1876 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1876 to Wales and its people.

← 1875 1874 1873 1872 1871 1876 in Wales → 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1876 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

Incumbents

For United Kingdom incumbents, see 1876 in the United Kingdom § Incumbents.

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – William Owen Stanley^[1][2][3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse^[7][2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite

• Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell^[12][13]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant^[14]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua Hughes^[15][14]
• Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones^[14][16]

• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd (first official holder of the position^[17]

Events

• January – The Argentine government appoints Antonio Oneto as civil authority over the Welsh colony in Patagonia, the population of which numbers 690.
• 9 January – The death of John Russell, Viscount Amberley, leaves Bertrand Russell an orphan.^[18]
• 19 May – Sir Edmund Buckley, 1st Baronet, files for bankruptcy in Manchester with debts exceeding £500,000, causing his Dinas Mawddwy estate to be put up for sale.^[19]
• June – Francis Kilvert becomes vicar of Saint Harmon, Radnorshire.^[20]
• 13 July – Act of Parliament allows the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Company to abandon plans for a line between Croesor Junction and Betws-y-Coed.
• 22 July – Art Treasures & Industrial Exhibition of North Wales & the Border Counties in Wrexham is opened.
• 19 August – Judge John Johnes is murdered at his home on Dolaucothi Estate by his butler.
• 2 December – Cardiff RFC plays its first match, against Newport.
• 18 December – In a mining accident at South Wales Pit, Abertillery, twenty men are killed.

Arts and literature

New books

• George Thomas Orlando Bridgeman – History of the Princes of South Wales

Music

• Eos Bradwen – Bugeiles yr Wyddfa
• Joseph Parry composes the hymn tune Aberystwyth (published 1879) which becomes the basis of the pan-African anthem Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika

Sport

• Football
  • 2 February – Llewelyn Kenrick sets up the Football Association of Wales in a meeting at the Wynnstay Arms hotel in Wrexham, in response to a challenge issued by The Field magazine, to organize an international match between Wales and Scotland or Ireland.
  • 25 March – Wales play first international football match, against Scotland in Glasgow, losing 4–0.
  • Formation of Caernarfon athletics club, later Caernarfon Town.
• Rugby union – Aberavon RFC, Cardiff RFC, Cardigan RFC, Llandaff RFC, Merthyr RFC and Pontypridd RFC are established.

Births

 

Gwen John

• 7 March – Edgar Evans, naval petty officer and Antarctic explorer (died 1912)^[21]
• 19 June – Joe Pullman, Wales international rugby union player (died 1955)
• 22 June – Gwen John, artist (died 1939)^[22]
• 15 July
  • Jehoida Hodges, Welsh international rugby union player (died 1930)
  • Jack Rhapps, Dual-code rugby international (died 1950)
• 24 July – Viv Huzzey, Welsh international rugby union player (died 1929)
• 18 September – Charles Kemeys-Tynte, 8th Baron Wharton (died 1934)
• 17 November – Dicky Owen, Welsh international rugby union player (died 1932)

Deaths

 

Robert Herbert Williams (Corfanydd, 1805-76) NLW3364191

• 3 January – Rosser Beynon, musician, 64^[23]
• 19 February – Daniel Davies, Baptist preacher, 78^[24]
• 24 February – Joseph Jenkins Roberts, President of Liberia, son of a Welsh planter, 66^[25]
• 23 April (at Karlsruhe) – Frances Bunsen, painter, 85^[26]
• 2 May – Daniel Thomas Williams (Tydfylyn), poet and musician (born 1820)^[27]
• 15 June – John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech, politician, 60^[28]
• 19 July (in the United States) – George E. Pugh, Welsh-American politician, 53^[29]
• 8 August – Lady Sarah Elizabeth Hay-Williams, English-born artist and illustrator, 75^[30]
• 21 August – C. W. Evan, Congregationalist minister in colonial South Australia, age unknown
• 9 November – John David Jenkins, philanthropist, 58^[31]
• 17 November – Thomas Rees (Twm Carnabwth), leader of Rebecca Riots^[32]
• 20 November – Robert Herbert Williams (Corfanydd), musician (born 1805)^[33]
• 25 December – Adrian Stephens, inventor of the steam whistle, 81^[34]

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