1908 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1908 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1908 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1908 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – DyfedRhys James Ednyfed Rees, Evan (Dyfed; 1850-1923), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and archdruid of Wales s-REES-EVA-1850 National Library of Wales 2 August 2018 1959 Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 2nd 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 – Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th BaronetThe 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 – Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount TredegarCyril James Oswald Evans Monmouthshire, Its History and Topography W. Lewis (printers) 1953 190 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 – Watkin WilliamsBurke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage Burke's Peerage Limited 1925 2437 Bishop of Llandaff – Joshua Pritchard Hughess-HUGH-JOS-1807 Hughes, Joshua (1807-1889), bishop William Thomas Havard William Havard 26 October 2021 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 – J. Lloyd Williams delivers his paper on Welsh National Melodies and Folk-Songs to the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion.Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion https://books.google.com/books?id=4f4cAAAAMAAJ 1908 The Society 28 January – In a colliery explosion at Ammanford, David Rees Griffiths is seriously injured. His brother is one of two men killed.The Carmarthenshire Antiquary: The Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club https://books.google.com/books?id=m9YVNmvn6F8C 1999 Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club 92 March – The Local Authorities (Admission of the Press) Act, 1908 is passed as a result of a challenge by Frank Mason, editor of the Tenby Observer, after the local council tried to ban him from their meetings.https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/6948031.tenby-tyranny-barmy-barney/ Tenby tyranny and Barmy Barney 22 June 2005 Northern Echo 23 September 2022 26 February – In the West Carmarthenshire by-election, the sitting Liberal MP, John Lloyd Morgan, retains the seat in the absence of any other candidates.The Times (London) 17 February 1908 p. 9.F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results, 1885-1918; Macmillan Press, 1974 p473 5 March – Edgeworth David leads the party attempting the ascent of Mount Erebus in the Antarctic.Eleanor Jacka Fred Jacka Mawson's Antarctic Diaries https://books.google.com/books?id=BUtaBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR28 1 October 2008 Allen & Unwin 978-1-74175-609-8 28 8 April – The Mawddwy Railway is closed to its remaining (freight) traffic.Rex Christiansen R. W. Miller The Cambrian Railways II David & Charles Newton Abbot 0-7153-4220-7 44 18 June – A giant turtle weighing half a ton is pulled from the sea at Pwllheli. 16 July – In the Pembrokeshire by-election, brought about by elevation to the peerage of the incumbent Liberal MP, John Wynford Philipps, the seat is retained for the Liberals by Walter Francis Roch.House of Commons http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm dead https://web.archive.org/web/20140118053557/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm 18 January 2014 1 September – The barque Amazon sinks off Margam Sands, with the loss of 18 crew.Reference Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=-j0ro22GZU8C 1994 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1234-6 244 14 October – John Ballinger is appointed first librarian of the National Library of Wales.https://gwallter.com/libraries/john-ballinger.html John Ballinger Andrew Green Gwallter 23 September 2022 November – The North and South Wales Bank is absorbed into the London City and Midland Bank, bringing an end to banknote issue in Wales.The Bankers', Insurance Managers', and Agents' Magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=SKpEAQAAMAAJ 1908 Waterlow & Sons Limited 693 21 December – The Coal Mines Regulation Act 1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 57) ("Eight Hours Act") limits the amount of time spent by coal miners underground.Harrison Francis Bulman Coal Mining and the Coal Miner https://books.google.com/books?id=wpWvtl6McjYC 1920 Methuen & Company, Limited 157 date unknown The South Wales Miners' Federation becomes affiliated to the Labour Party. A factory for making artificial silk is opened at Greenfield, FlintshireRoy Millward Adrian Henry Wardle Robinson The Welsh Borders https://books.google.com/books?id=4M8gAAAAMAAJ 1978 Eyre Methuen 978-0-413-28210-1 by the British Glanzstoff Manufacturing Company. Construction work begins on the lighthouse at Strumble Head.Douglas Bland Hague Lighthouses of Wales: Their Architecture and Archaeology https://books.google.com/books?id=l6-7002hjXgC&pg=PA65 1994 RCAHMW 978-1-871184-08-2 65 Spa pump room built at Caergwrle.Town and Country Planning https://books.google.com/books?id=LCs2AAAAIAAJ 1969 Town and Country Planning Association 372 Arts and literature Sydney Curnow Vosper completes his iconic watercolour of Welsh piety, Salem.Academi Gymreig The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZEUAQAAIAAJ 2008 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1953-6 795 Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Llangollen Chair - John James Williams, "Ceiriog"Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair 2021-02-27 eisteddfod.wales 13 February 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair dead Crown - Hugh Emyr Davies New books English language