1858 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1858 to Wales and its people.

← 1857 1856 1855 1854 1853 1858 in Wales → 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1858 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

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

1. David Williams. "Jones, John (fl. 1811-1858; 'Shoni Sguborfawr'), Rebecca rioter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Railscot - A History of Britain's Railways. Accessed 9 Dec 2014
5. Hope, Bryan D. (2005). A Commodious Yard: The Story of William Thomas and Sons Shipbuilders of Amlwch. Llanrwst: Llygad Gwalch Cyf. ISBN 9781845270216.
6. Thomas Lloyd; Julian Orbach; Robert Scourfield (2006). Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion. Yale University Press. p. 266. ISBN 0-300-10179-1.
7. Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 317.
8. L. M. Spooner (16 February 2017). Gladys of Harlech. Honno Welsh Women's Press. ISBN 978-1-909983-54-0.
9. Robert David Griffith. "Davies, Benjamin ('Ben'; 1858-1943), singer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Edwards, Sir Owen Morgan (1858-1920), man of letters". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
13. Roberts, Thomas. "Edmunds, Mary Anne". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
14. Smith, Gene A. (2000). Thomas ap Catesby Jones. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 161. ISBN 978-1-55750-848-5.
15. Henry Lewis. "Edwards, Thomas (Caerfallwch; 1779?-1858), lexicographer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
16. Norris, Ursula (1966). "Charles Norris, Tenby Artist, and his Family". Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru (The National Library of Wales Journal). 14 (4): 489–496.
17.  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.