1864 in Wales

{{short description|none}}  {{Use British English|date=September 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Year in Wales header|1864}} This article is about the particular significance of the year '''1864''' to Wales and its people.

==Incumbents== {{For|United Kingdom incumbents|1864 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents}} *Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=24}}</ref><ref name="Sainty">{{cite book | author=J.C. Sainty | author-link=John Sainty (civil servant) | title=List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 | publisher=Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd | location=London | year=1979}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=695}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru|publisher=University of Wales Press|year=1992|page=169}}</ref> *Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins<ref>{{cite news|title=Editorial|url=http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/4353246/ART15|access-date=17 January 2022|newspaper=Welshman|date=6 October 1865}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| author=Edwin Poole|title=The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions|publisher=Edwin Poole|year=1886|page=378}}</ref> *Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=26}}</ref> *Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas John Hughes|title=The Welsh magistracy, by Adfyfr|publisher=South Wales and Monmouthshire Liberal Federation Offices|year=1887|page=5}}</ref> *Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor *Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/myddelton-biddulph-robert-1805-1872|title=Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx.|website=History of Parliament Online|access-date=5 December 2021}}</ref> *Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/glynne-sir-stephen-1807-1874|title=Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint|website=History of Parliament Online|access-date=16 January 2022}}</ref> *Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/talbot-christopher-1803-1890|title=TALBOT, Christopher Rice Mansel (1803-1890), of Penrice Castle and Margam Park, Glam.|website=History of Parliament Online|access-date=18 January 2022}}</ref> *Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=29}}</ref> *Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lordlieutenantofgwent.co.uk/history-duties/past-lord-lieutenants/|title=Past Lord Lieutenants|website=Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire|access-date=28 January 2022}}</ref> *Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley<ref>{{cite book|author1=Herbert Arthur Doubleday|author2=George Cokayne|title=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom: Extant, Extinct, Or Dormant|publisher=St. Catherine Press, Limited|year=1953|page=423}}</ref> *Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington *Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite<ref>{{cite book|author=Jonathan Williams|title=The History of Radnorshire|publisher=R. Mason|year=1859|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyradnorsh00willgoog/page/n124 115]}}</ref><ref name="Sainty"/> *Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell<ref>{{cite book | last = Fryde | first = E. B. | title = Handbook of British chronology | publisher = New York Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge England | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780521563505 | page=292}}</ref><ref name="Fasti305">{{cite book|author= Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=[https://archive.org/details/fastiecclesiaean02leneuoft/page/304 305]}}</ref> *Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant<ref>{{cite book|editor-first1=Joseph Jackson |editor-last1=Howard |editor-link1=Joseph Jackson Howard |editor-first2=Frederick Arthur |editor-last2=Crisp |title=Visitation of England and Wales |volume=6 |url=https://archive.org/details/visitationofengl06howa/page/n28/mode/1up |year=1898 |page=15}}</ref><ref name="Fasti307"/> *Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short<ref>{{cite book|author=Nicholas Harris Nicolas|title=The historic peerage of England: Revised, corrected, and continued ... by William Courthope|publisher=John Murray|year=1857|page=533}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England|publisher=James Parkes and Company|year=1866|page=15}}</ref><ref name="Fasti307"/> *Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall<ref>{{cite book|title=Old Yorkshire, volume 3|year=1882|page=90}}</ref><ref name="Fasti307">{{cite book|author= Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=[https://archive.org/details/fastiecclesiaean02leneuoft/page/306 307]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged|publisher=Porter|year=1780|page=95}}</ref>

==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.<ref name=Quick>{{cite book|first=Michael|last=Quick|title=Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: a Chronology|location=Oxford|edition=4th|publisher=Railway and Canal Historical Society|year=2009|isbn=978-0-901461-57-5}}</ref> *October 6 - The Denbigh, Ruthin and Corwen Railway is completed throughout to Corwen.<ref name=Quick/> *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".<ref>{{cite book|first=Ivor Wynne|last=Jones|title=Llandudno Queen of Welsh Resorts|chapter=Chapter 3|page=19|quote=''Liverpool Mercury''.}}</ref>

==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''<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard Doddridge Blackmore|title=Clara Vaughan; by R.D. Blackmore|url=https://archive.org/details/claravaughanano00blacgoog|year=1864|publisher=Macmillan and Company}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=John Sutherland|title=The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2014|isbn=9781317863335|page=127}}</ref> *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)<ref>{{cite book|author=Frances Williams-Wynn|title=Diaries of a Lady of Quality from 1797 to 1844|url=https://archive.org/details/diariesaladyqua00haywgoog|year=1864|publisher=Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green}}</ref>

