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1870 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1870 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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  • Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell{{cite book | last = Fryde | first = E. B. | title = Handbook of British chronology | publisher = New York Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge England | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780521563505 | page=292}}{{cite book|first= Thomas Duffus |last=Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=266}}
  • Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant
  • Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short (retired);{{cite DWB|id=s-SHOR-VOW-1790|title=Short, Thomas Vowler (1790-1872), bishop of St Asaph|first=William Thomas |last=Havard|year=1959|access-date=3 December 2021}}{{cite book|title=The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England|publisher=James Parkes and Company|year=1866|page=15}} Joshua Hughes (from 9 May){{cite DWB|id=s-HUGH-JOS-1807 |title=Hughes, Joshua (1807-1889), bishop |year=1959 |first=William Thomas |last=Havard |author-link=William Havard |access-date=26 October 2021 }}
  • Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall{{cite book|first= Thomas Duffus |last=Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=307}}{{cite book|title=Annual Report Presented by the Council to the Court of Governors|publisher=National Library of Wales|year=1962|page=59}}

Events

Arts and literature

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Sport

Births

  • 13 January — Conway Rees, rugby player (died 1932)
  • 10 March — George "Honey Boy" Evans, Welsh-born US entertainer (died 1915){{cite book|first1=Frank |last1=Cullen|first2=Florence |last2=Hackman|first3=Donald |last3=McNeilly|title=Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performances in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XFnfnKg6BcAC&pg=PA365|year=2007|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-93853-2|pages=365–}}
  • 20 March — Eluned Morgan, author (died 1938){{Cite DWB|id=s-MORG-ELU-1870|title=Morgan, Eluned (1870-1938), writer|access-date=18 March 2021}}
  • 25 March — Wallace Watts, Wales international rugby union player (died 1950)
  • 19 June — Charles Nicholl, Wales international rugby union player (died 1939)
  • 29 June
  • Arthur Boucher, Wales international rugby union player (died 1948)
  • Sir Charles Dillwyn-Venables-Llewellyn, 2nd Baronet, politician (died 1951){{cite book|first=Arthur Charles |last=Fox-Davies|title=Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour|publisher=T.C. & E.C. Jack|year=1910|page=457}}
  • 14 July — Helena Jones, doctor and suffragette (died 1946){{cite book|title=Women of the Right Spirit: Paid Organisers of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), 1904-18|first=Krista|last=Cowman|page=225|publisher=Manchester University Press|year=2007|isbn=9780719070020}}
  • 16 July — William Henry Prosser, teacher and cricketer (died 1952){{cite web | url = https://archive.org/stream/p2alumnicantabri05univuoft#page/208/mode/2up | title = Alumni Cantabrigienses: William Prosser |first1= J. |last1=Venn |first2=J. A. |last2=Venn | volume = Part 5| page = 208| accessdate = 26 January 2015}}
  • 27 July — Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan, historian (died 1948){{cite DWB|last=Davies |first=Sir William Llewelyn|title=Vaughan, Herbert Millingchamp (1870–1948)|year=2001|id=s2-VAUG-MIL-1870}}
  • 18 August — William Cope, 1st Baron Cope, politician and Wales international rugby player (died 1946){{cite book|first=Steven |last=John|title=Welsh Yeomanry at War: A History of the 24th (Pembroke & Glamorgan Yeomanry) Battalion, The Welsh Regiment|publisher=Pen & Sword Books|year=2015|ISBN=9781473865808}}
  • 27 September — Thomas Jones (T. J.), civil servant (died 1955){{cite DWB|id=s2-JONE-THO-1870|first=Benjamin Bowen |last=Thomas|title=Jones, Thomas (1870-1955), university professor, civil servant, administrator, author|year=2001|access-date=22 February 2022}}
  • 22 October — J. Glyn Davies, scholar, poet and songwriter (died 1953){{cite DWB| id=s2-DAVI-GLY-1870 |title=Davies, John Glyn (1870–1953), scholar, songwriter and poet |last=Gruffydd |first=Robert Geraint |author-link=R. Geraint Gruffydd |date=2001|access-date=5 March 2024 }}
  • 3 November — Norman Biggs, Wales international rugby player (died 1908)
  • 15 November — William Elsey, Wales international rugby player (died 1936)
  • 20 December — Sir David Davies, politician (died 1958){{cite news|date=28 April 1958|title=Death of Sir David Davies|newspaper=Western Mail|page=5}}
  • 29 December — Robert Dewi Williams, teacher, minister and writer (died 1955){{cite DWB|id=s2-WILL-DEW-1870| title=Williams, Robert Dewi (1870–1955), minister (Presb.), headmaster of Clynnog School and writer|last=Roberts|first=Gomer Morgan|year=2001|access-date=17 February 2022}}
  • 31 December — David John Jones, Dean of Llandaff (died 1949)
  • December — Ernest William Jones, steamship agent and cricketer (died 1941)
  • date unknown
  • John William Evans, politician (died 1906){{cite news|title=Death of Alderman J.W. Evans, Hirwaun|url=http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/3576971/ART98|accessdate=4 May 2014|newspaper=Aberdare Leader|date=9 June 1906}}
  • John Hughes Morris, missionary (died 1953)

Deaths

  • 16 March — Thomas Parry, Bishop of Barbados, 74
  • 4 April — Owen Wynne Jones, writer, 42{{cite book|first=Thomas Mardy |last=Rees|title=Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. Also a Complete Alphabetical Index|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sXM_AQAAMAAJ|year=1908|publisher=Herald Office}}
  • 15 May — Charles Hinde (army officer), soldier, 49{{cite DWB|id=s-HIND-EDW-1820|title=Hinde, Charles Thomas Edward (1820-1870), major general|first=Elwyn |last=Evans|year=1959|access-date=17 February 2022}}
  • 27 May — John Etherington Welch Rolls, Monmouthshire landowner and father of 1st Baron Llangattock, 63{{cite book|author=Greater London Council|title=The survey of London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5r4JAQAAIAAJ|year=1971|publisher=AMS Press|isbn=978-0-404-51650-5|page=40}}
  • 23 June — Isaac Hughes, Calvinist missionary and preacher, 71/72{{cite book|last=Morris|first=John Hughes|title=The History of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists' Foreign Mission: To the End of the Year 1904|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uVMkKxj4IWgC&pg=PA311|year=1910|publisher=Indus Publishing|isbn=978-81-7387-049-1|page=311}}
  • 1 August — Levi Gibbon, balladeer, 92{{cite book|first=Robert |last=Griffiths|title=S.O. Davies--a socialist faith|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iCchAAAAMAAJ|date=July 1983|publisher=Gomer Press|isbn=978-0-85088-887-4|page=21}}
  • 17 September — Joseph David Jones, composer, 43{{cite DWB|id=s-JONE-DAV-1827|title=Davies, Joseph David (1827-1870), schoolmaster and musician|first=Robert David |last=Griffith|year=1959|access-date=17 February 2022}}
  • 27 October — Owen Jones Ellis Nanney, politician, 80{{cite book|first=Bernard |last=Burke|title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland|publisher=Harrison|year=1886|page=1332}}
  • 29 October — Jacob Owen, architect and civil engineer, 92{{Cite web|url=https://www.dia.ie/architects/view/4252/OWEN-JACOB|title=OWEN, JACOB - Dictionary of Irish Architects|website=www.dia.ie|accessdate=20 December 2022}}
  • 16 November — Harry Longueville Jones, antiquary, 64{{cite book|title=Notes and Queries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PWEEAAAAYAAJ|year=1894|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=468}}

See also

References

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