1872 in Wales
Encyclopedia
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1872 to Wales
and its people
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Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
and its people
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
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Incumbents
- Prince of WalesPrince of WalesPrince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
— The Prince Albert EdwardEdward VII of the United KingdomEdward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910...
, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom - Princess of WalesPrincess of WalesPrincess of Wales is a British courtesy title held by the wife of The Prince of Wales since the first "English" Prince of Wales in 1283.Although there have been considerably more than ten male heirs to the throne, there have been only ten Princesses of Wales. The majority of Princes of Wales...
— Alexandra of DenmarkAlexandra of DenmarkAlexandra of Denmark was the wife of Edward VII of the United Kingdom...
Events
- 5 January — In a mining accident at Blackwood Colliery, five men are killed.
- 2 March — In a mining accident at Victoria Colliery, Ebbw ValeEbbw ValeEbbw Vale is a town at the head of the valley formed by the Ebbw Fawr tributary of the Ebbw River, south Wales. It is the largest town and the administrative centre of Blaenau Gwent county borough...
, nineteen men are killed. - 18 June — A derailment occurred in the Pencader Tunnel on the Carmarthen & Cardigan Railway
- 1 August - Minffordd railway stationMinffordd railway stationMinffordd station, is actually two adjacent stations operated entirely independently of each other...
is opened. - University of Wales, AberystwythUniversity of Wales, AberystwythAberystwyth University is a university located in Aberystwyth, Wales. Aberystwyth was a founding Member Institution of the former federal University of Wales. As of late 2006, the university had over 12,000 students spread across seventeen academic departments.The university was founded in 1872 as...
, is founded, with 26 students; Thomas Charles EdwardsThomas Charles EdwardsThomas Charles-Edwards was a Welsh minister, writer and academic who was the first Principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth....
is its first principal. - StocksStocksStocks are devices used in the medieval and colonial American times as a form of physical punishment involving public humiliation. The stocks partially immobilized its victims and they were often exposed in a public place such as the site of a market to the scorn of those who passed by...
are used on the last recorded occasion in the UK, at AdparAdparAdpar, formerly Trefhedyn, is a village in Ceredigion, Wales now considered as a part of Newcastle Emlyn to which it is joined by a fine bridge across the River Teifi. Adpar used to be an ancient Welsh borough in its own right.-History:...
in CardiganshireCeredigionCeredigion is a county and former kingdom in mid-west Wales. As Cardiganshire , it was created in 1282, and was reconstituted as a county under that name in 1996, reverting to Ceredigion a day later...
, when a man is imprisoned in them for drunkenness.
New books
- R. D. BlackmoreR. D. BlackmoreRichard Doddridge Blackmore , referred to most commonly as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century. Over the course of his career, Blackmore achieved a close following around the world...
— The Maid of Sker - Thomas Thomas — Hynodion Hen Bregethwyr Cymru
Music
- The South Wales "Cor Mawr", conducted by Griffith R. Jones (Caradog) wins a national choral competition at Crystal PalaceThe Crystal PalaceThe Crystal Palace was a cast-iron and glass building originally erected in Hyde Park, London, England, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. More than 14,000 exhibitors from around the world gathered in the Palace's of exhibition space to display examples of the latest technology developed in...
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Sport
- CricketCricketCricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
— First game played at Elwy Grove Park, St AsaphSt AsaphSt Asaph is a town and community on the River Elwy in Denbighshire, Wales. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 3,491.The town of St Asaph is surrounded by countryside and views of the Vale of Clwyd. It is situated close to a number of busy coastal towns such as Rhyl, Prestatyn, Abergele,...
. - FootballFootball (soccer)Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
— Wrexham Football Club is founded.
Births
- 21 February — Evan Lorimer ThomasEvan Lorimer ThomasEvan Lorimer Thomas was a Welsh clergyman and Professor of Welsh at St David's College, Lampeter from 1903 to 1915....
, clergyman and academic (died 1953) - 6 May — William Llewellyn ThomasWilliam Llewellyn ThomasWilliam Llewellyn Thomas was a Welsh international rugby union player who played club rugby for Newport, international rugby for Wales and invitational rugby for the Barbarians...
, Wales international rugby player (died 1943) - 10 May — Tom PearsonTom Pearson (rugby player)Thomas William Rory Pearson was a Welsh international wing who played club rugby for Cardiff and Newport and county rugby with Middlesex. He won 13 caps for Wales and captained the team on one occasion, against England. Pearson was an all-round sportsman, representing Wales not only in rugby, but...
, Wales international rugby player (died 1957) - 18 May — Bertrand RussellBertrand RussellBertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things...
, philosopher (died 1970) - 14 July — David MorganDavid Morgan (rugby player)David "Dai" Morgan was a Welsh international rugby union fly-half who played club rugby for Llanelli and was capped twice for Wales.-Rugby career:...
, Wales international rugby player (died 1933) - 27 August — Charles Stewart Rolls, aviator (died 1910)
- 14 September — Albert JenkinAlbert JenkinAlbert Mortimer Jenkin was an English-born rugby union forward who played club rugby for Swansea, county rugby for Glamorgan and international rugby for Wales.-Personal life:...
, Wales international rugby player (died 1961) - 8 October — John Cowper PowysJohn Cowper Powys-Biography:Powys was born in Shirley, Derbyshire, in 1872, the son of the Reverend Charles Francis Powys , who was vicar of Montacute, Somerset for thirty-two years, and Mary Cowper Johnson, a descendent of the poet William Cowper. He came from a family of eleven children, many of whom were also...
, Anglo-Welsh writer (died 1963) - date unknown
- Vernon HartshornVernon HartshornVernon Hartshorn was a Welsh trades unionist and Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament from 1918 until his death....
, politician (died 1931) - Thomas Jeremiah WilliamsThomas Jeremiah WilliamsThomas Jeremiah Williams was a Welsh barrister and Liberal politician.-Family and Education:Thomas Jeremiah Williams was the eldest son of William Williams who was Liberal Member of Parliament for the Swansea District from 1893-1895. He was educated at University College School, London, Sheffield...
, lawyer and politician (died 1919)
- Vernon Hartshorn
Deaths
- 3 August — William Davies EvansWilliam Davies EvansCaptain William Davies Evans was a seafearer and inventor, though he is best known today as a chess player. He is buried at the Belgian port of Ostend.- Early life :...
, chess player (born 1790) - 22 August — Evan Davies, educationist (born 1826)
- 11 November — Mary Anne Disraeli, 1st Viscountess Beaconsfield, 80, wife of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli