1897 in Wales

none September 2019 February 2020 1897 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1897 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1897 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 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 – Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor 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 – Basil Jones (until 14 January);http://www.llangynfelyn.org/dogfennau/william_basil_DNB.html William Basil Jones, Bishop of St Davids Dictionary of National Biography 21 April 2011 John Owen (from 1 May)s-OWEN-JOH-1854 Owen, John (1854-1926), bishop Thomas Iorwerth Ellis 1959 19 March 2022 Events January – Sir Owen Morgan Edwards founds the periodical Heddyw, published in Wrexham. Stephens Meic The new companion to the literature of Wales University of Wales Press Cardiff 1998 9780708313831 206 9 April – The Snowdon Mountain Railway resumes operation, a year after a fatal accident on its maiden run. Marshall John The Guinness book of rail facts and feats Guinness Superlatives Enfield England 1979 9780900424564 42 c. May – The Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway opens. 13 May – Guglielmo Marconi sends the first ever wireless communication over water, from Lavernock Point to Flat Holm. 2 June – The first Jubilee Bridge (Queensferry) across the River Dee is opened by William Gladstone.Eija Suomela-Salmi Fred Dervin Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Perspectives on Academic Discourse https://books.google.com/books?id=kdlkELzzoxgC&pg=PT101 2009 John Benjamins Publishing 978-90-272-5437-5 101 20 June – Celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee is muted in Nonconformist parts of Wales, as the date falls on a Sunday. July – The Grand Theatre, Swansea, is opened by Adelina Patti. Price Cecil The professional theatre in Wales University College of Swansea Swansea 1984 9780860760542 34 30 September – Inauguration of Beacons Reservoir water supply to Cardiff. 9 October – Opening of the Tal-y-cafn Bridge across the River Conwy.Walter Bezant Lowe The Heart of Northern Wales: As it was and as it Is, Being an Account of the Pre-historical and Historical Remains of Aberconway and the Neighbourhood https://books.google.com/books?id=93I_AQAAMAAJ 1912 W.B. Lowe 247–8 November – Four Customs officers are rescued from the River Usk, near Newport's Alexandra Dock pier-head after their boat capsizes. 12 November – Llanfyllin County School is opened by Mrs. John Marshall Dugdale and becomes the sixth Intermediate School in Montgomeryshire. Politician Clement Davies is one of the first pupils.Education in Montgomeryshire The Montgomeryshire Collections 62-63 Clifton Press 1972 147 unknown dates A roller coaster erected on Barry Island, origin of Barry Island Pleasure Park. Construction work is completed on the Pierhead Building as offices for Cardiff Docks.John B. Hilling The Architecture of Wales: From the First to the Twenty-First Century https://books.google.com/books?id=Oe2VDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA169 15 August 2018 University of Wales Press 978-1-78683-285-6 169 Weaver's Mill, Swansea, a flour mill and corn storage depot, becomes the first building in the UK to be constructed from reinforced concrete, by L. G. Mouchel of Briton Ferry. Gani M. S. J. Cement and concrete Chapman & Hall London New York 1997 9780412790508 8 Merthyr Tydfil is refused a town charter; it is eventually granted one in 1905. Opening of the Canterbury Building at St David's College, Lampeter (demolished in 1971). Edgeworth David leads the Royal Society's expedition to the coral atoll of Funafuti. Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Newport Chair – John Thomas Job, "Brawdgarwch"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 – Thomas Mafonwy Davies, "Arthur y Ford Gron"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 English language Owen Rhoscomyl – The White Rose of ArnoJohn S. Ellis Owen Rhoscomyl https://books.google.com/books?id=QeyVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA38 15 November 2016 University of Wales Press 978-1-78316-950-4 38 John William Willis-Bund – The Celtic Church of Wales Alfred Neobard Palmer – Owen Tanat Welsh language Caniadau Cymru (anthology) John Cadvan Davies – Caneuon CadvanY Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940. Paratowyd dan nawdd Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion https://books.google.com/books?id=AXJIAQAAIAAJ 1953 Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorioa 127 cy Ellis Pierce – Teulu'r GilfachMeic Stephens Cydymaith i lenyddiaeth Cymru https://books.google.com/books?id=Yy1KAAAAYAAJ 1986 Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru 978-0-7083-0915-5 471 cy Graphic arts 5 August – French-born painter Alfred Sisley marries his long-time partner Eugénie ("Marie") Lescouezec at Cardiff Register Office.http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/rhagor/article/1998/ https://archive.today/20120911030421/http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/rhagor/article/1998/ 2012-09-11 dead A Sisley painting of the south Wales coast | Rhagor 2020-10-22 They stay at Penarth, where Sisley paints at least six oils of the sea and the cliffs. In mid-August they move to the Osborne