1874 in Wales-The Daily Ledger

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1874 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – William Owen Stanley

Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar

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 – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet (until 17 June) Hugh Robert Hughes (from 4 August) 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 – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite

1874 in Wales

Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell

Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant

Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua Hughes

Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall (until May); Basil Jones (from 24 August)

1874 in Wales

Events

24 January – Four pilots and two apprentices are drowned in an accident off Llanddwyn on Anglesey. 17 February – In the 1874 United Kingdom general election, newly elected MPs include David Davies (Llandinam) at Cardigan (returned unopposed). 1 April – Frances Morgan marries Dr George Hoggan. They later open the first husband-and-wife general medical practice in the UK. 1 May – Coal-owner Sir George Elliot is raised to the baronetcy by the new prime minister, Disraeli. 15 July – Laying of the foundation stone of the clock tower at Machynlleth, built to mark the coming of age in 1873 of Viscount Castlereagh, the eldest son of the 5th Marquess of Londonderry of Plas Machynlleth. 20 July – In a mining accident at Charles Colliery, Llansamlet, nineteen men are killed. October – The Western Mail reports a deathbed confession made to a minister in the US by a man who claimed he carried out the assault for which Dic Penderyn was executed in 1831. 24 August – William Basil Jones is consecrated Bishop of St David's. 5 October – The Powysland Club holds its annual meeting at the new Powysland Museum in Welshpool. 16 October – The first issue of Yr Ymwelydd is published in Australia under the editorship of William Meirion Evans. unknown dates Strike at Dinorwig slate quarry. The Welsh Flannel Company is established at Holywell. Henry Davis Pochin begins laying out Bodnant Garden. John Mathias Berry and his wife Mary move to Merthyr Tydfil. The three sons born to them here go on to achieve success in business and be raised to the peerage: Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, William Ewart Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose and Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley. Rev. Richard Williams Morgan is consecrated First Patriarch of a restored Ancient British Church by Jules Ferrette, the founder of the British Orthodox Church, taking the religious name of 'Mar Pelagius I' and undertaking to revive Celtic Christianity as practised prior to the Synod of Whitby while continuing duties as an Anglican clergyman.

1874 in Wales

Arts and literature

William Goscombe John begins assisting his father, a wood-carver, in his work at Cardiff Castle.

Awards

Evan Jones (Gurnos) wins the bardic chair at the Bangor eisteddfod. William Thomas (Islwyn) wins a bardic chair at Rhyl.

New books

Sir William Boyd Dawkins – Cave Hunting

Gwaith Thomas Edwards (ed. Isaac Foulkes) Isaac Foulkes – Rheinallt ab Gruffydd

Music

Joseph Parry becomes head of the new music department at University of Wales, Aberystwyth. The London Welsh Choral Union presents Sarah Edith Wynne with a bust of herself by Joseph Edwards.