1857 in Wales
Encyclopedia
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1857 to Wales
and its people
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Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
and its people
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
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Incumbents
- Prince of WalesPrince of WalesPrince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
— The Prince Albert EdwardEdward VII of the United KingdomEdward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910...
, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom - Princess of WalesPrincess of WalesPrincess of Wales is a British courtesy title held by the wife of The Prince of Wales since the first "English" Prince of Wales in 1283.Although there have been considerably more than ten male heirs to the throne, there have been only ten Princesses of Wales. The majority of Princes of Wales...
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Events
- 6 May — Samuel Roberts (S. R.) sails for TennesseeTennesseeTennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...
. - 14 October — Four people are killed in a railway accident near PylePylePyle is a village and community in Bridgend county borough, Wales. Pyle railway station is on the Cardiff - Swansea section of the London - South Wales main line....
. - Opening of the Crumlin viaduct, built to carry the Taff Vale Extension of the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford RailwayNewport, Abergavenny and Hereford RailwayThe Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway was a railway line connecting the Welsh port city of Newport via Abergavenny, to the major English market town of Hereford.Sponsored by the LNWR, it opened on 6 December 1853...
. - Thomas GeeThomas GeeThomas Gee , was a Welsh Nonconformist preacher, journalist and publisher.Gee was born at Denbigh. At the age of fourteen he went into his father's printing office, but continued to attend the grammar school in the afternoons.In 1837 he went to London to improve his knowledge of printing, and on...
launches the periodical Baner Cymru. - John BowenJohn Bowen (bishop)John Bowen LL.D. was an Anglican bishop in Sierra Leone.Bowen, son of Thomas Bowen, captain in the 85th regiment, by his third wife, Mary, daughter of the Rev. John Evans, chaplain to the garrison at Placentia, Newfoundland, was born at Court, near Fishguard, Pembrokeshire...
becomes Bishop of Sierra LeoneSierra LeoneSierra Leone , officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north and east, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and southwest. Sierra Leone covers a total area of and has an estimated population between 5.4 and 6.4...
. - William Owen StanleyWilliam Owen StanleyHon. William Owen Stanley was a British Liberal politician.Stanley was a twin son of John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley, and Lady Maria Josepha, daughter of John Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield. His brother was Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley...
becomes MP for Anglesey Boroughs. - The Newport Gazette is founded by William Nicholas Johns.
- Railway workers go on strike at AberdareAberdareAberdare is an industrial town in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Dare and Cynon. The population at the census was 31,705...
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New books
- Owen Wynne JonesOwen Wynne JonesOwen Wynne Jones , often known by his bardic name of Glasynys, was a Welsh clergyman and author.Owen Wynne Jones was born at a house called Ty'n-y-ffrwd, in the village of Rhostryfan, near Caernarfon. At the age of ten, he was sent to work in the quarry, but later returned to full-time education...
— Dafydd Llwyd - Richard Williams MorganRichard Williams MorganRichard Williams Morgan was a Welsh clergyman and author. He was born in Llangynfely, Cardiganshire and educated at Saint David's College in Lampeter...
— The British Kymry or Britons of Cambria - Robert Parry (Robyn Ddu Eryri) — Teithiau a Barddoniaeth Robyn Ddu Eryri
Births
- 2 February - Sir James Cory, 1st BaronetSir James Cory, 1st BaronetSir Herbert Cory, 1st Baronet was a Welsh politician and ship-owner.He was born at Padstow, the younger son of John Cory .He was Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1913 and served as Conservative MP for the Cardiff constituency...
, politician and ship-owner (died 1933) - 7 February — Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl Dunraven (died 1952)
- 28 February — Charlie NewmanCharlie NewmanCharlie Newman was a Welsh international three-quarter who played club rugby for Newport. He was awarded ten caps for Wales and captained the team on six occasions. An original member of the Newport squad he captained the team in the 1882/83 season.-Personal life:Newman was born Newport in 1857 to...
, Wales rugby union captain (died 1922) - 27 April — Alfred CattellAlfred CattellAlfred Cattell was an English-born international rugby union player for Wales who in his later life became Lord Mayor of Sheffield...
, Wales international rugby player (died 1933) - 12 May — Sarah Jacob, the "fasting girl" (died 1869)
- 20 June — Dan GriffithsDan GriffithsDaniel 'Dan' Griffiths was a Welsh international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Llanelli and international rugby for Wales. Morgan was a collier by profession.-Rugby career:...
, Wales international rugby player (died 1936) - 28 June — Sir Robert Jones, 1st BaronetRobert Jones (surgeon)Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet, KBE, CB was a British orthopaedic surgeon who helped to establish the modern specialty of orthpaedic surgery in Britain....
, orthopaedic surgeon (died 1933) - 1 July — Martha Hughes CannonMartha Hughes CannonMartha Maria Hughes Cannon was a Welsh-born immigrant to the United States, a physician, Utah women's rights advocate and suffragist, and Utah state senator...
, women's rights activist and politician in the USA (died 1932) - 19 September — James BridieJames Bridie (rugby player)James Bridie was a Scottish-born rugby union scrum-half who played club rugby union for Cardiff and Newport, international Wales and county rugby for Monmouthshire.-Rugby career:...
was a Scottish-born rugby player who represented the Welsh international rugby team. - 8 November — Frank PurdonFrank PurdonFrank Thomas Purdon was an Irish-born rugby union forward who played club rugby for Newport and Swansea. Purdon was capped four times for Wales including the very first Wales international, against England in 1881.-Rugby career:...
, Wales rugby union international - 14 November — John Thomas Rees, musician (died 1949)
- 2 December — Sir Robert Armstrong-JonesRobert Armstrong-JonesSir Robert Armstrong-Jones, CBE was a Welsh physician and psychiatrist. He was the grandfather of the Earl of Snowdon.He was born Robert Jones in Ynyscynhaearn, Caernarvonshire, the son of a Congregational minister...
, surgeon (died 1943)
Deaths
- 3 January — Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (second creation)Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (second creation)Richard Bulkeley Philipps Philipps, 1st Baron Milford , known as Richard Grant until 1823 and as Sir Richard Philipps, Bt, from 1828 to 1847, was a British politician and landowner.-Background:...
, 55 - 10 February — David ThompsonDavid Thompson (explorer)David Thompson was an English-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native peoples as "Koo-Koo-Sint" or "the Stargazer"...
, explorer of Welsh parentage, 86 - 29 March — Elijah WaringElijah WaringElijah Waring , was an Anglo-Welsh writer.Born at Alton, Hampshire, Waring was the son of a Jeremiah Waring, and settled in South Wales in about 1810. He founded and English-language periodical, The Cambrian Visitor: a Monthly Miscellany, at Swansea in 1813, and moved to Neath in the following...
, writer, ±69 - 16 May — Sir William LloydWilliam Lloyd (mountaineer)Sir William Lloyd was a Welsh military commander, and was one of the first Europeans to ascend a Himalayan peak....
, soldier and mountaineer, 74 - 12 August — William Daniel ConybeareWilliam Daniel ConybeareWilliam Daniel Conybeare FRS , dean of Llandaff, was an English geologist, palaeontologist and clergyman. He is probably best known for his ground-breaking work on marine reptile fossils in the 1820s, including important papers for the Geological Society of London on ichthyosaur anatomy and the...
, dean of Llandaff, 70 - 16 August — John Jones, Talysarn, leading non-conformist minister, 61