1864 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1864 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite
• Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell
• Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant
• Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall

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.
• October 6 - The Denbigh, Ruthin and Corwen Railway is completed throughout to Corwen.
• 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".

Arts and literature

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Llandudno. The chair is won by Richard Foulkes Edwards (Rhisiart Ddu o Wynedd).

New books

English language

• R. D. Blackmore - Clara Vaughan
• Sir John Henry Philipps - Lyrics
• Alfred Russel Wallace - The Origin of Human Races and the Antiquity of Man Deduced from the Theory of Natural Selection
• Frances Williams-Wynn - Diaries of a Lady of Quality (posthumously published)

Welsh language

• Huw Derfel - Llawlyfr Carnedd Llywelyn
• Robert Jones Derfel - Traethodau ac Areithiau
• Daniel Silvan Evans (ed.) - Y Marchog Crwydrad: Hen Ffuglith Gymreig

Music

• William Griffiths (Ifander) - Gwarchae Harlech (cantata)

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)
• Thomas Allen Glenn, soldier and historian (died 1948)
• February 7 - Alfred Augustus Mathews, vicar and Wales international rugby player (died 1946)
• March 11 - John Silas Evans, astronomer (died 1953)
• May 4 - Harry Bowen, Wales international rugby player (died 1913)
• June 5 - Edward Pegge, Wales international rugby player (died 1915)
• July 5 - Lloyd Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon (died 1927)
• August 19 - Charles Green, first Bishop of Monmouth (died 1944)
• 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
• Edward Bishop - Wales international rugby union player (died 1919)
• Arthur Gould - Wales international rugby union captain (died 1919)
• October 17 - Sir John Morris-Jones, grammarian (died 1929)
• November 4 - Margaret Owen, later wife of David Lloyd George (died 1941)

Deaths

• 11 March - Richard Roberts, engineer, 74
• 28 March - Ellis Evans, Baptist minister and author, 77
• 18 June
• Evan Davies, missionary, 59
• William Smith O'Brien, Irish nationalist, 60 (in Bangor)
• 20 June - John Davies (Brychan), poet, 79
• 24 July - Lloyd Kenyon, 3rd Baron Kenyon, 59
• 1 August - Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (born 1777)
• 29 December - Mary Jones, early owner of a Welsh Bible, 80

See also

• 1864 in Ireland

References