W. H. Davies - Autobiography of a Super-Tramphttps://www.parthianbooks.com/collections/library-of-wales/products/autobiography-of-a-super-tramp Autobiography of a Super-tramp parthianbooks.com/ 2010 April 6, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131209220108/http://www.parthianbooks.com/content/autobiography-super-tramp December 9, 2013 W. Jenkyn Thomas - The Welsh Fairy Book Welsh language John Davies Bryan – O'r Aifft R. Silyn Roberts – Y Blaid Lafur Anibynnol, ei Hanes a'i Hamcanhttps://biography.wales/article/s-ROBE-ROB-1871 Roberts, Robert (Silyn) (Rhosyr; 1871-1930), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, social reformer, tutor David Thomas Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 23 August 2021 Gwyneth Vaughan – Plant y Gorthrwmhttps://biography.wales/article/s-HUGH-HAR-1852 Hughes, Annie Harriet (Gwyneth Vaughan, 1852-1910), writer Richard Bryn Williams Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 23 August 2021 Owen Williamson – Ceris y Pwlls-WILL-ROB-1807 Williamson, Robert (Mona) Bardd Du Môn (1807-1852), teacher and poet William Llewelyn Davies 1959 25 May 2024 Music David Evans becomes professor of the Music department at University of Wales, Cardiff. Harry Evans - Dafydd ap Gwilym Sport Boxing 24 February - Jim Driscoll wins the Commonwealth featherweight title. Olympics October - At the postponed 1908 Summer Olympics, Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, competes unsuccessfully in the motorboat racing. Rugby league 1 January - The first-ever international match is held at Aberdare, where Wales defeat New Zealand 9 - 8. The match was won by a last minute try from former Welsh rugby union international Dai Jones. Aberdare RLFC, Barry RLFC, Mid-Rhondda RLFC and Treherbert RLFC are formed, joining Ebbw Vale and Merthyr Tydfil in competing for the Welsh League, the first Welsh rugby league competition. Rugby union Wales win their first Grand Slam and fifth Triple Crown. The selection of players for the 1908 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia results in a comment by the Welsh Rugby Union that players for future tours should be chosen '...irrespective of the social position of the players.'Fields of Praise, The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union 1881-1981, David Smith, Gareth Williams; University of Wales Press (1980), pg 175 0-7083-0766-3 Births 29 February – Louie Myfanwy Thomas, novelist as Jane Ann Jones (d. 1968)s2-THOM-MYF-1908 THOMAS, LOUIE MYFANWY 2001 Hedd ab Emlyn 8 January 2025 22 March – Martin Davies, art historian (d. 1978) 8 May – Bert Day, Wales international rugby union player (d. 1977) 29 May – Diana Morgan, playwright and screenwriter (d. 1996) 5 July – Francis Jones, heraldic expert (d. 1993)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-major-francis-jones-1469346.html Obituary: Major Francis Jones 24 December 1993 Thomas Lloyd The Independent 8 January 2025 10 July – Donald Peers, singer (d. 1973) 12 July – Bill Roberts, footballer (d. 1976) 15 August – Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, journalist (d. 1987)s8-VAUG-WYN-1908 Vaughan-Thomas, Lewis John Wynford (1908-1987), broadcaster, author and public figure D. Ben Rees 2011 8 January 2025 14 December – Claude Davey, Wales international rugby union player (d. 2001) Deaths 6 January – Lewis Pugh Pugh, lawyer and politician, 70Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died https://books.google.com/books?id=cWkwAQAAMAAJ 2002 A. & C. Black 978-0-7136-6125-5 670 13 January – Caroline Elizabeth Williams, radical and champion of women's rights, 84https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/champion-female-education-pioneer-scholarship-12628828 A champion of female education and a pioneer on the scholarship front 1 March 2017 Anna Louvain Rees WalesOnline 10 October 2019 26 January – George Thomas Kenyon, politician, 67Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 31 2004 Oxford University Press 343 0-19-861381-4Article by J.E. Lloyd, revised by H.C.G. Matthew. 1 February – Buckley Roderick, Wales international rugby player, 46The Law Society's Gazette https://books.google.com/books?id=Xh9CAQAAMAAJ 1907 The Society 73 27 February – Norman Biggs, Wales international rugby player, 37 7 March – Richard Edwards, Welsh American educator, 85Bradsby, Henry C., ed. (1885). History of Bureau County, Illinois. Chicago, IL: World Publishing Company. p. 512. 21 June – Allen Raine, novelist, 71Sally Roberts Jones Puddicombe, Anne Adalisa (1836–1908) 35628 24 August – William Bevan, archdeacon of Brecon, 87Bevan, William Latham Daniel Lleufer Thomas 4 September – Thomas Judson, Wales international rugby player, (c.) 51 19 October Catherine Lynch, alcoholic held up as an example to other women, 28http://newspapers.library.wales/view/4195830/4195833/78/ Drinking Habits of Women: Coroner's Pointed Remarks at Swansea 21 October 1908 Evening Express 3 Cardiff John Henry Puleston, journalist and politician, 78https://biography.wales/article/s-PULE-HEN-1829 Puleston, Sir John Henry (1829-1908), banker and Member of Parliament Emyr Gwynne Jones Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 16 February 2021 9 November – Solomon Andrews, entrepreneur, 73https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3608523/3608529 Death of Mr Solomon Andrews 13 November 1906 Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald and North and South Wales Independent National Library of Wales 29 March 2022 1 December – Howell Jones, Wales international rugby player, 26 24 December – David John, Mormon leader, 75 (in Utah) See also 1908 in Ireland References Wales Category:1908 in Europe Category:1900s in Wales