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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^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins^[5]^[6]
Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet^[7]
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore (until 12 July);^[8] Edward Pryse (from 14 September)^[9]
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor
Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph^[10]
Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet^[11]
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot^[12]
Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Robert Davies Pryce^[13]
Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh^[14]
Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley^[15]
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet^[16]
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite^[17]^[2]

Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell^[18]^[19]
Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant^[20]^[21]
Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short^[22]^[23]^[21]
Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall^[24]^[21]^[25]

Events

4 March — Thomas Gee launches the radical nonconformist newspaper Baner Cymru in Denbigh.^[26]
24 March — 1857 United Kingdom general election, concludes. Anglesey antiquarian William Owen Stanley becomes Whig MP for the Beaumaris District of Boroughs.^[27]
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.^[28]
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.^[29]
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.^{[citation needed]}

Arts and literature

New books

English language

Richard Williams Morgan — The British Kymry or Britons of Cambria^[30]

Welsh language

Owen Wynne Jones — Dafydd Llwyd
Robert Parry (Robyn Ddu Eryri) — Teithiau a Barddoniaeth Robyn Ddu Eryri^[31]

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^[32]
10 February — David Thompson, explorer of Welsh parentage, 86
29 March — Elijah Waring, writer, ±69^[33]
16 May — Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer, 74^[34]
13 June — Daniel Rees, hymn-writer, 64^[35]
12 July — Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore, Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire, 64^[8]
12 August — William Daniel Conybeare, dean of Llandaff, 70
16 August — John Jones, Talysarn, leading non-conformist minister, 61^[36]

References

^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
^ ^a ^b J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
^ "Editorial". Welshman. 6 October 1865. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
^ Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
^ ^a ^b "Family Notices". Pembrokeshire Herald. 17 July 1857. p. 3. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
^ Thomas John Hughes (1887). The Welsh magistracy, by Adfyfr. South Wales and Monmouthshire Liberal Federation Offices. p. 5.
^ "Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
^ "Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
^ "TALBOT, Christopher Rice Mansel (1803-1890), of Penrice Castle and Margam Park, Glam". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
^ Amy Audrey Locke (1916). The Hanbury Family. Arthur L. Humphreys. p. 147.
^ "Hanbury Tracy, Charles (1778–1858), of Toddington, Glos. and Gregynog, Mont". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
^ Thorne, R.G. "John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire". History of Parliament. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
^ Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
^ Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780521563505.
^ Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
^ Frederick Arthur Crisp; Joseph Jackson Howard (1898). Visitation of England and Wales. p. 15.
^ ^a ^b ^c Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.
^ Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1857). The historic peerage of England: Revised, corrected, and continued ... by William Courthope. John Murray. p. 533.
^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
^ Old Yorkshire, volume 3. 1882. p. 90.
^ The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
^ Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (2001). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorian. The Society. p. 112.
^ Thomas Nicholas (1872). Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales. Longmans, Green, Reader. pp. 48–.
^ John Elliott (2004). The Industrial Development of the Ebbw Valleys, 1780-1914. University of Wales Press. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-7083-1890-4.
^ Hughes, T. Meirion (2014). "Some Feat over a Century and a Half Ago". Caernarfon Through the Eye of Time. Talybont: Y Lolfa. pp. 77–81. ISBN 978-1-847-71930-0.
^ Neil Evans (17 February 2016). Writing a Small Nation's Past: Wales in Comparative Perspective, 1850–1950. Routledge. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-134-78661-9.
^ National Library of Wales (1985). Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. Council of the National Library of Wales.
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins (1959). "Anwyl, Edward (1786-1857), Wesleyan minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
^ Griffith John Williams (1959). "Waring, Elijah (c.1788-1857) merchant, author and publisher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
^ Ioan Bowen Rees (2001). "Lloyd, Sir William (1782-1857), soldier and one of the first Europeans to reach the peak of any Himalayan snow-capped mountain". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
^ Roberts, Gomer Morgan. "Rees, Daniel (1793–1857), cleric and hymnwriter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 August 2008.
^ Gwilym Arthur Edwards (1959). "Jones, John (Talysarn)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 January 2022.

[1] Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.

[Sainty-2] J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.

[3] Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.

[4] Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.

[5] "Editorial". Welshman. 6 October 1865. Retrieved 17 January 2022.

[6] Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.

[7] Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.

[PH_17-7-57_obit-8] "Family Notices". Pembrokeshire Herald. 17 July 1857. p. 3. Retrieved 23 January 2018.

[9] Thomas John Hughes (1887). The Welsh magistracy, by Adfyfr. South Wales and Monmouthshire Liberal Federation Offices. p. 5.

[10] "Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 5 December 2021.

[11] "Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 16 January 2022.

[12] "TALBOT, Christopher Rice Mansel (1803-1890), of Penrice Castle and Margam Park, Glam". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 January 2022.

[13] Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.

[14] Amy Audrey Locke (1916). The Hanbury Family. Arthur L. Humphreys. p. 147.

[15] "Hanbury Tracy, Charles (1778–1858), of Toddington, Glos. and Gregynog, Mont". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2 July 2013.

[16] Thorne, R.G. "John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire". History of Parliament. Retrieved 27 March 2020.

[17] Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.

[18] Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780521563505.

[Fasti305-19] Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.

[20] Frederick Arthur Crisp; Joseph Jackson Howard (1898). Visitation of England and Wales. p. 15.

[Fasti307-21] Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.

[22] Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1857). The historic peerage of England: Revised, corrected, and continued ... by William Courthope. John Murray. p. 533.

[23] The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.

[24] Old Yorkshire, volume 3. 1882. p. 90.

[25] The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.

[26] Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (2001). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorian. The Society. p. 112.

[27] Thomas Nicholas (1872). Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales. Longmans, Green, Reader. pp. 48–.

[28] John Elliott (2004). The Industrial Development of the Ebbw Valleys, 1780-1914. University of Wales Press. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-7083-1890-4.

[29] Hughes, T. Meirion (2014). "Some Feat over a Century and a Half Ago". Caernarfon Through the Eye of Time. Talybont: Y Lolfa. pp. 77–81. ISBN 978-1-847-71930-0.

[30] Neil Evans (17 February 2016). Writing a Small Nation's Past: Wales in Comparative Perspective, 1850–1950. Routledge. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-134-78661-9.

[31] National Library of Wales (1985). Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. Council of the National Library of Wales.

[32] Robert Thomas Jenkins (1959). "Anwyl, Edward (1786-1857), Wesleyan minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 January 2022.

[33] Griffith John Williams (1959). "Waring, Elijah (c.1788-1857) merchant, author and publisher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 January 2022.

[34] Ioan Bowen Rees (2001). "Lloyd, Sir William (1782-1857), soldier and one of the first Europeans to reach the peak of any Himalayan snow-capped mountain". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 January 2022.

[35] Roberts, Gomer Morgan. "Rees, Daniel (1793–1857), cleric and hymnwriter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 August 2008.

[36] Gwilym Arthur Edwards (1959). "Jones, John (Talysarn)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 January 2022.

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Incumbents

Events

Arts and literature

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English language

Welsh language

Music

Births

Deaths

See also

References

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