1857 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1857 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey â Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire â John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins[5][6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore (until 12 July);[8] Edward Pryse (from 14 September)[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire â John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire â Robert Myddelton Biddulph[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire â Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â Robert Davies Pryce[13]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire â Capel Hanbury Leigh[14]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley[15]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet[16]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite[17][2]
Events
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- 4 March â Thomas Gee launches the radical nonconformist newspaper Baner Cymru in Denbigh.[26]
- 24 March â 1857 United Kingdom general election, concludes. Anglesey antiquarian William Owen Stanley becomes Whig MP for the Beaumaris District of Boroughs.[27]
- 6 May â Samuel Roberts (S. R.) sails for Tennessee.
- 1 June â Opening of the Crumlin Viaduct, built to carry the Taff Vale Extension of the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway.[28]
- 10 August â John Bowen is consecrated as Bishop of Sierra Leone.
- 13 August â Eugene Goddard crosses the Menai Strait in his gas balloon Aurora from Caernarfon Castle to Llanidan.[29]
- 3 October â The Newport Gazette is founded by William Nicholas Johns.
- 14 October â Four people are killed in a railway accident near Pyle.
- 29 October â St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden, badly damaged by arson.
- Autumn â Aberdare Strike 1857-8 against reductions in coal miners' pay begins.
- Railway workers go on strike at Aberdare.[citation needed]
Arts and literature
New books
English language
- Richard Williams Morgan â The British Kymry or Britons of Cambria[30]
Welsh language
- Owen Wynne Jones â Dafydd Llwyd
- Robert Parry (Robyn Ddu Eryri) â Teithiau a Barddoniaeth Robyn Ddu Eryri[31]
Music
- John Ashton â "Trefeglwys" (hymn tune)
Births
- 2 February â Sir James Cory, 1st Baronet, politician and ship-owner (died 1933)[32]
- 7 February â Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl Dunraven (died 1952)
- 28 February â Charlie Newman, Wales rugby union captain (died 1922)
- 27 April â Alfred Cattell, Wales international rugby player (died 1933)
- 12 May â Sarah Jacob, the "fasting girl" (died 1869)
- 20 June â Dan Griffiths, Wales international rugby player (died 1936)
- 28 June â Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet, orthopaedic surgeon (died 1933)
- 1 July â Martha Hughes Cannon, women's rights activist and politician in the United States (died 1932)
- 19 September â James Bridie, Scottish-born Wales international rugby union player (died 1893 in England)
- 8 November â Frank Purdon, Wales rugby union international
- 14 November â John Thomas Rees, musician (died 1949)
- 2 December â Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, surgeon (died 1943)
- Llewellyn Cadwaladr, operatic tenor (died 1909)
Deaths
- 3 January â Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (second creation), 55
- 23 January â Edward Anwyl, Wesleyan minister and teacher, 70[33]
- 10 February â David Thompson, explorer of Welsh parentage, 86[34]
- 29 March â Elijah Waring, writer, ±69[35]
- 16 May â Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer, 74[36]
- 13 June â Daniel Rees, hymn-writer, 64[37]
- 12 July â Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore, Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire, 64[8]
- 12 August â William Daniel Conybeare, dean of Llandaff, 70[38]
- 16 August â John Jones, Talysarn, leading non-conformist minister, 61[39]