– Llyfr y Psalmau Sport Boxing – The "Marquess of Queensberry rules", formulated by John Graham Chambers, are published. Births 10 March Sir William James Thomas, 1st baronet, philanthropist, one of the Thomas baronets of Yapton (d. 1945) William Llewelyn Williams, politician (d. 1922) 10 April – Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, peer (d. 1934) 2 May – Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn), poet (d. 1926) 13 May – Frank Brangwyn, artist (d. 1956) 15 May – Sir Henry Stuart Jones, academic (d. 1939) 21 May – John Thomas Job, poet (d. 1938) 26 May – Mary of Teck, member of the British royal family, Princess of Wales 1901–1910 (d. 1953) 29 September – John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy), poet (d. 1924) 6 October – Rosser Evans, Wales international rugby player 12 October – Lyn Harding, actor (d. 1952) 2 November – Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer (d. 1899) 28 November – James Richard Atkin, judge (born in Australia) (d. 1944) 18 December – David Watts Morgan, Member of Parliament for Rhondda East (d. 1933) date unknown Mia Arnesby Brown, born Mia Sarah H. Edwards, painter of children's portraits (d. 1931) Fred Hutchinson, rugby player (d. 1941) Deaths 15 February – Walter Coffin, industrialist, 82 18 February – Edward Roberts (Iorwerth Glan Aled), poet, 48 27 April – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist, 64 26 May – Thomas Phillips, politician and businessman, 65/66 4 August – William Crawshay II, industrialist, 79 9 September – John Propert, physician, 74 12 September – Robert Fulke Greville, landowner and politician, 67 16 November – Thomas Aubrey, Methodist minister, 59 1 December – William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines in Australia, 74 References Wales