1910 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1910 thumb | 220x124px | right | alt= A sepia-toned photograph shows a group of men standing in front of a row of buildings with signs indicating shops or businesses. The men are dressed in early 20th-century attire, including hats and overcoats. The image is labeled "Tonypandy after the strike riot 1910”. The men appear somber, and the buildings show signs of disrepair or damage. | Residents standing in front of boarded-up shops damaged during the evening of November 8, 1910, known as the Tonypandy Riots, in Tonypandy, Rhondda, Wales. This article is about the particular significance of the year 1910 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1910 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-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 – Sir Osmond Williams, 1st BaronetDavies Sir William Llewelyn s-WILL-BRO-1800 Williams family, of Bron Eryri, later called Castell Deudraeth, Meirionnydd 30 January 2020 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 15 January–10 February - The first 1910 United Kingdom general election produces a hung parliament. This is the first election in which all Welsh constituencies have been contested. Of a total of 34 MPs elected in Wales, five are Labour and two Conservative. The 27 Liberal MPs include David Alfred Thomas for Cardiff (replacing Ivor Guest, Baron Ashby St Ledgers, who had been raised to the peerage). Conservatives include William Ormsby-Gore, later Baron Harlech. Unsuccessful candidates include Vernon Hartshorn and Sir George Fossett Roberts. J.H. "Jimmy" Thomas becomes MP for Derby. 6 May - George, Prince of Wales, becomes King George V of the United Kingdom, upon the death of his father King Edward VII. 2 June - Charles Rolls makes the first non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by air, flying from England to France and back again in just over nine hours. 13 June - Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his officers enjoy a farewell dinner at the Royal Hotel in St Mary's Street, Cardiff, before beginning their attempt to be the first men to reach the South Pole.Morgannwg: Transactions of the Glamorgan History Society https://books.google.com/books?id=Eh8iAQAAIAAJ 1988 51–53 15 June - Captain Robert Falcon Scott sets off on his fatal voyage to Antarctica on the ship Terra Nova, sailing from Cardiff. 23 June - Edward, eldest son of George V and Queen Mary, is officially created Prince of Wales, aged 16.https://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/titles-and-heraldry Titles and Heraldry Prince of Wales 9 October 2019 12 July - At the Bournemouth International Aviation Meeting, Charles Rolls becomes the first Briton to be killed in an air crash.Philip Jarrett Pioneer Aircraft: Early Aviation to 1914 https://books.google.com/books?id=8pAgAQAAIAAJ 2002 Putnam 978-0-85177-869-3 206 1 September A lockout begins at Ely Pit in Penygraig, starting a chain of events leading to the Tonypandy riots.Lewis E.D. The Rhondda Valleys 1959 Phoenix House London 175 Ninian Park football stadium is opened in Cardiff to serve Cardiff City F.C.http://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/page/ClubHistory/0,,10335~61928,00.html The Foundations and Early Years (1899-1920) Cardiff City 2011-03-18 2012-06-28 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090813201655/http://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/page/ClubHistory/0%2C%2C10335~61928%2C00.html 2009-08-13 11 September - English-born actor-aviator Robert Loraine makes an aeroplane flight from Wales across the Irish Sea, landing some 200 feet (60 metres) short of the Irish coast in Dublin Bay.Loraine's Daring Flight The Irish Times Dublin 12 September 1910 7http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1910/1910%20-%200751.html Mr Loraine's Irish Channel Flight Flight 17 September 1910 30 September - The King Edward VII National Memorial Association begins its campaign to eradicate tuberculosis in Wales.University of Wales Board of Celtic Studies Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru University of Wales Press 1986 194 13 October - Three crew members from the St David's life-boat drown in Ramsey Sound near Ramsey Island.