1874 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1874 to Wales and its people.

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Centuries:
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  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
See also:
1874 in
The United Kingdom
Ireland
Scotland

Incumbents

Events
  • 24 January – Four pilots and two apprentices are drowned in an accident off Llanddwyn on Anglesey.
  • 17 February – In the 1874 United Kingdom general election, newly elected MPs include David Davies (Llandinam) at Cardigan (returned unopposed).[1]
  • 1 April – Frances Morgan marries Dr George Hoggan.[2] They later open the first husband-and-wife general medical practice in the UK.
  • 1 May – Coal-owner Sir George Elliot is raised to the baronetcy by the new prime minister, Disraeli.[3]
  • 15 July – Laying of the foundation stone of the clock tower at Machynlleth,[4] built to mark the coming of age in 1873 of Viscount Castlereagh, the eldest son of the 5th Marquess of Londonderry of Plas Machynlleth.
  • 20 July – In a mining accident at Charles Colliery, Llansamlet, nineteen men are killed.
  • October – The Western Mail reports a deathbed confession made to a minister in the USA by a man who claimed he carried out the assault for which Dic Penderyn was executed in 1831.
  • 24 August – William Basil Jones is consecrated Bishop of St David's.
  • 5 October – The Powysland Club holds its annual meeting at the new Powysland Museum in Welshpool.[5]
  • 16 October – The first issue of Yr Ymwelydd is published in Australia under the editorship of William Meirion Evans.
  • Strike at Dinorwig slate quarry.
  • The Welsh Flannel Company is established at Holywell.
  • Henry Davis Pochin begins laying out Bodnant Garden.
  • John Mathias Berry and his wife Mary move to Merthyr Tydfil. The three sons born to them here go on to achieve success in business and be raised to the peerage: Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, William Ewart Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose and Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley.
  • Rev. Richard Williams Morgan is consecrated First Patriarch of a restored Ancient British Church by Jules Ferrette, the founder of the British Orthodox Church, taking the religious name of 'Mar Pelagius I' and undertaking to revive Celtic Christianity as practised prior to the Synod of Whitby while continuing duties as an Anglican clergyman.

Arts and literature
  • William Goscombe John begins assisting his father, a wood-carver, in his work at Cardiff Castle.

Awards

New books

Music

Sport

Births
  • 4 February – Thomas Wallace Fagan, agricultural scientist (died 1951)
  • 6 February – David Evans, composer (died 1948)
  • 6 May – Miriam Kate Williams ("Vulcana"), strongwoman (died 1946)
  • 20 May (in India) – Sir George Lewis Barstow, civil servant (died 1966)
  • 2 July – George Boots — international rugby player (died 1928)
  • 15 July – Gwyn Nicholls, Wales rugby captain (died 1939)
  • 16 July – William Alexander Wales international rugby player (died 1937)
  • 20 July – David Bowen (Myfyr Hefin), minister and author (died 1955)
  • 30 July – Billy Meredith, footballer (died 1958)
  • 31 October – James Henry Thomas, politician (died 1949)
  • 12 November – Rachel Barrett, editor and suffragette (died 1953)
  • 1 December – Dick Hellings, Wales international rugby player (died 1938)
  • 30 December – Nantlais Williams, poet and religious leader (died 1959)
  • date unknown
    • William Eames, journalist (died 1958)
    • (in USA) Thomas David Edwards, composer (died 1930)

Deaths

References
  1. Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael, eds. (2000), British Electoral Facts 1832–1999, Ashgate Publishing Ltd
  2. Beth Jenkins. "Hoggan [née Morgan], Frances Elizabeth (1843-1927), physician and social reformer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  3. The London Gazette, 1 May 1874
  4. "Town Clock, Machynlleth". Coflein. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  5. Collections Historical & Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire. The Club. 1874. p. 23.
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