1870 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1870 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1870 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1870 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 – Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar 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 – 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 – 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 – 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, 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 Short (retired);s-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 Joshua Hughes (from 9 May)s-HUGH-JOS-1807 Hughes, Joshua (1807-1889), bishop 1959 William Thomas Havard William Havard 26 October 2021 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 January — Francis Kilvert begins his famous diary. Kilvert's Diary The Kilvert Society 4 March 2024 http://www.thekilvertsociety.org.uk/kilverts-diary 14 February — In a mining accident at Morfa Colliery, Port Talbot, 30 men are killed.https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/accidents-disasters/glamorganshire/morfa-colliery-explosion-port-talbot-1870/ Morfa Colliery Explosion Northern Mine Research Society 4 March 2024 April — George Osborne Morgan introduces the Burials Bill and the Places of Worship (Acquisition of Land) Bill to Parliament. unknown dates Sir George Gilbert Scott completes the restoration of Bangor Cathedral. In India, Timothy Richards Lewis discovers a nematoid worm, which he calls Filaria sanguinis hominis (later "Wuchereria bancrofti").s-LEWI-RIC-1841 Lewis, Timothy Richards Evan David Jones 4 March 2024 William Thomas Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr of Senghenydd, begins acquiring the collieries later known as the Lewis Merthyr collieries in Rhondda. Jacob Lloyd is created a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Pius IX.Lloyd, Jacob Youde William 33 Thomas William Rhys Davids begins a series of articles for the Ceylon branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Journal. Arts and literature New books John Ceiriog Hughes — Oriau'r Hafs-HUGH-CEI-1832 Hughes, John Ceiriog (Ceiriog; 1832-1887), poet David Gwenallt Jones 13 December 2025 David Lloyd Davies — Ceinwen Morgan neu y Rian Ddiwylliedig Richard Davies (Mynyddog) — Yr Ail Gynnig Music Sport Billiards — John Roberts, Sr. loses the English billiards championship after 21 years. Association football — Druids of Rhiwabon formed. Births 13 January — Conway Rees, rugby player (died 1932) 10 March — George "Honey Boy" Evans, Welsh-born US entertainer (died 1915)Frank Cullen Florence Hackman Donald McNeilly Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performances in America https://books.google.com/books?id=XFnfnKg6BcAC&pg=PA365 2007 Psychology Press 978-0-415-93853-2 365– 20 March — Eluned Morgan, author (died 1938)s-MORG-ELU-1870 Morgan, Eluned (1870-1938), writer 18 March 2021 25 March — Wallace Watts, Wales international rugby union player (died 1950) 19 June — Charles Nicholl, Wales international rugby union player (died 1939) 29 June Arthur Boucher, Wales international rugby union player (died 1948) Sir Charles Dillwyn-Venables-Llewellyn, 2nd Baronet, politician (died 1951)Arthur Charles Fox-Davies Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour T.C. & E.C. Jack 1910 457 14 July — Helena Jones, doctor and suffragette (died 1946)Women of the Right Spirit: Paid Organisers of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), 1904-18 Krista Cowman 225 Manchester University Press 2007 9780719070020 16 July — William Henry Prosser, teacher and cricketer (died 1952) https://archive.org/stream/p2alumnicantabri05univuoft#page/208/mode/2up Alumni Cantabrigienses: William Prosser J. Venn J. A. Venn Part 5 208 26 January 2015 27 July — Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan, historian (died 1948)Davies Sir William Llewelyn Vaughan, Herbert Millingchamp (1870–1948) 2001 s2-VAUG-MIL-1870 18 August — William Cope, 1st Baron Cope, politician and Wales international rugby player (died 1946)Steven John Welsh Yeomanry at War: A History of the 24th (Pembroke & Glamorgan Yeomanry) Battalion, The Welsh Regiment Pen & Sword Books 2015 9781473865808 27 September — Thomas Jones (T. J.), civil servant (died 1955)s2-JONE-THO-1870 Benjamin Bowen Thomas Jones, Thomas (1870-1955), university professor, civil servant, administrator, author 2001 22 February 2022 22 October — J. Glyn Davies, scholar, poet and songwriter (died 1953)s2-DAVI-GLY-1870 Davies, John Glyn (1870–1953), scholar, songwriter and poet Gruffydd Robert Geraint R. Geraint Gruffydd 2001 5 March 2024 3 November — Norman Biggs, Wales international rugby player (died 1908) 15 November — William Elsey, Wales international rugby player (died 1936) 20 December — Sir David Davies, politician (died 1958)28 April 1958 Death of Sir David Davies Western Mail 5 29 December — Robert Dewi Williams, teacher, minister and writer (died 1955)s2-WILL-DEW-1870 Williams, Robert Dewi (1870–1955), minister (Presb.), headmaster of Clynnog School and writer Roberts Gomer Morgan 2001 17 February 2022 31 December — David John Jones, Dean of Llandaff (died 1949) December — Ernest William Jones, steamship agent and cricketer (died 1941) date unknown John William Evans, politician (died 1906)Death of Alderman J.W. Evans, Hirwaun http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/3576971/ART98 4 May 2014 Aberdare Leader 9 June 1906 John Hughes Morris, missionary (died 1953) Deaths 16 March — Thomas Parry, Bishop of Barbados, 74 4 April — Owen Wynne Jones, writer, 42Thomas Mardy Rees Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. Also a Complete Alphabetical Index https://books.google.com/books?id=sXM_AQAAMAAJ 1908 Herald Office 15 May — Charles Hinde (army officer), soldier, 49s-HIND-EDW-1820 Hinde, Charles Thomas Edward (1820-1870), major general Elwyn Evans 1959 17 February 2022 27 May — John Etherington Welch Rolls, Monmouthshire landowner and father of 1st Baron Llangattock, 63Greater London Council The survey of London https://books.google.com/books?id=5r4JAQAAIAAJ 1971 AMS Press 978-0-404-51650-5 40 23 June — Isaac Hughes, Calvinist missionary and preacher, 71/72Morris John Hughes The History of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists' Foreign Mission: To the End of the Year 1904 https://books.google.com/books?id=uVMkKxj4IWgC&pg=PA311 1910 Indus Publishing 978-81-7387-049-1 311 1 August — Levi Gibbon, balladeer, 92Robert Griffiths S.O. Davies--a socialist faith https://books.google.com/books?id=iCchAAAAMAAJ July 1983 Gomer Press 978-0-85088-887-4 21 17 September — Joseph David Jones, composer, 43s-JONE-DAV-1827 Davies, Joseph David (1827-1870), schoolmaster and musician Robert David Griffith 1959 17 February 2022 27 October — Owen Jones Ellis Nanney, politician, 80Bernard Burke A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland Harrison 1886 1332 29 October — Jacob Owen, architect and civil engineer, 92https://www.dia.ie/architects/view/4252/OWEN-JACOB OWEN, JACOB - Dictionary of Irish Architects www.dia.ie 20 December 2022 16 November — Harry Longueville Jones, antiquary, 64Notes and Queries https://books.google.com/books?id=PWEEAAAAYAAJ 1894 Oxford University Press 468 See also 1870 in Ireland References Wales Wales Category:1870 in Europe Category:1870s in Wales