1873 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1873 to Wales and its people.

← 1872 1871 1870 1869 1868 1873 in Wales → 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1873 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

Incumbents

For United Kingdom incumbents, see 1873 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 – William Cornwallis-West
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley^[13]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite^[14][2]

• Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell^[15][16]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant^[17]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua Hughes^[18][17]
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall^[17][19]

Events

• 1 March – The sailing ship Chacabuco sinks off the Great Orme with the loss of 24 lives.^[20]
• 18 March – Work begins on construction of the Severn Tunnel.^[21]
• 30 March – The Glyn Valley Tramway opens as a horse-worked line to carry slate and other minerals from Glyn Ceiriog to Chirk.^[22]
• 19 August – The Holyhead Breakwater (the longest in the world) is officially opened by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales.^[23] having taken 28 years to construct.
• 9 October – The first recorded sheepdog trial in the UK takes place at Bala.^[24]
• 2 December – In a mining accident at Hafod Colliery, Rhiwabon, five men are killed.
• date unknown – Construction of:
  • Tŵr Mawr Lighthouse on Ynys Llanddwyn.
  • Buckley Arms hotel, Dinas Mawddwy, in reinforced concrete.^[25]

Arts and literature

New books

• Rhoda Broughton – Nancy
• Robert Elis (Cynddelw) – Manion Hynafiaethol
• Ebenezer Thomas – Gweithiau Barddonol Eben Fardd (posthumously published)^[26]

Music

• Henry Brinley Richards – Songs of Wales
• Richard Davies (Mynyddog) writes the song "Rheolau yr Aelwyd", the basis of "Sosban Fach".

Sport

• December – Major Walter Wingfield of Nantclwyd Hall at Llanelidan designs a game for the amusement of his visitors. Wingfield soon patents nets for the game of lawn tennis, which he calls "sphairistike".^[27]

Births

• 7 January – Christopher Williams, artist (died 1934)
• 16 January – Ivor Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne, politician (died 1939)
• 7 April
  • John Dyfnallt Owen, poet and Archdruid (died 1956)
  • Charles Butt Stanton, politician (died 1946)^[28]
• 23 April – Sir Robert Thomas, 1st Baronet, politician (died 1951)^[29]
• 1 May – Harry Evans, musician (died 1914)^[30]
• 22 May – J. Brynach Davies [cy] (Brynach) (died 1923)
• 5 June – Ben Davies, Wales international rugby player (died 1930)
• date unknown – Arthur Tysilio Johnson ("The Perfidious Welshman") (died 1956)

Deaths

• January – John Emlyn Jones, poet, 54^[31]
• 27 January – Josiah Thomas Jones, publisher, 73^[32]
• 20 February – (at Launceston, Tasmania) William Jones, Chartist leader, 64
• 29 March – David Jones, merchant in Australia, 80
• 17 May – Lord William Paget, soldier and politician, 70
• 9 October – John Evan Thomas, sculptor, 63^[33]
• 31 October – William Ambrose (Emrys), poet, 60^[34]
• 10 November – Maria Jane Williams, musician, 78^[35]

See also

• 1873 in Ireland

References

1. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
2. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
3. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
4. Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
5. "Morgan, Charles Morgan Robinson (1792–1875), of Ruperra, Glam. and Tredegar, Mon". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
6. Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
7. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
8. "Death of Colonel Pryse". Cambrian News. 1 June 1888. p. 4. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
9. "Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint". Retrieved 3 December 2021.
10. Campbell, Thomas Methuen (2000). "C.R.M. Talbot 1803–1890". Morgannwg. 44: 66–104. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
11. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
12. James Henry Clark (1869). History of Monmouthshire. County Observer. p. 375.
13. Amy Audrey Locke (1916). The Hanbury Family. Arthur L. Humphreys. p. 170.
14. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Walsh, John Benn" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
15. Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780521563505.
16. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 266.
17. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.
18. The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
19. Annual Report Presented by the Council to the Court of Governors. National Library of Wales. 1962. p. 59.
20. "Chacabuco (271443)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
21. "Severn Tunnel." engineering-timelines.com, Retrieved: 2 July 2018.
22. Milner, John (1984). The Glyn Valley Tramway. Oxford Publishing Co.
23. Denton, A., & Leach, N. (2008). Lighthouses of Wales. Landmark Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84306-459-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
24. Janet Larson (1999). The Versatile Border Collie. Alpine Publications. ISBN 978-0931866920.
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26. Thomas Parry (1959). "Thomas, Ebenezer (Eben Fardd; 1802-1863), schoolmaster and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
27. "Annals of Lawn Tennis". Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes. 44: 312. 1885.
28. Huw Morris-Jones. "Stanton, Charles Butt (1873–1946), M.P. for the Merthyr and Aberdare constituency, 1915–1922". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
29. John Graham Jones. "Thomas, Sir Robert (1873–1951), politician and shipowner". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
30. Robert David Griffith. "Evans, Harry (1873–1914), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
31. Robert Thomas Jenkins (1959). "Jones, John (Ioan Emlyn; 1818–1873), Baptist minister, poet, and man of letters". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
32. Robert Thomas Jenkins (1959). "Jones, Josiah Thomas (1799-1873), publisher and Independent minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
33. Robert Thomas Jenkins (1959). "John Evan Thomas, sculptor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
34. Richard Griffith Owen (1959). "Ambrose, William (Emrys; 1813-1873), Independent minister, poet, and littérateur". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
35. Marion Löffler (2019). "Williams, Maria Jane ('Llinos') (1795-1873), folklore collector and musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 February 2022.