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==Incumbents==
==Incumbents==
{{For|United Kingdom incumbents|1884 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents}}
*[[Prince of Wales]] – [[Edward VII|Albert Edward]]
*[[Archdruid]] of the [[National Eisteddfod of Wales]] – [[David Griffiths (Clwydfardd)|Clwydfardd]]<ref>{{cite DWB|title=GRIFFITH, DAVID (Clwydfardd; 1800–1894)|id=s-GRIF-DAV-1800|author=Daniel Williams|publisher=National Library of Wales|accessdate=15 December 2019}}</ref>
*[[Princess of Wales]] – [[Alexandra of Denmark|Alexandra]]

*[[Archdruid]] of the [[National Eisteddfod of Wales]] – [[David Griffiths (Clwydfardd)|Clwydfardd]]
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey]] – [[William Owen Stanley]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=24}}</ref><ref name="Sainty">{{cite book | author=J.C. Sainty | author-link=John Sainty (civil servant) | title=List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 | publisher=Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd | location=London | year=1979}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=695}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru|publisher=University of Wales Press|year=1992|page=169}}</ref>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire]] – [[Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk]]<ref>{{cite book| author=Edwin Poole|title=The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions|publisher=Edwin Poole|year=1886|page=378}}</ref>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire]] – [[Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=26}}</ref>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire]] – [[Edward Pryse]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Death of Colonel Pryse|url=http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3344911/3344915/21|access-date=27 February 2018|agency=Cambrian News|date=1 June 1888|page=4}}</ref><ref name="Sainty"/>
*[[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]]<ref>{{cite journal|last=Campbell|first=Thomas Methuen|title=C.R.M. Talbot 1803–1890|journal=Morgannwg|date=2000|volume=44|pages=66–104|url=http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewobject/llgc-id:1174908/article/000041850|access-date=17 May 2014}}</ref>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire]] – [[Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn]] (until 17 March)<ref name="HOP"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=29}}</ref> [[Robert Davies Pryce]] (from 17 May)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Annual Register|publisher=Rivingtons|editor=Edmund Burke|year=1892|page=179}}</ref>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire]] – [[Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort]]<ref>{{cite book|author=James Henry Clark|title=History of Monmouthshire|publisher=County Observer|year=1869|page=375}}</ref>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire]] – [[Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis]]<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s-POWY-HER-1674|title=Herbert family (earls of Powis)|author=Evan David Jones|year=1959|access-date=27 February 2022}}</ref>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire]] – [[William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington]]<ref name="Sainty"/>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire]] – [[Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite]]

*[[Bishop of Bangor]] – [[James Colquhoun Campbell]]<ref>{{cite book | last = Fryde | first = E. B. | title = Handbook of British chronology | publisher = New York Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge England | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780521563505 | page=292}}</ref><ref name="Fasti266">{{cite book|author= Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=266}}</ref>
*[[Bishop of Llandaff]] – [[Richard Lewis (bishop of Llandaff)|Richard Lewis]]<ref name="Fasti307"/> (from 25 April)
*[[Bishop of St Asaph]] – [[Joshua Hughes (bishop)|Joshua Hughes]]<ref>{{cite book|title=The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England|publisher=James Parkes and Company|year=1866|page=15}}</ref><ref name="Fasti307"/>
*[[Bishop of St Davids]] – [[Basil Jones]]<ref name="Fasti307">{{cite book|author= Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=307}}</ref><ref>{{cite DWB | id=s-JONE-BAS-1822 | title=Jones, William Basil (Tickell) (1822–1897) | access-date=21 April 2011}}</ref>



