1858 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1858 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Prince of Wales — Albert Edward
- Princess of Wales — vacant
Events
- January
- Teaching begins at Bangor Normal College, founded by Hugh Owen.
- End of Aberdare Strike 1857-8 in the coal mining industry.
- 20 April – John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) is given a conditional pardon for his role in the Rebecca Riots.[1]
- June – Erection of the Town Clock at Tredegar.[2]
- 20 June – End of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, which Major General Charles Hinde plays a major role in suppressing.
- 29 August – Musician Robert Davies (Asaph Llechid) is killed by a rockfall while at work in Cae-braich-y-cafn quarry.[3]
- 5 October – The Vale of Clwyd Railway, built by David Davies Llandinam, is opened.[4]
- 13 October – 20 men are killed in a mining accident at Lower Duffryn Colliery, Mountain Ash.
- date unknown
- Schooner Mary Catherine launched at Amlwch is the first iron ship built in Wales.[5]
- Richard Kyrke Penson exhibits a plan of his design for the Cilyrychen lime kilns at the Royal Academy.[6]
Arts and literature
Awards
- "Great Eisteddfod" at Llangollen; early appearance of Gorsedd ceremony. Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd) wins first prize for his poem Maes Bosworth.
New books
- William Davies (Gwilym Teilo) — Llandilo-Vawr and its Neighbourhood
- Owen Wynne Jones — Lleucu Llwyd[7]
- Robert Owen — An Introduction to the Study of Dogmatic Theology
- L. M. Spooner (anonymously) — Gladys of Harlech[8]
- Alfred Russel Wallace — On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type
Music
- Thomas Gruffydd Jones (Tafalaw Bencerdd) — Y Drysorfa Gorawl
- Edward Stephen (Tanymarian) — Requiem
Births
- 6 January — Ben Davies, singer (died 1943)[9]
- 28 January — Edgeworth David, explorer (died 1934)[10]
- 9 April — Aneurin Rees, Wales rugby union international (died 1932)
- 15 May — B. B. Mann, Wales rugby union international (died 1948)
- 8 October — Robert Owen Hughes (Elfyn), journalist and poet (died 1919)
- 25 October — Tom Clapp, Wales rugby union captain
- 30 October - Alfred Onions, politician (died 1921)[11]
- 18 December — Sir Owen Thomas, soldier and politician
- 25 December — Frederick Margrave, rugby player (died 1946)
- 26 December — Sir Owen Morgan Edwards, academic and author (died 1920)[12]
- 27 December — Sir John Herbert Lewis, lawyer and politician (died 1933)
- 28 December — Josiah Towyn Jones, politician (died 1925)
Deaths
- 22 March — Mary Anne Edmunds, educator and feminist, 41[13]
- 13 May — Lewis Loyd, banker, 91
- 30 May — Thomas ap Catesby Jones, Welsh-descended US naval officer, 68[14]
- 4 June — Thomas Edwards (Caerfallwch), lexicographer, 78[15]
- 16 October — Charles Norris, artist, 79[16]
- 17 November — Robert Owen, founder of the Co-operative Society, 87
- 20 November — Sir Joseph Bailey, 1st Baronet, ironmaster, 75
- 18 December — John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury, nephew of Hester Thrale, 65
- 27 December — John Williams, Archdeacon of Cardigan and warden of Llandovery College, 66[17]
References
- David Williams. "Jones, John (fl. 1811-1858; 'Shoni Sguborfawr'), Rebecca rioter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
- The Tredegar Workmen's Hall, 1861-1951: Ninety Years of Endeavor. With Some General Observations on the Life of the Period. Tredegar Workmen's Institute Society. 1952. p. 20.
- National Library of Wales (1950). Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales. Printed at the private Press of the National library of Wales. p. 20.
- Railscot - A History of Britain's Railways. Accessed 9 Dec 2014
- Hope, Bryan D. (2005). A Commodious Yard: The Story of William Thomas and Sons Shipbuilders of Amlwch. Llanrwst: Llygad Gwalch Cyf. ISBN 9781845270216.
- Thomas Lloyd; Julian Orbach; Robert Scourfield (2006). Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion. Yale University Press. p. 266. ISBN 0-300-10179-1.
- Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 317.
- L. M. Spooner (16 February 2017). Gladys of Harlech. Honno Welsh Women's Press. ISBN 978-1-909983-54-0.
- Robert David Griffith. "Davies, Benjamin ('Ben'; 1858-1943), singer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- David F. Branagan (2005). T.W. Edgeworth David: A Life : Geologist, Adventurer, Soldier and 'Knight in the Old Brown Hat'. National Library of Australia. ISBN 978-0-642-10791-6.
- Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died During the Period ... A. & C. Black. 1929. p. 797.
- Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Edwards, Sir Owen Morgan (1858-1920), man of letters". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
- Roberts, Thomas. "Edmunds, Mary Anne". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- Smith, Gene A. (2000). Thomas ap Catesby Jones. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 161. ISBN 978-1-55750-848-5.
- Henry Lewis. "Edwards, Thomas (Caerfallwch; 1779?-1858), lexicographer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
- Norris, Ursula (1966). "Charles Norris, Tenby Artist, and his Family". Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru (The National Library of Wales Journal). 14 (4): 489–496.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). "Williams, John (1792-1858)". Dictionary of National Biography. 61. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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