1868 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1868 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 Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar[5][6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (from 14 September)[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â Edward Pryse[8][2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire â John Campbell, 2nd 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 Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire â Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort[13]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley[14]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington[15]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite[16][2]
Events
- 13 January â The brig Albion runs aground off Whitford Point and is abandoned by her seven crew members, all of whom drown.[23]
- 22 January â Sixteen vessels are lost in a gale off the Burry estuary, with a total of thirty lives lost.
- 1 February â At the bridge over the Severn at Caersws an approach embankment, damaged by flood water, collapses under a train. The driver and fireman are killed.[24]
- July â Pastor Karl Herman Lunde begins fund-raising for the new Norwegian Seamen's Church in Cardiff.[25]
- 4 August â Opening of the Bala and Dolgelly Railway,[26] completing the Ruabon to Barmouth Line via Corwen and alongside Bala Lake.
- 20 August â Abergele rail disaster: 33 people die in a fire resulting from a collision between a mail train and a set of trucks at Llandulas station near Abergele, the greatest loss of life in a railway accident in Wales.[27]
- October â Work begins on Nant-y-Ffrith reservoir.
- 2 December â The United Kingdom general election leaves Gladstone's Liberals the dominant party in Wales, with 21 seats.[28]
- Among the Conservative members who lose their seats are Crawshay Bailey and Henry Austin Bruce, the latter replaced by two MPs for the expanded constituency of Merthyr Tydfil: Richard Fothergill and Henry Richard.
- Richard Davies becomes MP for Anglesey.
- Love Jones-Parry wins Caernarvonshire from Douglas Pennant.
- George Osborne Morgan is elected for the first time in Denbighshire, winning the seat from the lord lieutenant, Robert Myddelton Biddulph.[9]
- Farmers in Cardiganshire are evicted for returning a Liberal MP, Thomas Lloyd.
- John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, sponsors restoration work at Caerphilly Castle.
- English manufacturer Frederick Walton, the inventor of linoleum, takes up residence on his father's Cwmllecoediog Estate near Aberangell, whose development he begins.[29]
- First publication of the Welsh-language periodical, Baner America, in the USA.[30]
- Y Dydd is founded, with Samuel Roberts (S. R.) as editor.[31]
- Iron Age crannog is discovered on an island in Llangorse Lake, near Brecon.
Arts and literature
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Ruthin.
New books
English language
- William Forbes Skene â The Four Ancient Books of Wales
Welsh language
- Robert Elis (Cynddelw) â Geiriadur Cymreig Cymraeg
- John Ceiriog Hughes â Oriau eraill
- Jabez Edmund Jenkins â Rhiangerdd â Gwenfron o'r Dyffryn
- Griffith Jones (Glan Menai) â Enwogion Sir Aberteifi[32]
- Rhys Gwesyn Jones â Caru, Priodi, a Byw
- John Phillips (Tegidon) â Y Ddeilen ar y Traeth
Music
- William Lewis Barrett is appointed flautist at the Italian Opera of Lutz.
- Gŵyl Ardudwy music festival is founded by John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt).
- Publication of Llyfr Tonau ac Emynau, edited by Edward Stephen (Tanymarian) and Joseph David Jones.
Sport
- Cricket
- May â A team from Cadoxton play the United South of England (including W. G. Grace) at The Gnoll, Neath.
Births
- 13 April (in Birkenhead) â Caradoc Rees, politician (d. 1924)
- 29 May â Sydney Nicholls, Wales rugby international player (d. 1946)
- 10 June
- John Jones (Ioan Brothen), poet (d. 1940)
- David Prosser, bishop (d. 1950)
- 2 August â Sir Alfred Edward Lewis, banker (d. 1940)
- 28 August â Thomas Charles Williams, minister (d. 1927)
- 28 November â Arthur Linton, cyclist (d. 1896)
- 30 November â Ernest Newman, English-born music critic of Welsh parentage (d. 1959)[33]
- 29 December â William Owen Jones (Eos y Gogledd), musician (d. 1928)
- date unknown
- Roger Doughty, English-born footballer of Welsh maternity (d. 1914)
- David Matthews, politician (d. 1960)
Deaths
- 13 January â John Parry, Mormon convert, 79
- 25 April â Sarah Williams, English novelist of Welsh parentage, 30[34]
- 22 June â Owain Meirion, poet, 65
- 3 August â Edward Welch, architect, 61/62
- 17 August â William Nevill, 4th Earl of Abergavenny, 76[35]
- 11 September â Maria James, poet, 74[36]
- 16 September â John Vaughan, English ironmaster, 68[37]
- 24 November â Sir John Dorney Harding, lawyer, 59
- date unknown â Dafydd Jones (Dewi Dywyll), balladeer (born 1803)[38]