==Events==
==Events==
*[[18 January]] – Physician [[William Price (physician)|William Price]] attempts to cremate his son, Iesu Grist (died 10 January aged 5 months), at [[Llantrisant]]. Later tried at [[Cardiff]] Assizes and acquitted on the grounds that [[cremation]] is not contrary to law, he is thus able to carry out the ceremony (the first in the U.K. in modern times) on [[14 March]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain|authorlink=Ronald Hutton|last=Hutton|first=Ronald|year=2009|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven|isbn=978-0-300-14485-7}}</ref>
*[[18 January]] – Physician [[William Price (physician)|William Price]] attempts to cremate his son, Iesu Grist (died 10 January aged 5 months), at [[Llantrisant]]. Later tried at [[Cardiff]] Assizes and acquitted on the grounds that [[cremation]] is not contrary to law, he is thus able to carry out the ceremony (the first in the U.K. in modern times) on [[14 March]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain|authorlink=Ronald Hutton|last=Hutton|first=Ronald|year=2009|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven|isbn=978-0-300-14485-7}}</ref>
*[[27 January]] – 14 miners are killed in an accident at the Naval Colliery, [[Penygraig]].
*[[27 January]] – 14 miners are killed in an accident at the Naval Colliery, [[Penygraig]].
*[[4 March]] – A [[Housing of the Working Classes Act 1885|Royal Commission on the Housing of the Working Classes]] is established. The Prince of Wales accepts nomination to the Commission and offends protocol by trying to have [[Octavia Hill]] included as a member.<ref name="commission">{{cite web|url=https://jvc.oup.com/2011/06/07/philanthropic-princes-charles-prince-of-wales-edward-vii-and-victorian-cultures-of-charity/|title=Philanthropic princes|date=7 June 2011|website=Journal of Victorian Culture Online|access-date=22 August 2021}}</ref>
*[[18 October]] – Opening of the [[Bangor University|University College of North Wales, Bangor]] in the former Penrhyn Arms Hotel.
*[[18 October]] – Opening of the [[Bangor University|University College of North Wales, Bangor]] in the former Penrhyn Arms Hotel.<ref>{{cite book | last = Roberts | first = David | title = Bangor University 1884-2009 | publisher = University of Wales Press | location = Cardiff | year = 2009 | isbn = 9780708322802 | page=7}}</ref>
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*[[22 October]] – The [[Argentina|Argentine]] Congress authorises the construction of the [[Central Chubut Railway]] by [[Lewis Jones (Patagonia)|Lewis Jones y Cia]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Railways of South America: Part I. Argentina|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|year=1926|page=222}}</ref>
*[[8 November]] – 15 miners are killed in an accident at the Pochin Colliery, Tredegar.
*[[8 November]] – 15 miners are killed in an accident at the Pochin Colliery, Tredegar.
*''unknown dates''
*Isolation hospital for [[cholera]] patients opens on [[Flat Holm]].
*A Chair of Celtic Studies is founded at the [[Cardiff University|University College of South Wales, Cardiff]].
**Isolation hospital for [[cholera]] patients opens on [[Flat Holm]].
**A Chair of Celtic Studies is founded at the [[Cardiff University|University College of South Wales, Cardiff]].
*Closure of Talargoch lead mine, near [[Dyserth]].
**Closure of Talargoch lead mine, near [[Dyserth]].
**[[Slate industry in Wales]]: A flood at [[Dorothea quarry]] in the [[Slate industry in the Nantlle Valley|Nantlle Valley]] kills 7 and there is a major rockfall in the underground [[Cwmorthin quarry]] in the [[Blaenau Ffestiniog]] district.<ref>{{cite book|first=Alun John|last=Richards|title=Slate Quarrying in Wales|publisher=Gwasg Carreg Gwalch|isbn=0-86381-319-4|location=Llanrwst|year=1995|pages=129-31}}</ref>
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*[[Argentina|Argentine]] Congress authorises the construction of the [[Central Chubut Railway]] by [[Lewis Jones (Patagonia)|Lewis Jones y Cia]].


==Arts and literature==
==Arts and literature==
===Awards===
===Awards===
[[National Eisteddfod of Wales]] – held at [[Liverpool]]
[[National Eisteddfod of Wales]] – held at [[Liverpool]]
*Chair – [[Evan Rees (Archdruid)|Evan Rees]] ("Dyfed"), "Gwilym Hiraethog"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eisteddfod.wales/about-us/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair?_ga=2.196744876.1631880097.1570104027-963760572.1570104027|title=Winners of the Chair|website=National Eisteddfod of Wales|date=3 October 2019}}</ref>
*Chair – [[Evan Rees (Archdruid)|Evan Rees]] ("Dyfed"), "Gwilym Hiraethog"<ref>{{Cite web|title=Winners of the Chair {{!}} National Eisteddfod|url=https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair|access-date=2021-02-27|website=eisteddfod.wales}}</ref>
*Crown – Edward Foulkes
*Crown – Edward Foulkes


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*[[3 December]] – [[Bailey Davies]], Wales international rugby union player (died 1968)
*[[3 December]] – [[Bailey Davies]], Wales international rugby union player (died 1968)
*[[14 December]] – [[Margaret Davies]], patron of the arts (died 1963)
*[[14 December]] – [[Margaret Davies]], patron of the arts (died 1963)
*[[15 December]] – [[Florrie Evans]], revivalist and missionary (died 1967)<ref>{{cite web |title=EVANS, ANNIE FLORENCE ('Florrie') (1884 - 1967), revivalist and missionary {{!}} Dictionary of Welsh Biography |url=https://biography.wales/article/s12-EVAN-FLO-1884 |website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography |access-date=8 September 2022}}</ref>
*''date unknown'' – [[Thomas Jones (footballer, born 1884)|Thomas Jones]], footballer (died 1958)
*''date unknown'' – [[Thomas Jones (footballer, born 1884)|Thomas Jones]], footballer (died 1958)


