- Emmanuel Jane Williams (Ysgafell) - The Literary Women of England Robert Williams (Trebor Mai) - Fy Noswyl Music 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 References Wales Wales