1880s in Wales

Incumbents

Prince of Wales — Albert Edward

Princess of Wales — Alexandra

Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales — Clwydfardd

Events

1880

1881

1882

1883

1884

1885

1886

1887

1888

1889

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales

1880 — Caernarfon

1881 — Merthyr Tydfil

Chair — Evan Rees ("Dyfed")

Crown — Watkin Hezekiah Williams

1882 — Denbigh

Chair — withheld

Crown — Dafydd Rees Williams

1883 — Cardiff

Chair — withheld

Crown — Anna Walter Thomas

1884 — Liverpool

Chair — Evan Rees ("Dyfed")

Crown — Edward Foulkes

1885 — Aberdare

Chair — Watkin Hezekiah Williams

Crown — Griffith Tecwyn Parry

1886 — Caernarfon

Chair — Richard Davies

Crown — John Cadfan Davies

1887 — London

Chair — Robert Arthur Williams

Crown — John Cadfan Davies

1888 — Wrexham

Chair — Thomas Tudno Jones

Crown — Howell Elvet Lewis

1889 — Brecon

Chair — Evan Rees

Crown — Howell Elvet Lewis

New books

Rhoda Broughton — Doctor Cupid (1886)

Richard Davies (Mynyddog) — Pedwerydd Llyfr Mynyddog (1882)

Amy Dillwyn

The Rebecca Rioter (1880)

Jill and Jack(1887)

Daniel Silvan Evans — Dictionary of the Welsh Language (Geiriadur Cymraeg) (1887)

Frances Hoggan — Education for Girls in Wales (1882)

Daniel Owen

Y Dreflan (1881)

Rhys Lewis (1885)

Robert Williams (Trebor Mai) — Gwaith Barddonol Trebor Mai (1883)

Sport

1881 — Welsh Rugby Union is formed.

1884 — The Cardiff Arms Park hosts its first rugby international (between Wales and Ireland).

1889 — In a football match between Wales and Scotland at Wrexham, the referee allows the injured Welsh goalkeeper to be replaced — the first ever substitution in a soccer match.

Births

1880

30 April - George Maitland Lloyd Davies, pacifist (died 1949)

9 May — Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, patron of the arts (died 1946)

11 May — David Davies, 1st Baron Davies, politician (died 1944)

22 June — Rhys Gabe, rugby player (died 1967)

2 September — Isaac Daniel Hooson, poet (died 1948)

15 September — William Charles Williams, VC recipient (died 1915)

date unknown

Edward Tegla Davies, author (died 1967)

Harry Grindell Matthews, inventor (died 1941)

1881

3 January — Lewis Pugh Evans, VC recipient (died 1962)

14 February — William John Gruffydd, academic and politician (died 1954)

16 April — Ifor Williams, academic (died 1965)

5 May — Rupert Price Hallowes, VC recipient (died 1915)

16 June — David Grenfell, politician (died 1968)

20 June — John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, landowner (died 1947)

August — John Lewis, footballer (died 1954)

30 September — Philip Lewis Griffiths, lawyer (died 1945)

28 October — Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, explorer (died 1957)

December — George Henry Hall, politician (died 1965)

date unknown

David Thomas ("Afan"), composer (died 1928)

Robert Williams, trade union leader

1882

24 July — Reginald Clarry, politician (died 1945)

6 November — David Rees Griffiths, poet (died 1953)

16 December — Cyril Fox, archaeologist (died 1967)

date unknown — Ivor Lewis, artist (died 1958)

1883

30 April — David John de Lloyd, composer (died 1948)

28 May — Clough Williams-Ellis, architect (died 1978)

13 September - Percy Thomas, architect (died 1969)

date unknown

John Jones (Tydu), poet (died 1968)

James Walker, politician

1884

19 February — Clement Davies, politician (died 1962)

24 November - Jack Jones, novelist (died 1970)

date unknown

Arthur Jenkins, politician (died 1946)

Thomas Jones, footballer (died 1958)

1885

2 August — Clarence Bruce, 3rd Baron Aberdare (died 1957)

21 November — Robert Evans, footballer (died 1965)

date unknown

Ernest Evans, politician (died 1965)

David John Williams, writer and politician (died 1970)

1886

28 March — John Osborn Williams, entrepreneur (died 1963)

3 May — Morgan Jones, Welsh politician (died 1939)

29 September — Jack Williams, VC recipient (died 1953)

1887

13 January — Hedd Wyn, poet (died 1917)

27 February - James Dickson Innes, painter (died 1914)

date unknown

Huw Menai, poet (died 1961)

1888

21 May — William Cove, politician (died 1963)

16 August — T. E. Lawrence, writer and war hero (died 1935)

19 October — Peter Freeman, politician (died 1956)

5 September — Rhys Hopkin Morris, politician (died 1956)

1889

1 February — John Lewis, philosopher (died 1976)

11 December — Cedric Morris, artist (died 1982)

Deaths

1880

23 April — Robert Thomas (Ap Vychan), minister and writer (b. 1809)

1881

20 April — William Burges, architect

20 November — Hugh Owen, educationist (born 1804)

1882

August — John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and photographer (born 1810)

16 December — Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff (born 1798)

1883

8 November — William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog), poet (born 1802)

1884

17 March — Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn (born 1795)

24 May — Henry Thomas Edwards, preacher (born 1837)

6 November — George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry, industrialist

1885

1 May — Henry Brinley Richards, composer (born 1817)

1 August — Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, inventor (born 1850)

1886

31 March — Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (born 1800)

1887

25 January — Rowland Prichard, musician (born 1811)

23 April — John Ceiriog Hughes, poet (born 1832)

19 July — Lewis Edwards, educationist (born 1809)

1888

20 August — Henry Richard, politician and peace campaigner (born 1812)

1889

21 January — Joshua Hughes, Bishop of St Asaph (born 1807)

8 June — Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anglo-Welsh poet (born 1844)

date unknown — John Hughes, industrialist (in St Petersburg)