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11505713 St Davids RNLI seeks 1910 lifeboat tragedy descendants 9 October 2010 BBC News 24 August 2022 1 November - Coal miners are balloted for strike action by the South Wales Miners' Federation, resulting in 12,000 men working for the Cambrian Combine beginning a 10-month strike.Lewis E. D. The Rhondda Valleys 1959 Phoenix House London 175 4 November - Ernest Thompson Willows makes the first flight from England to France in his dirigible, City of Cardiff, having earlier in the year made the first flight across the Bristol Channel by airship, from Cardiff to Minehead.Kenneth Munson Lennart A. T. Ege Balloons and Airships, 1783-1973 Blandford Press 1973 9780713705683 149 8 November - Tonypandy riots: Striking coal miners battle with police and damage shops in Tonypandy. 9 November - Soldiers and police battle with striking coal miners at Porth in the Rhondda, with over 500 injuries.Trevor Herbert Wales 1880-1914: Welsh History and its sources 1988 University of Wales Press Cardiff 0-7083-0967-4 122–3 registration https://archive.org/details/wales1880191400herb/page/122 3–19 December - The second 1910 United Kingdom general election results in a Liberal government. Wales elects 26 Liberal, five Labour, and three Conservative MPs. Lord Ninian Edward Crichton-Stuart takes Cardiff for the Conservatives and John Hugh Edwards becomes Liberal MP for Mid Glamorgan. 18 December - A storm causes substantial damage to the promenade at Aberystwyth. date unknown Reconstruction of an abbey on Caldey Island is begun by Anglican Benedictines.Roscoe Howells Tenby: Old & New https://books.google.com/books?id=8XGgAAAAMAAJ 1981 Gomer 978-0-85088-835-5 41 Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company begins sinking Britannia Colliery, Pengam, Monmouthshire, the UK's first to be sunk and worked by electricity.33549 Britannia Colliery, Pengam 2016-08-20 Harry Grindell-Matthews invents the “aerophone”. The Royal Commission on the Church of England and Other Religious Bodies in Wales and Monmouthshire, appointed in 1906, presents its report.Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Church of England and Other Religious Bodies in Wales and Monmouthshire Report of the Commission https://books.google.com/books?id=FhxDvQEACAAJ 1910 The first Girl Guides company in Wales is formed at Carmarthen. Ellis Ellis-Griffith becomes a King's Counsel. The Davies Bryan Company opens a large drapery store in Cairo, designed by Robert Williams.Cooke Neil Daubney Vanessa Lost and Now Found: Explorers, Diplomats and Artists in Egypt and the Near East 2017 Archaeopress 978-1-78491-628-2 30–3 Aneurin Bevan leaves school, aged thirteen. Arts and literature Arthur Machen joins the staff of the Evening News (London). Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Colwyn Bay Chair - R. Williams Parry, "Yr Haf"https://eisteddfod.wales/about-us/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair?_ga=2.196744876.1631880097.1570104027-963760572.1570104027 Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod of Wales 3 October 2019February 2021 InternetArchiveBot yes Crown - William Crwys Williams New books English language Sabine Baring-Gould – Lives of the British Saints Stanley Bligh – The Direction of Desire John Gwenogvryn Evans – Facsimile and Text of the Book of Taliesin Bertrand Russell – Philosophical Essays Welsh language Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney – Llyfr Baglan David Richard Jones – Yr Ymchwil am y GoleuniMeic Stephens The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=P51iAAAAMAAJ April 1986 Oxford University Press 300 978-0-19-211586-7 Music Thomas Carrington - Hen weddi deuluaidd fy nhad Robert Donnely and Will Geddes - "Dream of a Miner's Child" ("Don't go down in the mine, Dad")Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Performance and production. Volume II https://books.google.com/books?id=0tz5YpijuksC&pg=PA208 30 January 2003 A&C Black 978-0-8264-6321-0 208 J. Lloyd Williams - Aelwyd Angharad Sport Boxing The Welsh Amateur Boxing Association is formed. 