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- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – William Owen Stanley[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar[5] (until 16 April); Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk (from 11 June)[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse[8][2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite (until 21 April);[13][2] Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite (from 21 April)
- August - First publication of The Usk Gleaner and Monmouthshire Record.
- December - South Wales miners, led by William Abraham, come to agreement on a sliding scale of wages in relation to prices and profits.
- 4 December - In a mining accident at Old Pit, New Tredegar, 22 men are killed.
- 5 December - In a mining accident at Llan Colliery, Pentyrch, twelve men are killed.
- unknown dates
- 3 January - Cliff Bowen, Wales international rugby player and county cricketer (died 1929)
- 4 January – William Williams (Crwys), poet and Archdruid (died 1968)[23]
- 19 January – Thomas Owen Jones, dramatist, actor and producer (died 1941)[24]
- 23 February – David Brazell, singer (died 1959)[25]
- 4 March – John Kelt Edwards, cartoonist (died 1934)[26]
- 23 May – Nathaniel Walters, Wales international rugby player (died 1956)
- 26 May – Jack Evans Wales international rugby player (died 1947)
- 31 May – Dan Jones, Wales international rugby player (died 1959)
- 11 June – Will Osborne, Wales international rugby player (died 1942)
- 16 June – Henry Paget, Lord Paget, eccentric, born in Paris (died 1905)[27]
- 10 September
- 26 October – Sir Lewis Casson, English-born artist (died 1969)[28]
- 20 December (in Shirley, Derbyshire) – T. F. Powys, Anglo-Welsh writer (died 1953)[29]
- 25 December – George Davies, international rugby player (died 1959)
- 4 January – Thomas Stephens, historian, literary critic and social reformer (born 1821)[30]
- 4 March – John Evans (I. D. Ffraid), minister and author, 60[31]
- April – Frances Bunsen, painter, 85[32]
- 16 April – Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar, Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire, 83[5]
- 19 July – Benjamin Davies, Hebraist, 60/61[33]
- 27 July – Connop Thirlwall, former Bishop of St Davids, 78[34]
- 19 August – Robert Elis (Cynddelw), writer, 63[35]
- 28 August – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet, politician, 73[36]
- 7 September – John Prichard, minister, author and teacher, 79[37]
- 16 September (in Shropshire) – Lucy Herbert, Countess of Powis, Scottish-born aristocrat, 81[38]
- 29 November – Thomas Jones, librarian, 65[39]
- date unknown
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