1889 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1889 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1889 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1889 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 Talbots-TALB-MAR-1700 William Llewelyn Davies Talbot family, of Margam Abbey and Penrice Castle Glamorganshire yes 1959 24 November 2021 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 CampbellCMBL831JC Campbell, John Colquhoun 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 – Joshua Hughes (until 21 January)s-HUGH-JOS-1807 Hughes, Joshua (1807-1889), bishop 1959 William Thomas Havard William Havard yes 26 October 2021 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 January – First Glamorgan County Council elections are held.The County Council Elections http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/3338075/ART63 21 November 2013 Cambrian 18 January 1889 8 February – Nine people drown in a ferry accident at Pembroke Dock. 14 February – The first edition of the North Wales Weekly News is published (under the title Weekly News and Visitors’ Chronicle for Colwyn Bay, Colwyn, Llandrillo, Conway, Deganway and Neighbourhood). Weekly News 125: How it all began 125 years ago... http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/nostalgia/weekly-news-125-how-began-6718826 13 February 2014 www.dailypost.co.uk Daily Post 8 November 2017 13 March – Twenty miners are killed in an accident at the Brynmally Colliery, Wrexham. 1 April – New elected county councils in England and Wales created by the Local Government Act 1888, take up their powers.County Chambers's Encyclopedia Edwards John 1955 189–191 Newnes LondonThe County Council Elections The Times London 10 14 January 1889 32595The County Councils The Times 10 21 January 1889 32601 That for Radnorshire meets in Presteigne. June – A lion escapes from a travelling menagerie at Llandrindod Wells.Jeremy Clay Victorian strangeness: The tale of the lion and the spa break https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27036219 BBC 2014-04-19 2014-04-19 18 July – Opening of the first dock basin at Barry. 3 August – Opening of Hawarden Bridge. 12 August – The passing of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act marks the beginning of secondary education in Wales. 15 August – Three men are killed in a mining accident at Wenvoe Quarry, Glamorgan.Western Mail - Friday 16 August 1889, p.3, Accessed via The British Newspaper Archive . Retrieved 19 November 2014. 26 August – Act of incorporation of the Barry Railway Company#Vale of Glamorgan Railway. Approximate date – The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain is co-founded in Salford as the United Kingdom Van Dwellers Protection Association by Jacob Studt and other active Welsh cinema pioneers. Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Brecon Chair – Evan Rees, "Y Beibl Cymraeg"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair live https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair 13 February 2021 Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod of Wales 18 February 2021 Crown – Howell Elvet Lewis New books Owen Morgan Edwards – O'r Bala i Geneva Music Sir Henry Walford Davies – The Future, for chorus and orchestra Sport Cricket – Glamorgan County Cricket Club plays its first match, against Warwickshire at Cardiff Arms Park. Rugby union – Bedwas RFC, Blackwood RFC and Llantwit Major RFC are formed. Births 12 January – John Bryn Edwards, ironmaster and philanthropist (died 1922) 22 January – John Emlyn-Jones, politician (died 1952)World Biography Institute for Research in Biography 1948 1667 28 January – Phil Waller, Wales and British Lions rugby player (died 1917)Nigel McCrery Into Touch: Rugby Internationals Killed in the Great War https://books.google.com/books?id=JMo7BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA252 29 January 2014 Pen and Sword 978-1-78159-087-4 252 31 January – Jack Evans, footballer (died 1971) 1 February – John Lewis, philosopher (died 1976)Contemporary Authors Gale Research Company 1969 691 10 February – Howard Spring, novelist (died 1965)Contemporary Authors https://books.google.com/books?id=ZsHfAAAAMAAJ 1975 Gale Research Company 978-0-8103-0036-1 594 28 February – George Jeffreys, Pentecostal (died 1962)The New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements Zondervan 2010 9780310873358 5 May – Stanley Winmill, Wales international rugby union player (died 1940) 24 June – Harry Symonds, cricketer (died 1945) 17 July – Aled Owen Roberts, politician (died 1949) 5 August – William Davies Thomas, academic (died 1954) 10 August – Irene Steer, swimmer (died 1977)ref:odnb/102443 Irene Steer 21 August – Henry Lewis, Professor at Swansea University (died 1968)https://biography.wales/article/s2-LEWI-HEN-1889 Lewis, Henry (1889-1968), Welsh and Celtic scholar, university professor David Myrddin Lloyd Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 27 July 2019 23 October – William Havard, Bishop of St Davids and international rugby player (died 1956)https://biography.wales/article/s2-HAVA-THO-1889 Havard, William (1889-1956), bishop Mary Gwendoline Ellis Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 27 July 2019 11 December – Cedric Morris, artist (died 1982) Deaths 21 January – Joshua Hughes, Bishop of St Asaph, 81 27 March – John Bright, Radical politician associated with Llandudno, 77Trevelyan, George Macaulay (1913) The Life of John Bright. Pages 462-3 10 April – Kilsby Jones, nonconformist minister, writer and lecturer, 7615019 Jones, James Rhys Kilsby Robert V. Smith 27 May – George Owen Rees, Welsh-Italian doctor, 75 8 June – Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anglo-Welsh poet, 44 (in Ireland)Scott Wilson, Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3rd ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 22019). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition. 17 June – John Hughes, industrialist, 73 (in St Petersburg)http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/274939/John-Hughes John Hughes Encyclopædia Britannica 3 May 2010 26 June – Walter Rice Howell Powell, landowner and politician, 69 28 September – Samuel Goldsworthy, Wales international rugby player, 34 15 October – Sir Daniel Gooch, railway engineer and politician, 73Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=sI7KJ-hGhDMC 1923 S. Low, Marston & Company 363 29 October – Godfrey Darbishire, Wales rugby international player, 36 14 November – James Stephens, stonemason, Chartist, and later Australian trade unionist, 68 18 November – Charles Easton Spooner, railway pioneer, 71Peter Johnson Festiniog Railway: The Spooner Era and After, 1830–1920 https://books.google.com/books?id=SDs-DgAAQBAJ&pg=PT176 30 April 2017 Pen & Sword Books 978-1-4738-6988-2 176 date unknown – G. Phillips Bevan, statistician, geographer and author, 59/60Bevan, William Latham 1 probable – Richard Williams Morgan, clergyman and poet See also 1889 in Ireland References Wales Category:1889 in Europe Category:1880s in Wales