1886 in Wales

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

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Richard Davies
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (until 31 March); John Ernest Greaves (from 17 May)
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse
• 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
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Robert Davies Pryce
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite

• Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis
• Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua Hughes
• Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones

• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd

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"
• 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)

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, four-time 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)
• 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 – Bill 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
• 12 March – Edward Arthur Somerset, politician, 69
• 31 March – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, 85
• 7 May – Timothy Richards Lewis, surgeon and pathologist, 44
• 9 June – Edward Williams, iron-master, 60)
• 9 July – Roger Edwards, minister and writer, 75
• 13 October – John Prichard, architect, 69
• 29 October – Evan Evans, ("Evans Bach Nantyglo"), minister, 82

See also

• 1886 in Ireland

References