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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 (until 28 September)[5][6] George Pratt, 2nd Marquess Camden (from 4 November)
- 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 – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley[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]
Music
- Thomas Gruffydd Jones (Tafalaw Bencerdd) — Gwarchae Harlech (cantata)
- Cricket
- 17 July — South Wales Cricket Club travels to Gravesend to play the Gentlemen of Kent.
- August — Morriston Cricket Club is founded.
- 2 February — Henry Davies, cricketer (died 1934)
- 28 February — Arthur Symons, poet and critic (died 1945)[35]
- 7 March — Martyn Jordan, Wales international rugby player (died 1902)
- 30 April — Max Nettlau, German historian and Welsh learner (died 1944)
- 3 June — Prince George, second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales and himself Prince of Wales 1901–1910 (later King George V of the United Kingdom; died 1936)
- 6 August — Lewis Cobden Thomas, Wales international rugby player (died 1928)
- 22 August — Stephen Thomas Wales international rugby player (died 1937)
- 8 September — David Williams, Swansea politician (died 1941)
- 23 September — William Brace, politician (died 1947)[36]
- 20 October — Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams, 1st Baronet, judge (died 1955)[37]
- 26 October — Hugh Ingledew, Wales international rugby player (died 1937)
- October — Jack Doughty, footballer (died 1937)
- 16 December — George Rowles, footballer (died 1922)
- December — Richard Bagnall-Oakeley, Olympic archer (died 1947)
- date unknown
- 21 February — Stapleton Cotton, military leader, 91[38]
- 26 April — William Williams, MP, 77[39]
- 29 April — Thomas Evans (Telynog), poet, 24[40]
- 18 June — William Parker Foulke, Welsh-descended American geologist, 49
- 10 August — Hugh Pugh, mariner, 71[41]
- 28 September — John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins, politician, Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire, 63[5]
- 20 November — Rees Howell Gronow, soldier, politician and memoirist, 70[42]
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