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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1888 to
Wales and
its people .
National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at
Wrexham
Daniel Owen – Y Siswrn
J. Rhys – Lectures of the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by Celtic
February –
Grace Wynne Griffith , novelist (died
1963 )
[35]
23 March –
Fred Hando , writer and artist (died
1970 )
[36]
29 April –
Fred Dyer , boxer and baritone singer (died after 1934)
14 May –
Nansi Richards , harpist (died
1979 )
[37]
21 May –
William Cove , politician (died
1963 )
24 May –
Howell Lewis , Wales international rugby player (died 1971)
18 June –
Margaret Lindsay Williams , artist (died
1960 )
[38]
16 August –
T. E. Lawrence , writer and war hero (died
1935 )
[39]
24 August –
Valentine Baker , pilot and war hero (died 1942)
5 September –
Rhys Hopkin Morris , politician (died 1956)
7 October –
Frances Stevenson , secretary and later wife of
David Lloyd George (died
1972 )
19 October –
Peter Freeman , politician (died
1956 )
[40]
27 November –
Ezer Griffiths , physicist (died 1962)
29 December –
Reg Plummer , Wales and British Lion rugby union player (died 1953)
23 February –
Evan Davies (Myfyr Morganwg) , poet and archdruid, 87
[41]
29 February –
Thomas Price , Baptist minister and author, 67
[42]
7 March –
Hugh Hughes (Cadfan), Patagonian colonist, 63
16 March –
Thomas Thomas , chapel architect and minister, c. 81
22 March –
Henry Robertson , Scottish engineer and founder of Brymbo Steel Works, 72
[43]
24 March –
Benjamin Piercy , civil engineer, 61
[44]
29 May –
Edward Pryse , politician, 70
[45]
7 June –
Charles William Nevill , industrialist and politician, 72
2 August –
David Davies (Dewi Emlyn) , poet, 70
5 August –
Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan , politician, historian and antiquary, 84
[46]
20 August –
Henry Richard , politician and peace campaigner, 76
[47]
3 September –
Robert H. Roberts , Welsh-born US senator, 51 (boatyard accident)
[48]
20 September –
Elias Owen , footballer, 35 (suicide)
[49]
23 November –
Edward John Sartoris , politician, 74/75
date unknown
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"Davies, Richard (1818-1896), M.P." .
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National Library of Wales . Retrieved 24 November 2021 .
^ Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes . Dod. 1921. p. 356.
^ National Museum of Wales (1935). Adroddiad Blynyddol . The Museum. p. 3.
^ The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland . Dalcassian Publishing Company. 1860. p. 443.
^ Edward Arthur Copleston (1878). Where's where? Pt. 1. A concise gazetteer of Somerset. Pt. 2. Statistical, educational, parliamentary and practical information . p. 80.
^ Potter, Matthew (2016). The concept of the 'master' in art education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the present . Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. p. 149.
ISBN
9781351545471 .
^ Henry Taylor (1895). "Popish recusants in Flintshire in 1625". Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales . Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales: 304.
^ William Llewelyn Davies (1959).
"Talbot family, of Margam Abbey and Penrice Castle Glamorganshire" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 24 November 2021 .
^ The Annual Register . Rivingtons. 1892. p. 179.
^ Reese, M. M. (1976). The royal office of Master of the Horse . London: Threshold Books Ltd. p. 348.
ISBN
9780901366900 .
^ Weyman, Henry T. (1929). "Shropshire M.P.s - Memoirs". T.S.A.S., Series 4, Volume XII . p. 28.
^ Lodge, Edmund (2020). Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire.. . Salzwasser-Verlag GMBH. p. 318.
ISBN
9783752502664 .
^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage . Burke's Peerage Limited. 1885. p. 1027.
^
"Campbell, John Colquhoun (CMBL831JC)" . A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge.
^ Death Of The Bishop Of Llandaff ,
The Times , 25 January 1905; page 4; Issue 37613; col A
^
Havard, William Thomas (1959).
"Hughes, Joshua (1807-1889), bishop" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 October 2021 .
^
"William Basil Jones, Bishop of St Davids" . Dictionary of National Biography .
Archived from the original on 13 October 2018. Retrieved 21 April 2011 .
^ Daniel Williams (1959).
"Griffith, David (Clwydfardd; 1800-1894), eisteddfodic bard and arch-druid" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 24 November 2021 .
^
The Building News and Engineering Journal . Office for Publication and advertisements. 1888. p. 90.
