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1870s In Wales
{, class="infobox" id="toc" , - , align="left" , 1860s in Wales, 1860s , 1880s in Wales, 1880s , List of years in Wales, Other years in Wales , - , , 1870s, Other events of the decade This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1870–1879 to Wales and Welsh people, its people. Incumbents *Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – David Griffiths (Clwydfardd), Clwydfardd (from 1876) Events *1870 in Wales, 1870 *1871 in Wales, 1871 *1872 in Wales, 1872 *1873 in Wales, 1873 *1874 in Wales, 1874 *1875 in Wales, 1875 *1876 in Wales, 1876 *1877 in Wales, 1877 *1878 in Wales, 1878 *1879 in Wales, 1879 Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales – no National Eisteddfod officially took place during this decade. 1872 – William Thomas (Islwyn) wins a bardic chair at Rhyl. 1874 – Islwyn wins a bardic chair at Caerphilly. 1877 – Islwyn wins a bardic chair at Treherbert. New books *R. D. Blackmore – ''The Maid of Sker'' (1872) *Rh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1860s In Wales
{, class="infobox" id="toc" , - , align="left" , 1850s in Wales, 1850s , 1870s in Wales, 1870s , List of years in Wales, Other years in Wales , - , , 1860s, Other events of the decade This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1860–1869 to Wales and Welsh people, its people. Events *1860 in Wales, 1860 *1861 in Wales, 1861 *1862 in Wales, 1862 *1863 in Wales, 1863 *1864 in Wales, 1864 *1865 in Wales, 1865 *1866 in Wales, 1866 *1867 in Wales, 1867 *1868 in Wales, 1868 *1869 in Wales, 1869 Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales *1861 - Aberdare *1862 - Caernarfon *1863 - Swansea *1864 - Llandudno *1865 - Aberystwyth *1866 - Chester, England, Chester *1867 - Carmarthen - A crown is presented for the first time *1868 - Ruthin - The Eisteddfod Council is disbanded *1869 - Holywell, Flintshire, Holywell New books *R. D. Blackmore - ''Clara Vaughan'' (1864) *George Borrow - ''Wild Wales'' (1862) *Rhoda Broughton - ''Cometh up as a Flower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1878 In Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1878 to Wales and its people. Incumbents *Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd *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 – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis *Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington *Lord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Thomas (minister)
Thomas Thomas is the name of: Entertainment * Thomas Thomas (harpist) (1829–1913), Welsh * Thomas Henry Thomas (1839–1915), Welsh artist better known as T. H. Thomas * Thomas L. Thomas (1911–1983), Welsh American baritone concert singer * Thomas Thurston Thomas (born 1948), American science fiction writer * '' Thomas, Thomas'', German short comedy film Politics * Thomas Shenton Thomas (1879–1962), last Governor of Straits Settlements * Thomas Thomas (politician), Singaporean politician * Thomas K. Thomas, Indian politician Religion * Thomas Thomas (architect) (1817–1888), Welsh church minister and chapel architect * Thomas Thomas (priest) (1804–1877), Welsh cleric ("Thomas of Caernarfon") * Thomas Llewellyn Thomas (1840–1897), clergyman and scholar of the Welsh language Other * Thomas John Thomas (1877–?), Welsh international footballer * Thomas Thomas (boxer) (1880–1911), first UK middleweight boxing champion * Thomas Thomas (surgeon) (1917–1998), Ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog)
William Rees (8 November 1802 – 8 November 1883), usually known in Wales by his bardic name of Gwilym Hiraethog, was a Welsh poet and author, one of the major figures of Welsh literature during the 19th century. Gwilym Hiraethog took his pseudonym from his birthplace, a farm on the Hiraethog mountain in Denbighshire. Largely self-educated, he was a polymath, who took an interest in astronomy and political science as well as being a Nonconformist minister and a leading literary figure. In 1843, he founded the Welsh language journal ''Yr Amserau ("The Times")'' in Liverpool. He used the newspaper to campaign for the disestablishment of the Church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * C ... in Wales. Rees also penned the hymn text of ''Dyma gariad fel y moroedd'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ceiriog Hughes
