1877 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1877 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – William Owen Stanley^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse^{[7] [2]}
  • • 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^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington^[2]
  • Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell^{[12] [13]}
  • Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua Hughes^[14]
• Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones^{[15] [16]}
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd^[17]

Events

• 8 March – In a mining accident at Worcester Colliery, Swansea, seventeen men are killed.^[18]
• 11 April – In a mining accident at Tynewydd Colliery, Rhondda, five men are killed by flooding.^[19] Twenty-five of the rescue team are awarded the Albert Medal for bravery.
• 10 July – Consecration of new Merthyr Synagogue, the oldest surviving synagogue building in Wales.
• 1 August – Opening of new Llandudno Pier.^[20]
• 15 August – Opening to passengers of the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways from Dinas to Tryfan Junction and Bryngwyn.^[21]
• 30 November – Opening of the new market hall at Builth Wells by Sir Joseph Bailey M.P.
• unknown dates
  • Opening of Stepaside, Pembrokeshire village school (part of modern-day Stepaside Heritage Park).
  • Closure of lead mine at Loggerheads, Denbighshire.

Arts and literature

• Islwyn wins a bardic chair at Treherbert.

New books

• Richard Davies (Mynyddog) – Y Trydydd Cynnig^[22]
• William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) – Helyntion Bywyd Hen Deiliwr

Music

• Joseph Parry resigns from his position as Professor of Music at University of Wales, Aberystwyth.^[23]

Sport

• Football
  • The Racecourse Ground at Wrexham hosts Wales' first ever home international match, making it the world's oldest international football stadium still to host international matches.^[24]
  • The Welsh Cup is inaugurated.
• Rugby union
  • 8 November – Blaenavon RFC play their first game, against Abergavenny.

Births

• 2 May – Sid Bevan, Welsh international rugby union player (died 1933)
• 6 June (in Guernsey) – Herbert John Fleure, zoologist and geographer (died 1969)^[25]
• 9 June – George Travers, Wales international rugby union player (died 1945)
• 21 June – Elizabeth Mary Jones (Moelona), Welsh-language children's novelist (died 1953)^[26]
• 1 July – Llewellyn Lloyd, Wales international rugby union player (died 1957)
• 19 August – John Evans, supercentenarian (died 1990)
• 17 September – Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist (died 1928)^[27]
• 26 September (in Wandsworth) – Edmund Gwenn, actor (died 1959) (long believed to have been born in Wales)
• 5 October – Lily Gower, croquet player (died 1959)^[28]
• 27 October – David Harris Davies, Wales international rugby union player (died 1944)
• 7 November – Maurice Parry, footballer (died 1935)
• 27 November – Leigh Richmond Roose, football goalkeeper (killed in battle 1916)
• 2 December – John Strand-Jones, Wales international rugby union player (died 1958)

Deaths

• 9 January – Thomas Thomas, clergyman, 72
• 24 June – Robert Dale Owen, Welsh-American politician, 75^[29]
• 14 July – Richard Davies (Mynyddog), poet, 44^[30]
• 18 July – Thomas Richards, "father of Tasmanian journalism", 77
• 27 July – John Frost, Chartist leader, 93^[31]
• 5 August – Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet, 47^[32]
• 17 October – Charles Williams, academic, 73?
• 7 November – Calvert Jones, painter and pioneer photographer, 72^[33]
• 13 December – John Griffith (journalist), journalist who wrote under the pseudonym Y Gohebydd, 56^[34]

See also

• 1877 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 24.
2. Book: J.C. Sainty . John Sainty (civil servant) . List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 . Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd . London . 1979.
3. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 695.
4. Book: Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. 169.
5. Book: 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.
6. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 26.
7. News: Death of Colonel Pryse. 27 February 2018. Cambrian News. 1 June 1888. 4.
8. Campbell. Thomas Methuen. C.R.M. Talbot 1803–1890. Morgannwg. 2000. 44. 66–104. 17 May 2014.
9. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 29.
10. Book: James Henry Clark. History of Monmouthshire. County Observer. 1869. 375.
11. Book: Amy Audrey Locke. The Hanbury Family. Arthur L. Humphreys. 1916. 170.
12. Book: Fryde, E. B. . Handbook of British chronology . New York Cambridge University Press . Cambridge England . 1996 . 9780521563505 . 292.
13. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 266.
14. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
15. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 307.
16. s-JONE-BAS-1822 . Jones, William Basil (Tickell) (1822–1897) . 21 April 2011.
17. Web site: GRIFFITH, DAVID (Clwydfardd; 1800–1894). Daniel Williams. Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. 15 December 2019.
18. Book: United States Congressional Serial Set. 1897. U.S. Government Printing Office. 593.
19. Web site: The Tynewydd Mining Disaster. Ceri Thompson. Museum of Wales. 15 December 2019.
20. Book: Frank Crossley Thornley. Steamers of North Wales, past and present. 1952. T. Stephenson. 66.
21. Book: Donald J. Grant. Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain. 31 October 2017. Troubador Publishing Ltd. 978-1-78803-768-6. 419.
22. Book: Meic Stephens. The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. registration. April 1986. Oxford University Press. 136.
23. Book: Williams, Gareth . Valleys of song: music and society in Wales 1840-1914 . University of Wales Press . Cardiff . 1998 . 9780708314807 . 80.
24. Web site: Guinness cheers Racecourse with official record . . 18 June 2008 . 18 June 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110720014121/http://www.dailypost.co.uk/sport-news/wrexham-fc/2008/06/18/guinness-cheers-racecourse-with-official-record-55578-21092141/ . 20 July 2011 .
25. Garnett . A. . 10.1098/rsbm.1970.0009 . Herbert John Fleure. 1877-1969 . . 16 . 253–278. 1970 . 73303585 . free .
26. s2-JONE-MAR-1877. JONES, ELIZABETH MARY ('Moelona'; 1877-1953), teacher and novelist. Jenkins. David. 2001. 2020-03-09.
27. s2-BERR-BUC-1847. Berry (family), (Lords Buckland, Camrose and Kemsley,) industrialists and newspaper proprietors. Mary Auronwy James. 2001. National Library of Wales. 15 December 2019.
28. Book: Visitation of England and Wales, volume 19. Frederick Arthur Crisp. Joseph Jackson Howard. Priv. printed. 1893. 51.
29. Web site: Owen, Robert Dale (1801–1877) . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . U.S. Congress . 12 September 2017.
30. Book: Montgomery-shire Collections. 1877. Powys-land Club. 2.
31. Book: The Annual summary, by J. Mason. 1877. 276.
32. s-WILL-ROB-1830. Williams, Robert (Trebor Mai; 1830–1877), poet. Iwan Meical Jones. National Library of Wales. 15 December 2019.
33. s3-JONE-RIC-1802. Jones, Calvert Richard (1802–1877), pioneer photographer, artist and priest. Iwan Meical Jones. National Library of Wales. 15 December 2019.
34. Book: John . Davies. John Davies (historian). Nigel . Jenkins . Nigel Jenkins. Baines . Menna. Peredur I. . Lynch. etal . The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales . 2008 . University of Wales Press . Cardiff . 978-0-7083-1953-6.