1858 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1858 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 Edward Pryse[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire â John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire â Robert Myddelton Biddulph[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire â Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â Robert Davies Pryce[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire â Capel Hanbury Leigh[13]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley (until 10 February);[14] Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley (from 4 March)
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet[15]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite[16][2]
Events
- January
- Teaching begins at Bangor Normal College, founded by Hugh Owen.
- End of Aberdare Strike 1857-8 in the coal mining industry.
- 20 April â John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) is given a conditional pardon for his role in the Rebecca Riots.[25]
- June â Erection of the Town Clock at Tredegar.[26]
- 20 June â End of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, which Major General Charles Hinde plays a major role in suppressing.
- 29 August â Musician Robert Davies (Asaph Llechid) is killed by a rockfall while at work in Cae-braich-y-cafn quarry.[27]
- 5 October â The Vale of Clwyd Railway, built by David Davies Llandinam, is opened.[28]
- 13 October â 20 men are killed in a mining accident at Lower Duffryn Colliery, Mountain Ash.
- date unknown
- The schooner Mary Catherine, launched at Amlwch, is the first iron ship built in Wales.[29]
- Richard Kyrke Penson exhibits a plan of his design for the Cilyrychen lime kilns at the Royal Academy.[30]
Arts and literature
Awards
- "Great Eisteddfod" at Llangollen; early appearance of Gorsedd ceremony. Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd) wins first prize for his poem Maes Bosworth.
New books
English language
- William Davies (Gwilym Teilo) â Llandilo-Vawr and its Neighbourhood[31]
- Robert Owen â An Introduction to the Study of Dogmatic Theology
- Louisa M. Spooner (anonymously) â Gladys of Harlech[32]
- Alfred Russel Wallace â On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type[33]
Welsh language
- Morgan Howells â Gweithiau Morgan Howells ... pregethau a thraethodau (posthumously published)[34]
- Owen Wynne Jones â Lleucu Llwyd[35]
Music
- Thomas Gruffydd Jones (Tafalaw Bencerdd) â Y Drysorfa Gorawl
- Edward Stephen (Tanymarian) â Requiem
Births
- 6 January â Ben Davies, singer (died 1943)[36]
- 28 January â Edgeworth David, explorer (died 1934)[37]
- 9 April â Aneurin Rees, Wales rugby union international (died 1932)
- 15 May â B. B. Mann, Wales rugby union international (died 1948)
- 8 October â Robert Owen Hughes (Elfyn), journalist and poet (died 1919)[38]
- 25 October â Tom Clapp, Wales rugby union captain (died 1933)
- 30 October - Alfred Onions, politician (died 1921)[39]
- 18 December â Sir Owen Thomas, soldier and politician (died 1923)[40]
- 25 December â Frederick Margrave, rugby player (died 1946)
- 26 December â Sir Owen Morgan Edwards, academic and author (died 1920)[41]
- 27 December â Sir John Herbert Lewis, lawyer and politician (died 1933)[42]
- 28 December â Josiah Towyn Jones, politician (died 1925)[43]
Deaths
- 10 February â Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley, Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire, 79[14]
- 22 March â Mary Anne Edmunds, educator and feminist, 41[44]
- 26 March â William Morgan, evangelical clergyman, friend of the Bronte family, 75/6
- 19 April â John Davies, Unitarian minister and teacher, 62/63[45]
- 13 May â Lewis Loyd, banker, 91
- 30 May â Thomas ap Catesby Jones, Welsh-descended US naval officer, 68[46]
- 4 June â Thomas Edwards (Caerfallwch), lexicographer, 78[47]
- 16 October â Charles Norris, artist, 79[48]
- 17 November â Robert Owen, founder of the Co-operative Society, 87[49]
- 20 November â Sir Joseph Bailey, 1st Baronet, ironmaster, 75[50]
- 18 December â John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury, nephew of Hester Thrale, 65[51]
- 27 December â John Williams, Archdeacon of Cardigan and warden of Llandovery College, 66[52]
