This article is about the particular significance of the year 1872 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – William Owen Stanley Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph (until 21 March); William Cornwallis-West (from 5 June) Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington (until 1 January); William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington (from 6 February) Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite
Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua Hughes Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall
Events 5 January — In a mining accident at Blackwood Colliery, five men are killed. 2 March — In a mining accident at Victoria Colliery, Ebbw Vale, nineteen men are killed. 18 June — A derailment occurs in the Pencader Tunnel on the Carmarthen & Cardigan Railway. 12 July — Cardiff Tramways Company begins operation of horse trams. 15 July — The Colwyn Bay Hotel is opened. 1 August — Minffordd railway station is opened. 9 October — University College Wales, Aberystwyth, opens with 26 students; Thomas Charles Edwards is its first principal. unknown dates Stocks are used on the last recorded occasion in the UK, at Adpar in Cardiganshire, when a man is imprisoned in them for drunkenness. Nitrocellulose manufacture at Penrhyndeudraeth begins.
Arts and literature New books R. D. Blackmore — The Maid of Sker Thomas Thomas — Hynodion Hen Bregethwyr Cymru
Music The South Wales "Cor Mawr", conducted by Griffith R. Jones (Caradog) wins a national choral competition at Crystal Palace.
Sport Cricket — First game played at Elwy Grove Park, St Asaph. Football — 28 September: Wrexham Football Club is founded. They play at the Racecourse Ground.
Births 21 February — Evan Lorimer Thomas, clergyman and academic (died 1953) 16 March — Vernon Hartshorn, politician (died 1931) 6 May — William Llewellyn Thomas, Wales international rugby player (died 1943) 10 May — Tom Pearson, Wales international rugby player (died 1957) 18 May — Bertrand Russell, philosopher (died 1970) 14 July — David Morgan, Wales international rugby player (died 1933) 14 September — Albert Jenkin, Wales international rugby player (died 1961) 8 October — John Cowper Powys, Anglo-Welsh writer (died 1963) date unknown — Thomas Jeremiah Williams, lawyer and politician (died 1919)
Deaths 1 January — William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington, Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire, 70 9 January — Crawshay Bailey, industrialist 21 March — Robert Myddelton Biddulph, landowner and politician, 66 24 March — James Williams, clergyman and philanthropist, 81 13 April — Thomas Vowler Short, Bishop of St Asaph 3 August — William Davies Evans, chess player, 82 18 August — Evan Jones, missionary, 84Jerry L. Faught, Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. "Evan Jones (1788-1872)." Retrieved July 19, 2013. 22 August — Evan Davies, educator, 84 26 September — William Williams (Carw Coch), poet 28 September — Lleyson Hopkin Davy, government representative, brewer and industrialist, 89/90 16 October — David Lewis, MP for Carmarthen, 75 11 November — Mary Anne Disraeli, wife of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, 80
See also 1872 in Ireland
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