Cant o Ganeuon John Jones (Ioan Emlyn) – Golud yr Oes David William Nash – The Pharaoh of the Exodus Ebenezer Thomas – Cyff Beuno Music John Ceiriog Hughes – Cant O Ganeuon John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia) – Llewelyn (cantata) Sport Cricket 23 July – South Wales Cricket Club defeat MCC at Lord's. 27 July – South Wales Cricket Club defeat Gentlemen of Kent at Cranbrook. Births 15 January – James Webb, Wales rugby international (died 1913) 17 January – David Lloyd George, politician (died 1945) 3 March – Arthur Machen, writer (died 1947) 16 March – Dan Beddoe, operatic tenor (died 1937) 25 March – Owen Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant (died 1937) 13 April – Walter E. Rees, Secretary of the Welsh Rugby Union (died 1949) May – William Rees-Davies (judge), politician and lawyer (died 1939) 8 May – Charles Taylor Wales rugby international (died 1915) 18 May – Lewis Davies (writer), novelist and historian (died 1951) 21 May – William Jones Williams, civil servant (died 1949) 11 June – Llewellyn Henry Gwynne, first suffragan Bishop of Khartoum (died 1957) 18 June – George Essex Evans, Australian poet of Welsh parentage (died 1909) 2 July – Billy Douglas, Wales international rugby player (died 1943) 7 August – Edward Perkins Alexander, Wales international rugby player (died 1931) 8 August – John Herbert Roberts, Baron Clwyd of Abergele, politician (died 1955) 17 August – Joseph Harry, minister, writer and teacher (died 1950) 29 August – Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas, magistrate (died 1940) 10 September – Walter Rice Evans, Wales international rugby player (died 1909) 7 November – Rowley Thomas, Wales international rugby player (died 1949) probable – William Retlaw Williams, Welsh writer (died 1944) Deaths 17 February – Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd), poet, 60 19 February – Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley, Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire, 62 28 February – David Williams (Alaw Goch), industrialist, 53 21 March – David Griffiths, missionary, 71 24 March – Thomas Powell, industrialist, 84 13 April – George Cornewall Lewis, statesman, 56 May/June – David Bevan Jones (Dewi Elfed), Mormon leader, 55 15 July – Edward Pryce Owen, artist, 75 8 November – Joseph Hughes (Carn Ingli), poet, 60 13 December – Robert Saunderson, printer, 83 28 December – Thomas Bevan, Archdeacon of St David's, 63 References Wales