1870 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1870 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey â William Owen Stanley[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[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
- January â Francis Kilvert begins his famous diary.[24]
- 14 February â In a mining accident at Morfa Colliery, Port Talbot, 30 men are killed.[25]
- April â George Osborne Morgan introduces the Burials Bill and the Places of Worship (Acquisition of Land) Bill to Parliament.
- unknown dates
- Sir George Gilbert Scott completes the restoration of Bangor Cathedral.
- In India, Timothy Richards Lewis discovers a nematoid worm, which he calls Filaria sanguinis hominis (later "Wuchereria bancrofti").[26]
- William Thomas Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr of Senghenydd, begins acquiring the collieries later known as the Lewis Merthyr collieries in Rhondda.
- Jacob Lloyd is created a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Pius IX.[27]
- Thomas William Rhys Davids begins a series of articles for the Ceylon branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Journal.
Arts and literature
New books
- John Ceiriog Hughes â Oriau'r Haf[28]
- David Lloyd Davies â Ceinwen Morgan neu y Rian Ddiwylliedig
- Richard Davies (Mynyddog) â Yr Ail Gynnig
Music
Sport
- Billiards â John Roberts, Sr. loses the English billiards championship after 21 years.
- Association football â Druids of Rhiwabon formed.
Births
- 13 January â Conway Rees, rugby player (died 1932)
- 10 March â George "Honey Boy" Evans, Welsh-born US entertainer (died 1915)[29]
- 20 March â Eluned Morgan, author (died 1938)[30]
- 25 March â Wallace Watts, Wales international rugby union player (died 1950)
- 19 June â Charles Nicholl, Wales international rugby union player (died 1939)
- 29 June
- Arthur Boucher, Wales international rugby union player (died 1948)
- Sir Charles Dillwyn-Venables-Llewellyn, 2nd Baronet, politician (died 1951)[31]
- 14 July â Helena Jones, doctor and suffragette (died 1946)[32]
- 16 July â William Henry Prosser, teacher and cricketer (died 1952)[33]
- 27 July â Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan, historian (died 1948)[34]
- 18 August â William Cope, 1st Baron Cope, politician and Wales international rugby player (died 1946)[35]
- 27 September â Thomas Jones (T. J.), civil servant (died 1955)[36]
- 22 October â J. Glyn Davies, scholar, poet and songwriter (died 1953)[37]
- 3 November â Norman Biggs, Wales international rugby player (died 1908)
- 15 November â William Elsey, Wales international rugby player (died 1936)
- 20 December â Sir David Davies, politician (died 1958)[38]
- 29 December â Robert Dewi Williams, teacher, minister and writer (died 1955)[39]
- 31 December â David John Jones, Dean of Llandaff (died 1949)
- December â Ernest William Jones, steamship agent and cricketer (died 1941)
- date unknown
- John William Evans, politician (died 1906)[40]
- John Hughes Morris, missionary (died 1953)
Deaths
- 16 March â Thomas Parry, Bishop of Barbados, 74
- 4 April â Owen Wynne Jones, writer, 42[41]
- 15 May â Charles Hinde (army officer), soldier, 49[42]
- 27 May â John Etherington Welch Rolls, Monmouthshire landowner and father of 1st Baron Llangattock, 63[43]
- 23 June â Isaac Hughes, Calvinist missionary and preacher, 71/72[44]
- 1 August â Levi Gibbon, balladeer, 92[45]
- 17 September â Joseph David Jones, composer, 43[46]
- 27 October â Owen Jones Ellis Nanney, politician, 80[47]
- 29 October â Jacob Owen, architect and civil engineer, 92[48]
- 16 November â Harry Longueville Jones, antiquary, 64[49]
