1872 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1872 to Wales and its people.

← 1871 1870 1869 1868 1867 1872 in Wales → 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1872 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

Incumbents

For United Kingdom incumbents, see 1872 in the United Kingdom § Incumbents.

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – William Owen Stanley^[1][2][3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar^[5][6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse^[8][2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph (until 21 March);^[9] William Cornwallis-West (from 5 June)
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort^[13]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley^[14]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington (until 1 January);^[15] William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington (from 6 February)^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite^[16][2]

• Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell^[17][18]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant^[19]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua Hughes^[20][19]
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall^[19][21]

Events

• 5 January — In a mining accident at Blackwood Colliery, five men are killed.
• 2 March — In a mining accident at Victoria Colliery, Ebbw Vale, nineteen men are killed.
• 18 June — A derailment occurs in the Pencader Tunnel on the Carmarthen & Cardigan Railway.
• 12 July — Cardiff Tramways Company begins operation of horse trams.
• 15 July — The Colwyn Bay Hotel is opened.^[22]
• 1 August — Minffordd railway station is opened.
• 9 October — University College Wales, Aberystwyth, opens with 26 students; Thomas Charles Edwards is its first principal.
• unknown dates
  • Stocks are used on the last recorded occasion in the UK, at Adpar in Cardiganshire, when a man is imprisoned in them for drunkenness.^[23]
  • Nitrocellulose manufacture at Penrhyndeudraeth begins.

Arts and literature

New books

• R. D. Blackmore — The Maid of Sker
• Thomas Thomas — Hynodion Hen Bregethwyr Cymru

Music

• The South Wales "Cor Mawr", conducted by Griffith R. Jones (Caradog) wins a national choral competition at Crystal Palace.^[24]

Sport

• Cricket — First game played at Elwy Grove Park, St Asaph.
• Football — 28 September: Wrexham Football Club is founded. They play at the Racecourse Ground.

Births

• 21 February — Evan Lorimer Thomas, clergyman and academic (died 1953)^[25]
• 16 March — Vernon Hartshorn, politician (died 1931)
• 6 May — William Llewellyn Thomas, Wales international rugby player (died 1943)
• 10 May — Tom Pearson, Wales international rugby player (died 1957)
• 18 May — Bertrand Russell, philosopher (died 1970)^[26]
• 14 July — David Morgan, Wales international rugby player (died 1933)
• 14 September — Albert Jenkin, Wales international rugby player (died 1961)
• 8 October — John Cowper Powys, Anglo-Welsh writer (died 1963)^[27]
• date unknown — Thomas Jeremiah Williams, lawyer and politician (died 1919)^[28]

Deaths

• 1 January — William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington, Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire, 70^[15]
• 9 January — Crawshay Bailey, industrialist^[29]
• 21 March — Robert Myddelton Biddulph, landowner and politician, 66^[9]
• 24 March — James Williams, clergyman and philanthropist, 81^[30]
• 13 April — Thomas Vowler Short, Bishop of St Asaph^[31]
• 3 August — William Davies Evans, chess player, 82^[32]
• 18 August — Evan Jones, missionary, 84^[33]
• 22 August — Evan Davies, educator, 84^[34]
• 26 September — William Williams (Carw Coch), poet^[35]
• 28 September — Lleyson Hopkin Davy, government representative, brewer and industrialist, 89/90^[36]
• 16 October — David Lewis, MP for Carmarthen, 75
• 11 November — Mary Anne Disraeli, wife of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, 80^[37]

See also

• 1872 in Ireland

References

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