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1888 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1888 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales — Albert Edward
  • Princess of Wales — Alexandra
  • Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales — Clwydfardd

    • Events

  • May — Owen Glynne Jones climbs Cadair Idris by the east ridge of the Cyfrwy.
  • 13 May — The young Beatrix Potter records a trip to Machynlleth in her diary.
  • 14 May — Five miners are killed in an accident at the Aber Colliery, Porth, Rhondda.
  • August — Joshua Hughes, Bishop of St Asaph, has a seizure while staying in Scotland, and is paralysed until his death a few months later.
  • 27 September — New dock at Milford Haven opened.
  • 5 October — Five sailors are drowned at Colwyn Bay while returning to their ship by boat.
  • University of Wales, Bangor, opens its agriculture department — the first in a British university.
  • The Welsh Parliamentary Liberal Party is formed.
  • Opening of the Dowlais steelworks at East Moors, Cardiff.
  • Henry Morton Stanley "discovers" Lake Edward and names it after the Prince of Wales.
  • R. J. Lloyd Price opens a whisky distillery at Frongoch.
  • Llantwit Major Roman Villa is discovered.
  • A Welsh Presbyterian Chapel opens in Charing Cross Road, London.

    • Awards

    National Eisteddfod of Wales — held at Wrexham

  • Chair — Thomas Tudno Jones
  • Crown — Howell Elvet Lewis

    • New books

  • Daniel Owen — Y Siswrn
  • J. Rhys — Lectures of the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by Celtic

    • Music

  • William Griffith — "I Will Extol Thee"

    • Sport

  • Cricket — Glamorgan County Cricket Club founded.
  • Golf — Tenby Links becomes the first golf course in Wales. The first competition held by the club is held on 25 October over 9 holes and is won by Mr T A Rees
  • Rugby union
  • Briton Ferry RFC, Builth Wells RFC, Llantrisant RFC, Newbridge RFC and Tonna RFC are founded.
  • Willie Thomas is the only Welsh international to take part in the first overseas tour by a British rugby union team.
  • Wales win their first international game against Scotland, during the 1888 Home Nations Championship.
  • Wales face their first international opposition, the New Zealand Native football team. Wales win by a goal to nil.

    • Births

  • February — Grace Wynne Griffiths, novelist (died 1963)
  • 23 March - Fred Hando, writer and artist (died 1970)
  • 29 April - Fred Dyer, Boxer and baritone singer
  • 14 May — Nansi Richards, harpist (died 1979)
  • 21 May — William Cove, politician (died 1963)
  • 24 May — Howell Lewis, Wales international rugby player (died 1971)
  • 16 August — T. E. Lawrence, writer and war hero (died 1935)
  • 24 August — Valentine Baker, pilot and war hero (died 1942)
  • 5 September — Rhys Hopkin Morris, politician (died 1956)
  • 19 October — Peter Freeman, politician (died 1956)
  • 27 November — Ezer Griffiths, physicist (died 1962)
  • 29 December — Reg Plummer, Wales and British Lion rugby union player (died 1953)

    • Deaths

  • 23 February — Evan Davies (Myfyr Morganwg), poet and archdruid, 87
  • 29 February — Thomas Price, Baptist minister and author, 67
  • 7 March — Hugh Hughes (Cadfan), Patagonian colonist, 63
  • 16 March — Thomas Thomas, chapel architect and minister, c. 81
  • 22 March — Henry Robertson, Scottish engineer and founder of Brymbo Steel Works, 72
  • 7 June — Charles William Nevill, industrialist and politician, 72
  • 2 August — David Davies (Dewi Emlyn), poet, 70
  • 5 August — Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan, politician, historian and antiquary, 84
  • 20 August — Henry Richard, politician and peace campaigner, 76
  • 20 September - Elias Owen, footballer, 35 (suicide)
  • 23 November — Edward John Sartoris, politician, 74/75
  • date unknown — John Evans (Y Bardd Cocos), poet

    • References

    1888 in Wales Wikipedia
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