1857 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1857 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

For United Kingdom incumbents, see 1857 in the United Kingdom § Incumbents.

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins ^{[5] [6]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet ^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore (until 12 July); ^[8] Edward Pryse (from 14 September) ^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph ^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet ^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot ^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Robert Davies Pryce ^[13]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh ^[14]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley ^[15]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet ^[16]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite ^{[17] [2]}

• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell ^{[18] [19]}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant ^{[20] [21]}
• Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short ^{[22] [23] [21]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall ^{[24] [21] [25]}

Events

Crumlin Viaduct

• 4 March — Thomas Gee launches the radical nonconformist newspaper Baner Cymru in Denbigh. ^[26]
• 24 March — 1857 United Kingdom general election, concludes. Anglesey antiquarian William Owen Stanley becomes Whig MP for the Beaumaris District of Boroughs. ^[27]
• 6 May — Samuel Roberts (S. R.) sails for Tennessee.
• 1 June — Opening of the Crumlin Viaduct, built to carry the Taff Vale Extension of the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway. ^[28]
• 10 August — John Bowen is consecrated as Bishop of Sierra Leone.
• 13 August — Eugene Goddard crosses the Menai Strait in his gas balloon Aurora from Caernarfon Castle to Llanidan. ^[29]
• 3 October — The Newport Gazette is founded by William Nicholas Johns.
• 14 October — Four people are killed in a railway accident near Pyle.
• 29 October — St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden, badly damaged by arson.
• Autumn — Aberdare Strike 1857-8 against reductions in coal miners' pay begins.
• Railway workers go on strike at Aberdare.^{[ citation needed ]}

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Richard Williams Morgan — The British Kymry or Britons of Cambria ^[30]

Welsh language

• Owen Wynne Jones — Dafydd Llwyd
• Robert Parry (Robyn Ddu Eryri) — Teithiau a Barddoniaeth Robyn Ddu Eryri ^[31]

Music

• John Ashton — "Trefeglwys" (hymn tune)

Births

• 2 February - Sir James Cory, 1st Baronet, politician and ship-owner (died 1933)
• 7 February — Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl Dunraven (died 1952)
• 28 February — Charlie Newman, Wales rugby union captain (died 1922)
• 27 April — Alfred Cattell, Wales international rugby player (died 1933)
• 12 May — Sarah Jacob, the "fasting girl" (died 1869)
• 20 June — Dan Griffiths, Wales international rugby player (died 1936)
• 28 June — Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet, orthopaedic surgeon (died 1933)
• 1 July — Martha Hughes Cannon, women's rights activist and politician in the United States (died 1932)
• 19 September — James Bridie, Scottish-born Wales international rugby union player (died 1893 in England)
• 8 November — Frank Purdon, Wales rugby union international
• 14 November — John Thomas Rees, musician (died 1949)
• 2 December — Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, surgeon (died 1943)
• Llewellyn Cadwaladr, operatic tenor (died 1909)

Deaths

• 3 January — Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (second creation), 55
• 23 January — Edward Anwyl, Wesleyan minister and teacher, 70 ^[32]
• 10 February — David Thompson, explorer of Welsh parentage, 86
• 29 March — Elijah Waring, writer, ±69 ^[33]
• 16 May — Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer, 74 ^[34]
• 13 June — Daniel Rees, hymn-writer, 64 ^[35]
• 12 July — Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore, Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire, 64 ^[8]
• 12 August — William Daniel Conybeare, dean of Llandaff, 70
• 16 August — John Jones, Talysarn, leading non-conformist minister, 61 ^[36]

See also

• 1857 in Ireland

References

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