1892 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1892 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1892 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1892 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 – 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 OrmathwaiteBurke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage Burke's Peerage Limited 1885 1027 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 LewisDeath Of The Bishop Of Llandaff, The Times, 25 January 1905; page 4; Issue 37613; col A Bishop of St Asaph – Alfred George Edwardss-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 – The children's magazine Cymru'r Plant is launched by Owen Morgan Edwards.Alfred Owen Hughes Jarman Gwilym Rees Hughes Hywel Teifi Edwards Dafydd Johnston A Guide to Welsh Literature: c. 1800-1900 https://books.google.com/books?id=Z1kkAQAAMAAJ 2000 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1605-4 205 5 March – St Michael's & All Angels (Anglican) Theological College is founded at Aberdare. 30 May – The South Wales Argus, published in Newport, is launched.Ifano Jones A History of Printing and Printers in Wales to 1810, and of Successive and Related Printers to 1923: Also, A History of Printing and Printers In Monmouthshire to 1923 https://books.google.com/books?id=Tj4ZAAAAMAAJ 1925 W. Lewis 260 14 July – Official inauguration of the Liverpool water supply from Lake Vyrnwy. The Vyrnwy dam is the first high masonry gravity dam in Britain. 13 September – The Watkin Path up Snowdon is officially opened by William Ewart Gladstone.Jim Grindle One Hundred Hill Walks from Liverpool https://books.google.com/books?id=S6-P5_wUJQwC&pg=PA10 30 September 2011 Mainstream Publishing 978-1-78057-351-9 10 14 September – The Cardiff water supply from Cantref Reservoir is officially inaugurated by the Mayor of Merthyr Tydfil.Charles Wilkins The History of Merthyr Tydfil https://books.google.com/books?id=2gRNAAAAMAAJ 1908 J. Williams and Sons 532 date unknown J.D. Lewis establishes the Gomer Press at Llandysul.Geraint Evans Helen Fulton The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=Dm2MDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA596 18 April 2019 Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-10676-5 596 The Parc and Dare Hall in Treorchy opens as a workingmen's institute and library.Country Life not listed 188 22-26 Country Life, Limited 1994 99 Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Rhyl Chair – Evan Jones, "Y Cenhadwr"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 – John John Roberts, "Dewi Sant"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 D Davies – Patagonia: a description of the country Daniel James (Gwyrosydd) – Caniadau Gwyrosydd Thomas Gwynn Jones – Eglwys y Dyn Tlawd John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy) – Lloffion yr Amddifad Music Joseph Parry – Saul of Tarsus (oratorio) David Christmas Williams – Traeth Llafar (cantata) Sport Baseball – The Welsh Baseball Union is founded. Football – The Welsh Cup is won by Chirk for the fourth time in its 13-year history. Golf – The course at Aberdovey is opened. Births 23 March – Jack Whitfield, Wales rugby union captain (died 1927) 15 May – Jimmy Wilde, professional boxer (died 1969)W. Buchanan-Taylor What Do You Know about Boxing? https://books.google.com/books?id=dIBYAAAAYAAJ 1947 Heath Cranton 224 12 June – Hilda Vaughan, novelist (died 1985)62359 Vaughan [married name Morgan], Hilda Campbell Stephens Meic Meic Stephens 20 June – Geoffrey Crawshay, soldier and social benefactor (died 1954)Arthur Charles Fox-Davies Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour https://books.google.com/books?id=M2VHAQAAMAAJ 1910 T.C. & E.C. Jack 385 25 July – Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, soldier and medical administrator (died 1973) 12 August – Jerry Shea, Welsh rugby union and rugby league player (died 1947) 18 September – Joe Johns, Welsh lightweight boxing champion (died 1927) 12 November – Tudor Davies, operatic tenor (died 1958)Gerald Norris A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=KcMXAQAAIAAJ June 1981 David & Charles 978-0-7153-7845-8 295 19 November – Huw T. Edwards, trade union leader and politician (died 1970)Paul Ward Huw T. Edwards: British Labour and Welsh Socialism https://books.google.com/books?id=Jh9mDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT17 15 February 2011 University of Wales Press 978-1-78316-445-5 17 Deaths 13 February – William Davies, palaeontologist, 76Davies, William (1814-1891) Bonney Thomas George Thomas George Bonney 1 5 March – Theophilus Redwood, pharmacist, 85Western Druggist https://books.google.com/books?id=UkbnAAAAMAAJ 1892 122 15 March – Mesac Thomas, Anglican bishop in Australia, 75Barbara Thorn Thomas, Mesac (1816–1892) thomas-mesac-4708 12 February 2013 22 April – William Williams, Presbyterian missionary in India, 33 (typhoid)J. Meirion Lloyd History of the Church in Mizoram: Harvest in the Hills 1991 https://books.google.com/books?id=BkgFAQAAIAAJ&q Synod Publication Board 17–23 24 April – John Davies (Ossian Gwent), poet, 53 27 April – Edward Wingfield Humphreys, Welsh-born New Zealand politician, 50/51http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TS18920430.2.19 OBITUARY. 30 April 1892 7270 The Star 2 5 May 2020 6 May – Robert J. Davies, Calvinistic Methodist leader, 52https://biography.wales/article/s-DAVI-ROB-1790 Davies, Robert (1790-1841), Calvinistic Methodist elder, etc. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 6 December 2019 5 June – Robert Rees, singer and musician, 51https://biography.wales/article/s-REES-ROB-1841 Biography of Robert Rees Griffith, Robert David National Library of Wales 27 December 2011 19 June – Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn, industrialist and politician, 78Michael Stenton Who's who of British members of Parliament: a biographical dictionary of the House of Commons https://books.google.com/books?id=DWQOAQAAMAAJ 1976 The Harvester Press 978-0-85527-219-7 110 3 October – William Davies (Gwilym Teilo), poet and historian, 61 26 November – Edward Matthews, minister and author, 79s-MATT-EDW-1813 Matthews, Edward (1813-1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Gomer Morgan Roberts 1959 National Library of Wales 5 May 2020 18 December – Richard Owen, anatomist, 88Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 July 2006 The Royal Society of Edinburgh 0-902-198-84-X https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf 5 May 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf 4 March 2016 dead 23 December – John Gibson, architect of the Marble Church, Bodelwyddan, 75 27 December – Samuel Holland, politician, 89 See also 1892 in Ireland References Wales Category:1892 in Europe Category:1890s in Wales