1894 in Wales

none September 2019 February 2020 1894 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1894 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1894 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd (until 30 October)s-GRIF-DAV-1800 Griffith, David (Clwydfardd; 1800-1894), eisteddfodic bard and arch-druid Daniel Williams 1959 yes 24 November 2021 Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Richard Daviess-DAVI-RIC-1818 Davies, Richard (1818-1896), M.P. Robert Thomas Jenkins 1959 24 November 2021 Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st 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 – John Campbell, 2nd Earl CawdorEdward Arthur Copleston Where's where? Pt. 1. A concise gazetteer of Somerset. Pt. 2. Statistical, educational, parliamentary and practical information 1878 80 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 – Hugh Robert HughesJournal of the Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales Popish recusants in Flintshire in 1625 Henry Taylor Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales 1895 304 Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – W. R. M. Wynnehttps://cylchgronau.llyfrgell.cymru/view/2043441/2044175/159 Transactions of the Liverpool Welsh National Society 1891-92 National Library of Wales 15 March 2022 Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort Reese M. M. The royal office of Master of the Horse Threshold Books Ltd London 1976 9780901366900 348 Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington Lodge Edmund Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire... Salzwasser-Verlag GMBH 2020 9783752502664 318 Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron OrmathwaiteBurke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage Burke's Peerage Limited 1885 1027 Bishop of Bangor – Daniel Lewis Lloyds-LLOY-LEW-1843 Thomas Iorwerth Ellis Lloyd, Daniel Lewis (1843-1899), schoolmaster and bishop National Library of Wales 1959 5 November 2021 Bishop of Llandaff – Richard LewisDeath Of The Bishop Of Llandaff, The Times, 25 January 1905; page 4; Issue 37613; col A Bishop of St Asaph – Alfred George Edwardss-EDWA-GEO-1848 Edwards, Alfred George (1848-1937), first archbishop of Wales Thomas Iorwerth Ellis 1959 6 March 2022 Bishop of St Davids – Basil Joneshttp://www.llangynfelyn.org/dogfennau/william_basil_DNB.html William Basil Jones, Bishop of St Davids Dictionary of National Biography 21 April 2011 Events 19 February – The first new intermediate school in Wales opens at Caernarfon. Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen is one of the first Welsh medium schools.Owen E. Jones The Welsh Intermediate Education Act of 1889: A Centenary Appraisal https://books.google.com/books?id=xnJLeUel7oEC 1990 Welsh Office 978-0-7504-0068-8 25 10 March – T. E. Ellis is appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury in the Gladstone's fourth ministry, and becomes Chief Whip of the Liberal Party.Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion https://books.google.com/books?id=ezFWAAAAYAAJ 1982 The Society 146 March/April – In the "Welsh Revolt", MPs Herbert Lewis, David Alfred Thomas, David Lloyd George and Frank Edwards resign the Liberal whip.Don M. Cregier Bounder from Wales: Lloyd George's career before the First World War https://books.google.com/books?id=AfdzxwEOMjoC 1976 University of Missouri Press 978-0-8262-0203-1 110 23 June – A firedamp explosion at Albion Colliery, Cilfynydd, Glamorgan, results in the death of 290 coal miners and 123 horses underground, making it the worst disaster in Welsh mining history to date (it will be exceeded only by that at Senghenydd in 1913).http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/coalhouse/sites/mines/pages/albion_colliery.shtml https://web.archive.org/web/20090531012951/http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/coalhouse/sites/mines/pages/albion_colliery.shtml dead 31 May 2009 Albion Colliery BBC Wales 2008 2010-10-15http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/GlamEast/Albion.htm Albion Colliery Cilfynydd Welsh Coal Mines 2010-10-15 August The Prince of Wales attends the National Eisteddfod. Owen Morgan Edwards makes his first report on county schools in Wales unknown dates Dissolution of the North Wales Scholarship Association. John Philipps, later 1st Viscount St Davids, resigns as MP for Mid Lanarkshire. Richard Mills the younger establishes the Rhos Herald, a weekly bilingual newspaper, with himself as editor. Humphreys Maggie Dictionary of composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland Mansell London Herndon, VA 1997 9780720123302 234 Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Caernarfon Chair – Howell Elvet Lewis, "Hunanaberth"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod of Wales 3 February 2020 3 February 2020 13 February 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair dead Crown – Ben Davies, "Tennyson"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners Winners of the Crown National Eisteddfod of Wales 3 February 2020 3 February 2020 7 November 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191107194429/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners dead New books English language Sir John Rhys – Outlines of the Phonology of the Manx GaelicPer Sture Ureland George Broderick Language contact in the British