1913 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1913 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1913 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1913 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – DyfedRhys James Ednyfed Rees, Evan (Dyfed; 1850-1923), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and archdruid of Wales s-REES-EVA-1850 National Library of Wales 2 August 2018 1959 Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron GlanuskDod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes Dod 1921 356 Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest GreavesNational Museum of Wales Adroddiad Blynyddol The Museum 1935 3 Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-EvansThe county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland Dalcassian Publishing Company 1860 443 Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th Baronet (until 15 June);The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion The Society 1986 63 John William Gwynne Hughes (from 15 September) Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West Potter Matthew The concept of the 'master' in art education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the present Routledge Abingdon, Oxon 2016 9781351545471 149 Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – William Glynne Charles Gladstone28512 11 July 1911 5168 Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Osmond Williams, 1st BaronetDavies Sir William Llewelyn s-WILL-BRO-1800 Williams family, of Bron Eryri, later called Castell Deudraeth, Meirionnydd 30 January 2020 Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar (until 11 March)L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 272 Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen (from 4 April) Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett MilbankWhitaker's Almanack Joseph Whitaker Whitaker's Almanack 1913 847 Bishop of Bangor – Watkin WilliamsBurke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage Burke's Peerage Limited 1925 2437 Bishop of Llandaff – Joshua Pritchard Hughess-HUGH-JOS-1807 Hughes, Joshua (1807-1889), bishop William Thomas Havard William Havard 26 October 2021 Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)Who was Who 1897–2007, 1991, 978-0-19-954087-7 Bishop of St Davids – John Owens-OWEN-JOH-1854 Owen, John (1854-1926), bishop Thomas Iorwerth Ellis 1959 19 March 2022 Events 150px|thumb|Mrs Pankhurst speaks in Cardiff 19 February - Suffragette arson attack on a house being built for David Lloyd George near Walton Heath Golf Club in Surrey. Emmeline Pankhurst, in a speech in Cardiff this evening, claims to have incited this and other incidents.We wanted to wake him up: Lloyd George and suffragette militancy Elizabeth Crawford 2013-07-04 History of Government https://history.blog.gov.uk/2013/07/04/mrs-pankhurst-lloyd-george-suffragette-militancy/ 2016-11-21 5 June - The last ship built at Porthmadog, Y Gestiana, is launched; on 4 October she is wrecked on her maiden voyage, on the coast of Nova Scotia. 14 June - Three years after leaving Cardiff on her fateful voyage to the Antarctic, Captain Robert Falcon Scott's ship Terra Nova returns to the port, commanded by Scott's former comrade Teddy Evans. 14 October - Senghenydd Colliery Disaster: 439 men are killed in a mining accident at Universal Colliery, Senghenydd - the worst accident in British mining history. 1913 is the peak year for coal production in Wales. 27 October - A tornado hits South Wales, killing four people.http://www.geologywales.co.uk/storms/1913.htm The Devastating South Wales Tornado of October 1913 2012-06-28 Diplomat William Henry Hoare Vincent is knighted. Carmarthen Farm Institute is founded - the first of its kind. Monmouthshire Training College is founded at Caerleon, with Edward Anwyl as its first principal. School of Mines founded at Treforest, a predecessor of the University of South Wales. Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Abergavenny Chair - Thomas Jacob Thomas, "Aelwyd y Cymro"https://eisteddfod.wales/about-us/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair?_ga=2.196744876.1631880097.1570104027-963760572.1570104027 Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod of Wales 3 October 2019February 2021 InternetArchiveBot yes Crown - William Evans (Wil Ifan) New books English language Sabine Baring-Gould - Lives of the British Saints, volume 4Frank D. Reno Historic Figures of the Arthurian Era: Authenticating the Enemies and Allies of Britain's Post-Roman King https://archive.org/details/historicfigureso00reno registration 2000 McFarland 978-0-7864-0648-7 327 W. H. Davies - FoliageCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm Frances Hoggan - American Negro Women During Their First Fifty Years of Freedom Thomas Gwynn Jones - Cofiant Thomas Gee Sir John Morris-Jones - Welsh Grammar: Historical and Comparative Edward Thomas - The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans Welsh language T. Gwynn Jones - Brethyn CartrefMark Meredith Who's who in Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=yIsiAAAAMAAJ 1930 Literary Year Books Press 248 Moelona - Teulu Bach Nantoer Music Robert Griffith - Llyfr Cerdd DannauPhyllis Kinney Welsh Traditional Music https://books.google.com/books?id=0OWYDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA258 15 June 2016 University of Wales Press 978-1-78316-858-3 258 Morfydd Llwyn Owen - Nocturne (Charles Lucas Medal)Laura Seddon British Women Composers and Instrumental Chamber Music in the Early Twentieth Century https://books.google.com/books?id=jY0GDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA103 15 April 2016 Routledge 978-1-317-17134-8 103 Film The American adaptation of Ivanhoe is filmed at Chepstow Castle.https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/10542197.ivanhoe-film-to-be-screened-at-chepstow-castle-100-years-after-it-was-filmed-there/ Ivanhoe film to be screened at Chepstow castle 100 years after it was filmed there 11 July 2013 Melissa Jones South Wales Argus 2 April 2022 Sport Boxing 2 June - Bill Beynon wins the British and Empire bantamweight championship. Rugby Union 18 January - Wales are defeated 12–0 by England in a game played at the National Stadium, Cardiff Births 7 March – E. Gwyndaf Evans, poet and archdruid (died 1986)http://ecorwyddfa.co.uk/downloads/papurau/1986/113_4_1986.pdf Y Parch E Gwyndaf Evans BA Eco'r Wyddfa April 1986 3 cy 13 March – Tessie O'Shea, entertainer and actress (d. 1995)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-tessie-oshea-1616990.