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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1875 to
Wales and
its people .
Incumbents
Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey –
William Owen Stanley
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire –
Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar
[5] (until 16 April);
Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk (from 11 June)
[6]
Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire –
Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn
[7]
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire –
Edward Pryse
[8]
[2]
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
[9]
Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire –
Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
[10]
Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire –
Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort
[11]
Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire –
Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley
[12]
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire –
William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington
[2]
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire –
John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite (until 21 April);
[13]
[2]
Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite (from 21 April)
Events
August - First publication of The Usk Gleaner and Monmouthshire Record .
December - South Wales miners, led by
William Abraham , come to agreement on a sliding scale of wages in relation to prices and profits.
4 December - In a mining accident at Old Pit,
New Tredegar , 22 men are killed.
5 December - In a mining accident at Llan Colliery,
Pentyrch , twelve men are killed.
unknown dates
Arts and literature
New books
English language
Welsh language
Music
Sport
Births
3 January -
Cliff Bowen , Wales international rugby player and county cricketer (died 1929)
4 January –
William Williams (Crwys) , poet and Archdruid (died
1968 )
[23]
19 January –
Thomas Owen Jones , dramatist, actor and producer (died
1941 )
[24]
23 February –
David Brazell , singer (died
1959 )
[25]
4 March –
John Kelt Edwards , cartoonist (died
1934 )
[26]
23 May –
Nathaniel Walters , Wales international rugby player (died 1956)
26 May –
Jack Evans Wales international rugby player (died 1947)
31 May –
Dan Jones , Wales international rugby player (died 1959)
11 June –
Will Osborne , Wales international rugby player (died 1942)
16 June –
Henry Paget, Lord Paget , eccentric, born in Paris (died
1905 )
[27]
10 September
26 October – Sir
Lewis Casson , English-born artist (died
1969 )
[28]
20 December (in
Shirley, Derbyshire ) –
T. F. Powys , Anglo-Welsh writer (died 1953)
[29]
25 December –
George Davies , international rugby player (died 1959)
Deaths
4 January –
Thomas Stephens , historian, literary critic and social reformer (born 1821)
[30]
4 March – John Evans (
I. D. Ffraid ), minister and author, 60
[31]
April –
Frances Bunsen , painter, 85
[32]
16 April –
Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar , Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire, 83
[5]
19 July –
Benjamin Davies , Hebraist, 60/61
[33]
27 July –
Connop Thirlwall , former Bishop of St Davids, 78
[34]
19 August –
Robert Elis (Cynddelw) , writer, 63
[35]
28 August –
Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet , politician, 73
[36]
7 September –
John Prichard , minister, author and teacher, 79
[37]
16 September (in Shropshire) –
Lucy Herbert, Countess of Powis , Scottish-born aristocrat, 81
[38]
29 November –
Thomas Jones , librarian, 65
[39]
date unknown
See also
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