==Deaths==
==Deaths==
*[[12 February]] – [[Henry Morgan-Clifford]], politician, 77
*[[12 February]] – [[Henry Morgan-Clifford]], politician, 77
*[[17 March]] – [[Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn]], 89<ref name="HOP">{{cite web|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/lloyd-mostyn-edward-1795-1884|title=Lloyd Mostyn, Edward Mostyn (1795-1884), of Mostyn Hall, Flint and 14 Park Place, Mdx.|website=History of Parliament Online|access-date=4 March 2022}}</ref>
*[[17 March]] – [[Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn]], 89
*[[11 April]] – [[Thomas William Davids]], nonconformist minister and ecclesiastical historian, 67<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Davids, Thomas William|volume=14}}</ref>
*[[24 May]] – [[Henry Thomas Edwards]], preacher, 46 (suicide)
*[[24 May]] – [[Henry Thomas Edwards]], preacher, 46 (suicide)<ref>Boase, George Clement (1889). "Edwards, Henry Thomas" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). ''Dictionary of National Biography''. 17. London: Smith, Elder & Co.</ref>
*[[17 July]] – [[Charles James Watkin Williams]], judge, doctor and politician, 55
*[[17 July]] – [[Charles James Watkin Williams]], judge, doctor and politician, 55
*[[27 August]] – [[Dewi Havhesp]], poet, 53<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s-ROBE-DAV-1831|title=Roberts, David (Dewi Havhesp; 1831-1884), poet|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|access-date=3 January 2022}}</ref>
*[[6 November]] – [[George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry]], industrialist and owner of Plas Machynlleth, 63
*[[6 November]] – [[George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry]], industrialist and owner of Plas Machynlleth, 63<ref>{{cite book|title=Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society|publisher=Adnitt and Naunton|year=1892|page=206}}</ref>
*[[16 December]] – [[John Davies (minister)|John Davies]], Congregational minister, writer, linguist and poet, 80<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s-DAVI-JOH-1804|title=Davies, John (Siôn Gymro; 1804-1884)|access-date=23 January 2017}}</ref>
*[[20 December]] – [[Philip Jacob (priest)|Philip Jacob]], Archdeacon of Winchester, 80<ref>{{Cite news|title=Deaths|date=23 December 1884|work=[[The Times]]|issue=31324|page=1}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[1884 in Ireland]]


==References==
==References==
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Incumbents

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Events

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Arts and literature

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Awards

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National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Liverpool

  • Chair – Evan Rees ("Dyfed"), "Gwilym Hiraethog"[25]
  • Crown – Edward Foulkes

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Births

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References

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  1. ^ Daniel Williams. "GRIFFITH, DAVID (Clwydfardd; 1800–1894)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  2. ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
  3. ^ a b c J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
  4. ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
  5. ^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
  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.
  8. ^ "Death of Colonel Pryse". Cambrian News. 1 June 1888. p. 4. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  9. ^ Campbell, Thomas Methuen (2000). "C.R.M. Talbot 1803–1890". Morgannwg. 44: 66–104. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
  10. ^ a b "Lloyd Mostyn, Edward Mostyn (1795-1884), of Mostyn Hall, Flint and 14 Park Place, Mdx". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
  11. ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
  12. ^ Edmund Burke, ed. (1892). The Annual Register. Rivingtons. p. 179.
  13. ^ James Henry Clark (1869). History of Monmouthshire. County Observer. p. 375.
  14. ^ Evan David Jones (1959). "Herbert family (earls of Powis)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  15. ^ Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780521563505.
  16. ^ Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 266.
  17. ^ 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.
  18. ^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
  19. ^ "Jones, William Basil (Tickell) (1822–1897)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
  20. ^ Hutton, Ronald (2009). Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-14485-7.
  21. ^ "Philanthropic princes". Journal of Victorian Culture Online. 7 June 2011. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  22. ^ Roberts, David (2009). Bangor University 1884-2009. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 7. ISBN 9780708322802.
  23. ^ Railways of South America: Part I. Argentina. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1926. p. 222.
  24. ^ Richards, Alun John (1995). Slate Quarrying in Wales. Llanrwst: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch. pp. 129–31. ISBN 0-86381-319-4.
  25. ^ "Winners of the Chair | National Eisteddfod". eisteddfod.wales. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  26. ^ "EVANS, ANNIE FLORENCE ('Florrie') (1884 - 1967), revivalist and missionary | Dictionary of Welsh Biography". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  27. ^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Davids, Thomas William" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 14. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  28. ^ Boase, George Clement (1889). "Edwards, Henry Thomas" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 17. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  29. ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Roberts, David (Dewi Havhesp; 1831-1884), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  30. ^ Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Adnitt and Naunton. 1892. p. 206.
  31. ^ "Davies, John (Siôn Gymro; 1804-1884)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
  32. ^ "Deaths". The Times. No. 31324. 23 December 1884. p. 1.
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