1877 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1877 to Wales and its people.

← 1876 1875 1874 1873 1872 1877 in Wales → 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1877 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
• Princess of Wales – Alexandra
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd[1]

Events

• 8 March – In a mining accident at Worcester Colliery, Swansea, seventeen men are killed.[2]
• 11 April – In a mining accident at Tynewydd Colliery, Rhondda, five men are killed by flooding.[3] Twenty-five of the rescue team are awarded the Albert Medal for bravery.
• 10 July – Consecration of new Merthyr Synagogue, the oldest surviving synagogue building in Wales.
• 1 August – Opening of new Llandudno Pier.[4]
• 15 August – Opening to passengers of the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways from Dinas to Tryfan Junction and Bryngwyn.[5]
• 30 November – Opening of the new market hall at Builth Wells by Sir Joseph Bailey M.P.
• Opening of Stepaside, Pembrokeshire village school (part of modern-day Stepaside Heritage Park).
• Closure of lead mine at Loggerheads, Denbighshire.

Arts and literature

• Islwyn wins a bardic chair at Treherbert.

New books

• Richard Davies (Mynyddog) – Y Trydydd Cynnig[6]
• William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) – Helyntion Bywyd Hen Deiliwr

Music

• Joseph Parry resigns from his position as Professor of Music at University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Sport

• Football
  • The Racecourse Ground at Wrexham hosts Wales' first ever home international match, making it the world's oldest international football stadium still to host international matches.[7]
  • The Welsh Cup is inaugurated.
• Rugby union
  • 8 November – Blaenavon RFC play their first game, against Abergavenny.

Births

• 2 May – Sid Bevan, Welsh international rugby union player (died 1933)
• 6 June (in Guernsey) – Herbert John Fleure, zoologist and geographer (died 1969)
• 9 June – George Travers, Wales international rugby union player (died 1945)
• 21 June – Elizabeth Mary Jones (Moelona), Welsh-language children's novelist (died 1953)
• 1 July – Llewellyn Lloyd, Wales international rugby union player (died 1957)
• 19 August – John Evans, supercentenarian (died 1990)
• 17 September – Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist (died 1928)[8]
• 26 September (in Wandsworth) – Edmund Gwenn, actor (died 1959) (long believed to have been born in Wales)
• 5 October – Lily Gower, croquet player (died 1959)
• 27 October – David Harris Davies, Wales international rugby union player (died 1944)
• 7 November – Maurice Parry, footballer (died 1935)
• 27 November – Leigh Richmond Roose, football goalkeeper (killed in battle 1916)
• 2 December – John Strand-Jones, Wales international rugby union player (died 1958)

Deaths

• 9 January – Thomas Thomas, clergyman, 72
• 24 June – Robert Dale Owen, Welsh-American politician, 75[9]
• 14 July – Richard Davies (Mynyddog), poet, 44[10]
• 18 July – Thomas Richards, "father of Tasmanian journalism", 77
• 27 July – John Frost, Chartist leader, 93[11]
• 5 August – Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet, 47[12]
• 17 October – Charles Williams, academic, 73?
• 7 November – Calvert Jones, painter and pioneer photographer, 72[13]
• 13 December – John Griffith (journalist), journalist who wrote under the pseudonym Y Gohebydd, 56[14]

References

1. Daniel Williams. "GRIFFITH, DAVID (Clwydfardd; 1800–1894)". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
2. United States Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1897. p. 593.
3. Ceri Thompson. "The Tynewydd Mining Disaster". Museum of Wales. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
4. Frank Crossley Thornley (1952). Steamers of North Wales, past and present. T. Stephenson. p. 66.
5. Donald J. Grant (31 October 2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain. Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 419. ISBN 978-1-78803-768-6.
6. Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 136.
7. "Guinness cheers Racecourse with official record". Daily Post North Wales. 18 June 2008. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 18 June 2008.
8. Mary Auronwy James. "Berry (family), (Lords Buckland, Camrose and Kemsley,) industrialists and newspaper proprietors". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
9. "Owen, Robert Dale (1801–1877)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. U.S. Congress. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
10. Montgomery-shire Collections. Powys-land Club. 1877. p. 2.
11. The Annual summary, by J. Mason. 1877. p. 276.
12. Iwan Meical Jones. "Williams, Robert (Trebor Mai; 1830–1877), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
13. Iwan Meical Jones. "Jones, Calvert Richard (1802–1877), pioneer photographer, artist and priest". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
14. Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel; Menna, Baines; Lynch, Peredur I.; et al., eds. (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.