1891 in Wales

none September 2019 May 2020 1891 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1891 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1891 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 – 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 – 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 5 April – The United Kingdom Census (the first to record what languages are spoken in Wales by everyone over the age of three) shows there to be 1,685,614 speakers of Welsh in Wales, 54.4% of the population. 12 August – Adelina Patti opens her private theatre at Craig-y-Nos Castle.Cecil John Layton Price The professional theatre in Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=e9siAAAAMAAJ 1984 University College of Swansea 978-0-86076-054-2 29 date unknown – The South Wales and Monmouthshire Training School of Cookery and the Domestic Arts opens in Cardiff. Owen Morgan Edwards launches his popular monthly magazine Cymru. Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Swansea Chair – John Owen Williams, "Yr Haul"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 – David Adams New books English language George Essex Evans – The Repentance of Magdalene Despar and other poems William Nicholas Johns – History of the Church of S. Gwynllyw (S. Woolos, Newport) Edward Jones – Y Gymdeithasfahttps://biography.wales/article/s-JONE-EDW-1826 Jones, Edward (1826–1902), Calvinistic Methodist historian Robert Thomas Jenkins Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 6 December 2019 Welsh language Charles Ashton – Bywyd ac Amserau yr Esgob MorganGlanmor Williams Renewal and Reformation: Wales C. 1415–1642 https://books.google.com/books?id=HU0Y3kJ2qRwC&pg=PA505 1993 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-285277-9 505 Thomas Edwards – Darllen a Siarad Daniel Owen – Enoc Huws LastName FirstName Merriam-Webster's encyclopedia of literature Merriam-Webster Springfield, Mass 1995 9780877790426 848 Music Sport Football – The Welsh Cup is won by Shrewsbury Town. Births 4 January – Bryn Lewis, Wales international rugby player (killed in action 1917) 13 February – Kate Roberts, author (died 1985)Morgan, Derec Llwyd (1991), Kate Roberts. Writers of Wales series. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 0-7083-1115-6. An introduction to her work in English. 14 February – Gwynn Parry Jones, tenor (died 1963) 14 March – Billy Geen, Wales international rugby union player (killed in action 1915) 29 March – Tom Parker, Wales international rugby union captain (died 1967) 8 April – Bill Beynon, British bantamweight boxing champion (died 1932) 9 May – Fred Perrett, Wales international rugby union (died of wounds 1918) 1 October – Morfydd Llwyn Owen, composer, pianist and mezzo-soprano (died 1918)Gerald Norris A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=KcMXAQAAIAAJ June 1981 David & Charles 978-0-7153-7845-8 297 29 November – Glyn Stephens, Wales international rugby union captain (died 1965) Deaths 6 January – Hugh Owen Thomas, pioneering orthopaedic surgeon, 57 13 February – William Davies, palaeontologist, 76Davies, William (1814-1891) Bonney Thomas George Thomas George Bonney 1 25 February – William Frost, harpist 44s-FROS-FRE-1846 Frost, William Frederick (1846-1891), harpist Robert David Griffith 1959 National Library of Wales 31 January 2021 26 February – David James Jenkins, shipowner and politician, 66 18 March – John Basson Humffray, politician, 66Humffray, John Basson 26 August 2022 586 2 May – David Lewis Wooding, genealogist, 62s3-WOOD-LEW-1828 Wooding, David Lewis (1828-1891), genealogist, historian, bibliophile and shopkeeper B. A. Mark Williams 2001 11 March 2022 7 May – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis, 72The Complete Peerage, Volume X 1947 St Catherine's Press 654 10 May – Thomas Richard Lloyd, Anglican clergyman, 70/71s-LLOY-RIC-1820 Lloyd, Thomas Richard (1820–1891), cleric Thomas Iorwerth Ellis 1959 National Library of Wales 6 December 2019 4 July – John Rowlands (Giraldus), antiquary, author and teacher, 67Jones Evan David ROWLAND(S), JOHN (Giraldus; 1824–1891) https://biography.wales/article/s-ROWL-JOH-1824 Dictionary of Welsh Biography 7 April 2016 5 September – Sir Hugh Owen Owen, 2nd Baronet, politician, 87Escott Margaret Owen, Hugh Owen (1803–1891), of Williamston and Llanstinan, Pemb. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/owen-hugh-1803-1891 The History of Parliament 14 March 2018 25 August 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190825042248/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/owen-hugh-1803-1891 dead 26 September – David Charles Davies, Nonconformist leader, 65s-DAVI-CHA-1826 Davies, David Charles (1826-1891) Gwilym Arthur Edwards 1959 National Library of Wales 31 January 2021 29 September – Lewys Glyn Dyfi (Lewis Meredith), preacher and writer, 65s-MERE-LEW-1826 Meredith, Lewis (1826–1891), preacher and writer Griffith Thomas Roberts 1959 National Library of Wales 6 December 2019 23 November – Evan Evans, academic, 78Iolo Davies, A Certaine Schoole (D. Brown & Son, Cowbridge, 1967), pp. 66 and 145 18 December – Sir Love Jones-Parry, politician, 59s-PARR-MAD-1658 Parry (and Jones-Parry) family, Madryn, Llŷn Thomas Richards 1959 11 March 2022 24 December – Richard Owens, architect, 60https://manchestervictorianarchitects.org.uk/index.php/architects/richard-owens Richard Owens – Architect, Architects of Greater Manchester The Victorian Society manchestervictorianarchitects.org.uk 16 April 2020 See also 1891 in Ireland References Wales Category:1891 in Europe Category:1890s in Wales