accident)EX-SENATOR ROBERTS KILLED https://web.archive.org/web/20240428024124/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1888/09/04/106191698.pdf 28 April 2024 in NYT on September 4, 1888 20 September – Elias Owen, footballer, 35 (suicide)Who's Who of Welsh International Soccer Players Davies Gareth Garland Ian 1991 Bridge Books Wrexham 1-872424-11-2 155 23 November – Edward John Sartoris, politician, 74/75 date unknown John Evans (Y Bardd Cocos), poet Morgan Morgans, mining engineer, 73/4 See also 1888 in Ireland References Wales Category:1888 in Europe Category:1880s in Wales