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- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins[5][6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover[13]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley (until 19 February); Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley (from 21 April)[14]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite[15][2]
- Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell[16][17]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant[18][19]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short[20][21][19]
- Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall[22][19][23]
- Cricket
- 23 July – South Wales Cricket Club defeat MCC at Lord's.
- 27 July – South Wales Cricket Club defeat Gentlemen of Kent at Cranbrook.
- 15 January – James Webb, Wales rugby international (died 1913)
- 17 January – David Lloyd George, politician (died 1945)[27]
- 3 March – Arthur Machen, writer (died 1947)[28]
- 16 March – Dan Beddoe, operatic tenor (died 1937)
- 25 March – Owen Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant (died 1937)[29]
- 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)[30]
- 18 June – George Essex Evans, Australian poet of Welsh parentage (died 1909)[31]
- 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)[32]
- 17 August – Joseph Harry, minister, writer and teacher (died 1950)[33]
- 29 August – Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas, magistrate (died 1940)[34]
- 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)[35]
- 17 February – Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd), poet, 60[36]
- 19 February – Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley, Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire, 62
- 28 February – David Williams (Alaw Goch), industrialist, 53[37]
- 21 March – David Griffiths, missionary, 71[38]
- 24 March – Thomas Powell, industrialist, 84[39]
- 13 April – George Cornewall Lewis, statesman, 56[40]
- May/June – David Bevan Jones (Dewi Elfed), Mormon leader, 55[41]
- 15 July – Edward Pryce Owen, artist, 75[42]
- 8 November – Joseph Hughes (Carn Ingli), poet, 60
- 13 December – Robert Saunderson, printer, 83[43]
- 28 December – Thomas Bevan, Archdeacon of St David's, 63[44]
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Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
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Frederick Arthur Crisp; Joseph Jackson Howard (1898). Visitation of England and Wales. p. 15.
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The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
"The Gentleman's Magazine (January–June 1864: obituaries, p261