1895 in Wales

none September 2019 February 2020 1895 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1895 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1895 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 – 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 Ormathwaite (until 12 September);Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage Burke's Peerage Limited 1885 1027 Powlett Milbank (from 12 September)An Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1913 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 – 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 4 February – Penarth Pier is opened.Martin Easdown Darlah Thomas Piers of Wales Stroud Amberley Publishing 2010 9781848689206 11 April – Rhos-on-Sea Pier is opened. 29 March – The National Trust acquires Dinas Oleu, Barmouth, its first property in the UK. 1 November – The last turnpike toll-gates in the UK are removed, from Llanfairpwllgwyngyll on Anglesey. Arts and literature thumb|The parliamentary history of the principality of Wales by William Retlaw Williams Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Llanelli Chair – John Owen Williams, "Dedwyddwch"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 – Lewis William Lewis New books English language Henry Jones – A Critical Account of the Philosophy of Lotze Arthur Machen – The Three Impostors Sutherland John The Stanford companion to Victorian fiction Stanford University Press Stanford, Calif 1989 9780804718424 628 William Retlaw Williams – The parliamentary history of the principality of WalesWilliam Retlaw Williams The Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales... E. Davis and Bell 1895 Welsh language Daniel Owen – Straeon y PentanJohn Buchanan-Brown Cassell's Encyclopaedia of World Literature: Biographies L-Z https://books.google.com/books?id=AIEYAAAAIAAJ 1953 Morrow 274 9780688002282 Music John Thomas Rees – String quartets2-REES-THO-1857 Rees, John Thomas (1857-1949), musician David Ewart Parry Williams Evan David Jones 26 August 2021 Sport Golf – The Welsh Golfing Union is founded,Carradice, Phil Trudy Phil Carradice Golf in Wales: A Pictorial History https://books.google.com/books?id=szqIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT6 15 June 2010 Amberley Publishing Stroud 978-1-4456-2347-4 6 and the first Welsh amateur golf championships are held. Horse racing – 15 April: The Welsh Grand National steeplechase is run for the first time, at Ely Racecourse, Cardiff. A huge crowd breaks down barriers and almost overwhelms police trying to keep out gatecrashers.http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/youngsters-odds-uncover-history-racecourse-2123566 Wales Online Youngsters are odds on to uncover history of racecourse 2009-02-13 2015-08-20 Deerstalker is the winner but the horse Barmecide breaks its neck.Cardiff Spring Meeting Western Mail Cardiff 1895-04-16 7 Births 22 January – Iorwerth Thomas, politician (died 1966) 25 January – Mary Glynne, actress (died 1954)Scott Wilson Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA283 19 August 2016 McFarland 978-1-4766-2599-7 283 8 February – Edward Enoch Jenkins, judge (died 1960)Sir (Edward) Enoch Jenkins (1895-1960), Judge http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp136483/sir-edward-enoch-jenkins National Portrait Gallery 27 September 2015 19 February – Mary Dilys Glynne, plant pathologist and mountaineer (died 1991)Jean Beagle Ristaino Pioneering Women in Plant Pathology https://books.google.com/books?id=SPsfAQAAIAAJ 2008 APS Press 978-0-89054-359-7 87 23 February – Wilfred Mitford Davies, artist (died 1966)s2-DAVI-MIT-1895 Davies, Wilfred Mitford (1895–1966), artist Margaret Mitford Williams 4 February 2020 1 March – William Richard Williams, civil servant (died 1963) 11 March – Albert Jenkins, rugby player (died 1953) 3 April – Brinley Williams, Wales dual-code rugby international (died 1987) 4 April – Nan Braunton, actress (died 1978) 14 April – Albert Evans-Jones ("Cynan"), poet and Archdruid (died 1970)s2-JONE-EVA-1895 Jones, Sir Cynan (Albert) Evans ('Cynan'; 1895–1970), poet, dramatist and eisteddfodwr Thomas Parry 9 July 2019 17 April – Thomas Hughes, clergyman, assistant Bishop of Llandaff (died 1981)'HUGHES, Rt. Rev Thomas Maurice', Who's Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012.10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U165555. 