1857 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1857 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents[edit]
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins[5][6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore (until 12 July);[8] Edward Pryse (from 14 September)[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Robert Davies Pryce[13]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh[14]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley[15]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet[16]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite[17][2]
- Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell[18][19]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant[20][21]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short[22][23][21]
- Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall[24][21][25]
Events[edit]
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- 4 March — Thomas Gee launches the radical nonconformist newspaper Baner Cymru in Denbigh.[26]
- 24 March — 1857 United Kingdom general election, concludes. Anglesey antiquarian William Owen Stanley becomes Whig MP for the Beaumaris District of Boroughs.[27]
- 6 May — Samuel Roberts (S. R.) sails for Tennessee.
- 1 June — Opening of the Crumlin Viaduct, built to carry the Taff Vale Extension of the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway.[28]
- 10 August — John Bowen is consecrated as Bishop of Sierra Leone.
- 13 August — Eugene Goddard crosses the Menai Strait in his gas balloon Aurora from Caernarfon Castle to Llanidan.[29]
- 3 October — The Newport Gazette is founded by William Nicholas Johns.
- 14 October — Four people are killed in a railway accident near Pyle.
- 29 October — St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden, badly damaged by arson.
- Autumn — Aberdare Strike 1857-8 against reductions in coal miners' pay begins.
- Railway workers go on strike at Aberdare.[citation needed]
Arts and literature[edit]
New books[edit]
English language[edit]
- Richard Williams Morgan — The British Kymry or Britons of Cambria[30]
Welsh language[edit]
- Owen Wynne Jones — Dafydd Llwyd
- Robert Parry (Robyn Ddu Eryri) — Teithiau a Barddoniaeth Robyn Ddu Eryri[31]
Music[edit]
- John Ashton — "Trefeglwys" (hymn tune)
Births[edit]
- 2 February - Sir James Cory, 1st Baronet, politician and ship-owner (died 1933)
- 7 February — Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl Dunraven (died 1952)
- 28 February — Charlie Newman, Wales rugby union captain (died 1922)
- 27 April — Alfred Cattell, Wales international rugby player (died 1933)
- 12 May — Sarah Jacob, the "fasting girl" (died 1869)
- 20 June — Dan Griffiths, Wales international rugby player (died 1936)
- 28 June — Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet, orthopaedic surgeon (died 1933)
- 1 July — Martha Hughes Cannon, women's rights activist and politician in the United States (died 1932)
- 19 September — James Bridie, Scottish-born Wales international rugby union player (died 1893 in England)
- 8 November — Frank Purdon, Wales rugby union international
- 14 November — John Thomas Rees, musician (died 1949)
- 2 December — Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, surgeon (died 1943)
- Llewellyn Cadwaladr, operatic tenor (died 1909)
Deaths[edit]
- 3 January — Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (second creation), 55
- 23 January — Edward Anwyl, Wesleyan minister and teacher, 70[32]
- 10 February — David Thompson, explorer of Welsh parentage, 86
- 29 March — Elijah Waring, writer, ±69[33]
- 16 May — Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer, 74[34]
- 13 June — Daniel Rees, hymn-writer, 64[35]
- 12 July — Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore, Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire, 64[8]
- 12 August — William Daniel Conybeare, dean of Llandaff, 70
- 16 August — John Jones, Talysarn, leading non-conformist minister, 61[36]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ 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 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.
- ^ "Editorial". Welshman. 6 October 1865. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "Family Notices". Pembrokeshire Herald. 17 July 1857. p. 3. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ Thomas John Hughes (1887). The Welsh magistracy, by Adfyfr. South Wales and Monmouthshire Liberal Federation Offices. p. 5.
- ^ "Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
- ^ "Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
- ^ "TALBOT, Christopher Rice Mansel (1803-1890), of Penrice Castle and Margam Park, Glam". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
- ^ Amy Audrey Locke (1916). The Hanbury Family. Arthur L. Humphreys. p. 147.
- ^ "Hanbury Tracy, Charles (1778–1858), of Toddington, Glos. and Gregynog, Mont". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
- ^ Thorne, R.G. "John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire". History of Parliament. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
- ^ Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
- ^ 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. 305.
- ^ Frederick Arthur Crisp; Joseph Jackson Howard (1898). Visitation of England and Wales. p. 15.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1857). The historic peerage of England: Revised, corrected, and continued ... by William Courthope. John Murray. p. 533.
- ^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
- ^ Old Yorkshire, volume 3. 1882. p. 90.
- ^ The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
- ^ Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (2001). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorian. The Society. p. 112.
- ^ Thomas Nicholas (1872). Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales. Longmans, Green, Reader. pp. 48–.
- ^ John Elliott (2004). The Industrial Development of the Ebbw Valleys, 1780-1914. University of Wales Press. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-7083-1890-4.
- ^ Hughes, T. Meirion (2014). "Some Feat over a Century and a Half Ago". Caernarfon Through the Eye of Time. Talybont: Y Lolfa. pp. 77–81. ISBN 978-1-847-71930-0.
- ^ Neil Evans (17 February 2016). Writing a Small Nation's Past: Wales in Comparative Perspective, 1850–1950. Routledge. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-134-78661-9.
- ^ National Library of Wales (1985). Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. Council of the National Library of Wales.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins (1959). "Anwyl, Edward (1786-1857), Wesleyan minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
- ^ Griffith John Williams (1959). "Waring, Elijah (c.1788-1857) merchant, author and publisher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
- ^ Ioan Bowen Rees (2001). "Lloyd, Sir William (1782-1857), soldier and one of the first Europeans to reach the peak of any Himalayan snow-capped mountain". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
- ^ Roberts, Gomer Morgan. "Rees, Daniel (1793–1857), cleric and hymnwriter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 August 2008.
- ^ Gwilym Arthur Edwards (1959). "Jones, John (Talysarn)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 January 2022.