1857 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1857 to Wales and its people.

1857
in
Wales

Centuries:
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1830s
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
See also:
1857 in
The United Kingdom
Ireland
Scotland

Incumbents

Events

Arts and literature

New books

English language

Welsh language

  • Owen Wynne JonesDafydd Llwyd
  • Robert Parry (Robyn Ddu Eryri)Teithiau a Barddoniaeth Robyn Ddu Eryri[6]

Music

Births

  • 2 February - Sir James Cory, 1st Baronet, politician and ship-owner (died 1933)
  • 7 February — Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl Dunraven (died 1952)
  • 28 February — Charlie Newman, Wales rugby union captain (died 1922)
  • 27 April — Alfred Cattell, Wales international rugby player (died 1933)
  • 12 May — Sarah Jacob, the "fasting girl" (died 1869)
  • 20 June — Dan Griffiths, Wales international rugby player (died 1936)
  • 28 June — Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet, orthopaedic surgeon (died 1933)
  • 1 July — Martha Hughes Cannon, women's rights activist and politician in the United States (died 1932)
  • 19 September — James Bridie, Scottish-born Wales international rugby union player (died 1893 in England)
  • 8 November — Frank Purdon, Wales rugby union international
  • 14 November — John Thomas Rees, musician (died 1949)
  • 2 December — Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, surgeon (died 1943)
  • Llewellyn Cadwaladr, operatic tenor (died 1909)

Deaths

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References

  1. Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (2001). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorian. The Society. p. 112.
  2. Thomas Nicholas (1872). Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales. Longmans, Green, Reader. pp. 48–.
  3. John Elliott (2004). The Industrial Development of the Ebbw Valleys, 1780-1914. University of Wales Press. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-7083-1890-4.
  4. Hughes, T. Meirion (2014). "Some Feat over a Century and a Half Ago". Caernarfon Through the Eye of Time. Talybont: Y Lolfa. pp. 77–81. ISBN 978-1-847-71930-0.
  5. Neil Evans (17 February 2016). Writing a Small Nation's Past: Wales in Comparative Perspective, 1850–1950. Routledge. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-134-78661-9.
  6. National Library of Wales (1985). Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. Council of the National Library of Wales.
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