Hotel at Langland Bay on the Gower Peninsula, where he produces at least eleven oil paintings in and around Langland Bay and Rotherslade (at this time called Lady's Cove). They return to France in October. Music Walford Davies – Overture in D minor Llyfr Hymnau a Thonau y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd (collection of hymns)Journal of the Folk-Song Society https://books.google.com/books?id=nZzWAAAAMAAJ 1910 The Society 299 Film Arthur Cheetham begins making films in Wales. Sport Rugby Union – Due to an argument with the International Football Rugby Board the Welsh Rugby Union withdraws from the organisation and Wales do not play international rugby for 12 months. Swimming – The Welsh Amateur Swimming Association is founded. The first Welsh championships take place, with events for men only. Births 3 April – Frank Evans, dual-code international rugby player (died 1972) 5 April – Ness Edwards, politician (died 1968)https://biography.wales/article/s2-EDWA-NES-1897 EDWARDS, NESS (1897–1968), trade unionist and Member of Parliament John Davies Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 3 March 2019 21 April – Albert Stock, Wales international rugby player (died 1969) 22 June – Kathleen Freeman, classical scholar (died 1959)NA NA Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=_U6vCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA566 25 December 2015 Springer 978-1-349-81366-7 566 21 August – Victor Nash-Williams, archaeologist (died 1955)William John Townsend Collins Monmouthshire Writers: A Literary History and Anthology https://books.google.com/books?id=h_c-AAAAIAAJ 1948 R.H. Johns 157 28 September – Harry Beadles, Wales international footballer (died 1958) 15 November – Aneurin Bevan, politician (died 1960)https://biography.wales/article/s2-BEVA-ANE-1897 Bevan, Aneurin (1897–1960), politician and one of the founders of the Welfare State John Graham Jones Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 30 June 2019 31 December – Rhys Williams, politician (died 1969) Deaths 14 January – William Basil Jones, Bishop of St David's, 75http://www.llangynfelyn.org/dogfennau/william_basil_DNB.html William Basil Jones, Bishop of St Davids Dictionary of National Biography 21 April 2011 30 January – Sarah Thomas, centenarian, 109https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4239584/4239587/15/sarah%20ellen%20morgan Mrs. Sarah Thomas 30 January 1897 The Llanelly Mercury and South Wales Advertiser 1 January 2020 3 February – David Pugh Evans, songwriter, 31 2 March – Evan Owen Phillips, Dean of St David's, 70https://biography.wales/article/s-PHIL-OWE-1826 Phillips, Evan Owen (1826–1897), dean of S. Davids Welsh Biography Online National Library of Wales Robert Thomas Jenkins 11 February 2020The Times, Friday, 5 Mar 1897; pg. 10; Issue 35143; col B Obituary The Very Rev E.O. Phillips 1 April – William Gwynn, Rugby union international 16 April – Thomas Lewis, Welsh-born Australian politician, 75506 Mr Thomas Lewis (1821-1897) Yes 1 July 2020 10 May – Walter Evans, footballer, about 30Who's Who of Welsh International Soccer Players Davies Gareth Garland Ian 1991 Bridge Books 1-872424-11-2 61 12 May – Thomas Llewellyn Thomas, linguist, 56https://biography.wales/article/s3-THOM-LLE-1840 Thomas, Thomas Llewelyn (1840–1897), scholar, teacher and linguist Welsh Biography Online National Library of Wales Jones Gwilym Arthur Ellis, Thomas Iorwerth Thomas Iorwerth Ellis 11 December 2019 June – Hugh Jones, Archdeacon of St Asaph, 81Obituary 19 June 1897 The Times 11 1 September – John Griffiths, Archdeacon of Llandaff, 77'GRIFFITHS, Ven. John', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 14 Feb 2014 6 September – Thomas Rees Morgan, engineer, 63 8 September – James Milo Griffith, sculptor, 54The Cambrian https://archive.org/details/cambrian01unkngoog 1898 T.J. Griffiths 185 16 September – Edward Edwards (Pencerdd Ceredigion), musician, 83s-EDWA-EDW-1816 Edwards, Edward (1816–1897), musician 1959 National Library of Wales Robert David Griffith 11 February 2020 20 September – Hugh Morris, footballer, 25 (tuberculosis)Who's Who of Welsh International Soccer Players Davies Gareth Garland Ian 1991 Bridge Books 1-872424-11-2 146 15 October – Charles John Vaughan, former Dean of Llandaff, 8128124 Vaughan, Charles John John Roach 12 November – Isaac Evans, trade union leader and politician, 49 (post-operative complications)Joyce Bellamy and John Saville, "Evans, Isaac", Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol.I, pp.113–114 24 November – Arthur James Herbert, Quartermaster-General, 77 Obituary: General Sir Arthur James Herbert, K.C.B. The Times 25 November 1897 6 2 December – Thomas Lewis, politician, 76Frederic Boase Modern English Biography: Containing Many Thousand Concise Memoirs of Persons who Have Died Between the Years 1851–1900, with an Index of the Most Interesting Matter https://archive.org/details/modernenglishbio0006boas registration 1965 Frank Cass 49-50 4 December – Griffith Rhys Jones ("Caradog"), choral conductor, 62s-JONE-RHY-1834 Jones, Griffith Rhys (1834–1897), conductor of a once well-known South Wales choir, 'Côr Caradog' 1959 National Library of Wales Robert David Griffith 11 December 2019 See also 1897 in Ireland References Wales Wales Category:1897 in Europe Category:1890s in Wales