====Welsh language==== *Huw Derfel - ''Llawlyfr Carnedd Llywelyn''<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Davies|author2=Nigel Jenkins|author3=Menna Baines|title=The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZEUAQAAIAAJ|year=2008|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-1953-6|page=125}}</ref> *Robert Jones Derfel - ''Traethodau ac Areithiau''<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Jones DERFEL|title=Traethodau ac areithiau, etc|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j11iAAAAcAAJ|year=1864|publisher=J. Mendus Jones}}</ref> *Daniel Silvan Evans (ed.) - ''Y Marchog Crwydrad: Hen Ffuglith Gymreig''

===Music=== *William Griffiths (Ifander) - ''Gwarchae Harlech'' (cantata)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-GRIF-WIL-1830|title=Griffiths, William (Ifander, 1830-1910), choral conductor and adjudicator|author=David Hughes Lewis|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=2 June 2019}}</ref>

==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)<ref>{{Cite news |date=9 January 1864 |title=Birth of a Prince |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001427/18640109/037/0005 |work=Morning Advertiser |pages=5}}</ref> **Thomas Allen Glenn, soldier and historian (died 1948)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-GLEN-ALL-1864|title=Glenn, Thomas Allen (1864-1948), soldier, historian, genealogist, and archaeologist|author=William Llewelyn Davies|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=2 June 2019}}</ref> *February 7 - Alfred Augustus Mathews, vicar and Wales international rugby player (died 1946) *March 11 - John Silas Evans, astronomer (died 1953)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-EVAN-SIL-1864|title=Evans, John Silas (1864-1953), priest and astronomer|author=Mary Gwendoline Ellis|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=2 June 2019}}</ref> *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)<ref name="Kenyon">{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-KENY-ON0-1694|title=KENYON family, Gredington, Flintshire, and Peel Hall, Lancashire|author=Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon|author-link=Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=2 June 2019}}</ref> *August 19 - Charles Green, first Bishop of Monmouth (died 1944)<ref>{{cite web|title=Green, Charles Alfred Howell (1864-1944), second Archbishop of Wales|author=Thomas Iorwerth Ellis|publisher=National Library of Wales |url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-GREE-HOW-1864|access-date=3 March 2026}}</ref> *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)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-GOUL-JOS-1864|title=Gould, Arthur Joseph (1864-1919), Rugby footballer|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=2 June 2019}}</ref> *October 17 - Sir John Morris-Jones, grammarian (died 1929)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-MORR-JOH-1864|title=Morris-Jones, Sir John (1864-1929), scholar, poet, and critic|author=Thomas Parry|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=2 June 2019}}</ref> *November 4 - Margaret Owen, later wife of David Lloyd George (died 1941)

==Deaths== *11 March - Richard Roberts, engineer, 74<ref>{{cite magazine |author= |title=Richard Roberts |url= http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/7/73/Er18640325.pdf |magazine= The Engineer|pages=183|date=25 March 1864 |access-date= 7 January 2017}}</ref> *28 March - Ellis Evans, Baptist minister and author, 77<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-EVAN-ELL-1786|title=Evans, Ellis (1786-1864), Baptist minister and author|author=Tom Ellis Jones|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=30 December 2019}}</ref> *18 June **Evan Davies, missionary, 59<ref>{{cite DNB | wstitle = Davies, Evan | volume = 14 | page = 135}}</ref> **William Smith O'Brien, Irish nationalist, 60 (in Bangor)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/people/smithob.htm |title="William Smith O'Brien (1803–1864)", 'Clare People', Clare County Library |access-date=10 March 2016 |archive-date=29 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329235848/http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/people/smithob.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> *20 June - John Davies (Brychan), poet, 79<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-DAVI-JHN-1784|title=Davies John (1784?-1864), known as ‘Brychan,’ poet, publisher, and promoter of the friendly society movement|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=2 June 2019}}</ref> *24 July - Lloyd Kenyon, 3rd Baron Kenyon, 59<ref name="Kenyon"/> *1 August - Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (born 1777)<ref>{{DNB|wstitle=Rees, Thomas (1777-1864)}}</ref> *29 December - Mary Jones, early owner of a Welsh Bible, 80

==See also== *1864 in Ireland

==References== {{Reflist}}

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