1864 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1864 to Wales and its people.

← 1863 1862 1861 1860 1859 1864 in Wales → 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1864 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
• Princess of Wales – Alexandra

Events

• June - David Lloyd George's father dies and his family move from Pembrokeshire to Llanystumdwy to be cared for by his maternal uncle, Richard Lloyd, when he is aged 18 months.
• June 23 - Aberystwyth is linked to the rail network for the first time.[1]
• October 6 - The Denbigh, Ruthin and Corwen Railway is completed throughout to Corwen.[1]
• David Davies Llandinam takes a lease of coal in the Upper Rhondda Valley and sinks the Parc and Maindy pits.
• Opening of Rhosydd Quarry narrow gauge railway incline on the upper Croesor Tramway at the head of the Croesor valley.
• The Llandudno Improvement Commissioners attempt to ban Punch and Judy shows. In this year, the town first receives the title "Queen of Welsh Resorts".[2]

Arts and literature

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Llandudno. The chair is won by Richard Foulkes Edwards (Rhisiart Ddu o Wynedd).

English language

• R. D. Blackmore - Clara Vaughan[3]
• Sir John Henry Philipps - Lyrics
• Alfred Russel Wallace - The Origin of Human Races and the Antiquity of Man Deduced from the Theory of Natural Selection
• Frances Williams-Wynn - Diaries of a Lady of Quality (posthumously published)[4]

Welsh language

• Huw Derfel - Llawlyfr Carnedd Llywelyn[5]
• Robert Jones Derfel - Traethodau ac Areithiau[6]
• Daniel Silvan Evans (ed.) - Y Marchog Crwydrad: Hen Ffuglith Gymreig

Music

• William Griffiths (Ifander) - Gwarchae Harlech (cantata)[7]

Sport

• Cricket
  • South Wales Cricket Club play Gentlemen of Sussex. The South Wales team includes W. G. Grace, who scores 170.
• Football
  • October 22 - The predecessor of Wrexham A.F.C. plays its first match, making it the oldest association football club in Wales and the world's sixth oldest football club.

Births

• January 8
  • Prince Albert Victor, first child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1892)
  • Thomas Allen Glenn, soldier and historian (died 1948)[8]
• February 7 - Alfred Augustus Mathews, vicar and Wales international rugby player (died 1946)
• March 11 - John Silas Evans, astronomer (died 1953)[9]
• May 4 - Harry Bowen, Wales international rugby player (died 1913)
• June 5 - Edward Pegge, Wales international rugby player (died 1915)
• July 5 - Lloyd Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon (died 1927)[10]
• August 19 - Charles Alfred Howell Green, first Bishop of Monmouth (died 1944)[11]
• September 15
  • Fred Andrews, Wales international rugby player (died 1929)
  • Giotto Griffiths, Wales international rugby player (died 1938)
• September 21 - Ernest Rowland, priest and Wales international rugby player (died 1940)
• October 10
  • Edward Bishop - Wales International rugby union player (died 1919)
  • Arthur Gould - Wales International rugby union captain (died 1919)[12]
• October 17 - Sir John Morris-Jones, grammarian (died 1929)[13]
• November 4 - Margaret Owen, later wife of David Lloyd George (died 1941)

Deaths

• March 11 - Richard Roberts, engineer, 74
• March 28 - Ellis Evans, Baptist minister and author, 77[14]
• June 18
  • Evan Davies, missionary, 59
  • William Smith O'Brien, Irish nationalist, 60
• June 20 - John Davies (Brychan), poet, 79[15]
• July 24 - Lloyd Kenyon, 3rd Baron Kenyon, 59[10]
• August 1 - Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (born 1777)
• December 29 - Mary Jones, early owner of a Welsh Bible, 80

References

1. Quick, Michael (2009). Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: a Chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5.
2. Jones, Ivor Wynne. "Chapter 3". Llandudno Queen of Welsh Resorts. p. 19. Liverpool Mercury.
3. Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1864). Clara Vaughan; by R.D. Blackmore. Macmillan and Company.
4. Frances Williams-Wynn (1864). Diaries of a Lady of Quality from 1797 to 1844. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green.
5. John Davies; Nigel Jenkins; Menna Baines (2008). The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
6. Robert Jones DERFEL (1864). Traethodau ac areithiau, etc. J. Mendus Jones.
7. David Hughes Lewis. "Griffiths, William (Ifander, 1830-1910), choral conductor and adjudicator". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
8. William Llewelyn Davies. "Glenn, Thomas Allen (1864-1948), soldier, historian, genealogist, and archaeologist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
9. Mary Gwendoline Ellis. "Evans, John Silas (1864-1953), priest and astronomer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
10. Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon. "KENYON family, Gredington, Flintshire, and Peel Hall, Lancashire". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
11. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "Green, Charles Alfred Howell (1864-1944), second Archbishop of Wales". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
12. "Gould, Arthur Joseph (1864-1919), Rugby footballer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
13. Thomas Parry. "Morris-Jones, Sir John (1864-1929), scholar, poet, and critic". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
14. Tom Ellis Jones. "Evans, Ellis (1786-1864), Baptist minister and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
15. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Davies John (1784?-1864), known as 'Brychan,' poet, publisher, and promoter of the friendly society movement". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2019.