1898 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1898 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1898 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1898 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa MônHywel Teifi Edwards The Eisteddfod https://books.google.com/books?id=K81RDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT39 20 July 2016 University of Wales Press 978-1-78316-914-6 39 Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet 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 Cawdor (until 29 March);Edward Arthur Copleston Where's where? Pt. 1. A concise gazetteer of Somerset. Pt. 2. Statistical, educational, parliamentary and practical information 1878 80 Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th Baronet (from 12 July)The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion The Society 1986 63 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 – Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdors-CAMP-VAU-1847 Campbell, Frederick Archibald Vaughan, viscount Emlyn (1847-1898), earl Cawdor (1898-1911) Glyn Roberts 1959 20 March 2022 Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett MilbankWhitaker's Almanack Joseph Whitaker Whitaker's Almanack 1913 847 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 LewisDavid Henry Williams Catalogue of Seals in the National Museum of Wales: Seal dies, Welsh seals, papal bullae National Museum of Wales 1993 75 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 22 January — Newspaper Llais Llafur ("Labour Voice") is launched in Ystalyfera,s3-REES-EBE-1848 Rees, Ebenezer (1848-1908), printer and publisher Huw Walters 2001 National Library of Wales 11 February 2020 and will continue to be published (under various titles) until 1971. 1 April–1 September — Welsh coal strike fails to remove the sliding scale, linking wages to the price of coal.Eric Wyn Evans The Miners of South Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=DrsuAAAAMAAJ 1961 University of Wales Press 266–267 28 March–15 August — Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway runs regular market day passenger services.Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies https://books.google.com/books?id=oLhIAAAAYAAJ 1990 Patrick Stephens Limited 978-1-85260-049-5 230 10 May — Mumbles Pier is opened and the Swansea and Mumbles Railway is extended to it.The Modern Tramway https://books.google.com/books?id=lrQqAQAAIAAJ 1954 122 2 August — The Llandudno Motor Touring Co begins running excursions with the first motor buses in Wales at Llandudno.Patrick Robertson The Book of Firsts https://books.google.com/books?id=x9m3XCCHeC0C 1975 105 24 October — The South Wales Miners' Federation is founded. 6 December — The Abercynon to Merthyr Tydfil stretch of the Glamorganshire Canal is closed because of subsidence.Bradshaw's Canals and Navigable Rivers of England and Wales: a Handbook of Inland Navigation for Manufacturers, Merchants, Traders and Others https://books.google.com/books?id=p47VAAAAMAAJ 1918 H. Blacklock & Company, Limited 113 date unknown Peak year of slate production in Wales. Opening of new docks at Barry and Port Talbot.Kenneth O. Morgan Rebirth of a Nation: Wales, 1880-1980 https://archive.org/details/rebirthofnationw0000morg registration 1981 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-821736-7 66 Opening of Lluest-wen Reservoir. The last stained glass window to be designed by Edward Burne-Jones is installed at St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden, by Morris & Co.The Living Church https://books.google.com/books?id=uCBYhfJwM_cC 1916 640Huddersfield Daily Chronicle Thursday 5 May 1898, p.3. issue 9599: Memorial window at Haywarden: "the Nativity from the designs of Sir Edward Burne-Jones" soon to be finished for the Gladstone family Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales — held at Blaenau Ffestiniog Chair — Robert Owen Hughes, "Awen"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 — Richard Roberts, "Charles o'r Bala"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners Winners of the Crown National Eisteddfod of Wales 17 November 2019 11 December 2019 7 November 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191107194429/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners dead New books Welsh language Beriah Gwynfe Evans — Dafydd DafisBeriah Gwynfe Evans Dafydd Dafis, sef hunangofiant ymgeisydd seneddol https://books.google.com/books?id=p_4YAAAAYAAJ 1898 Hugues a'i