1881 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1881 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents[edit]
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – William Owen Stanley[2][3][4][5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse[8][3]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington[3]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite
- Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell[13][14]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant[15]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua Hughes[16][15]
- Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones[15][17]
Events[edit]
- January – At least five people freeze to death during blizzards and extreme low temperatures throughout Wales.
- 4 March – Physician William Price marries 22-year-old Gwenllian Llywelyn in a Druidic ceremony at Pontypridd on his 81st birthday.
- 27 August – The Sunday Closing (Wales) Act prohibits the sale of alcohol on a Sunday. This is the first Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom since the 1542 Act of Union whose application is restricted to Wales.[18]
- 13 October – 19 people drown when the Cyprian is wrecked off the Lleyn peninsula.
- date unknown
- Welsh Regiment formed as part of the Childers Reforms of the British Army, incorporating the 41st (Welsh) Regiment of Foot.[19]
- River Vyrnwy is dammed to create Lake Vyrnwy.
Arts and literature[edit]
The Cambrian Academy of Art is formed by English and Welsh artists in North Wales.
Awards[edit]
National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Merthyr Tydfil
- Chair – Evan Rees ("Dyfed"), "Cariad"[20]
- Crown – Watkin Hezekiah Williams
New books[edit]
- Amy Dillwyn – Chloe Arguelle
- Daniel Owen – Y Dreflan
Music[edit]
Sport[edit]
- Rugby union
- 19 February – First Wales national game, played at Blackheath against England. Wales lose heavily.
- 12 March – The Welsh Rugby Union is formed as the Welsh Football Union in a meeting in Neath.
Births[edit]
- 1 January – George Latham, footballer (died 1939)
- 3 January – Lewis Pugh Evans, VC recipient (died 1962)[21]
- 14 February – William John Gruffydd, academic and politician (died 1954)
- 9 April – John Hart Evans, Wales international rugby player (died 1959)
- 15 April – David Thomas ("Afan"), composer (died 1928)
- 16 April – Ifor Williams, academic (died 1965)[22]
- 5 May – Rupert Price Hallowes, VC recipient (died 1915)
- 16 June – David Grenfell, politician (died 1968)[23]
- 20 June – John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, landowner (died 1947)[24]
- August – John Lewis, footballer (died 1954)
- 30 September – Philip Lewis Griffiths, lawyer (died 1945)
- 1 October – Cliff Pritchard, Wales international rugby player (died 1954)
- 28 October – Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, explorer (died 1957)
- 10 December – David Phillips Jones, Wales international rugby player (died 1936)
- December – George Hall, politician (died 1965)
- date unknown
- Robert Williams, trade union leader (died 1936)
Deaths[edit]
- 3 January – William H. C. Lloyd, clergyman, 78
- 19 January – John Roose Elias, poet, 60[25]
- 11 March – Thomas Brigstocke, portrait painter, 71
- 20 April – William Burges, architect, 53[26]
- 7 June – William Milbourne James, judge, 74[27]
- 26 July – George Borrow, author of Wild Wales, 78[28]
- 13 October – Edwin Barber Morgan, Welsh-descended president of Wells Fargo, 67[29]
- 20 November – Hugh Owen, educationist, 77[30]
- 22 November – John Owen Griffith (Ioan Arfon), poet and critic, 53[31]
- 10 December – Walter Powell, industrialist and politician, 39
See also[edit]
References[edit]
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- ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
- ^ a b c J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
- ^ Edwin Poole (1886). 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. p. 378.
- ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
- ^ "Death of Colonel Pryse". Cambrian News. 1 June 1888. p. 4. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
- ^ Campbell, Thomas Methuen (2000). "C.R.M. Talbot 1803–1890". Morgannwg. 44: 66–104. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
- ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
- ^ James Henry Clark (1869). History of Monmouthshire. County Observer. p. 375.
- ^ Evan David Jones (1959). "Herbert family (earls of Powis)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
- ^ Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780521563505.
- ^ Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 266.
- ^ a b c Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.
- ^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
- ^ "Jones, William Basil (Tickell) (1822–1897)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
- ^ Prior, Neil (4 August 2011). "130 years since Sunday drinking was banned in Wales". BBC News Wales. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ^ Richard A Rinaldi (15 July 2008). Order of Battle of the British Army 1914. Ravi Rikhye. p. 195. ISBN 978-0-9776072-8-0.
- ^ "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 October 2019.
- ^ David Harvey (1999). Monuments to Courage: 1917–1982. K. and K. Patience. p. 61.
- ^ Thomas Parry (2001). "Williams, Sir Ifor (1881-1965), Welsh scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- ^ John Graham Jones (2013). "Williams, Grenfell, David Rhys (1881-1965), Labour politician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- ^ Bernard Burke; Ashworth Peter Burke (1910). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage. Harrison. p. 322.
- ^ Pharmaceutical Journal. J. Churchill. 1881. p. 1038.
- ^ Godwin, Edward William (2005). Kinchin, Juliet; Stirton, Paul (eds.). Is Mr Ruskin Living Too Long? - Selected Writings of E. W. Godwin. Oxford: White Cockade Publishing. p. 137. ISBN 978-18734-8712-9. OCLC 470551179.
- ^ Walter Thomas Morgan. "James, Sir William Milbourne (1807–1881), Lord Justice". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
- ^ John Sutherland (1990) [1989]. "Borrow, George". The Stanford Companion to Victorian Literature. p. 77. ISBN 9780804718424.
- ^ General Catalogue of the Officers & Students: With Historical Sketches of the Founder, Henry Wells, & the Hon. Edwin Barber Morgan, Its Principal Benefactor...1868-1894. 1894. pp. 29–. ISBN 9781342470959.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Griffith Thomas Roberts (1959). "Griffith, John Owen (Ioan Arfon, 1828-1881), poet and critic". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 March 2022.