Isles: Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Language Contact in Europe, Douglas, Isle of Man, 1988 https://books.google.com/books?id=s3mShUTFbUMC&pg=PA56 9 May 2011 Walter de Gruyter 978-3-11-167865-8 56 Welsh language Evan Thomas Davies (Dyfrig) – Pregethau ac AnerchiadauWho's who https://books.google.com/books?id=mDAaAQAAMAAJ 1919 A. & C. Black 627 W. J. Davis – Hanes Plwyf Llandysul, first publication by Gomer Press, Llandysul Owen Morgan Edwards – Ystraeon o Hanes CymruMeic Stephens The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic registration April 1986 Oxford University Press 168 Daniel Owen – Gwen TomosGareth King The Routledge Intermediate Welsh Reader https://books.google.com/books?id=Z2qu23jLoQQC&pg=PA133 2 May 2013 Routledge 978-1-135-12043-6 133 Sarah Winifred Parry – Sioned (serialization begins)Aaron Jane Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales: Nation, Gender and Identity https://books.google.com/books?id=h0iuBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA183 2010 University of Wales Press Cardiff, Wales 978-0-7083-2287-1 183 Music Sir Henry Walford Davies – Sonata No. 1 in E minor, for Piano and ViolinHenry Cope Colles Walford Davies, a biography https://books.google.com/books?id=lzNGAQAAIAAJ 1947 Oxford University Press 28 Spillers Records is founded in Cardiff; by 2010 it will be regarded the world's oldest surviving record shop. Sport Cricket 22 June / 23 June – Glamorgan play against the touring South Africans. The Glamorgan team contains three Wales rugby internationals, Billy Bancroft, Selwyn Biggs and Ralph Sweet-Escott. William Brain plays his first match for Glamorgan. Football The Welsh Cup is won by Chirk for the fifth time in its 15-year history. The North Wales Coast League is established.Richard Cox British Sport: a Bibliography to 2000: Volume 1: Nationwide Histories https://books.google.com/books?id=28NcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA145 16 December 2013 Taylor & Francis 978-1-135-28721-4 145 Rugby union 1 January – Gwyn Nicholls plays his first match for Cardiff. Abercrave RFC, Llanhilleth RFC and Ynysddu RFC are founded. Births 14 March – Ben Beynon, Welsh rugby union international and Swansea Town player (died 1969) 21 March – William Hubert Vaughan, public servant (died 1959) 16 May – Sir Leonard Twiston Davies, patron of the arts (died 1953)https://biography.wales/article/s2-DAVI-TWI-1894 Davies, Sir Leonard Twiston (1894–1953), patron of the arts and of folk life studies Iorwerth Peate Iorwerth Peate Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 10 December 2019 23 June – Prince Edward (later Prince of Wales, Edward VIII then Duke of Windsor; died 1972) 4 July – Ambrose Bebb, author and politician (died 1955)https://biography.wales/article/s2-BEBB-AMB-1894 Bebb, William Ambrose Thomas Parry Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 10 December 2019 10 July – Emrys Hughes, politician (died 1969)A. Thomas Lane Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders https://books.google.com/books?id=VlR8YCE8lkQC&pg=PA432 1995 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-26456-6 432 31 July – Fred Keenor, footballer (died 1972) 23 August – Gareth Hughes, actor (died 1965) 27 August – Ike Fowler, dual-code international rugby union player (died 1981) 22 October – Llew Edwards, featherweight boxer (died 1965) 30 October – Peter Warlock, composer (died 1930)Ian Alfred Copley The music of Peter Warlock: a critical survey https://books.google.com/books?id=pLAHAQAAMAAJ 1979 D. Dobson 1 9780234772492 Deaths 24 February – John Roberts, politician, 58 Stenton Michael Who's who of British members of Parliament : a biographical dictionary of the House of Commons based on annual volumes of Dod's Parliamentary companion and other sources Harvester Press Humanities Press Hassocks, Sussex, Eng. Atlantic Highlands, N.J 1976 9780855273156 305 8 March – John Bickerton Morgan, geologist, 34Thomas Mardy Rees Notable Welshmen (1700–1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities https://books.google.com/books?id=sXM_AQAAMAAJ 1908 Herald Office 435 20 March – John Davies (Taliesin Hiraethog), poet, 52John Davies s-DAVI-JOH-1841 1959 National Library of Wales Williams Griffith John 4 July 2017 18 June – David Davies, Australian politician, about 54Kerreen M. Reiger Davies, David Mortimer (1840–1894) davies-david-mortimer-3373 6 December 2013 30 October – David Griffith (Clwydfardd), poet, 93 4 November – Idris Williams, 59Sudden Death at Porth http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/3352320/ART68 12 March 2014 South Wales Daily Post 6 November 1894June 2026 InternetArchiveBot 28 November – Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea, 73Vivian, Henry Hussey 13 December – Morgan Morgan, politician, 61Death of a Welsh Knight – Sir Morgan Morgan suddenly expires – widespread sorrow in South Wales https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3369774/3369781 Weekly Mail Wales and the West of England 7 15 December 1894 Welsh Newspapers Online 25 December – Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, 75Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Pf8cAAAAYAAJ 1914 Burke's Peerage Limited 1903 30 December – David Thomas, preacher and publisher, 81Thomas Rowland Roberts, Eminent Welshmen (1908), p. 507-508. 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