1890 in Wales

none thumb | right | David Lloyd George, around the time he won the election of the seat for Caernarfon Borough in 1890; he would be re-elected for the next 55 years. September 2019 September 2019 1890 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1890 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1890 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardds-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 – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (until 17 January);s-TALB-MAR-1700 William Llewelyn Davies Talbot family, of Margam Abbey and Penrice Castle Glamorganshire yes 1959 24 November 2021 Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth (from 26 June) Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Robert Davies PryceThe Annual Register Rivingtons 1892 179 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 – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of PowisWeyman Henry T. Shropshire M.P.s - Memoirs T.S.A.S., Series 4, Volume XII 1929 28 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 – James Colquhoun Campbell (retired in April)CMBL831JC Campbell, John Colquhoun Daniel Lewis Lloyd (from 24 June)s-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 Edwards (from 25 March)s-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 6 February - In a gas explosion at Llanerch Colliery, Pontypool, 176 miners are killed. Francis Hywel The Fed : a history of the South Wales miners in the twentieth century University of Wales Press Cardiff 1998 9780708314227 80 10 March - In a gas explosion at Morfa Colliery, Port Talbot, 86 miners are killed. Kõiva Mare Folk belief today Estonian Academy of Sciences, Institute of the Estonian Language & Estonian Museum of Literature Tartu 1995 9789985851111 112 7 April - An Easter Monday conference at Llangefni leads to agreement with employers on a shorter working day for male agricultural labourers. 13 April - At a by-election in Caernarfon, David Lloyd George wins the seat for the Liberals from the Conservatives, defeating H. J. E. Nanney, the local squire; Lloyd George remains the constituency MP until his death in 1945. 22 May - Y Cymro is launched by Isaac Foulkes (Llyfrbryf) in Liverpool as a liberal weekly Welsh language "national newspaper for Welshmen at home and abroad"; it is published until 1909. Summer - Queen Elisabeth of Romania visits Llandudno, staying for five weeks and later remembering it as "a beautiful haven of peace"; the phrase is later translated into Welsh and used as the town's motto. 21 December - Beginning of a 3-week period of severe winter weather causing deaths and disruption to daily life in many parts of Wales. Opening of the Rock Mill watermill for woollen milling at Capel Dewi, Llandysul. Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales - held at Bangor Chair - Thomas Tudno Jones, "Y Llafurwr" https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod of Wales 11 December 2019 11 December 2019 13 February 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair dead Crown - John John Roberts, "Ardderchog Lu'r Merthyri"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners Winners of the Crown National Eisteddfod of Wales 17 November 2019 6 December 2019 7 November 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191107194429/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners dead New books Rhoda Broughton - Alas! Arthur Machen - The Great God Pan (in the magazine The Whirlwind) Music Events The National Musical Association of Wales is formed, with Joseph Parry as a sponsor.http://welshmusicguild.wales/history/ History Welsh Music Guild 9 March 2022 Works John Thomas Rees - "Duw sydd noddfa"s2-REES-THO-1857 Rees, John Thomas (1857-1949), musician 2001 David Ewart Parry Williams Evan David Jones 9 March 2022 Sport Cricket - The England ladies' team plays an exhibition match at Newport. Football - The Welsh Cup is won by Chirk for the third time. Hockey - The Welsh Hockey Association is founded. Rugby union - Wales win their very first international against England. The only try was scored by Cardiff's 'Buller' Stadden. Births 2 January - Madoline Thomas, actress (died 1989) 21 January - Jack Anthony, jockey (died 1954) 14 February - Nina Hamnett, artist and Bohemian (died 1956)Nina Hamnett Laughing Torso - Reminiscences of Nina Hamnett https://books.google.com/books?id=5jJ8CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT7 23 March 2011 Read Books Limited 978-1-4465-4552-2 7 1 March - Jack Beames, rugby player (died 1970) 16 February - Thomas Ifor Rees, diplomat (died 1977)Great Britain. Foreign Office The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular Year Book for ... https://books.google.com/books?id=bc0fAAAAMAAJ 1949 Harrison and Sons 3937 20 April - Ernest Roberts, politician (died 1969)All India Reporter https://books.google.com/books?id=3WA2AAAAIAAJ 1938 D.V. Chitaley 65 5 May - George Littlewood Hirst, Wales international rugby player (died 1967) 14 June - Dai Hiddlestone, Wales international rugby player (died 1973) 21 June - W. J. A. Davies, rugby player (died 1967) 28 July - Horace Thomas, Wales international rugby player (died 1916) 30 August - Llewelyn Wyn Griffith, novelist (died 1977)Meic Stephens Poetry 1900-2000 https://books.google.com/books?id=ppf0CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA18 1 October 2007 Summersdale Publishers Limited 978-1-84839-722-4 18 13 September - Johnny Basham, boxer (died 1947) 19 September - Jim Griffiths, politician, first Secretary of State for Wales (died 1975)s6-GRIF-JAM-1890 John Graham Jones 2008 Griffiths, James (Jeremiah) (1890-1975), Labour politician and cabinet minister 9 March 2022 22 November (in Lancashire) - Harry Pollitt, Communist trade union leader and parliamentary candidate for Rhondda East (died 1960) Morgan Kevin Harry Pollitt Manchester University Press Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press Manchester New York New York 1993 9780719032479 1 6 December - Dion Fortune, born Violet Firth, English occultist and novelist (died 1946) 16 December - P. J. Grigg, politician (died 1964) Deaths 17 January - Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, landowner, industrialist and politician, 86 20 January - Guillermo Rawson, Argentinian politician and patron of Patagonian Welsh colony, 68 Larrain, Jacob (1893). Biografía del doctor Guillermo Rawson. La Plata: Imp., Lit. y Encuad. de Solá Hnos. Sesé y Ca. es 4 March - Henry Davies, journalist, publisher and librarian, 86Cheltenham Looker-In, March 1890 19 March - Edmund Swetenham, MP for Caernarfon, 67http://papuraunewydd.llyfrgell.cymru/view/3171590/3171591/2 The Late Mr. Swetemham, M.P. 28 March 1890 Llangollen Advertiser via National Library of Wales 16 June 2018 8 April - William Jones, Army officer, 81/2 21 March - Benjamin Thomas Williams, politician, 57https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3717462/3717468/90/ Will of the Late Mr B. T. Williams, Q.C.1890-04-28South Wales Daily News - Welsh Newspapers newspapers.library.wales en 2020-03-05 29 June - Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, 59James Louis Garvin Franklin Henry Hooper Warren E. Cox The Encyclopedia Britannica https://books.google.com/books?id=L3lGAQAAIAAJ 1929 The Encyclopedia Britannica Company 891 12 July - David Pugh, politician, 84The Late Mr David Pugh M.P. http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3761575/3761583/77 30 November 2016 Carmarthen Journal 17 October 1890 8 20 July - David Davies "Llandinam", industrialist, 71Bulmer-Thomas Ivor David Davis, Llandinam (1818-1890), industrialist and Member of Parliament https://biography.wales/article/s-DAVI-DAV-1818 Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 6 December 2019 6 August - Thomas Babington Jones, cricketer, 39 10 October - Charles Herbert James, politician, 73s-JAME-HER-1817 James, Charles Herbert (1817-1890), M.P. 1959 National Library of Wales 30 January 2021 Walter Thomas Morgan 27 October - Enoch Salisbury, barrister, politician and bibliophile, 70Salisbury, Enoch Robert Gibbon 50 unknown date - John Cambrian Rowland, painter, 70 See also 1890 in Ireland References Wales Category:1890 in Europe Category:1890s in Wales