# 1875 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1875 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – William Owen Stanley
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar (until 16 April); Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk (from 11 June)
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
* Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite (until 21 April); Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite (from 21 April)
* Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell
* Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant
* Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua Hughes
* Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones

## Events

* August - First publication of The Usk Gleaner and Monmouthshire Record.
* December - South Wales miners, led by William Abraham, come to agreement on a sliding scale of wages in relation to prices and profits.
* 4 December - In a mining accident at Old Pit, New Tredegar, 22 men are killed.
* 5 December - In a mining accident at Llan Colliery, Pentyrch, twelve men are killed.
* unknown dates
** The first imports of North American wheat come through Cardiff.
** The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service recognises Welsh as a distinct nationality - the first official body ever to do so.
** Ordnance Survey publishes the first complete maps of Wales.
** David Davies Llandinam is elected treasurer of the University of Wales.
** Major eisteddfod held at Pwllheli. Future archdruid Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn) is a leading adjudicator.
** Francis Wallace Grenfell takes part in the expedition which claims Griqualand West (site of the Kimberley diamond fields) for the UK.
** Bodnant Garden is begun by Baron Aberconway.

## Arts and literature

* Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot buys James Milo Griffith's Summer Flowers for Margam Castle.

### New books
#### English language

* Hugh Owen Thomas - Diseases of the Hip, Knee, and Ankle Joints

#### Welsh language

* William Ambrose - Gweithiau y Parch. W. Ambrose (posthumously published)
* David Stephen Davies - Adroddiad
* Isaac Foulkes - Y Ddau Efell, neu Llanllonydd
* Owen Jones (Meudwy Môn) (ed.) - Cymru, yn Hanesyddol, Parthedegol, a Bywgraphyddol
* John Goronwy Mathias - Y Dywysen Aeddfed
* Evan Rees (Dyfed) - Caniadau Dyfedfab

### Music

* Robert Griffiths becomes the first secretary of the tonic solfa college.
* Joseph Parry composes the music to Myfanwy.
* Sarah Edith Wynne marries and retires from her singing career.

## Sport

* Rugby union - Llanelli RFC and Risca RFC are formed.
* Yachting - Bristol Channel Yacht Club is formed in Swansea.

## Births

* 3 January - Cliff Bowen, Wales international rugby player and county cricketer (died 1929)
* 4 January – William Williams (Crwys), poet and Archdruid (died 1968)
* 19 January – Thomas Owen Jones, dramatist, actor and producer (died 1941)
* 23 February – David Brazell, singer (died 1959)
* 4 March – John Kelt Edwards, cartoonist (died 1934)
* 23 May – Nathaniel Walters, Wales international rugby player (died 1956)
* 26 May – Jack Evans Wales international rugby player (died 1947)
* 31 May – Dan Jones, Wales international rugby player (died 1959)
* 11 June – Will Osborne, Wales international rugby player (died 1942)
* 16 June – Henry Paget, Lord Paget, eccentric, born in Paris (died 1905)
* 10 September
** John Evans, politician (died 1961)
** Harry Vaughan Watkins, Wales international rugby player (died 1945)
* 26 October – Sir Lewis Casson, English-born artist (died 1969)
* 20 December (in Shirley, Derbyshire) – T. F. Powys, Anglo-Welsh writer (died 1953)
* 25 December – George Davies, international rugby player (died 1959)

## Deaths

* 4 January – Thomas Stephens, historian, literary critic and social reformer (born 1821)
* 4 March – John Evans (I. D. Ffraid), minister and author, 60
* April – Frances Bunsen, painter, 85
* 16 April – Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar, Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire, 83
* 19 July – Benjamin Davies, Hebraist, 60/61
* 27 July – Connop Thirlwall, former Bishop of St Davids, 78
* 19 August – Robert Elis (Cynddelw), writer, 63
* 28 August – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet, politician, 73
* 7 September – John Prichard, minister, author and teacher, 79
* 16 September (in Shropshire) – Lucy Herbert, Countess of Powis, Scottish-born aristocrat, 81
* 29 November – Thomas Jones, librarian, 65
* date unknown
** David Davies, composer, about 65
** (in London) – Fanny Parkes, travel writer, 81