1870s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1870 - 1879 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 (from 1876)

Events

*1870
*1871
*1872
*1873
*1874
*1875
*1876
*1877
*1878
*1879

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales - no National Eisteddfod officially took place during this decade.1872 - William Thomas (Islwyn) wins a bardic chair at Rhyl.1874 - Islwyn wins a bardic chair at Caerphilly.1877 - Islwyn wins a bardic chair at Treherbert.

New books

*R. D. Blackmore - "The Maid of Sker" (1872)
*Rhoda Broughton - "Nancy" (1873)
*Richard Davies (Mynyddog)
**"Yr Ail Gynnig" (1870)
**"Y Trydydd Cynnig" (1877)
*Robert Elis (Cynddelw) - "Manion Hynafiaethol" (1873)
*Beriah Gwynfe Evans - "Owain Glyndwr" (play) (1879)
*Daniel Silvan Evans - "Celtic Remains" (1878)
*John Ceiriog Hughes - "Oriau'r Haf" (1870)
*William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog)
**"Helyntion Bywyd Hen Deiliwr" (1877)
**"Llythyrau 'Rhen Ffarmwr" (1878)
*Thomas Thomas (minister) - "Hynodion Hen Bregethwyr Cymru" (1872)

Music

*1873
**Henry Brinley Richards - "Songs of Wales"

port

*1873 - Major Walter Wingfield of Nantclwyd Hall patents nets for the game of lawn tennis, which he calls "sphairistike".

Births

*1870
**August 18 - William Cope, 1st Baron Cope, politician (died 1946)
**September 27 - Thomas Jones (T. J.), civil servant (died 1955)
**December 20 - Sir Sir David Davies, politician (died 1958)
*1871
**April 6 - Prince Alexander John of Wales, youngest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died April 7 1871)
*1872
**May 18 - Bertrand Russell, philosopher (died 1970)
**August 27 - Charles Stewart Rolls, aviator (died 1910)
**October 8 - John Cowper Powys, Anglo-Welsh writer (died 1963)
*1873
**April 23 - Sir Robert Thomas, 1st Baronet, politician (died 1951)
**June 2 - Anna Eliza Williams, supercentenarian (died 1987)
*1874
**February 6 - David Evans, composer (died 1948)
**October 3 - James Henry Thomas, politician (died 1949)
**December - Nantlais Williams, poet and religious leader (died 1959)
**"date unknown" - Albert Bethel, politician (died 1935)
*1875
**September 10 - John Evans, Welsh politician (died 1961)
**November 11 - Johnny Jenkins, racing driver (died 1945)
*1876
**June 22 - Gwen John, artist (died 1939)
**September 18 - Charles Kemeys-Tynte, 8th Baron Wharton (died 1934)
*1877
**August 19 - John Evans, supercentenarian (died 1990)
**September 26 - Edmund Gwenn, actor (died 1959) (long believed to have been born in Wales, but birth certificate proves otherwise)
*1878
**January 4 - Augustus John, painter (died 1961)
**March 3 - Edward Thomas, poet (died 1917)
**April 16 - Owen Thomas Jones, geologist (died 1967)
**May 26 - Abel J. Jones, writer (died 1949)
**June 28 - Evan Roberts preacher (died 1951)
**December 31 - Caradoc Evans, writer (died 1945)
*1879
**September 4 - Eliot Crawshay-Williams, politician and writer (died 1962)
**October 2 - Idris Bell, papyrologist (died 1967)

Deaths

*1872
**August 3 - William Davies Evans, chess player (born 1790)
*1874
**April 19 - Owen Jones, architect (born 1809)
*1875
**July 27 - Connop Thirlwall, bishop (born 1797)
*1876
**July 19 - George E. Pugh, Welsh-American politician (born 1822)
*1877
**June 24 - Robert Dale Owen, Welsh-American politician (born 1801)
**July 14 - Richard Davies (Mynyddog), poet (born 1833)
**August 5 - Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet (born 1830)
*1878
**January 3 - Morris Williams (Nicander), writer (born 1809)
**September 30 - Evan James, poet, lyricist of the Welsh national anthem (born 1809)
**November 20 - William Thomas (Islwyn), poet (born 1832)
*1879
**September 23 - Francis Kilvert, diarist (born 1840)