1864 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales 1864 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1864 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – The Prince Albert Edward, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
• Princess of Wales – Alexandra of Denmark

Events

• June - David Lloyd George's father dies and his family move from Pembrokeshire to Llanystumdwy to be cared for by his maternal uncle, Richard Lloyd, when he is aged 18 months.
• June 23 - Aberystwyth is linked to the rail network for the first time.^[1]
• October 6 - The Denbigh, Ruthin and Corwen Railway is completed throughout to Corwen.^[1]
• David Davies Llandinam takes a lease of coal in the Upper Rhondda Valley and sinks the Parc and Maindy pits.
• Opening of Rhosydd Quarry narrow gauge railway incline on the upper Croesor Tramway at the head of the Croesor valley.
• The Llandudno Improvement Commissioners attempt to ban Punch and Judy shows. In this year, the town first receives the title "Queen of Welsh Resorts".^[2]

Arts and literature

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Llandudno. The chair is won by Richard Foulkes Edwards (Rhisiart Ddu o Wynedd).

New books

• R. D. Blackmore - Clara Vaughan
• Huw Derfel - Llawlyfr Carnedd Llywelyn
• Robert Jones Derfel - Traethodau ac Areithiau
• Daniel Silvan Evans (ed.) - Y Marchog Crwydrad: Hen Ffuglith Gymreig
• Sir John Henry Philipps - Lyrics
• Alfred Russel Wallace - The Origin of Human Races and the Antiquity of Man Deduced from the Theory of Natural Selection
• Frances Williams-Wynn - Diaries of a Lady of Quality (posthumously published)

Music

• William Griffiths (Ifander) - Gwarchae Harlech (cantata)

Sport

• Cricket
  • South Wales Cricket Club play Gentlemen of Sussex. The South Wales team includes W. G. Grace, who scores 170.
• Football
  • The predecessor of Wrexham F.C. is believed to have been founded.

Births

• January 8
  • Prince Albert Victor, first child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1892)
  • Thomas Allen Glenn, soldier and historian (died 1948)
• February 7 - Alfred Augustus Mathews, vicar and Wales international rugby player (died 1946)
• March 11 - John Silas Evans, astronomer (died 1953)
• May 4 - Harry Bowen, Wales international rugby player (died 1913)
• June 5 - Edward Pegge, Wales international rugby player (died 1915)
• July 5 - Lloyd Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon (died 1927)
• August 19 - Charles Alfred Howell Green, first Bishop of Monmouth (died 1944)
• September 15
  • Fred Andrews, Wales international rugby player (died 1929)
  • Giotto Griffiths, Wales international rugby player (died 1938)
• September 21 - Ernest Rowland, priest and Wales international rugby player (died 1940)
• October 10
  • Edward Bishop - Wales International rugby union player (died 1919)
  • Arthur Gould - Wales International rugby union captain (died 1919)
• October 17 - Sir John Morris-Jones, grammarian (died 1929)
• November 4 - Margaret Owen, later wife of David Lloyd George (died 1941)

Deaths

• March 11 - Richard Roberts, engineer, 74
• March 28 - Ellis Evans, Baptist minister and author, 77
• June 18
  • Evan Davies, missionary, 59
  • William Smith O'Brien, Irish nationalist, 60
• June 20 - John Davies (Brychan), poet, 79
• July 24 - Lloyd Kenyon, 3rd Baron Kenyon, 59
• August 1 - Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (born 1777)
• December 29 - Mary Jones, early owner of a Welsh Bible, 80

References

1. Quick, Michael (2009). Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: a Chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5.
2. Jones, Ivor Wynne. "Chapter 3". Llandudno Queen of Welsh Resorts. p. 19. Liverpool Mercury.