1902 in Wales

none November 2020 March 2012 1902 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1902 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1902 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 – Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th BaronetThe Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion The Society 1986 63 Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-WestPotter 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 – 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 – John Owens-OWEN-JOH-1854 Owen, John (1854-1926), bishop Thomas Iorwerth Ellis 1959 19 March 2022 Events 4 March – Five miners are killed in a mining accident at Milfaen Colliery, Blaenavon. 1 May – Cardiff Corporation Tramways begins operating its electric system. 3 June – Six miners are killed in an accident at Gerwen Colliery, Llanelli. 26 June – In the 1902 Coronation Honours, Isambard Owen and Alfred Thomas receive knighthoods. 15 July – Francis Grenfell is created 1st Baron Grenfell of Kilvey in the County of Glamorgan.27455 4587 18 July 1902 31 July – Opening of the first section of the Great Orme Tramway at Llandudno, the longest funicular railway in the British Isles.Stanley C. Jenkins Martin Loader The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Volume One Chester to Holyhead https://books.google.com/books?id=C1ZpCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT148 15 March 2015 Amberley Publishing Limited 978-1-4456-4416-5 148 2 August – A. G. Edwards, Bishop of St Davids, is appointed Honorary Chaplain to the Denbighshire Yeomanry.27460 4972 1 August 1902 August – Opening of the Vale of Rheidol Railway for goods traffic (it opens to passengers on 22 December).Lewis Cozens Lewis Cozens The Vale of Rheidol Railway https://books.google.com/books?id=t4-GAAAAIAAJ 1950 Lewis Cozens 11 November – Five miners are killed in an accident at Deep Navigation Colliery, Mountain Ash. date unknown Alfred Mond founds his nickel works at Clydach in the Swansea Valley.Gareth Elwyn Jones Professor of Anatomy and Structural Biology Gareth Jones Modern Wales: A Concise History https://books.google.com/books?id=n_vUx1TtH5AC&pg=PA171 28 October 1994 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-46945-6 171 230 Welsh colonists leave Patagonia for Manitoba in Canada. Opening of Caernarfon electric power station. Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales – held in Bangor Chair – T. Gwynn Joneshttps://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/4d33a0d4-fc7f-365f-acf0-acdd20c5a6c9 T Gwynn Jones and Arthur ap Gwynn Papers JISC Archives Hub 22 January 2019 Crown – R. Silyn Roberts New books English language Rhoda Broughton – Lavinia Violet Jacob – The Sheep-stealers Arthur Machen – Hieroglyphics Allen Raine – A Welsh Witch Welsh language Hugh Brython Hughes – Tlysau Ynys Prydain Thomas Rowland Roberts – Y Monwyson Music Sir Henry Walford Davies – Three Jovial HuntsmenEdward Wulstan Atkins Edward Elgar Sir Ivor Atkins The Elgar-Atkins friendship https://books.google.com/books?id=tZAHAQAAMAAJ 26 April 1984 David & Charles 978-0-7153-8583-8 Sport Gymnastics – The Welsh Amateur Gymnastics Association is formed.https://www.welshgymnastics.org/about/ Welsh Gymnastics - About Us Welsh Gymnastics 22 January 2019 Rugby union – Wales win the Home Nations Championship and take the Triple Crown. Births 4 February – Tal Harris, Wales international rugby player (died 1963) 25 February – Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford, politician (died 1993)Sally Belfrage https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-milford-1465048.