# 1877 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1877 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – William Owen Stanley
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk
* 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 – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite
* Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell
* Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant
* Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua Hughes
* Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones
* Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd

## Events

* 8 March – In a mining accident at Worcester Colliery, Swansea, seventeen men are killed.
* 11 April – In a mining accident at Tynewydd Colliery, Rhondda, five men are killed by flooding. Twenty-five of the rescue team are awarded the Albert Medal for bravery.
* 10 July – Consecration of new Merthyr Synagogue, the oldest surviving synagogue building in Wales.
* 1 August – Opening of new Llandudno Pier.
* 15 August – Opening to passengers of the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways from Dinas to Tryfan Junction and Bryngwyn.
* 30 November – Opening of the new market hall at Builth Wells by Sir Joseph Bailey M.P.
* unknown dates
** Opening of Stepaside, Pembrokeshire village school (part of modern-day Stepaside Heritage Park).
** Closure of lead mine at Loggerheads, Denbighshire.

## Arts and literature

* Islwyn wins a bardic chair at Treherbert.

### New books

* Richard Davies (Mynyddog) – Y Trydydd Cynnig
* William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) – Helyntion Bywyd Hen Deiliwr

### Music

* Joseph Parry resigns from his position as Professor of Music at University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

## Sport

* Football
** The Racecourse Ground at Wrexham hosts Wales' first ever home international match, making it the world's oldest international football stadium still to host international matches.
** The Welsh Cup is inaugurated.
* Rugby union
** 8 November – Blaenavon RFC play their first game, against Abergavenny.

## Births

* 2 May – Sid Bevan, Welsh international rugby union player (died 1933)
* 6 June (in Guernsey) – Herbert John Fleure, zoologist and geographer (died 1969)
* 9 June – George Travers, Wales international rugby union player (died 1945)
* 21 June – Elizabeth Mary Jones (Moelona), Welsh-language children's novelist (died 1953)
* 1 July – Llewellyn Lloyd, Wales international rugby union player (died 1957)
* 19 August – John Evans, supercentenarian (died 1990)
* 17 September – Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist (died 1928)
* 26 September (in Wandsworth) – Edmund Gwenn, actor (died 1959) (long believed to have been born in Wales)
* 5 October – Lily Gower, croquet player (died 1959)
* 27 October – David Harris Davies, Wales international rugby union player (died 1944)
* 7 November – Maurice Parry, footballer (died 1935)
* 27 November – Leigh Richmond Roose, football goalkeeper (killed in battle 1916)
* 2 December – John Strand-Jones, Wales international rugby union player (died 1958)

## Deaths

* 9 January – Thomas Thomas, clergyman, 72
* 24 June – Robert Dale Owen, Welsh-American politician, 75
* 14 July – Richard Davies (Mynyddog), poet, 44
* 18 July – Thomas Richards, "father of Tasmanian journalism", 77
* 27 July – John Frost, Chartist leader, 93
* 5 August – Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet, 47
* 17 October – Charles Williams, academic, 73?
* 7 November – Calvert Jones, painter and pioneer photographer, 72
* 13 December – John Griffith (journalist), journalist who wrote under the pseudonym Y Gohebydd, 56