Archived from the original on 28 April 2024. Retrieved 3 February 2020 .
^ Andrew Lorenz (16 April 2012).
GKN: The Making of a Business, 1759–2009 . John Wiley & Sons. p. 41.
ISBN
978-0-470-68588-4 .
Archived from the original on 28 April 2024. Retrieved 3 February 2020 .
^
"UK Historical Earthquake Database" . British Geological Survey.
Archived from the original on 1 July 2022. Retrieved 28 December 2022 .
^ Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (1967).
The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion . The Society. p. 304.
Archived from the original on 28 April 2024. Retrieved 3 February 2020 .
^
Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Volume 28.
^
The Railway News ... 1912. p. 141.
Archived from the original on 28 April 2024. Retrieved 3 February 2020 .
^ David Roberts (1 November 2009).
Bangor University 1884–2009 . University of Wales Press. p. 8.
ISBN
978-0-7083-2280-2 .
Archived from the original on 28 April 2024. Retrieved 3 February 2020 .
^ John Davies; Nigel Jenkins; Menna Baines (2008).
The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales . University of Wales Press. p. 186.
ISBN
978-0-7083-1953-6 .
Archived from the original on 28 April 2024. Retrieved 3 February 2020 .
^
The World Book Encyclopedia . World Book. 1989. p. 838.
Archived from the original on 28 April 2024. Retrieved 3 February 2020 .
^ Stuart Perry (1980).
The New Zealand Whisky Book . Collins. p. 103.
ISBN
978-0-00-216973-8 .
Archived from the original on 28 April 2024. Retrieved 3 February 2020 .
^ National Museum of Wales (1928).
Annual Report . The Museum. p. 20.
Archived from the original on 28 April 2024. Retrieved 3 February 2020 .
^
"Winners of the Chair" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . 3 February 2020. Archived from
the original on 13 February 2021. Retrieved 3 February 2020 .
^
"Winners of the Crown" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . 3 February 2020. Archived from
the original on 7 November 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2020 .
^ Griffith, Robert David.
"GRIFFITH, WILLIAM (Gwilym Caledffrwd, 1832–1913)" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 3 June 2016 .
^ Bamber Gascoigne (1994).
Encyclopedia of Britain . Macmillan. p. 259.
ISBN
978-0-333-63739-5 .
^
The Golfing Annual . H. Cox. 1898. p. 518.
Archived from the original on 28 April 2024. Retrieved 3 February 2020 .
^ Gomer Morgan Roberts (2001).
"Griffith, Grace Wynne (1888-1963), novelist" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 20 December 2021 .
^ Chris Barber, ed. (1987). Hando's Gwent . Blorenge Books.
ISBN
978-0951044452 .
^ Evans, Nia Gwyn (2016).
"Jones, Nansi Richards ('Telynores Maldwyn ') (1888-1979), harpist" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 December 2021 .
^ Peter Lord.
"Williams, Margaret Lindsay" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 August 2015 .
^ Legg, Rodney (1988). Lawrence of Arabia in Dorset . Sherborne: Dorset Pub. p. 8.
ISBN
9780902129962 .
^ "Mr. P. Freeman,M.P - An energetic reformer". The Times . No. 53536. London. 21 May 1956. p. 10.
^
"DAVIES, EVAN (Myfyr Morganwg; 1801 – 1888), bard and 'archdruid' " .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 14 January 2020 .
^ Price, Watkin William.
"Thomas Price" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 4 May 2020 .
^
Journal . 1888. p. 4.
Archived from the original on 28 April 2024. Retrieved 4 May 2020 .
^ Thomas Mardy Rees (1908).
Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities . Herald Office. p. 400.
^
"Death of Colonel Pryse" . Cambrian News. 1 June 1888. p. 4.
Archived from the original on 28 February 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2018 .
^ William Llewelyn Davies.
"Morgan, Charles Octavius Swinnerton (1803–1888), antiquary and local historian" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 4 May 2020 .
^
"Death of Mr. Henry Richard, M.P." . Huddersfield Chronicle . 25 August 1888. Retrieved 20 December 2015 – via
British Newspaper Archive .
^
EX-SENATOR ROBERTS KILLED
Archived 28 April 2024 at the
Wayback Machine in NYT on September 4, 1888
^ Davies, Gareth; Garland, Ian (1991). Who's Who of Welsh International Soccer Players . Wrexham: Bridge Books. p. 155.
ISBN
1-872424-11-2 .