1890s in Wales

none December 2025 September 2014 November 2019 thumb | right | alt=Lloyd George statue in Caernarfon | Lloyd George statue in Caernarfon 1880s | 1900 | Other years in Wales Other events of the decade This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1890–1899 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales Clwydfardd (to 1894) Hwfa Môn (from 1895) Events Events of 1890 Events of 1891 Events of 1892 Events of 1893 Events of 1894 Events of 1895 Events of 1896 Events of 1897 Events of 1898 Events of 1899 Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales 1890 – Bangor Chair – Thomas Tudno Jones Crown – John John Roberts 1891 – Swansea Chair – John Owen Williams Crown – David Adams 1892 – Rhyl Chair – Evan Jones Crown – John John Roberts 1893 – Pontypridd Chair – John Ceulanydd Williams Crown – Ben Davies 1894 – Caernarfon Chair – Howell Elvet Lewis Crown – Ben Davies 1895 – Llanelli Chair – John Owen Williams Crown – Lewis William Lewis 1896 – Llandudno Chair – Ben Davies Crown – withheld 1897 – Newport Chair – John Thomas Job Crown – Thomas Mafonwy Davies 1898 – Blaenau Ffestiniog Chair – Robert Owen Hughes Crown – Richard Roberts 1899 – Cardiff Chair – withheld Crown – Richard Roberts New books Anne Beale – Old Gwen (1890) Rhoda Broughton Alas! (1890) Mrs Bligh (1892) Foes in Law (1899) Caniadau Cymru (anthology) (1897) Amy Dillwyn – Maggie Steele's Diary (1892) Owen Morgan Edwards – Cymru (1892) Beriah Gwynfe Evans – Dafydd Dafis (1898) John Gruffydd Moelwyn Hughes – Caniadau Moelwyn (1893) Arthur Machen – The Three Impostors (1895) Daniel Owen – Enoc Huws (1891) Film 1896 – The first news film ever shot in Britain shows the Prince and Princess of Wales visiting an exhibition in Cardiff. This was also the first ever motion picture of the prince. Music Sir Henry Walford Davies – Symphony in D (1894) Joseph Parry – Saul of Tarsus (oratorio) (1892) Sport Horse racing – The Welsh Grand National is run for the first time, at Ely, Cardiff. Births 1890 21 June – W. J. A. Davies, rugby player (died 1967) 16 December – P. J. Grigg, politician (died 1964) 1891 13 February – Kate Roberts, author (died 1985)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kate-Roberts Kate Roberts Encyclopædia Britannica 6 December 2025 1893 15 January – Ivor Novello, composer and actor (died 1951) date unknown – Lewis Valentine, political activist 1894 23 June – Prince Edward (later Prince of Wales, Edward VIII and finally Duke of Windsor; died 1972) date unknown – Ambrose Bebb, author and politician (died 1955) 1895 22 January – Iorwerth Thomas, politician (died 1966) 1 March – William Richard Williams, civil servant (died 1963) date unknown – Albert Evans-Jones ("Cynan"), poet and Archdruid (died 1970) 1896 1 May – Hubert William Lewis, VC recipient (died 1977) 1897 15 November – Aneurin Bevan, politician (died 1960)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aneurin-Bevan Aneurin Bevan Encyclopædia Britannica 6 December 2025 1898 10 February – Thomas Jones, Baron Maelor, politician (died 1984) 29 July – Dorothy Rees, politician (died 1987) 24 September – Henry Arthur Evans, politician (died 1958) date unknown – William John Edwards, cerdd dant singer (died 1978) 1899 17 May – H. H. Price, philosopher (died 1984) 20 December – Martyn Lloyd-Jones, preacher (died 1981) date unknown – Len Davies, footballer (died 1945) Deaths 1890 17 January – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, landowner (born 1803) 20 January – Guillermo Rawson, Argentinian politician and patron of Patagonian Welsh colony (born 1821) 19 March – Edmund Swetenham, MP for Caernarfon 29 June – Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon (born 1831) 20 July – David Davies "Llandinam", industrialist (born 1818) 1891 26 September – David Charles Davies, Nonconformist leader (born 1826) date unknown Sir Love Jones-Parry, politician (born 1832) Hugh Owen Thomas, pioneering orthopaedic surgeon (born 1834) 1893 23 January – Dr William Price, eccentric (born 1800) 1894 24 February – John Roberts, politician (born 1835) 1895 15 January – Lady Charlotte Guest, translator of the Mabinogion (born 1812) 22 October – Daniel Owen, novelist (born 1836) 1896 17 January – Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover, patron of the arts (born 1802) 30 December – Evan Herber Evans, Nonconformist leader (born 1836) 1897 15 October – Charles John Vaughan, former Dean of Llandaff (born 1816) 1898 17 June – Sir Edward Burne-Jones, artist (born 1833) 28 September – Thomas Gee, publisher (born 1815) 2 December – Michael D. Jones, Patagonian settler (born 1822) 1899 5 April – T. E. Ellis, politician (born 1859) August – Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer (born 1867) References