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-milford-1465048.html 1 May 2022 subscription live Obituary: Lord Milford - People - News The Independent 1993-12-03 2012-09-03 4 March – David Evans-Bevan, industrialist (died 1973)https://glamorgancricketarchives.com/david-evans-bevan/ David Evans-Bevan Glamorgan Cricket Archives 4 March 2024 19 March – Dilys Cadwaladr, poet (died 1979) 16 April – Hugh Iorys Hughes, civil engineer (died 1977 in England) 22 April – Megan Lloyd George, politician (died 1966)s2-LLOY-GEO-1888 Lloyd George (family) William Richard Philip George 14 October 2019 18 June – Morgan Phillips, politician (died 1963)s2-PHIL-WAL-1902 Phillips, Morgan Walter (1902-1963), general secretary of the Labour Party Mary Auronwy James 2001 25 May 2024 17 July – Nathan Rocyn-Jones, doctor, international rugby player and President of the WRU (died 1984) 2 September – Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, political cartoonist (died 1979)John Davies John Davies (historian) Nigel Jenkins Nigel Jenkins Baines Menna Peredur I. Lynch The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales 2008 390 University of Wales Press Cardiff 978-0-7083-1953-6 21 September – E. E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist of Welsh descent (died 1972)Pocock David F. Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard 1902–1973: An appreciation Africa July 1975 45 3 327–330 10.1017/S0001972000025456 143722277 free 27 October (in Oxford) – Harold Arthur Harris, academic (died 1974) 26 November (in Wales or Bristol) – Cyril Bence, academic and politician (died 1992)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-cyril-bence-1550065.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-cyril-bence-1550065.html 1 May 2022 subscription live Obituary: Cyril Bence 8 September 1992 Tam Dalyell The Independent 22 January 2019 Tam Dalyell date unknown – Richard Bryn Williams, writer (died 1981) Deaths 1 January – William McConnel, industrialist, 93Nature John Wanklyn McConnel 109 2747 821 24 June 1922 10.1038/109821a0 free 11 January – James James, harpist and composer, 69 James, James 2 361 Thomas Daniel Lleufer Daniel Lleufer Thomas 1912 1 19 February – Jeremiah Jones, poet, 46 6 March – William Rathbone, politician, 82s-RATH-WIL-1819 Rathbone, William (1819–1902), philanthropist Robert Thomas Jenkins 3 December 2019 11 March – Alcwyn Evans, historian, 73s-EVAN-CAR-1828 Evans, Alcwyn Caryni (1828–1902), antiquary Bertie George Charles Morfudd Nia Jones 3 December 2019 6 April – Robert Owen, theologian, 81http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35348 Owen, Robert (1820–1902) Thomas D. L. rev. Murphy G. Martin Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access) Oxford University Press 2004 9 May 2008 5 June – Arthur Powell Davies, English-born American minister, author, and activist of Welsh parentage (d. 1957)9 May 2003 Manish Mishra-Marzetti http://uudb.org/articles/arthurpowelldavies.html A. Powell Davies Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography 29 March 2022June 2026 InternetArchiveBot 13 July – Edmund Hannay Watts, industrialist (Wattstown)London Gazette, August 1902 14 July – Martyn Jordan, Wales international rugby player, 37 23 August – Robert Henry Davies, colonial official in British India, 78DAVIES, Sir Robert Henry, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014) 5 October – Henry Lascelles Carr, journalistFrederick Converse Beach George Edwin Rines The Americana: a universal reference library https://books.google.com/books?id=u4BRAAAAYAAJ 1912 Scientific American compiling department 18 October – Margaret Jones, travel writer (Y Gymraes o Ganaan), 60Griffiths Griffith Milwyn JONES, MARGARET ('Y Gymraes o Ganaan'; 1842-1902) traveller and writer s3-JONE-MAR-1902 24 February 2021 17 November – Hugh Price Hughes, minister and anti-Parnell campaigner, 55s-HUGH-PRI-1847 Hughes, Hugh Price (1847–1902), philanthropist Thomas Iorwerth Ellis 1959 3 December 2019 December – Thomas Davies, footballer, 36/37https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3492028/3492031/81/ Death of a Welsh International 20 December 1902 Evening Express - Welsh Newspapers Online - The National Library of Wales newspapers.library.wales en 2019-03-11 date unknown – Jones Hewson, singer and actor, 27Stone, David. Jones Hewson at Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 12 February 2007 See also 1902 in Ireland References 1902 Wales Category:1902 in Europe Category:1900s in Wales