# 1857 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1857 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore (until 12 July); Edward Pryse (from 14 September)
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Robert Davies Pryce
* Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite
* Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell
* Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant
* Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short
* Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall

## Events

* 4 March — Thomas Gee launches the radical nonconformist newspaper Baner Cymru in Denbigh.
* 24 March — 1857 United Kingdom general election, concludes. Anglesey antiquarian William Owen Stanley becomes Whig MP for the Beaumaris District of Boroughs.
* 6 May — Samuel Roberts (S. R.) sails for Tennessee.
* 1 June — Opening of the Crumlin Viaduct, built to carry the Taff Vale Extension of the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway.
* 10 August — John Bowen is consecrated as Bishop of Sierra Leone.
* 13 August — Eugene Goddard crosses the Menai Strait in his gas balloon Aurora from Caernarfon Castle to Llanidan.
* 3 October — The Newport Gazette is founded by William Nicholas Johns.
* 14 October — Four people are killed in a railway accident near Pyle.
* 29 October — St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden, badly damaged by arson.
* Autumn — Aberdare Strike 1857-8 against reductions in coal miners' pay begins.
* Railway workers go on strike at Aberdare.

## Arts and literature
### New books
#### English language

* Richard Williams Morgan — The British Kymry or Britons of Cambria

#### Welsh language

* Owen Wynne Jones — Dafydd Llwyd
* Robert Parry (Robyn Ddu Eryri) — Teithiau a Barddoniaeth Robyn Ddu Eryri

### Music

* John Ashton — "Trefeglwys" (hymn tune)

## Births

* 2 February - Sir James Cory, 1st Baronet, politician and ship-owner (died 1933)
* 7 February — Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl Dunraven (died 1952)
* 28 February — Charlie Newman, Wales rugby union captain (died 1922)
* 27 April — Alfred Cattell, Wales international rugby player (died 1933)
* 12 May — Sarah Jacob, the "fasting girl" (died 1869)
* 20 June — Dan Griffiths, Wales international rugby player (died 1936)
* 28 June — Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet, orthopaedic surgeon (died 1933)
* 1 July — Martha Hughes Cannon, women's rights activist and politician in the United States (died 1932)
* 19 September — James Bridie, Scottish-born Wales international rugby union player (died 1893 in England)
* 8 November — Frank Purdon, Wales rugby union international
* 14 November — John Thomas Rees, musician (died 1949)
* 2 December — Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, surgeon (died 1943)
* Llewellyn Cadwaladr, operatic tenor (died 1909)

## Deaths

* 3 January — Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (second creation), 55
* 23 January — Edward Anwyl, Wesleyan minister and teacher, 70
* 10 February — David Thompson, explorer of Welsh parentage, 86
* 29 March — Elijah Waring, writer, ±69
* 16 May — Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer, 74
* 13 June — Daniel Rees, hymn-writer, 64
* 12 July — Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore, Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire, 64
* 12 August — William Daniel Conybeare, dean of Llandaff, 70
* 16 August — John Jones, Talysarn, leading non-conformist minister, 61