John Ceiriog Hughes (25 September 1832 – 23 April 1887) was a Welsh poet and collector of Welsh folk tunes, sometimes termed a Robert Burns of Wales. He was born at Penybryn Farm, overlooking the village of Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog in the Ceiriog Valley of north-east Wales, then in Denbighshire, now part of Wrexham County Borough. One of eight children, he was a favourite of his mother, Phoebe, a midwife and herbal-medicine expert. Life At 18, Hughes left the village for Manchester to work as a grocer. He opened his own shop in 1854. There he met and was befriended and influenced by William Williams (Creuddynfab), a station master in the Pennines, who found him a job on the railway. Williams had been appointed first secretary of the National Eisteddfod Society. Hughes decided to sell his shop and concentrate on writing poetry, but he also started to drink heavily. Hughes returned to Wales in 1865 as station master at Llanidloes. From 1868, he was also manager of the Van Rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Silvan Evans
Daniel Silvan Evans (11 January 1818 – 12 April 1903) was a Welsh clergyman, scholar and lexicographer. Educated at the Independent College in Brecon, Silvan Evans worked as a schoolmaster for five years. On marriage he conformed to the Established Church, studying at St David's College, Lampeter, where he became lecturer in Welsh. Ordained deacon in 1848 and priest the following year he served curacies at Llandegwning parish in Llŷn and from 1852 to 1862 at nearby Llangian, Caernarfonshire. In 1862 he was appointed to the living of Llanymawddwy, Merioneth. During these years Silvan Evans published ''Blodeu Ieuainc'' (1843), ''Telynegion'' (1846), edited ''Elfennau Gallofyddiaeth'' (1850), ''Elfennau Seryddiaith'' (1851). In 1853 he published Ellis Wynne's ''Gweledigaethau y Bardd Cwsg''. He also edited ''Y Brython'' from 1858 to 1860 and published articles in ''Y Gwyddoniadur''. 1856 saw the publication of ''Llythyraeth yr Iaith Gymraeg''. From Llanymawddwy Evans pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beriah Gwynfe Evans
Beriah Gwynfe Evans (12 February 1848 – 4 November 1927) was a journalist, Congregationalist, dramatist, Liberal politician and Welsh Nationalist. Early life Born at Nant-y-glo, near Ebbw Vale in Monmouthshire, Evans was educated at the Beaufort British School and became a teacher at Gwynfe and Llangadog, Carmarthenshire. However, his ambition was to become a journalist. Teacher and playwright As a playwright, Evans helped to introduce a sceptical Nonconformity to contemporary drama with a patriotic play, ''Owain Glyndŵr'', performed at the Llanberis Eisteddfod of 1879. Evans was heavily involved in Welsh language literature and publishing, as a member of the Gorsedd. Journalist In 1880, Evans established the monthly magazine ''Cyfail yr Aelwyd'', and in 1887 gave up teaching for a career in journalism, joining the staff of the ''South Wales Daily News'' in Cardiff. Concurrently he edited the Welsh section of the ''Cardiff Times and South Wales Weekly News''. In 1892, he m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Elis (Cynddelw)
Robert Ellis (also spelt Elis; 3 February 1812 – 19 August 1875), also known by the bardic name Cynddelw, was a Welsh language poet, editor, biographer, lexicographer and eisteddfod adjudicator. He was born at Tyn y Meini, Bryndreiniog, Pen-y-Bont-Fawr, in the historic county of Montgomeryshire in Mid Wales, where he initially worked as a farm labourer. His bardic name honoured the 12th-century poet Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr. Ministry Ellis was a Baptist minister, and is not to be confused with a Calvinistic Methodist minister of the same name also during the 19th-century. Ellis served as a minister from 1836 to 1840 at Llanelian-yn-Rhos and Llanddulas, Denbighshire; from 1838 to 1840 Glyn Ceiriog in the Ceiriog Valley. From 1847 to 1862, he served aCarmel Chapel Tredegar, South Wales. Jones (1969) documented that, while in Tredegar, Ellis supported two notable local historians. First, in his capacity as one of the adjudicators at the local 1862 eisteddfod, Ellis praised t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Davies (Mynyddog)
