1858 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s; 1870s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; Timeline of Welsh history 1858 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

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

Incumbents

Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins^[5]^[6]
Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet^[7]
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse^[8]
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor
Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph^[9]
Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet^[10]
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot^[11]
Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Robert Davies Pryce^[12]
Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh^[13]
Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley (until 10 February);^[14] Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley (from 4 March)
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet^[15]
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite^[16]^[2]

Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell^[17]^[18]
Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant^[19]^[20]
Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short^[21]^[22]^[20]
Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall^[23]^[20]^[24]

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.^[25]
June – Erection of the Town Clock at Tredegar.^[26]
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.^[27]
5 October – The Vale of Clwyd Railway, built by David Davies Llandinam, is opened.^[28]
13 October – 20 men are killed in a mining accident at Lower Duffryn Colliery, Mountain Ash.
date unknown
- The schooner Mary Catherine, launched at Amlwch, is the first iron ship built in Wales.^[29]
- Richard Kyrke Penson exhibits a plan of his design for the Cilyrychen lime kilns at the Royal Academy.^[30]

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

English language

William Davies (Gwilym Teilo) — Llandilo-Vawr and its Neighbourhood^[31]
Robert Owen — An Introduction to the Study of Dogmatic Theology
Louisa M. Spooner (anonymously) — Gladys of Harlech^[32]
Alfred Russel Wallace — On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type^[33]

Welsh language

Morgan Howells — Gweithiau Morgan Howells … pregethau a thraethodau (posthumously published)^[34]
Owen Wynne Jones — Lleucu Llwyd^[35]

Music

Thomas Gruffydd Jones (Tafalaw Bencerdd) — Y Drysorfa Gorawl
Edward Stephen (Tanymarian) — Requiem

Births

6 January — Ben Davies, singer (died 1943)^[36]
28 January — Edgeworth David, explorer (died 1934)^[37]
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)^[38]
25 October — Tom Clapp, Wales rugby union captain (died 1933)
30 October - Alfred Onions, politician (died 1921)^[39]
18 December — Sir Owen Thomas, soldier and politician (died 1923)^[40]
25 December — Frederick Margrave, rugby player (died 1946)
26 December — Sir Owen Morgan Edwards, academic and author (died 1920)^[41]
27 December — Sir John Herbert Lewis, lawyer and politician (died 1933)^[42]
28 December — Josiah Towyn Jones, politician (died 1925)^[43]

Deaths

10 February — Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley, Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire, 79^[14]
22 March — Mary Anne Edmunds, educator and feminist, 41^[44]
26 March — William Morgan, evangelical clergyman, friend of the Bronte family, 75/6
19 April — John Davies, Unitarian minister and teacher, 62/63^[45]
13 May — Lewis Loyd, banker, 91
30 May — Thomas ap Catesby Jones, Welsh-descended US naval officer, 68^[46]
4 June — Thomas Edwards (Caerfallwch), lexicographer, 78^[47]
16 October — Charles Norris, artist, 79^[48]
17 November — Robert Owen, founder of the Co-operative Society, 87^[49]
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^[50]

References

^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
^ ^a ^b J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
^ "Editorial". Welshman. 6 October 1865. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
^ Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
^ Thomas John Hughes (1887). The Welsh magistracy, by Adfyfr. South Wales and Monmouthshire Liberal Federation Offices. p. 5.
^ "Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
^ "Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
^ "TALBOT, Christopher Rice Mansel (1803-1890), of Penrice Castle and Margam Park, Glam". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
^ Amy Audrey Locke (1916). The Hanbury Family. Arthur L. Humphreys. p. 147.
^ ^a ^b "Hanbury Tracy, Charles (1778–1858), of Toddington, Glos. and Gregynog, Mont". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
^ Thorne, R.G. "John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire". History of Parliament. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
^ Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
^ Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780521563505.
^ Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
^ Frederick Arthur Crisp; Joseph Jackson Howard (1898). Visitation of England and Wales. p. 15.
^ ^a ^b ^c Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.
^ Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1857). The historic peerage of England: Revised, corrected, and continued ... by William Courthope. John Murray. p. 533.
^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
^ Old Yorkshire, volume 3. 1882. p. 90.
^ The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
^ David Williams. "Jones, John (fl. 1811-1858; 'Shoni Sguborfawr'), Rebecca rioter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ Railscot - A History of Britain's Railways. Accessed 9 Dec 2014
^ Hope, Bryan D. (2005). A Commodious Yard: The Story of William Thomas and Sons Shipbuilders of Amlwch. Llanrwst: Llygad Gwalch Cyf. ISBN 9781845270216.
^ Thomas Lloyd; Julian Orbach; Robert Scourfield (2006). Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion. Yale University Press. p. 266. ISBN 0-300-10179-1.
^ Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Davies, William (Gwilym Teilo; 1831-1892); man of letters, poet, and historian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
^ L. M. Spooner (16 February 2017). Gladys of Harlech. Honno Welsh Women's Press. ISBN 978-1-909983-54-0.
^ Wallace, Alfred. "On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type". The Alfred Russel Wallace Page hosted by Western Kentucky University. Archived from the original on 29 April 2007. Retrieved 22 April 2007.
^ Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Howells, Morgan (1794-1852), Calvinistic Methodist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
^ Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 317. ISBN 978-0-19-211586-7.
^ Robert David Griffith. "Davies, Benjamin ('Ben'; 1858-1943), singer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
^ 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.
^ John William Jones. "Hughes, Robert Owen (Elfyn; 1858-1919), journalist and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
^ 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.
^ Richards, Thomas (1959). "Thomas, Sir Owen (1858-1923), agriculturist, soldier, and Member of Parliament". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion.
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Edwards, Sir Owen Morgan (1858-1920), man of letters". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
^ Idwal Jones. "Lewis, Sir John Herbert (1858-1933), lawyer and politician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
^ David Thomas Jones. "Jones, JOSIAH TOWYN (1858-1925), Congregational minister, and Member of Parliament". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
^ Roberts, Thomas. "Edmunds, Mary Anne". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
^ Williams, Thomas Oswald. "John Davies". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
^ Smith, Gene A. (2000). Thomas ap Catesby Jones. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 161. ISBN 978-1-55750-848-5.
^ Henry Lewis. "Edwards, Thomas (Caerfallwch; 1779?-1858), lexicographer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
^ Norris, Ursula (1966). "Charles Norris, Tenby Artist, and his Family". Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru (The National Library of Wales Journal). 14 (4): 489–496.
^ Leopold, Richard William (1940). Robert Dale Owen, A Biography. Harvard Historical Studies. Vol. 45. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 327. OCLC 774894.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). "Williams, John (1792-1858)". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 61. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[1] Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.