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-tessie-oshea-1616990.html 1 May 2022 subscription live Obituary: Tessie O'Shea 25 April 1995 Dennis Gifford The Independent 11 August 2019 29 March - R. S. Thomas, poet (d. 2000)William Virgil Davis R.S. Thomas: Poetry and Theology https://books.google.com/books?id=4EccO3iAB-8C&pg=PA20 2007 Baylor University Press 978-1-932792-49-2 20 31 March - Dai Rees, golfer (died 1983)https://biography.wales/article/s8-REES-JAM-1913 Rees, David James (Dai) (1913-1983), golfer and author D. Ben Rees Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 9 October 2019 8 May - Tom Rees, Wales international rugby player (d. 1991) 27 May - Mervyn Stockwood, Anglican bishop (d. 1995)Priests and Prelates: The Daily Telegraph Clerical Obituaries https://books.google.com/books?id=awPGiqoCrSgC&pg=PA122 23 June 2006 A&C Black 978-0-8264-8100-9 122 5 June - Moelwyn Merchant, poet and novelist (d. 1997)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-the-rev-professor-w-moelwyn-merchant-1259416.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-the-rev-professor-w-moelwyn-merchant-1259416.html 1 May 2022 subscription live Obituary: The Rev Professor W. Moelwyn Merchant 3 May 1997 David Shaw Paul Merchant The Independent 9 October 2019 15 June - Sir James Hamlyn Williams-Drummond, Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire, 56https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/843261 Sir James Hamlyn Williams Drummond Peoples Collection Wales 5 April 2022 6 July - Gwyn Thomas, author (died 1981)Janet Podell Annual Obituary, 1981 https://books.google.com/books?id=upAJSGc3LRcC May 1982 Thomson Gale 978-0-912289-51-9 272 23 July - Michael Foot, politician, MP for Ebbw Vale 1960-1992 (died 2010)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/7359721/Michael-Foot.html Michael Foot 3 March 2010 20 February 2015 The Telegraph 7 September - William "Wendy" Davis, Wales international rugby player (d. 2002) 2 October - Vivian Ridler, printer (died 2009)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/vivian-ridler-printer-to-oxford-university-from-1958-to-1978-and-founder-of-the-perpetua-press-1332043.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/vivian-ridler-printer-to-oxford-university-from-1958-to-1978-and-founder-of-the-perpetua-press-1332043.html 1 May 2022 subscription live Vivian Ridler: Printer to Oxford University from 1958 to 1978 and founder of the Perpetua Press 13 January 2009 Nicolas Barker The Independent 9 October 2019 18 December - Eddie Morgan, Wales international rugby player (d. 1978) Deaths 4 February - Tom Williams, Wales international rugby player and sports administrator, c.52 8 February - James Webb, Wales rugby international, 50 16 February (in Australia) - Lewis Thomas, colliery proprietor and politician, 80http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19888136 Death of Hon. Lewis Thomas The Brisbane Courier 17 February 1913 28 March 2015 7 National Library of Australia 11 March - Godfrey Charles Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, British Army officer, politician and philanthropist, 81 19 March - John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia), harpist, 87https://biography.wales/article/s-THOM-JOH-1826 Thomas, John Pencerdd Gwalia (1826-1913), musician Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 9 October 2019 30 March - Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke, politician, 60The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=quBAAQAAMAAJ 1914 Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 120 3 April (in London) - Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff, politician, 87The Solicitors' Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=lfYMAQAAMAAJ 1938 The Journal 270 15 April - William Jones, Victoria Cross recipient, c.73 4 June (in London) - Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel, politician, 78 24 July - Hugh Brython Hughes, children's author, 65Jones, Gwynn (1983). "Hugh Brython Hughes", in Dewiniaid Difyr. Gwasg Gomer. 17 August - Harry Bowen, Wales international rugby player, 49 22 September - Emmeline Lewis Lloyd, alpine mountaineer, 85s3-LEWI-EMM-1827 Lewis Lloyd, Emmeline (1827-1913), one of the first women to climb in the Alps Ioan Bowen Rees National Library of Wales 9 October 2019 c. 8 October - John Jones (Coch Bach y Bala), notorious criminal, c.59 6 November - Sir William Henry Preece, electrical engineer, 79Paul J. Nahin Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age https://books.google.com/books?id=e9wEntQmA0IC&pg=PA287 13 November 2002 JHU Press 978-0-8018-6909-9 287 7 November (in Broadstone, Dorset) - Alfred Russel Wallace, scientist, 90Indraneil Das Andrew Alek Tuen Naturalists, Explorers and Field Scientists in South-East Asia and Australasia https://books.google.com/books?id=SEQWDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA79 25 April 2016 Springer 978-3-319-26161-4 79 19 December (in South Africa) - Bert Gould, Wales international rugby player, 43 date unknown - Thomas Thomas (apTommas), harpist and younger brother of John Thomas, 82/3 See also 1913 in Ireland References Wales Category:1913 in Europe Category:1910s in Wales