Richard Davies (Mynyddog) (10 January 1833 – 14 July 1877) was a popular Welsh language, Welsh-language poet, singer, and Eisteddfod conductor. The original source of the name Mynyddog is from Newydd Fynyddog, a hill near his home. Another submission is the name comes from Mynyddog Mwynfawr, a character in Gododdin, an early Welsh poem. Use of an adopted Welsh-language pseudonym or bardic name (''ffug enw'') is common among Welsh poets. Birth and upbringing He was born at Dôl Lydan, Llanbrynmair, Montgomeryshire, in a farmhouse called "Y Fron". His father, Daniel Davies, was deacon and precentor in Hen Gapel, while his mother, Jane, belonged to a bookish family. He was christened by John Roberts (1767–1834). When he was two years old, his parents moved to Fron in the same parish. He spent his early days as a farmer and shepherd, and was educated at the chapel school kept by the younger John Roberts (1804–1884). His open-air life in rural Wales among rural folk remained a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhoda Broughton
Rhoda Broughton (29 November 1840 – 5 June 1920) was a Welsh novelist and short story writer.Robert Hadji, "Rhoda Broughton" in Jack Sullivan (ed) (1986) ''The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural'' Viking Press, 1986, , p. 285. Her early novels earned a reputation for sensationalism, so that her later, stronger work tended to be neglected by critics, although she was called a queen of the circulating libraries. Her novel ''Dear Faustina'' (1897) has been noted for its homoeroticism. Her novel ''Lavinia'' (1902) depicts a seemingly "unmanly" young man, who wishes he had been born as a woman. Broughton descended from the Broughton baronets, as a granddaughter of the 8th baronet. She was a niece of Sheridan le Fanu, who helped her to start her literary career. She was a long-time friend of fellow writer Henry James and was noted for her adversarial relationship with both Lewis Carroll and Oscar Wilde. Life Rhoda Broughton was born in Denbigh in North Wales on 29 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treherbert
Treherbert () is a village and community situated at the head of the Rhondda Fawr valley in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Historically part of Glamorgan, Treherbert is a former industrial coal mining village which was at its economic peak between 1850 and 1920. Treherbert is the upper most community of the Rhondda Fawr and encompasses the districts of Blaencwm, Blaenrhondda, Tynewydd and Pen-yr-englyn. Pronunciation 'Tre-Herbert' or 'Tre Herbert' is correctly pronounced as in 'Tre Herbert'. 'Tre' is a mutation of the Welsh word ‘Tref’, meaning ‘town’, derived from the word for a homestead or hamlet under old Cymric law. ‘Herbert’ was the surname of the Earls of Pembroke, a dynasty of local magnates. History There is evidence of settlements in the Rhondda dating back to Celtic times, but prior to the Industrial Revolution and the advent of coal mining the villages of Treherbert, Tynewydd, Blaenrhondda and Blaencwm consisted of a number of isolated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caerphilly
Caerphilly (, ; cy, Caerffili, ) is a town and community in Wales. It is situated at the southern end of the Rhymney Valley. It is north of Cardiff and northwest of Newport. It is the largest town in Caerphilly County Borough, and lies within the historic borders of Glamorgan, on the border with Monmouthshire. At the 2011 Census, the town had a population of 41,402 while the wider Caerphilly Local Authority area has a population of 178,806. Toponym The name of the town in Welsh, , means "the fort () of Ffili". Despite lack of evidence, tradition states that a monastery was built by St Cenydd, a sixth-century Christian hermit from the Gower Peninsula, in the area. The Welsh cantref in the medieval period was known as Senghenydd. It is said that St Cenydd's son, St Ffili, built a fort in the area thus giving the town its name. Another explanation given for the toponym is that the town was named after the Anglo-Norman Marcher Lord, Philip de Braose. History The town's sit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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