Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn). New books English language George Borrow – Wild Wales Rees Howell Gronow – Reminiscences of Captain Gronow Jane Williams (Ysgafell) – Celtic Fables, Fairy Tales and Legends versified Welsh language John Ceiriog Hughes – Oriau'r Bore Music Henry Brinley Richards – "God Bless the Prince of Wales" Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd) – Hymnau Sport Cricket 21 July – South Wales Cricket Club defeat Surrey at The Oval. 24 July – South Wales Cricket Club defeat MCC at Lord's. Births 5 January – John Fisher, Celtic scholar (d. 1930) 16 January – Leifchild Jones, 1st Baron Rhayader, politician (d. 1939) 17 January – Buckley Roderick, Wales international rugby player (d. 1908) 23 January – Evan Richards, Wales international rugby player (d. 1931) 1 February – Thomas Pryce-Jenkins, Wales international rugby player (d. 1922) 16 February Llewellyn John Montfort Bebb, academic (d. 1915) Philip Tanner, folk singer (d. 1950) 22 March – Edward Treharne, Wales international rugby player (d. 1904) 11 April – Charles Evans Hughes, American politician of Welsh parentage (d. 1948) 27 April – Sir Hugh Vincent, solicitor and Wales international rugby player (d. 1931) 28 April – William Norton, Wales international rugby player (d. 1898) 17 May – Sir William Rice Edwards, surgeon (d. 1923) 5 August - Robert Mills-Roberts, footballer (d. 1935) 16 September – Thomas Baker Jones, Wales international rugby player (d. 1959) 27 October – Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas, admiral (d. 1928) 16 November – Sir David Rocyn-Jones, medical practitioner and President of the WRU (d. 1953) 7 December – Humphrey Jones, footballer (d. 1946) 9 December – John John Evans, journalist (d. 1942) date unknown John Daniel Evans, Patagonia settler (d. 1943) Seth Powell, footballer (d. 1945) Deaths 3 January – Dan Jones, Mormon missionary, 51 8 February - Hans Busk, poet, 89 25 March – Timothy Davies, clergyman 1 May – Frederick Richard West, politician, 62/63 28 May – James Henry Cotton, Dean of Bangor, 82 2 August – Anthony Hill, industrialist, 78 27 August – John Williams (Ab Ithel), antiquary, 51 9 December – Edward Hughes (Eos Maldwyn), harpist, age unknown (tuberculosis) 31 December – Daniel Jones, Baptist minister, 74 date unknown – Robert Edwards, hymn writer, 66? References Wales