1888 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1888 to Wales and its people.
Contents
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales — The Prince Albert Edward, son of Queen Victoria
- Princess of Wales — Alexandra of Denmark
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales — Clwydfardd
Events
- May — Owen Glynne Jones climbs Cadair Idris by the east ridge of the Cyfrwy.
- 13 May — The young Beatrix Potter records a trip to Machynlleth in her diary.
- 14 May — Five miners are killed in an accident at the Aber Colliery, Porth, Rhondda.
- August — Joshua Hughes, Bishop of St Asaph, has a seizure while staying in Scotland, and is paralysed until his death a few months later.[1]
- 27 September — New dock at Milford Haven opened.
- 5 October — Five sailors are drowned at Colwyn Bay while returning to their ship by boat.
- University of Wales, Bangor, opens its agriculture department — the first in a British university.
- The Welsh Parliamentary Liberal Party is formed.
- Opening of the Dowlais steelworks at East Moors, Cardiff.
- Henry Morton Stanley "discovers" Lake Edward and names it after the Prince of Wales.
- R. J. Lloyd Price opens a whisky distillery at Frongoch.
- Llantwit Major Roman Villa is discovered.
- A Welsh Presbyterian Chapel opens in Charing Cross Road, London.
Arts and literature
Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales — held at Wrexham
- Chair — Thomas Tudno Jones
- Crown — Howell Elvet Lewis
New books
- Daniel Owen — Y Siswrn
- J. Rhys — Lectures of the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by Celtic
Music
- William Griffith[disambiguation needed] — I will extol Thee
Sport
- Cricket — Glamorgan County Cricket Club founded.
- Golf — Tenby Links becomes the first golf course in Wales. The first competition held by the club is held on 25 October over 9 holes and is won by Mr T A Rees
- Rugby union
- Briton Ferry RFC, Builth Wells RFC, Llantrisant RFC, Newbridge RFC and Tonna RFC are founded.
- Willie Thomas is the only Welsh international to take part in the first overseas tour by a British rugby union team.
- Wales win their first international game against Scotland, during the 1888 Home Nations Championship.
- Wales face their first international opposition, the New Zealand Native football team. Wales win by a goal to nil.
Births
- February — Grace Wynne Griffiths, novelist (died 1963)
- 23 March - Fred Hando, writer and artist (died 1970)
- 29 April - Fred Dyer, Boxer and baritone singer
- 14 May — Nansi Richards, harpist (died 1979)
- 21 May — William Cove, politician (died 1963)
- 24 May — Howell Lewis, Wales international rugby player (died 1971)
- 16 August — T. E. Lawrence, writer and war hero (died 1935)
- 24 August — Valentine Baker, pilot and war hero (died 1942)
- 5 September — Rhys Hopkin Morris, politician (died 1956)
- 19 October — Peter Freeman, politician (died 1956)
- 27 November — Ezer Griffiths, physicist (died 1962)
- 29 December — Reg Plummer, Wales and British Lion rugby union player (died 1953)
Deaths
- 23 February — Evan Davies (Myfyr Morganwg), poet and archdruid, 87
- 29 February — Thomas Price, Baptist minister and author, 67
- 7 March — Hugh Hughes (Cadfan), Patagonian colonist, 63
- 16 March — Thomas Thomas, chapel architect and minister, c. 81
- 22 March — Henry Robertson, Scottish engineer and founder of Brymbo Steel Works, 72
- 7 June — Charles William Nevill, industrialist and politician, 72
- 2 August — David Davies (Dewi Emlyn), poet, 70
- 5 August — Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan, politician, historian and antiquary, 84
- 20 August — Henry Richard, politician and peace campaigner, 76
- 20 September - Elias Owen, footballer, 35 (suicide)[2]
- date unknown — John Evans (Y Bardd Cocos), poet
References
- ↑ Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 28.
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