Fab Daniel James (Gwyrosydd) — Aeron Awen GwyrosyddAeron awen gwyrosydd, sef pigion o holl weithiau yr awdwr https://books.google.com/books?id=Gz5KNQEACAAJ 1898 John Owen Jones (Ap Ffarmwr) — Cofiant Gladstonehttps://biography.wales/article/s1-JONE-OWN-1861 Jones, John Owen (1861-1899), journalist Frank Price Jones Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 11 December 2019 T. Gwynn Jones — Gwedi Brad a GofidMeic Stephens The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic registration April 1986 Oxford University Press 327 Music none known Sport Football — The Welsh Cup is won by the "Druids" for the sixth time in its 20-year history Rugby union Senghenydd RFC and Ynysybwl RFC are founded. February — The Welsh Rugby Union is readmitted into the International Football Rugby Board after the events of The Gould Affair and Wales can again play international rugby. 19 March — Wales defeat Ireland 11–3 in a game played at Thomond Park, Limerick Births 20 January – Tudor Owen, actor (died 1979)July 2024 10 February – Thomas Jones, Baron Maelor, politician (died 1984)s6-JONE-WIL-1898 Jones, Thomas William ('Tom'), Baron Maelor of Rhos (1898-1984), Labour politician John Graham Jones National Library of Wales 15 February 2021 20 April – Cliff Williams, Wales international rugby union player (died 1930) 29 July – Dorothy Rees, politician (died 1987)s8-REES-MAR-1898 Rees, Dorothy Mary (1898-1987), Labour politician and alderman John Graham Jones 2011 20 March 2022 29 August – Sydney Hinam, Wales international rugby union player (died 1982)They Played Rugby for Wales Eric Lemon 2024 9780645362664 358 24 September – Henry Arthur Evans, politician (died 1958) 6 October – William John Edwards, Cerdd Dant singer (died 1978) 25 December – Islwyn Evans, Wales international rugby player (died 1974) Deaths 29 March – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor, politician, 80Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes https://books.google.com/books?id=oJhmpqvZXAIC 1921 46 25 May – Theophilus Harris Davies, sugar magnate, 64Edward Clowes Chorley Historical magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church https://books.google.com/books?id=MabSAAAAMAAJ 1950 US Church Historical Society 231 17 June – Sir Edward Burne-Jones, artist, 6426988 4396 19 July 1898 17 July – Arthur Guest, politician, 56The London Gazette https://books.google.com/books?id=KmE7AQAAMAAJ 1898 Tho. Newcomb over against Baynards Castle in Thamse-street 8372 11 August – Owen Humphrey Davies (Eos Llechid), composer, 59Maggie Humphreys Robert Evans Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=WSLUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA89 1 January 1997 A&C Black 978-0-7201-2330-2 89 6 September – Robert Jones, VC recipient, 41 (suicide) 26 September – Joseph Jenkins, farmer and diarist ("The Welsh Swagman"), 80https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/jenkins-joseph-13007 Biography - Joseph Jenkins Australian Dictionary of Biography 11 May 2020 28 September – Thomas Gee, publisher, 83Bye-gones, Relating to Wales and the Border Counties https://books.google.com/books?id=V9gvAAAAMAAJ 1899 243 29 October – David Stephen Davies, preacher and colonial leaderhttps://biography.wales/article/s-DAVI-STE-1841 Davies, David Stephen (1841-1898), preacher, temperance reformer, man of letters, and colonist Richard Bryn Williams Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 19 March 2019 31 October – William Gilbert Rees, surveyor and explorer, New Zealand settler, 71http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=CHP18981101.2.52 Obituary 1 November 1898 The Press 1 March 2015 6 2 December – Michael D. Jones, Tad y Wladfa, founder of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia, 76https://biography.wales/article/s-JONE-DAN-1822 Jones, Michael Daniel (1822-1898), Independent minister and principal of the Independent College at Bala Richard Griffith Owen Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 19 March 2019 17 December – William Norton, Wales international rugby player, 36 date unknown – John Jones, astronomer, about 80 Thomas David Jones, John (Ioan Bryngwyn Bach; 1818-1898) 1959 Dictionary of Welsh Biography Down to 1940 Lloyd J. E. Jenkins R. T. Davies W. Ll. Davies M. B. 481–482 London Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion https://biography.wales/article/s-JONE-JHN-1818 See also 1898 in Ireland References Wales Wales Category:1898 in Europe Category:1890s in Wales