1886 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1886 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Richard Davies^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (until 31 March); John Ernest Greaves (from 17 May)^[3]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor^[4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Robert Davies Pryce ^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite^[12]
  • Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis^[13]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua Hughes^[14]
• Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones^[15]
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd^[16]

Events

• 9 June – Soprano Adelina Patti marries tenor Ernesto Nicolini in south Wales.
• 1 September – The Great Western Railway opens the Severn Tunnel to regular goods and mineral traffic (and to passengers on 1 December).
• September – Opening of the Llandudno Pier Pavilion Theatre.
• 15 October
  • 20 people are drowned when the sailing ship Malleny is wrecked on Tusker Rocks, Porthcawl.
  • 18 people are drowned when the sailing ship Teviotdale is wrecked on Cefn Sidan Sands in Carmarthenshire.
• 16 October
  • Statue of the Liberal politician John Batchelor unveiled in Cardiff
• November
  • Serious flooding in Aberystwyth.
  • The keeper of the Mumbles lighthouse is swept out to sea and drowned.
  • The rivers Mawddach, Dee and Taff all flood.
• Cantref Reservoir on the Taff Fawr is completed.
• Opening of the Cardiff Stock Exchange.
• Cymru Fydd is founded by the Liberal Party to further the cause of home rule.
• The Welsh Land League is founded.
• Beginning of the tithe revolt in Denbighshire.
• The corporation of the Borough of Holt is dissolved.

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Caernarfon

• Chair – Richard Davies, "Gobaith"^[17]
• Crown – John Cadfan Davies

New books

• Rhoda Broughton – Doctor Cupid

Music

• William Owen "of Prysgol" – Y Perl Cerddorol yn cynnwys tonau ac anthemau, cysegredig a moesol (sol-fa edition)^[18]

Sport

• Football – Druids win the Welsh Cup for the fifth time in its nine-year history.
• Rugby union – Abercynon RFC and Treorchy RFC are founded.

Births

• 3 March – Jack Jones, Wales international rugby player (died 1951)
• 4 March – Rowland Griffiths, Wales international rugby player (died 1914)
• 5 March
  • Paul Radmilovic, competitive swimmer, 4-times Olympic gold medal winner (died 1968)
  • Freddie Welsh, né Thomas, World lightweight boxing champion (died 1927 in the United States)
• 14 March – David Watts, Wales international rugby union player (died 1916)
• 16 March – James Llewellyn Davies, VC winner (died 1917)
• 28 March – John Osborn Williams, entrepreneur (died 1963)
• 3 May – Morgan Jones, politician (died 1939)
• 4 May – Olive Wheeler, educationalist (died 1963)
• 6 June – John Morgan, Archbishop of Wales (died 1957)
• 17 June – David Brunt, meteorologist (died 1965)
• 11 July – Ernest Willows, aviation pioneer (died 1926)
• 13 July – Huw Menai (Huw Owen Williams), poet (died 1961)
• 22 September – Bil Perry, Welsh international rugby player (died 1970)
• 29 September – Jack Williams, VC recipient (died 1953)
• 9 November (probably) – S. O. Davies, politician (died 1972)
• 10 November – Fred Birt, Wales international rugby union player (died 1956)
• 22 December – David James Jones, philosopher and academic (died 1947)

Deaths

• 28 February – John Jones, politician, 73^[19]
• 12 March – Edward Arthur Somerset, politician, 69^[20]
• 31 March – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, 85^[21]
• 7 May – Timothy Richards Lewis, surgeon and pathologist, 44^[22]
• 9 June – Edward Williams, iron-master, 60)^[23]
• 9 July – Roger Edwards, minister and writer, 75^[24]
• 13 October – John Prichard, architect, 69^[25]
• 29 October – Evan Evans, ("Evans Bach Nantyglo"), minister, 82^[26]

See also

• 1886 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. s-DAVI-RIC-1818 . Davies, Richard (1818-1896), M.P.. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 1959. 24 November 2021.
2. Book: Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes. Dod. 1921. 356.
3. Book: National Museum of Wales. Adroddiad Blynyddol. The Museum. 1935. 3.
4. Book: Edward Arthur Copleston. Where's where? Pt. 1. A concise gazetteer of Somerset. Pt. 2. Statistical, educational, parliamentary and practical information. 1878. 80.
5. Book: Potter, Matthew . The concept of the 'master' in art education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the present . Routledge . Abingdon, Oxon . 2016 . 9781351545471 . 149.
6. Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales. Popish recusants in Flintshire in 1625. Henry Taylor. Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales. 1895. 304.
7. s-TALB-MAR-1700 . William Llewelyn Davies . Talbot family, of Margam Abbey and Penrice Castle Glamorganshire . yes . 1959 . 24 November 2021.
8. Book: The Annual Register. Rivingtons. 1892. 179.
9. Book: Reese, M. M. . The royal office of Master of the Horse . Threshold Books Ltd . London . 1976 . 9780901366900 . 348.
10. News: Weyman. Henry T.. Shropshire M.P.s - Memoirs. T.S.A.S., Series 4, Volume XII. 1929. 28.
11. Book: Lodge, Edmund . Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire... . Salzwasser-Verlag GMBH . 2020 . 9783752502664 . 318.
12. Book: Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1885. 1027.
13. Death Of The Bishop Of Llandaff, The Times, 25 January 1905; page 4; Issue 37613; col A
14. s-HUGH-JOS-1807 . Hughes, Joshua (1807-1889), bishop . 1959 . William Thomas . Havard . William Havard . yes . 26 October 2021.
15. Web site: William Basil Jones, Bishop of St Davids . Dictionary of National Biography . 21 April 2011.
16. s-GRIF-DAV-1800. Griffith, David (Clwydfardd; 1800-1894), eisteddfodic bard and arch-druid. Daniel Williams. 1959. yes. 24 November 2021.
17. Web site: Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod. 2021-02-27. eisteddfod.wales.
18. https://biography.wales/article/s-OWEN-WIL-1813 Dictionary of Welsh Biography entry
19. News: Sudden Death of Mr Jones, Bluenose, Llandovery. 13 December 2012. Weekly Mail. 6 March 1886. 7.
20. Book: William Retlaw Williams. The Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales, from the Earliesr Times to the Present Day. E. Davis and Bell for the author. 1895. 132.
21. s-PENN-ANT-1734. Pennant (and Douglas-Pennant), family, of Penrhyn, Llandygâi, Caernarfonshire. Thomas Richards. 1959. 13 December 2021.
22. 10.1038/148562a0. Dr. Timothy Richards Lewis (1841–1886). Nature. 148. 3758. 562. 1941. free.
23. s-WILL-EDW-1826. Williams, Edward (1826-1886), iron-master. Walter Thomas Morgan. 1959. 28 November 2021.
24. s-EDWA-ROG-1811. Edwards, Roger (1811-1886), Calvinistic Methodist minister. Gwilym Thomas Jones. 1959. 13 December 2021.
25. Book: The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. John Davies. Nigel Jenkins. Menna Baines. Peredur Lynch. 2008. 710. 978-0-7083-1953-6.
26. s-EVAN-EVA-1804. Evans, Evan (1804-1886), Independent minister and author. Nansi Ceridwen Jones. 1959. 13 December 2021.