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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1878 to
Wales and
its people .
4 January –
Augustus John , painter (died
1961 )
[26]
30 January –
Reg Skrimshire , Wales and British Lions rugby union player (died
1963 )
24 February –
Lou Phillips , Wales international rugby player (killed in action
1916 )
3 March –
Edward Thomas , poet (killed in action
1917 )
12 March –
Mary Sophia Allen , women's rights activist (died
1964 )
15 March –
Thomas Richards , historian and librarian (died
1962 )
[27]
21 March –
Edwin Thomas Maynard , Wales international rugby player (died
1961 )
16 April –
Owen Thomas Jones , geologist (died
1967 )
26 May –
Abel J. Jones , writer (died
1949 )
5 June –
Billy O'Neill , Wales national rugby player (died
1955 )
8 June –
Evan Roberts , religious revivalist (died
1951 )
[28]
20 June –
Seymour Farmer , politician in Canada (died
1951 )
1 July –
Billy Trew , rugby player and Welsh Triple Crown winning captain (
died 1926 )
27 August –
Edgar Rees Jones , lawyer and politician (died
1962 )
28 October –
Charles Benjamin Redrup , aeronautical engineer (died
1961 )
30 October –
Caradog Roberts , musician (died
1935 )
[29]
8 November –
Dorothea Bate , palaeontologist (died
1951 )
31 December –
Caradoc Evans , writer (died
1945 )
date unknown –
Richard Hughes Williams (Dic Tryfan), Welsh language short story writer (died
1919 )
[30]
16 February –
Alexander Jones , footballer, 23 (accidentally shot)
[31]
25 February –
Townsend Harris , Welsh-descended American diplomat, 73
[32]
30 March –
Peter Maurice , priest and writer, 74
[33]
4 July –
William Roos , Welsh artist and engraver, 70
[34]
13 August –
Francis Rice, 5th Baron Dynevor , 74
[35]
30 September –
Evan James , poet, lyricist of the Welsh national anthem, 69
[36]
18 November –
John Jones (Mathetes) , clergyman and writer, 57
[37]
20 November –
William Thomas (Islwyn) , poet, 46
[38]
25 November –
Llewelyn Lewellin , clergyman and academic, 80
[39]
5 December –
David Price , minister, 67
[40]
13 December –
David Charles , secretary of the University for Wales movement, 56
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^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth . p. 24.
^
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c
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^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695.
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^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru . University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
^ 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.
^
"Death of Colonel Pryse" . Cambrian News. 1 June 1888. p. 4. Retrieved 27 February 2018 .
^ Campbell, Thomas Methuen (2000).
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^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth . p. 29.
^ James Henry Clark (1869). History of Monmouthshire . County Observer. p. 375.
^ Evan David Jones (1959).
"Herbert family (earls of Powis)" .
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^ Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology . Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292.
ISBN
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^ Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.. . University Press. p. 266.
^
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b
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^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England . James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
^
"Jones, William Basil (Tickell) (1822–1897)" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 21 April 2011 .
^ Davies, William Llewelyn (2009).
"Thomas, Sidney Gilchrist" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
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^
The Tramway Review . Light Railway Transport League. 1993. p. 97.
^ Williams, Roger (2004). Their Deadly Trade: Murders in Monmouthshire . Llandysul: Gomer Press.
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^
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^ United States Department of State (1897).
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^ W. Gareth Evans (1 January 1990).
Education and Female Emancipation: The Welsh Experience, 1847–1914 . University of Wales Press. p. 75.
ISBN
978-0-7083-1079-3 .
^ Richards, Alun John (1995). Slate Quarrying in Wales . Llanrwst: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch. p. 131.
ISBN
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^ Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales . Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
ISBN
978-0-7083-1953-6 .
^ Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan (2001).
"John, Augustus Edwin (1878-1961), artist" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
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^ Gwilym Beynon Owen.
"Richards, Thomas (1878–1962), librarian and historian" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 October 2019 .
^ Gomer Morgan Roberts.
"Roberts, Evan (1878–1951), 'Y Diwygiwr (the Revivalist)' revivalist preacher" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 October 2019 .
^ Robert David Griffith.
"Roberts, Caradog (1878–1935), musician" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 October 2019 .
^ Edward Morgan Humphreys (1959).
"Williams, Richard Hughes (Dic Tryfan; 1878?-1919), journalist and short story writer" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
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^ Davies, Gareth; Garland, Ian (1991). Who's Who of Welsh International Soccer Players . Bridge Books.
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^ David Shavit (1990).
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^ Thomas Mardy Rees (1908).
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^ Thomas Mardy Rees (1912).
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^
The Illustrated London News . William Little. 1878. p. 167.
^ Watkin William Price (1959).
"James, Evan (Ieuan ap Iago; 1809-1878), author of the words of 'Hen Wlad fy Nhadau' " .
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^ Benjamin George Owens (1959).
"Jones, John (Mathetes, 1821-1878), Baptist minister and littérateur" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
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^ David Gwenallt Jones.
"THOMAS, WILLIAM (Islwyn; 1832–1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 March 2019 .
^ Thomas Iorwerth.
"Lewellin, Llewelyn (1798–1878), cleric" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 October 2019 .
^
"Funeral of a Dissenting Minister at Aberdare" . Cardiff Times . 14 December 1878. Retrieved 22 January 2014 .