1870 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1870 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

For United Kingdom incumbents, see 1870 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 ^[9]
• 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 ^[15]
• 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 – Thomas Vowler Short (retired); ^{[20] [21] [19]} Joshua Hughes (from 9 May) ^[22]
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall ^{[19] [23]}

Events

• January — Francis Kilvert begins his famous diary. ^[24]
• 14 February — In a mining accident at Morfa Colliery, Port Talbot, 30 men are killed. ^[25]
• April — George Osborne Morgan introduces the Burials Bill and the Places of Worship (Acquisition of Land) Bill to Parliament.
• unknown dates
  • Sir George Gilbert Scott completes the restoration of Bangor Cathedral.
  • In India, Timothy Richards Lewis discovers a nematoid worm, which he calls Filaria sanguinis hominis (later "Wuchereria bancrofti"). ^[26]
  • William Thomas Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr of Senghenydd, begins acquiring the collieries later known as the Lewis Merthyr collieries in Rhondda.
  • Jacob Lloyd is created a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Pius IX. ^[27]
  • Thomas William Rhys Davids begins a series of articles for the Ceylon branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Journal.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Ceiriog Hughes — Oriau'r Haf ^[28]
• David Lloyd Davies — Ceinwen Morgan neu y Rian Ddiwylliedig
• Richard Davies (Mynyddog) — Yr Ail Gynnig

Sport

• Billiards — John Roberts, Sr. loses the English billiards championship after 21 years.
• Association football — Druids of Rhiwabon formed.

Births

• 13 January — Conway Rees, rugby player (died 1932)
• 10 March — George "Honey Boy" Evans, Welsh-born US entertainer (died 1915) ^[29]
• 20 March — Eluned Morgan, author (died 1938) ^[30]
• 25 March — Wallace Watts, Wales international rugby union player (died 1950)
• 19 June — Charles Nicholl, Wales international rugby union player (died 1939)
• 29 June
  • Arthur Boucher, Wales international rugby union player (died 1948)
  • Sir Charles Dillwyn-Venables-Llewellyn, 2nd Baronet, politician (died 1951) ^[31]
• 14 July — Helena Jones, doctor and suffragette (died 1946) ^[32]
• 16 July — William Henry Prosser, teacher and cricketer (died 1952) ^[33]
• 27 July — Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan, historian (died 1948) ^[34]
• 18 August — William Cope, 1st Baron Cope, politician and Wales international rugby player (died 1946) ^[35]
• 27 September — Thomas Jones (T. J.), civil servant (died 1955) ^[36]
• 22 October — J. Glyn Davies, scholar, poet and songwriter (died 1953) ^[37]
• 3 November — Norman Biggs, Wales international rugby player (died 1908)
• 15 November — William Elsey, Wales international rugby player (died 1936)
• 20 December — Sir David Davies, politician (died 1958) ^[38]
• 29 December — Robert Dewi Williams, teacher, minister and writer (died 1955) ^[39]
• 31 December — David John Jones, Dean of Llandaff (died 1949)
• December — Ernest William Jones, steamship agent and cricketer (died 1941)
• date unknown
  • John William Evans, politician (died 1906) ^[40]
  • John Hughes Morris, missionary (died 1953)

Deaths

• 16 March — Thomas Parry, Bishop of Barbados, 74
• 4 April — Owen Wynne Jones, writer, 42 ^[41]
• 15 May — Charles Hinde (army officer), soldier, 49 ^[42]
• 27 May — John Etherington Welch Rolls, Monmouthshire landowner and father of 1st Baron Llangattock, 63 ^[43]
• 23 June — Isaac Hughes, Calvinist missionary and preacher, 71/72 ^[44]
• 1 August — Levi Gibbon, balladeer, 92 ^[45]
• 17 September — Joseph David Jones, composer, 43 ^[46]
• 27 October — Owen Jones Ellis Nanney, politician, 80 ^[47]
• 29 October — Jacob Owen, architect and civil engineer, 92 ^[48]
• 16 November — Harry Longueville Jones, antiquary, 64 ^[49]

See also

• 1870 in Ireland

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