At the Bangor Eisteddfod of 1874 Hen Wlad fy Nhadau gained further popularity when it was sung by Robert Rees (" Eos Morlais "), one of the leading Welsh soloists of his day.

* David Davies ( Dai ' r Cantwr ) ( 1812 – 1874 ), Welsh activist sentenced for his part in the Rebecca Riots

David Davies ( 18 December 1818 – 20 July 1890 ) was a Welsh industrialist and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1874 and 1886.

* Billy Meredith ( 1874 – 1958 ), Welsh footballer

An American contributor to an 1874 publication, in an article on Welsh names, noted that " Cadafael is still a name of opprobrium ", adding that he was unaware of the reason.

The interior was restored in 1874 by Welsh neo-gothic designer John Prichard.

William Henry " Billy " Meredith ( 30 July 1874 – 19 April 1958 ) was a Welsh footballer.

* Billy Meredith ( 1874 – 1958 ), Welsh international winger, oft described as " football's first superstar "

William Nantlais Williams ( 30 December 1874 – 18 June 1959 ), better known simply as Nantlais, was a Welsh poet and a Presbyterian Christian leader during the 1904-1905 Welsh Revival.

* TVR No. 145-( built 1874 ) The oldest standard gauge coach surviving from a Welsh railway company.

The club was founded in 1874 and, in 1881 it became one of the eleven founder clubs of the Welsh Rugby Union.

With the transition of Magdalen Hall to Hertford College in 1874, the old blue-black of the Hall stopped racing in 1873, and the new red-white of the College took to the river in 1875.

With Frances Martin he set up the Working Women's College in 1874.

With fertile meadows beside the Connecticut River, Lancaster was in 1874 the twelfth most productive agricultural town in the state.

With Bateman, Irving was seen in W. G. Wills ' Charles I and Eugene Aram, in Richelieu, and in 1874 in Hamlet.

With no formal training, Maxwell first entered the nursing field as a matron at New England Hospital in 1874.

With William Fletcher Barrett he helped found the Physical Society of London ( now the Institute of Physics ) in 1874 and was president of the society from 1884 till 1886.

With a new town council a law passed in 1874 stated that Kincardine was to be enforced by one constable.

With the introduction of the centavo in 1872, silver 2½, 5, 10, 20 & 50 centavos were issued, followed by cupro-nickel 1¼ centavos in 1874 & cupro-nickel 2½ centavos in 1881.

With his wife, Helen Kate Furness ( 1837 – 1883 ), he authored A Concordance to Shakespeare's Poems ( 1874 ).

With the Liberal party's victory in the 1874 election, Cartwright was appointed Minister of Finance by Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie.

* With Harp and Crown ( 1874 )

With the prevailing frontier situation in the British government put pressure on the Chakma chief to shift his capital to Rangamati and ultimately in 1874 it was shifted to Rangamati from Rajanagar.

With the same frame of mind he took over the post of Army Minister in 1874.

With violence against blacks increasing in the South, in 1874 Rainey purchased a " summer home " in Windsor, Connecticut.

With John Birnie Philip, he worked on the external sculptural decorations of Scott's colonial office in Whitehall, Armstead also sculpted the large fountain at King's College, Cambridge ( 1874 – 9 ), incoporating a statue of its founder, Henry IV, and numerous effigies, such as Bishop Wilberforce at Winchester, and Lord John Thynne at Westminster Abbey.

Baddeck became a tourist destination with the 1874 publication of Baddeck, And That Sort of Thing, a travel story written by Charles Dudley Warner.

* Baddeck, And That Sort of Thing ( 1874 ), travels in Nova Scotia and elsewhere

* 1874 – W. Somerset Maugham, English writer ( d. 1965 )

* John Brown ( Yorkshire cricketer ) ( 1874 – 1950 ), English cricketer

* 1874 – G. K. Chesterton, English novelist ( d. 1936 )

* 1874 – Howard Carter, English archaeologist ( d. 1939 )

Thomas Martin Lowry CBE FRS (; 26 October 1874 – 2 November 1936 ) was an English physical chemist.

First attested in English in 1874, the word pasta comes from Italian pasta, in turn from Latin pasta " dough, pastry cake ", itself the latinisation of the Greek παστά ( pasta ) " barley porridge ", in turn from παστός ( pastos ), " sprinkled with salt, salted ".

* 1874 – Gustav Holst, English composer ( d. 1934 )

* English translation of a letter of Theophan the Recluse to the husband of his sister of 12th of February 1874

** Sir Harry Oakes, American-born English gold mine owner ( murdered ) ( b. 1874 )

* October 29 – Emily Robin, English Madame ( b. 1874 )

* June 14 – G. K. Chesterton, English author ( b. 1874 )

* May 11 – Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer ( b. 1874 )

* May 25 – Gustav Holst, English composer ( The Planets ) ( b. 1874 )

Among those influenced were the Russian Alexander Afanasyev ( first published in 1866 ), the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe ( first published in 1845 ), the Romanian Petre Ispirescu ( first published in 1874 ), the English Joseph Jacobs ( first published in 1890 ), and Jeremiah Curtin, an American who collected Irish tales ( first published in 1890 ).

In 1874, Carte leased the Opera Comique, a small theatre off The Strand, where he presented a Brussels company in the British premiere of the operetta Giroflé-Giroflà by Charles Lecocq, followed by The Broken Branch, an English adaptation of Gaston Serpette's La branche cassée.

It was performed in New York under Bial at the Stadt Theatre on 21 November 1874, and then in English in London at the Alhambra Theatre on 18 December 1876, with the score heavily adapted by Hamilton Clarke.

* S. H. Hooke ( 1874 – 1968 ), English scholar of comparative religion

In 1874, The word jinricksha / jinrikisha " was published in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1887.

The first was the English Alpine Club ( founded in the winter of 1857 – 1858 ), followed in 1862 by the Austrian Alpine Club ( which in 1873 was fused, under the name of the German and Austrian Alpine Club, with the German Alpine Club, founded in 1869 ), in 1863 by the Italian and Swiss Alpine Clubs, and in 1874 by the French Alpine Club, not to mention numerous minor societies of more local character.

* W. Somerset Maugham ( 1874 – 1965 ), English author

His efforts were first directed to the preparation of textbooks: Higher English Grammar and An English Grammar were both published in 1863, followed in 1866 by the Manual of Rhetoric, in 1872 by A First English Grammar, and in 1874 by the Companion to the Higher Grammar.

* George Smith ( executioner ) ( 1805 – 1874 ), English executioner also known as Throttler Smith

* John Trollope, 1st Baron Kesteven ( 1800 – 1874 ) English.