1880s in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1880â1889 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales â Clwydfardd
Events
Arts and literature
Awards
- 1880 â Caernarfon
- 1881 â Merthyr Tydfil
- Chair â Evan Rees ("Dyfed")[1]
- Crown â Watkin Hezekiah Williams[2]
- 1882 â Denbigh
- Chair â withheld
- Crown â Dafydd Rees Williams
- 1883 â Cardiff
- Chair â withheld
- Crown â Anna Walter Thomas[3]
- 1884 â Liverpool
- Chair â Evan Rees ("Dyfed")
- Crown â Edward Foulkes
- 1885 â Aberdare
- Chair â Watkin Hezekiah Williams
- Crown â Griffith Tecwyn Parry
- 1886 â Caernarfon
- Chair â Richard Davies
- Crown â John Cadfan Davies
- 1887 â London
- Chair â Robert Arthur Williams
- Crown â John Cadfan Davies
- 1888 â Wrexham
- Chair â Thomas Tudno Jones
- Crown â Howell Elvet Lewis
- 1889 â Brecon
- Chair â Evan Rees
- Crown â Howell Elvet Lewis
New books
- Rhoda Broughton â Doctor Cupid (1886)
- Richard Davies (Mynyddog) â Pedwerydd Llyfr Mynyddog (1882)
- Amy Dillwyn
- The Rebecca Rioter (1880)
- Jill and Jack(1887)
- Daniel Silvan Evans â Dictionary of the Welsh Language (Geiriadur Cymraeg) (1887)
- Frances Hoggan â Education for Girls in Wales (1882)
- Daniel Owen
- Y Dreflan (1881)
- Rhys Lewis (1885)
- Robert Williams (Trebor Mai) â Gwaith Barddonol Trebor Mai (1883)
Sport
- 1881 â Welsh Rugby Union is formed.
- 1884 â The Cardiff Arms Park hosts its first rugby international (between Wales and Ireland).
- 1889 â In a football match between Wales and Scotland at Wrexham, the referee allows the injured Welsh goalkeeper to be replaced â the first ever substitution in a soccer match.
Births
- 1880
- 30 April â George Maitland Lloyd Davies, pacifist (died 1949)
- 9 May â Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, patron of the arts (died 1946)
- 11 May â David Davies, 1st Baron Davies, politician (died 1944)
- 22 June â Rhys Gabe, rugby player (died 1967)[4]
- 2 September â Isaac Daniel Hooson, poet (died 1948)
- 15 September â William Charles Williams, VC recipient (died 1915)
- date unknown
- Edward Tegla Davies, author (died 1967)
- Harry Grindell Matthews, inventor (died 1941)
- 1881
- 3 January â Lewis Pugh Evans, VC recipient (died 1962)
- 14 February â William John Gruffydd, academic and politician (died 1954)
- 16 April â Ifor Williams, academic (died 1965)
- 5 May â Rupert Price Hallowes, VC recipient (died 1915)
- 16 June â David Grenfell, politician (died 1968)
- 20 June â John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, landowner (died 1947)
- August â John Lewis, footballer (died 1954)
- 30 September â Philip Lewis Griffiths, lawyer (died 1945)
- 28 October â Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, explorer (died 1957)
- December â George Hall, politician (died 1965)
- date unknown
- David Thomas ("Afan"), composer (died 1928)
- Robert Williams, trade union leader
- 1882
- 24 July â Reginald Clarry, politician (died 1945)
- 6 November â David Rees Griffiths, poet (died 1953)
- 16 December â Cyril Fox, archaeologist (died 1967)
- date unknown â Ivor Lewis, artist (died 1958)
- 1883
- 30 April â David John de Lloyd, composer (died 1948)
- 28 May â Clough Williams-Ellis, architect (died 1978)
- 13 September â Percy Thomas, architect (died 1969)
- date unknown
- John Jones (Tydu), poet (died 1968)
- James Walker, politician
- 1884
- 19 February â Clement Davies, politician (died 1962)
- 24 November â Jack Jones, novelist (died 1970)
- date unknown
- Arthur Jenkins, politician (died 1946)
- Thomas Jones, footballer (died 1958)
- 1885
- 2 August â Clarence Bruce, 3rd Baron Aberdare (died 1957)
- 21 November â Robert Evans, footballer (died 1965)
- date unknown
- Ernest Evans, politician (died 1965)
- David John Williams, writer and politician (died 1970)
- 1886
- 3 May â Morgan Jones, Welsh politician (died 1939)
- 29 September â Jack Williams, VC recipient (died 1953)
- 1887
- 13 January â Hedd Wyn, poet (died 1917)
- 27 February â James Dickson Innes, painter (died 1914)
- date unknown
- Huw Menai, poet (died 1961)
- 1888
- 21 May â William Cove, politician (died 1963)
- 16 August â T. E. Lawrence, writer and war hero (died 1935)
- 19 October â Peter Freeman, politician (died 1956)
- 5 September â Rhys Hopkin Morris, politician (died 1956)
- 1889
- 1 February â John Lewis, philosopher (died 1976)
- 11 December â Cedric Morris, artist (died 1982)