1869 in Wales

none December 2025 September 2019 May 2020 1869 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1869 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1869 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey (until 7 February); William Owen Stanley (from 2 March)Edward 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 292Thomas 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 Shorts-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 Bishop of St Davids – Connop ThirlwallThomas 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 Henry Austin Bruce becomes MP for Renfrewshire. Timothy Richards Lewis goes to India to study cholera. 1 May – The Western Mail is published for the first time.Wales Online, "First ever Western Mail edition: May 1, 1869". Accessed 12 December 2013 19 May – Two days after John Young, the English manager of the Leeswood Green colliery, announces a pay cut, he is attacked by some of his workers. Radford Ken Tales of North Wales Skilton & Shaw Edinburgh 1982 9780284986146 37 2 June – Seven men are tried at Mold for attacking John Young. A riot breaks out as those convicted are being transported to the railway station; soldiers fire on the crowd, killing four people.The Riot in Wales The Times London 1869-06-04 12 26455 10 June 53 men and boys are killed in the second underground explosion within two years at Ferndale Colliery in the Rhondda. Three people are killed in a train derailment at Maesycwmmer in Glamorgan. August – Anti-Irish riots at Pontlottyn in the Rhymney Valley result in one death. Leary Paul Irish migrants in modern Wales Liverpool University Press Liverpool 2004 9780853238485 105 1 September – The Dyserth branch line is opened for goods traffic. 30 October – The first edition of the Welsh-language periodical Y Goleuad is published.Ifano Jones A History of Printing and Printers in Wales to 1810, and of Successive and Related Printers to 1923: Also, A History of Printing and Printers in Monmouthshire to 1923 W. Lewis (printers) Limited 1925 180 unknown date Landore steelworks at Swansea established by Carl Wilhelm Siemens.The Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales Cardiff University of Wales Press 2008 John Hughes of Merthyr Tydfil buys land near the Sea of Azov, where he develops an ironworks and founds the city of Yuzovka (later Donetsk). Joseph Leycester Lyne (Father Ignatius of Jesus) acquires land at Capel-y-ffin and begins construction of an Anglican Benedictine community, Llanthony Abbey. Barton John Off the beaten track Mooreland Pub. Globe Pequot Press Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England Old Saybrook, Conn 1994 9781564402943 123 Construction of the fort at St Catherine's Island, off Tenby. Prehistoric burial remains are discovered at Parc le Breos on the Gower Peninsula. John Owen of Tyn-llwyn is evicted from his farm for voting Tory.February 2022 Arts and literature Awards The first official National Eisteddfod of Wales takes place at Holywell. New books J. H. Clark – History of Monmouthshire John Hugh Evans – cy Pryddest Goffa i Thomas Aubrey Jane Hughes – cy Galargan am y diweddar Barch. Henry Rees, Liverpool David Watkin Jones cy (Dafydd Morgannwg) – Yr Ysgol Farddol Nathaniel Jones cy (Cynhafal) – Elias y Thesbiad John Petherick – Travels in Central Africa and Explorations of the Western Nile Tributaries William Rowlands – cy Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry (Bibliography of the Welsh) (posthumous; ed. Daniel Silvan Evans) Jane Williams (Ysgafell) – A History of Wales derived from Authentic Sources Roberts Gwyneth Jane Williams (Ysgafell University of Wales Press Cardiff 2020 9781786835642 152 Robert Williams (Trebor Mai) – cy Y Geninen Music Owen Jones – cy Hymnau Hen a Diweddar (collection of hymns)s1-JONE-OWE-1825 Jones, Owen (1825-1900), cleric and musician Robert Thomas Jenkins 12 December 2025 Sport Football – Ruabon footballers set up a club at Plas Madoc. Mountaineering – Emmeline Lewis Lloyd attempts an ascent of the Matterhorn. Births 11 January – Ralph Sweet-Escott, English born, Wales rugby international (died 1907) 9 April – John Hugh Edwards, politician (died 1945)s2-EDWA-HUG-1869 Edwards, John Hugh (1869-1945) 2001 William Llewelyn Davies William Llewelyn Davies 19 May – John Henry Williams, Welsh politician (died 1936) 20 May – Robert Griffith Berry, minister and writer (died 1945) 30 May – Thomas Rees, theologian (died 1926)REES, THOMAS (1869-1926), principal of Bala-Bangor Independent College s-REES-THO-1869 Richard Griffith Owen 12 December 2025 12 August – Fred Parfitt, Wales international rugby player (died 1953) 6 September – Walford Davies, composer (died 1944)s2-DAVI-WAL-1869 Davies, Sir Henry Walford (1869-1941), musician John Charles McLean 2001 4 December 2021 24 September – Maud Cunnington, archaeologist (died 1951) 29 October – Bill Morris, Wales international rugby player (died 1946) 9 November – Osbert Fynes-Clinton, dialectologist (died 1941)FYNES-CLINTON, OSBERT HENRY (1869 - 1941), Professor of French and Romance Philology at the University College of North Wales, Bangor s2-FYNE-HEN-1869 2001 Emyr Gwynne Jones 12 December 2025 15 November – Percy Bennett, Wales international rugby player (died 1936) 20 November – Herbert Tudor Buckland, architect working in Birmingham (died 1951) Deaths 23 March – William Williams (Caledfryn), poet, 68 31 March – David Rees (Y Cynhyrfwr), Nonconformist leader and author, 67s-REES-DAV-1801 Rees, David (1801-1869), Congregational minister, and editor John Dyfnallt Owen 1959 4 December 2021 16 April – James Davies (Iago ap Dewi), poet, 68 1 July – David Jones, banker and politician, 58 14 July – Lloyd Kenyon, 3rd Baron Kenyon, 64 26 August – William Williams (Creuddynfab), 55s1-WILL-WIL-1814 Williams, William (Creuddynfab; 1814-1869), poet and literary critic Margaret Beatrice Davies 1959 4 December 2021 October – John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet, 59 (suicide)s-JONE-JOH-1810 Jones, John (Talhaiarn; 1810-1869), architect and poet David Gwenallt Jones 1959 4 December 2021 7 October – George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor, politician, 74The Death of Lord Dynevor (editorial) http://newspapers.library.wales/view/4354180/4354185/18 12 April 2015 Welshman 15 October 1869 5 9 November – Harriet Windsor-Clive, 13th Baroness Windsor, philanthropist,"Death of the Baroness Windsor", The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian, 13 November 1869, p.5 15 December – David Williams, politician, 70 17 December – Sarah Jacob, "the fasting girl", 12 See also 1869 in Ireland References 1869 Wales Wales Category:1869 in Europe Category:1860s in Wales