1864 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1864 to Wales and its people.
Incumbent[]
- Monarch - Victoria
Events[]
- June - David Lloyd George's father dies and his family move from Pembrokeshire to Llanystumdwy to be cared for by his maternal uncle, Richard Lloyd, when he is aged 18 months.
- June 23 - Aberystwyth is linked to the rail network for the first time.[1]
- October 6 - The Denbigh, Ruthin and Corwen Railway is completed throughout to Corwen.[1]
- David Davies Llandinam takes a lease of coal in the Upper Rhondda Valley and sinks the Parc and Maindy pits.
- Opening of Rhosydd Quarry narrow gauge railway incline on the upper Croesor Tramway at the head of the Croesor valley.
- The Llandudno Improvement Commissioners attempt to ban Punch and Judy shows. In this year, the town first receives the title "Queen of Welsh Resorts".[2]
Arts and literature[]
Awards[]
- National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Llandudno. The chair is won by (Rhisiart Ddu o Wynedd).
New books[]
English language[]
- R. D. Blackmore - Clara Vaughan[3]
- Sir - Lyrics
- Alfred Russel Wallace - The Origin of Human Races and the Antiquity of Man Deduced from the Theory of Natural Selection
- - Diaries of a Lady of Quality (posthumously published)[4]
Welsh language[]
- - Llawlyfr Carnedd Llywelyn[5]
- Robert Jones Derfel - Traethodau ac Areithiau[6]
- Daniel Silvan Evans (ed.) - Y Marchog Crwydrad: Hen Ffuglith Gymreig
Music[]
- - Gwarchae Harlech (cantata)[7]
Sport[]
- Cricket
- South Wales Cricket Club play Gentlemen of Sussex. The South Wales team includes W. G. Grace, who scores 170.
- Football
- October 22 - The predecessor of Wrexham A.F.C. plays its first match, making it the oldest association football club in Wales and the world's sixth oldest football club.
Births[]
- January 8
- Prince Albert Victor, first child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1892)
- , soldier and historian (died 1948)[8]
- February 7 - Alfred Augustus Mathews, vicar and Wales international rugby player (died 1946)
- March 11 - John Silas Evans, astronomer (died 1953)[9]
- May 4 - Harry Bowen, Wales international rugby player (died 1913)
- June 5 - Edward Pegge, Wales international rugby player (died 1915)
- July 5 - (died 1927)[10]
- August 19 - Charles Alfred Howell Green, first Bishop of Monmouth (died 1944)[11]
- September 15
- Fred Andrews, Wales international rugby player (died 1929)
- Giotto Griffiths, Wales international rugby player (died 1938)
- September 21 - Ernest Rowland, priest and Wales international rugby player (died 1940)
- October 10
- October 17 - Sir John Morris-Jones, grammarian (died 1929)[13]
- November 4 - Margaret Owen, later wife of David Lloyd George (died 1941)
Deaths[]
- March 11 - Richard Roberts, engineer, 74
- March 28 - Ellis Evans, Baptist minister and author, 77[14]
- June 18
- Evan Davies, missionary, 59
- William Smith O'Brien, Irish nationalist, 60
- June 20 - , poet, 79[15]
- July 24 - Lloyd Kenyon, 3rd Baron Kenyon, 59[10]
- August 1 - Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (born 1777)
- December 29 - Mary Jones, early owner of a Welsh Bible, 80
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Quick, Michael (2009). Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: a Chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5.
- ^ Jones, Ivor Wynne. "Chapter 3". Llandudno Queen of Welsh Resorts. p. 19.
Liverpool Mercury.
- ^ Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1864). Clara Vaughan; by R.D. Blackmore. Macmillan and Company.
- ^ Frances Williams-Wynn (1864). Diaries of a Lady of Quality from 1797 to 1844. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green.
- ^ John Davies; Nigel Jenkins; Menna Baines (2008). The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
- ^ Robert Jones DERFEL (1864). Traethodau ac areithiau, etc. J. Mendus Jones.
- ^ David Hughes Lewis. "Griffiths, William (Ifander, 1830-1910), choral conductor and adjudicator". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
- ^ William Llewelyn Davies. "Glenn, Thomas Allen (1864-1948), soldier, historian, genealogist, and archaeologist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
- ^ Mary Gwendoline Ellis. "Evans, John Silas (1864-1953), priest and astronomer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon. "KENYON family, Gredington, Flintshire, and Peel Hall, Lancashire". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
- ^ Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "Green, Charles Alfred Howell (1864-1944), second Archbishop of Wales". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
- ^ "Gould, Arthur Joseph (1864-1919), Rugby footballer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
- ^ Thomas Parry. "Morris-Jones, Sir John (1864-1929), scholar, poet, and critic". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
- ^ Tom Ellis Jones. "Evans, Ellis (1786-1864), Baptist minister and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Davies John (1784?-1864), known as 'Brychan,' poet, publisher, and promoter of the friendly society movement". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
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