1880s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1880 - 1889 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - Edward Albert, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Princess of Wales - Alexandra of Denmark
*Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Clwydfardd

Events

*1880
*1881
*1882
*1883
*1884
*1885
*1886
*1887
*1888
*1889

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales
*1880 - Caernarfon
*1881 - Merthyr Tydfil
**Chair - Evan Rees ("Dyfed")
**Crown - Watkin Hezekiah Williams
*1882 - Denbigh
**Chair - "withheld"
**Crown - Dafydd Rees Williams
*1883 - Cardiff
**Chair - "withheld"
**Crown - Anna Walter Thomas
*1884 - Liverpool
**Chair - Evan Rees ("Dyfed")
**Crown - Edward Foulkes
*1885 - Aberdare
**Chair - Watkin Hezekiah Williams
**Crown - Griffith Tecwyn Parry
*1886 - Caernarfon
**Chair - Richard Davies
**Crown - John Cadfan Davies
*1887 - London
**Chair - Robert Arthur Williams
**Crown - John Cadfan Davies
*1888 - Wrexham
**Chair - Thomas Tudno Jones
**Crown - Howell Elvet Lewis
*1889 - Brecon
**Chair - Evan Rees
**Crown - Howell Elvet Lewis

New books

*Rhoda Broughton - "Doctor Cupid" (1886)
*Richard Davies (Mynyddog) - "Pedwerydd Llyfr Mynyddog" (1882)
*Amy Dillwyn
**"The Rebecca Rioter" (1880)
**"Jill and Jack"(1887)
*Daniel Silvan Evans - "Dictionary of the Welsh Language (Geiriadur Cymraeg)" (1887)
*Frances Hoggan - "Education for Girls in Wales" (1882)
*Daniel Owen
**"Y Dreflan" (1881)
**"Rhys Lewis" (1885)
*Robert Williams (Trebor Mai) - "Gwaith Barddonol Trebor Mai" (1883)

port

*1881 - Welsh Rugby Union is formed.
*1884 - The first rugby international is played at Cardiff Arms Park (between Wales and Ireland).
*1889 - In a football match between Wales and Scotland at Wrexham, the referee allows the injured Welsh goalkeeper to be replaced - the first ever substitution in a soccer match.

Births

*1880
**May 9 - Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, patron of the arts (died 1946)
**May 11 - David Davies, 1st Baron Davies, politician (died 1944)
**September 2 - Isaac Daniel Hooson, poet (died 1948)
**September 15 - William Charles Williams, VC recipient (died 1915)
**"date unknown"
***George Maitland Lloyd Davies, pacifist (died 1949)
***Edward Tegla Davies, author (died 1967)
***Rhys Gabe, rugby player (died 1967)
***Harry Grindell Matthews, inventor (died 1941)
*1881
**January 3 - Lewis Pugh Evans, VC recipient (died 1962)
**February 14 - William John Gruffydd, academic and politician (died 1954)
**April 16 - Ifor Williams, academic (died 1965)
**May 5 - Rupert Price Hallowes, VC recipient (died 1915)
**June 16 - David Grenfell, politician (died 1968)
**June 20 - John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, landowner (died 1947)
**August - John Lewis, footballer (died 1954)
**September 30 - Philip Lewis Griffiths, lawyer (died 1945)
**October 28 - Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, explorer (died 1957)
**December - George Henry Hall, politician (died 1965)
**"date unknown"
***David Thomas ("Afan"), composer (died 1928)
***Robert Williams, trade union leader
*1882
**July 24 - Reginald Clarry, politician (died 1945)
**November 6 - David Rees Griffiths, poet (died 1953)
**December 16 - Cyril Fox, archaeologist (died 1967)
**"date unknown" - Ivor Lewis, artist (died 1958)
*1883
**April 30 - David John de Lloyd, composer (died 1948)
**May 28 - Clough Williams-Ellis, architect (died 1978)
**"date unknown"
***John Jones (Tydu), poet (died 1968)
***Percy Thomas, architect (died 1969)
***James Walker, politician
*1884
**February 19 - Clement Davies, politician (died 1962)
**"date unknown"
***Jack Jones, novelist (died 1970
***Arthur Jenkins, politician (died 1946)
***Thomas Jones, footballer (died 1958)
*1885
**August 2 - Clarence Bruce, 3rd Baron Aberdare (died 1957)
**November 21 - Robert Evans, footballer (died 1965)
**"date unknown"
***Ernest Evans, politician (died 1965)
***David John Williams, politician (died 1970)
*1886
**March 28 - John Osborn Williams, entrepreneur (died 1963)
**May 3 - Morgan Jones, Welsh politician (died 1939)
**September 29 - Jack Williams, VC recipient (died 1953)
*1887
**January 13 - Hedd Wyn, poet (died 1917)
**"date unknown"
***James Dickson Innes, painter (died 1914)
***Huw Menai, poet (died 1961)
*1888
**May 21 - William Cove, politician (died 1963)
**August 16 - T. E. Lawrence, writer and war hero (died 1935)
**October 19 - Peter Freeman, politician (died 1956)
**September 5 - Rhys Hopkin Morris, politician (died 1956)
*1889
**February 1 - John Lewis, philosopher (died 1976)
**December 11 - Cedric Morris, artist (died 1982)

Deaths

*1880
**April 23 - Robert Thomas (Ap Vychan), minister and writer (b. 1809)
*1881
**April 20 - William Burges, architect
**November 20 - Hugh Owen, educationist (born 1804)
*1882
**August - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and photographer (born 1810)
**December 16 - Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff (born 1798)
*1883
**November 8 - William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog), poet (born 1802)
*1884
**March 17 - Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn (born 1795)
**May 24 - Henry Thomas Edwards, preacher (born 1837)
**November 6 - George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry, industrialist
*1885
**May 1 - Henry Brinley Richards, composer (born 1817)
**August 1 - Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, inventor (born 1850)
*1886
**March 31 - Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (born 1800)
*1887
**January 25 - Rowland Prichard, musician (born 1811)
**April 23 - John Ceiriog Hughes, poet (born 1832)
**July 19 - Lewis Edwards, educationist (born 1809)
*1888
**August 20 - Henry Richard, politician and peace campaigner (born 1812)
*1889
**January 21 - Joshua Hughes, Bishop of St Asaph (born 1807)
**June 8 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anglo-Welsh poet (born 1844)
**"date unknown" - John Hughes, industrialist (in St Petersburg)