1870s in Wales - Births

Births

• 1870
  • 18 August — William Cope, 1st Baron Cope, politician (died 1946)
  • 27 September — Thomas Jones (T. J.), civil servant (died 1955)
  • 20 December — Sir Sir David Davies, politician (died 1958)
• 1871
  • 6 April — Prince Alexander John of Wales, youngest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 7 April 1871)
• 1872
  • 18 May — Bertrand Russell, philosopher (died 1970)
  • 27 August — Charles Stewart Rolls, aviator (died 1910)
  • 8 October — John Cowper Powys, Anglo-Welsh writer (died 1963)
• 1873
  • 23 April — Sir Robert Thomas, 1st Baronet, politician (died 1951)
  • 2 June — Anna Eliza Williams, supercentenarian (died 1987)
• 1874
  • 6 February — David Evans, composer (died 1948)
  • 3 October — James Henry Thomas, politician (died 1949)
  • December — Nantlais Williams, poet and religious leader (died 1959)
  • date unknown — Albert Bethel, politician (died 1935)
• 1875
  • 10 September — John Evans, Welsh politician (died 1961)
  • 11 November — Johnny Jenkins, racing driver (died 1945)
• 1876
  • 22 June — Gwen John, artist (died 1939)
  • 18 September — Charles Kemeys-Tynte, 8th Baron Wharton (died 1934)
• 1877
  • 19 August — John Evans, supercentenarian (died 1990)
  • 26 September — Edmund Gwenn, actor (died 1959) (long believed to have been born in Wales, but birth certificate proves otherwise)
• 1878
  • 4 January — Augustus John, painter (died 1961)
  • 3 March — Edward Thomas, poet (died 1917)
  • 16 April — Owen Thomas Jones, geologist (died 1967)
  • 26 May — Abel J. Jones, writer (died 1949)
  • 28 June — Evan Roberts preacher (died 1951)
  • 31 December — Caradoc Evans, writer (died 1945)
• 1879
  • 4 September — Eliot Crawshay-Williams, politician and writer (died 1962)
  • 2 October — Idris Bell, papyrologist (died 1967)