1860s in Wales
# 1860s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1860 - 1869 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
* Princess of Wales – Alexandra (from 1863)

## Events

* 1860
* 1861
* 1862
* 1863
* 1864
* 1865
* 1866
* 1867
* 1868
* 1869

## Arts and literature

### Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales

* 1861 - Aberdare
* 1862 - Caernarfon
* 1863 - Swansea
* 1864 - Llandudno
* 1865 - Aberystwyth
* 1866 - Chester
* 1867 - Carmarthen - A crown is presented for the first time
* 1868 - Ruthin - The Eisteddfod Council is disbanded
* 1869 - Holywell

### New books

* R. D. Blackmore - Clara Vaughan (1864)
* George Borrow - Wild Wales (1862)
* Rhoda Broughton - Cometh up as a Flower (1867)
* Richard Davies (Mynyddog) - Caneuon Mynyddog (1866)
* Huw Derfel - Llawlyfr Carnedd Llywelyn (1864)
* Robert Jones Derfel - Traethodau ac Areithiau (1864)
* John Ceiriog Hughes
   * Oriau'r Hwyr (1860)
   * Oriau'r Bore (1862)
   * Cant o Ganeuon (1863)
   * Y Bardd a'r Cerddor (1865)
   * Oriau eraill (1868)
* David Watkin Jones (Dafydd Morgannwg) - Yr Ysgol Farddol (1869)
* William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) - Emmanuel (1861)
* William Thomas (Islwyn) - Caniadau (1867)
* Robert Williams (Trebor Mai)
   * Fy Noswyl (1861)
   * Geninen (1869)
* Alfred Russel Wallace
   * The Origin of Human Races and the Antiquity of Man Deduced from the Theory of 'Natural Selection (1864)
   * The Malay Archipelago (1867)

### Music

* William Griffiths (Ifander) - Gwarchae Harlech (cantata) (1864)
* Hugh Jerman - Deus Misereatur (1861)
* Henry Brinley Richards - "God Bless the Prince of Wales" (1863)
* John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia)
   * Llewelyn (cantata) (1863)
   * The Bride of Neath Valley (cantata) (1866)

## Sport

* 1860 - The first bowls club in Wales is founded at Abergavenny.

## Births

* 1860
   * date unknown - Sir William Price (died 1938)
* 1861
   * date unknown
      * John Edward Lloyd, historian (died 1947)
      * Thomas Mardy Rees, writer (died 1953)
* 1862
   * date unknown - John Daniel Evans, Patagonia settler
* 1863
   * January 17 - David Lloyd George, politician (died 1945)
   * March 3 - Arthur Machen, writer (died 1947)
* 1864
   * January 8 - Prince Albert Victor, first child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1892)
   * October 17 - Sir John Morris-Jones, grammarian (died 1929)
   * date unknown - Charles Alfred Howell Green, first Bishop of Monmouth (died 1944)
* 1865
   * June 3 - Prince George, second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales and himself Prince of Wales 1901–1910 (later George V)
   * date unknown - William Brace, politician (died 1947)
* 1866
   * October 12 - James Ramsay MacDonald, politician (died 1937)
   * date unknown - John Gruffydd Moelwyn Hughes, poet and hymn-writer (died 1944)
* 1867
   * May 2 - Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn), poet (died 1926)
   * May 13 - Frank Brangwyn, artist (died 1956)
   * May 26 - Mary of Teck, later Princess of Wales 1901-1910 (died 1953)
   * September 29 - John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy), poet (died 1924)
* 1869
   * September 6 - Walford Davies, composer (died 1944)
   * date unknown
      * Thomas Rees, theologian (died 1926)
      * Osbert Fynes-Clinton, dialectologist (died 1941)

## Deaths

* 1860
   * May 4 - William Ormsby-Gore, politician (born 1779)
   * July 17 - Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse (born 1789)
* 1861
   * May 8 - Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn, politician (born 1830)
* 1862
   * January 3 - Dan Jones, Mormon missionary (born 1810)
   * date unknown - John Williams (Ab Ithel), antiquary
* 1863
   * April - George Cornewall Lewis, statesman (born 1806)
* 1864
   * March 11 - Richard Roberts, engineer
   * August 1 - Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (born 1777)
   * date unknown
      * Evan Davies, missionary
      * Mary Jones, early owner of a Welsh Bible
* 1865
   * February 21 - Stapleton Cotton, military leader (born 1773)
* 1866
   * January 27 - John Gibson, sculptor (born 1790)
* 1867
   * April 27 - Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist (born 1802)
   * May 23 - William Crawshay II, industrialist (born 1788)
* 1868
   * June 22 - Owain Meirion, poet (born 1803)
   * date unknown - Dafydd Jones (Dewi Dywyll), balladeer (born 1803)
* 1869
   * March 31 - David Rees (Y Cynhyrfwr), Nonconformist leader and author
   * date unknown - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet (born 1810)