18 May – Tom Rees, airman, victim of the "Red Baron" (died 1916)Mike O'Connor Airfields and Airmen: Cambrai https://books.google.com/books?id=3JDHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA185 26 September 2003 Pen and Sword 978-1-78340-269-4 185 8 June – Idwal Jones, humorous writer (died 1937)s-JONE-MER-1895 Jones, Richard Idwal (1895-1937), better known as Idwal Jones, schoolmaster, poet, and dramatist David Gwenallt Jones 10 December 2019 16 June – David Cuthbert Thomas, soldier who inspired works by both Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves (died 1916)https://www.cricketmuseum.wales/david-cuthbert-thonas/ David Cuthbert Thomas Cricket Museum Wales 18 August 2024 en 24 July – Robert Graves, Royal Welch Fusiliers officer, poet, novelist and classicist often resident in Wales (died 1985)http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp01882 National Portrait Gallery – Person – Robert Ranke Graves Npg.org.uk 19 December 2010 25 July – Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards (died 1970)s2-EDWA-OWE-1895 Edwards, Sir Ifan ab Owen (1895–1970), lecturer, founder of Urdd Gobaith Cymru Mary Auronwy James 4 February 2020 14 September – George Harrison, Glamorgan cricketer (date of death unknown) 1 November – David Jones, poet and artist (died 1974)John Matthias David Jones, man and poet https://books.google.com/books?id=_t9aAAAAMAAJ 1 January 1989 National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine 978-0-943373-03-4 32 24 November – William Evans, cardiologist (died 1988)Evans W, Journey to Harley Street; David Rendel, London (1968) Deaths 8 January – Daniel Harper, academic, 73Jesus College 1571–1971 Baker J. N. L J. N. L. Baker 1971 Oxonian Press Ltd, Oxford 91–93 0-9502164-0-2 15 January – Lady Charlotte Guest, translator of the Mabinogion, 82James B. Ll. 5461 Clark, George Thomas 16 February – Thomas Briscoe, academic, 81s-BRIS-THO-1813 Briscoe, Thomas (1813–1895), cleric and scholar Williams James John 2008-04-20 18 February – James Goronwy Mathias, minister and writer, 53s-MATH-GOR-1842 Mathias, James Goronwy (Goronwy Ddu; 1842–1895), Baptist minister and littérateur Benjamin George Owens 10 December 2019 25 February – Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, politician, 79s-BRUC-AUS-1815 Bruce, Henry Austin (1815–1895), 1st Baron Aberdare James Frederick Rees 10 December 2019 2 April – Ellis Thomas Davies, minister and author, 73s-DAVI-THO-1822 Davies, Ellis Thomas (1822–1895), Independent minister Richard Griffith Owen 10 December 2019 3 May – George Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke, 44William Shakespeare Shakespeare and the Bible: Fifty Sonnets with Their Scriptural Harmonies https://archive.org/details/shakspeareandbi00shakgoog 1896 Samuel Bagster 8 May – Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet, 51s-JONE-TUD-1844 Jones, Thomas (Tudno; 1844–1895), cleric and poet Thomas Parry 13 February 2020 13 July – John Griffin, Welsh international rugby player, 35 18 August – John Arthur Edward Herbert, High Sheriff of Monmouthshire 1849, 76Joseph Jackson Howard Joseph Jackson Howard Frederick Arthur Crisp Visitation of England and Wales 4 https://archive.org/details/visitationengla04unkngoog/page/n52/mode/1up 1896 29 Privately printed London 28 August – Henry Pochin, English industrial chemist, mine-owner and politician, founder of Bodnant Garden, 71H. T. Milliken The Road to Bodnant: The Story Behind the Foundation of the Famous North Wales Garden https://books.google.com/books?id=Nni0AAAAIAAJ 1975 Morten 978-0-85972-021-2 vii 22 October – Daniel Owen, novelist, 59s-OWEN-DAN-1836 Owen, Daniel (1836-1895), novelist Katherine Williams 10 December 2019 23 November – William Davies (Pembrokeshire MP), 74South Wales Daily Post 23 November 1895 Death of Sir William Davies https://papuraunewydd.llyfrgell.cymru/view/3353959/3353962 19 December 2020 date unknown – David Lewis, Newmanite priest and academic (born 1814)http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34513 Lewis, Evan (1818–1901) Thomas D. L. 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/34513 26 April 2008 See also 1895 in Ireland References Wales Category:1895 in Europe Category:1890s in Wales