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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1861 to Wales and its people.




Incumbents



Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins
Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor (from 26 April)
Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph
Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot
Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Robert Davies Pryce
Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh (until 28 September);Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover (from 9 November)
Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet (until 6 February); William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington (from 28 April)
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite
Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell
Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant
Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short
Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall




Events


30 May - In a by-election caused by the death of the sitting MP, Richard Grosvenor becomes MP for Flintshire, holding it on behalf of the Liberals.
10 June - The Oswestry and Newtown Railway is completed throughout by opening of the section between Abermule and Newtown, giving through rail communication from England to Llanidloes.
July - Baner ac Amserau Cymru begins twice-weekly publication.
date unknown
Japanese knotweed is recorded at Maesteg - the first record of it growing wild in the UK.
Excavation of Long Hole Cave in Glamorgan reveals prehistoric flint artefacts.
Pryce Pryce-Jones starts his mail order company in Newtown, Montgomeryshire.
John Dillwyn-Llewelyn marries Caroline, daughter of Sir Michael Hicks Beach, 8th Baronet.
Griffith John becomes the first Christian missionary to penetrate into central China.




Arts and literature






= Awards

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20–22 August - The first National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Aberdare. The chair is won by Lewis William Lewis.




= New books

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Autobiography and Correspondence of Mrs. Delaney, ed. Augusta Hall, Lady Llanover
Griffith Jones (Glan Menai) - Hywel Wyn
John Jones (Vulcan) - Athrawiaeth yr Iawn
David Owen (Brutus) - Cofiant y Diweddar Barch. Thomas Williams
Thomas Rees - History of Protestant Nonconformity in Wales: From Its Rise to the Present Time
William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) - Emmanuel
Jane Williams (Ysgafell) - The Literary Women of England
Robert Williams (Trebor Mai) - Fy Noswyl




= Music

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Hugh Jerman - Deus Misereatur




Sport


Cricket
18 July - South Wales Cricket Club defeat MCC at Lord's.




Births


1 January - John Owen Jones (Ap Ffarmwr), journalist (died 1899)
2 January (in Oswestry) - William Henry Griffith Thomas, clergyman and academic (died 1924)
28 February - Jessie Penn-Lewis, evangelist (died 1927)
22 March - Dick Kedzlie, Wales international rugby player (died 1920)
7 April - Clara Novello Davies, singer (died 1943)
5 May - John Edward Lloyd, historian (died 1947)
31 July at Garneddwen - Alfred W. Hughes, surgeon and founder of the Welsh Hospital in South Africa
27 August - Reginald Brooks-King, archer (died 1936)
10 September - Sir John Lynn-Thomas, surgeon (died 1939)
19 September - Evan Roberts, Wales international rugby player (died 1927)
26 October - Richard Griffith (Carneddog), writer (died 1947)
28 December - David Gwynn, Wales international rugby player (died 1897)
date unknown
William Stadden, rugby player (died 1906)
John Williams, politician (died 1922)




Deaths


6 February - Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet, 84
20 April - David Pugh, merchant, landowner and politician,
8 May - Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn, politician, 31
17 May - Ellis Owen Ellis, artist, 48?
2 August - Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, statesman, 50
5 September - William Addams Williams, lawyer, landowner and politician, 74
26 September - Morris Davies (Meurig Ebrill), poet, 71
25 October - Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet, former MP for Pembroke, 69




See also


1861 in Ireland




References

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