[Sainty-2] J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.

[3] Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.

[4] Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.

[5] "Editorial". Welshman. 6 October 1865. Retrieved 17 January 2022.

[6] Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.

[7] Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.

[8] Thomas John Hughes (1887). The Welsh magistracy, by Adfyfr. South Wales and Monmouthshire Liberal Federation Offices. p. 5.

[9] "Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 5 December 2021.

[10] "Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 16 January 2022.

[11] "TALBOT, Christopher Rice Mansel (1803-1890), of Penrice Castle and Margam Park, Glam". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 January 2022.

[12] Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.

[13] Amy Audrey Locke (1916). The Hanbury Family. Arthur L. Humphreys. p. 147.

[Hanbury-14] "Hanbury Tracy, Charles (1778–1858), of Toddington, Glos. and Gregynog, Mont". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2 July 2013.

[15] Thorne, R.G. "John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire". History of Parliament. Retrieved 27 March 2020.

[16] Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.

[17] Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780521563505.

[Fasti305-18] Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.

[19] Frederick Arthur Crisp; Joseph Jackson Howard (1898). Visitation of England and Wales. p. 15.

[Fasti307-20] Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.

[21] Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1857). The historic peerage of England: Revised, corrected, and continued ... by William Courthope. John Murray. p. 533.

[22] The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.

[23] Old Yorkshire, volume 3. 1882. p. 90.

[24] The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.

[25] David Williams. "Jones, John (fl. 1811-1858; 'Shoni Sguborfawr'), Rebecca rioter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 September 2019.

[26] 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.

[27] 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.

[28] Railscot - A History of Britain's Railways. Accessed 9 Dec 2014

[29] Hope, Bryan D. (2005). A Commodious Yard: The Story of William Thomas and Sons Shipbuilders of Amlwch. Llanrwst: Llygad Gwalch Cyf. ISBN 9781845270216.

[30] Thomas Lloyd; Julian Orbach; Robert Scourfield (2006). Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion. Yale University Press. p. 266. ISBN 0-300-10179-1.

[31] Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Davies, William (Gwilym Teilo; 1831-1892); man of letters, poet, and historian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 31 May 2024.

[32] L. M. Spooner (16 February 2017). Gladys of Harlech. Honno Welsh Women's Press. ISBN 978-1-909983-54-0.

[33] Wallace, Alfred. "On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type". The Alfred Russel Wallace Page hosted by Western Kentucky University. Archived from the original on 29 April 2007. Retrieved 22 April 2007.

[34] Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Howells, Morgan (1794-1852), Calvinistic Methodist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 31 May 2024.

[35] Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 317. ISBN 978-0-19-211586-7.

[36] Robert David Griffith. "Davies, Benjamin ('Ben'; 1858-1943), singer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 March 2019.

[37] 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.

[38] John William Jones. "Hughes, Robert Owen (Elfyn; 1858-1919), journalist and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 March 2024.

[39] 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.

[dict-of-biography-40] Richards, Thomas (1959). "Thomas, Sir Owen (1858-1923), agriculturist, soldier, and Member of Parliament". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion.

[41] Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Edwards, Sir Owen Morgan (1858-1920), man of letters". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 September 2019.

[42] Idwal Jones. "Lewis, Sir John Herbert (1858-1933), lawyer and politician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 March 2024.

[43] David Thomas Jones. "Jones, JOSIAH TOWYN (1858-1925), Congregational minister, and Member of Parliament". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 March 2024.

[44] Roberts, Thomas. "Edmunds, Mary Anne". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 6 May 2016.

[45] Williams, Thomas Oswald. "John Davies". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 June 2017.

[46] Smith, Gene A. (2000). Thomas ap Catesby Jones. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 161. ISBN 978-1-55750-848-5.

[47] Henry Lewis. "Edwards, Thomas (Caerfallwch; 1779?-1858), lexicographer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 23 September 2019.

[48] Norris, Ursula (1966). "Charles Norris, Tenby Artist, and his Family". Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru (The National Library of Wales Journal). 14 (4): 489–496.

[49] Leopold, Richard William (1940). Robert Dale Owen, A Biography. Harvard Historical Studies. Vol. 45. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 327. OCLC 774894.

[50] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). "Williams, John (1792-1858)". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 61. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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1858 in Wales

Incumbents

Events

Arts and literature

Awards

New books

English language

Welsh language

Music

Births

Deaths

See also

References