1873 in Wales

none thumb | right | View over town of Aberystwith and harbour from Trefechan, 1873. September 2019 February 2020 1873 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1873 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1873 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 – William Cornwallis-West 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, 4th Baron Kensington 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 – Joshua HughesThe Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15 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 1 March – The sailing ship Chacabuco sinks off the Great Orme with the loss of 24 lives.271443 Chacabuco 29 September 2021 18 March – Work begins on construction of the Severn Tunnel."Severn Tunnel." engineering-timelines.com, Retrieved: 2 July 2018. 30 March – The Glyn Valley Tramway opens as a horse-worked line to carry slate and other minerals from Glyn Ceiriog to Chirk.Milner, John (1984). The Glyn Valley Tramway. Oxford Publishing Co. 19 August – The Holyhead Breakwater (the longest in the world) is officially opened by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales.Denton A. Leach N. Lighthouses of Wales Landmark Publishing Ltd 2008 978-1-84306-459-6 having taken 28 years to construct. 9 October – The first recorded sheepdog trial in the UK takes place at Bala.Janet Larson The Versatile Border Collie 1999 Alpine Publications 978-0931866920 registration https://archive.org/details/versatileborderc0000lars 2 December – In a mining accident at Hafod Colliery, Rhiwabon, five men are killed. date unknown – Construction of: Tŵr Mawr Lighthouse on Ynys Llanddwyn. Buckley Arms hotel, Dinas Mawddwy, in reinforced concrete.http://www.thebuckleyarms.co.uk/Hotel_Snowdonia_Wales.asp?ID=6&level1ID=0&Level2ID=0 The Buckley Arms usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20120314041710/http://www.thebuckleyarms.co.uk/Hotel_Snowdonia_Wales.asp?ID=6&level1ID=0&Level2ID=0 2012-03-14 2012-03-14 2022-03-02 Wayback Machine Arts and literature New books Rhoda Broughton – Nancy Robert Elis (Cynddelw) – Manion Hynafiaethol Ebenezer Thomas – Gweithiau Barddonol Eben Fardd (posthumously published)s-THOM-EBE-1802 Thomas, Ebenezer (Eben Fardd; 1802-1863), schoolmaster and poet Thomas Parry 1959 22 February 2022 Music Henry Brinley Richards – Songs of Wales Richard Davies (Mynyddog) writes the song "Rheolau yr Aelwyd", the basis of "Sosban Fach". Sport December – Major Walter Wingfield of Nantclwyd Hall at Llanelidan designs a game for the amusement of his visitors. Wingfield soon patents nets for the game of lawn tennis, which he calls "sphairistike".Annals of Lawn Tennis Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes 44 1885 312 Births 7 January – Christopher Williams, artist (died 1934) 16 January – Ivor Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne, politician (died 1939) 7 April John Dyfnallt Owen, poet and Archdruid (died 1956) Charles Butt Stanton, politician (died 1946)s2-STAN-BUT-1873 Stanton, Charles Butt (1873–1946), M.P. for the Merthyr and Aberdare constituency, 1915–1922 Huw Morris-Jones 17 April 2019 yes 23 April – Sir Robert Thomas, 1st Baronet, politician (died 1951)s2-THOM-JOH-1873 Thomas, Sir Robert (1873–1951), politician and shipowner John Graham Jones 17 April 2019 yes 1 May – Harry Evans, musician (died 1914)s-EVAN-HAR-1873 Evans, Harry (1873–1914), musician Robert David Griffith 28 March 2019 yes 22 May – J. Brynach Davies cy (Brynach) (died 1923) 5 June – Ben Davies, Wales international rugby player (died 1930) 14 October – Sam Livesey, actor (died 1936) date unknown – Arthur Tysilio Johnson, plantsman and author of The Perfidious Welshman (died 1956) Deaths January – John Emlyn Jones, poet, 54s-JONE-EML-1818 Jones, John (Ioan Emlyn; 1818–1873), Baptist minister, poet, and man of letters Robert Thomas Jenkins 1959 28 March 2019 yes 27 January – Josiah Thomas Jones, publisher, 73s-JONE-THO-1799 Jones, Josiah Thomas (1799-1873), publisher and Independent minister Robert Thomas Jenkins 1959 22 August 2021 yes 20 February – (at Launceston, Tasmania) William Jones, Chartist leader, 64 29 March – David Jones, merchant in Australia, 80 17 May – Lord William Paget, soldier and politician, 70 9 October – John Evan Thomas, sculptor, 63s-THOM-EVA-1810 John Evan Thomas, sculptor Robert Thomas Jenkins 1959 22 August 2021 yes 31 October – William Ambrose (Emrys), poet, 60s-AMBR-WIL-1813 Ambrose, William (Emrys; 1813-1873), Independent minister, poet, and littérateur Richard Griffith Owen 1959 22 February 2022 yes 10 November – Maria Jane Williams, musician, 78s12-WILL-JAN-1795 Williams, Maria Jane ('Llinos') (1795-1873), folklore collector and musician Marion Löffler 2019 22 February 2022 yes See also 1873 in Ireland References Wales Wales Category:1873 in Europe Category:1870s in Wales