1880s in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1880–1889 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
Arts and literature
Awards
- 1880 – Caernarfon
- 1881 – Merthyr Tydfil
- Chair – Evan Rees ("Dyfed")
- Crown – Watkin Hezekiah Williams
- 1882 – Denbigh
- Chair – withheld
- Crown – Dafydd Rees Williams
- 1883 – Cardiff
- Chair – withheld
- Crown – Anna Walter Thomas
- 1884 – Liverpool
- Chair – Evan Rees ("Dyfed")
- Crown – Edward Foulkes
- 1885 – Aberdare
- Chair – Watkin Hezekiah Williams
- Crown – Griffith Tecwyn Parry
- 1886 – Caernarfon
- Chair – Richard Davies
- Crown – John Cadfan Davies
- 1887 – London
- Chair – Robert Arthur Williams
- Crown – John Cadfan Davies
- 1888 – Wrexham
- Chair – Thomas Tudno Jones
- Crown – Howell Elvet Lewis
- 1889 – Brecon
- Chair – Evan Rees
- Crown – Howell Elvet Lewis
New books
- Rhoda Broughton – Doctor Cupid (1886)
- Richard Davies (Mynyddog) – Pedwerydd Llyfr Mynyddog (1882)
- Amy Dillwyn
- The Rebecca Rioter (1880)
- Jill and Jack(1887)
- Daniel Silvan Evans – Dictionary of the Welsh Language (Geiriadur Cymraeg) (1887)
- Frances Hoggan – Education for Girls in Wales (1882)
- Daniel Owen
- Y Dreflan (1881)
- Rhys Lewis (1885)
- Robert Williams (Trebor Mai) – Gwaith Barddonol Trebor Mai (1883)
Sport
- 1881 – Welsh Rugby Union is formed.
- 1884 – The Cardiff Arms Park hosts its first rugby international (between Wales and Ireland).
- 1889 – In a football match between Wales and Scotland at Wrexham, the referee allows the injured Welsh goalkeeper to be replaced – the first ever substitution in a soccer match.
Births
- 1880
- 30 April – George Maitland Lloyd Davies, pacifist (died 1949)
- 9 May – Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, patron of the arts (died 1946)
- 11 May – David Davies, 1st Baron Davies, politician (died 1944)
- 22 June – Rhys Gabe, rugby player (died 1967)
- 2 September – Isaac Daniel Hooson, poet (died 1948)
- 15 September – William Charles Williams, VC recipient (died 1915)
- date unknown
- Edward Tegla Davies, author (died 1967)
- Harry Grindell Matthews, inventor (died 1941)
- 1881
- 3 January – Lewis Pugh Evans, VC recipient (died 1962)
- 14 February – William John Gruffydd, academic and politician (died 1954)
- 16 April – Ifor Williams, academic (died 1965)
- 5 May – Rupert Price Hallowes, VC recipient (died 1915)
- 16 June – David Grenfell, politician (died 1968)
- 20 June – John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, landowner (died 1947)
- August – John Lewis, footballer (died 1954)
- 30 September – Philip Lewis Griffiths, lawyer (died 1945)
- 28 October – Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, explorer (died 1957)
- December – George Hall, politician (died 1965)
- date unknown
- David Thomas ("Afan"), composer (died 1928)
- Robert Williams, trade union leader
- 1882
- 24 July – Reginald Clarry, politician (died 1945)
- 6 November – David Rees Griffiths, poet (died 1953)
- 16 December – Cyril Fox, archaeologist (died 1967)
- date unknown – Ivor Lewis, artist (died 1958)
- 1883
- 30 April – David John de Lloyd, composer (died 1948)
- 28 May – Clough Williams-Ellis, architect (died 1978)
- 13 September – Percy Thomas, architect (died 1969)
- date unknown
- John Jones (Tydu), poet (died 1968)
- James Walker, politician
- 1884
- 19 February – Clement Davies, politician (died 1962)
- 24 November – Jack Jones, novelist (died 1970)
- date unknown
- Arthur Jenkins, politician (died 1946)
- Thomas Jones, footballer (died 1958)
- 1885
- 2 August – Clarence Bruce, 3rd Baron Aberdare (died 1957)
- 21 November – Robert Evans, footballer (died 1965)
- date unknown
- Ernest Evans, politician (died 1965)
- David John Williams, writer and politician (died 1970)
- 1886
- 28 March – John Osborn Williams, entrepreneur (died 1963)
- 3 May – Morgan Jones, Welsh politician (died 1939)
- 29 September – Jack Williams, VC recipient (died 1953)
- 1887
- 13 January – Hedd Wyn, poet (died 1917)
- 27 February – James Dickson Innes, painter (died 1914)
- date unknown
- Huw Menai, poet (died 1961)
- 1888
- 21 May – William Cove, politician (died 1963)
- 16 August – T. E. Lawrence, writer and war hero (died 1935)
- 19 October – Peter Freeman, politician (died 1956)
- 5 September – Rhys Hopkin Morris, politician (died 1956)
- 1889
- 1 February – John Lewis, philosopher (died 1976)
- 11 December – Cedric Morris, artist (died 1982)
Deaths
- 1880
- 23 April – Robert Thomas (Ap Vychan), minister and writer (b. 1809)
- 1881
- 20 April – William Burges, architect
- 20 November – Hugh Owen, educationist (born 1804)
- 1882
- August – John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and photographer (born 1810)
- 16 December – Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff (born 1798)
- 1883
- 8 November – William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog), poet (born 1802)
- 1884
- 17 March – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn (born 1795)
- 24 May – Henry Thomas Edwards, preacher (born 1837)
- 6 November – George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry, industrialist
- 1885
- 1 May – Henry Brinley Richards, composer (born 1817)
- 1 August – Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, inventor (born 1850)
- 1886
- 31 March – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (born 1800)
- 1887
- 25 January – Rowland Prichard, musician (born 1811)
- 23 April – John Ceiriog Hughes, poet (born 1832)
- 19 July – Lewis Edwards, educationist (born 1809)
- 1888
- 20 August – Henry Richard, politician and peace campaigner (born 1812)
- 1889
- 21 January – Joshua Hughes, Bishop of St Asaph (born 1807)
- 8 June – Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anglo-Welsh poet (born 1844)
- date unknown – John Hughes, industrialist (in St Petersburg)
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