20 December - Freddie Welsh beats Jim Driscoll in a controversial fight for the EBU Lightweight title; Driscoll is disqualified for butting.Encyclopaedia of Boxing https://books.google.com/books?id=3BKCAAAAMAAJ 1979 R. Hale 978-0-7091-7745-6 236 Golf Abergele Golf Club first formed. Rugby league Treherbert RLFC fold after only their second season. The second and final Welsh League competition is won by Ebbw Vale. Rugby union 5 February - Wales beat Scotland 14–0 at the National Stadium, Cardiff. Births 26 January – Frank Williams, Wales international rugby player (d. 1959) 9 March – Sir Rhys Llewellyn, 2nd Baronet, mining executive (d. 1978)Sir Rhys Llewellyn The Times (London, England), Friday, May 05, 1978; pg. 16; Issue 60293 11 March – Don Tarr, Wales international rugby player 5 April – John St. Bodfan Gruffydd, landscape architect (d. 2004) 13 April – Michael Brain, cricketer (d. 1971) 21 April - Len Attley, Welsh footballer (d. 1979) 13 May – Gomer Hughes, dual-code rugby player (d. 1974) 21 May – Hywel Lewis, theologian and philosopher (d. 1992)Stuart Brown Hugh Bredin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers https://books.google.com/books?id=uL3UAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA563 August 2005 A&C Black 978-1-84371-096-7 563 9 June – Ifor Davies, politician (d. 1982)House of Commons: With Full Results of the Polling, Biographies of Members and Unsuccessful Candidates, Photographs of All Members, and a Complete Analysis, Statistical Tables, and a Map of the General Election https://books.google.com/books?id=E9qIAAAAMAAJ 1964 Times Office 198 16 June – Annie "Nan" Davies, radio and television producer (d. 1970)s2-DAVI-ANN-1910 Davies, Annie (1910-1970), better known as Nan, radio and television producer Owen Edwards 2001 5 April 2022 18 June – John Menlove Edwards, climber (d. 1958)Jim Perrin Menlove: The Life of John Menlove Edwards https://books.google.com/books?id=hDz6NAAACAAJ December 1993 Ernest Press 978-0-948153-28-0 16 July – Käte Bosse-Griffiths, writer (d. 1998)Bernhard Maier Stefan Zimmer 150 Jahre "Mabinogion" - deutsch-walisische Kulturbeziehungen https://books.google.com/books?id=03-mDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA170 31 August 2015 De Gruyter 978-3-11-095164-6 170 25 July – Idwal Rees, Wales rugby union captain (d. 1991) 2 September – Norman Fender, Wales dual-code rugby international (d. 1983) 9 September – Pat Glover, footballer (d. 1971) 22 September – Emrys Roberts, politician (d. 1990)Geoffrey Handley-Taylor Cheshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire authors today https://books.google.com/books?id=YgoOAQAAMAAJ 1972 Eddison Press Ltd 65 11 October – Idris Hopkins, footballer (d. 1994) 20 October – Eryl Stephen Thomas, bishop (died 2001)“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 978-0-19-954087-7 14 November – Errie Ball, Welsh-American golfer (died 2014) 24 November – Walter Robbins, international footballer (d. 1979) 14 December – Sir Cennydd Traherne, landowner (d. 1995)Sir Cennydd Traherne, K.G., T.D., li.d., 1910-95 The Journal of Glamorgan History, Volume XXXIX 1995 Welsh Journals Online The National Library of Wales 1995 http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewpage/llgc-id:1169834/llgc-id:1174321/llgc-id:1174330/getText 2013-01-04 31 December – Tommy Weale, footballer (d. 1971) Deaths 27 January - John Cory, philanthropist, coal-owner and shipping magnate, 81Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru https://books.google.com/books?id=83ZnAAAAMAAJ 2000 University of Wales Press 56 1 March - David Evans, Archdeacon of St AsaphThe Times, Saturday, Mar 05, 1910; pg. 13; Issue 39212; col B "Deaths". 7 March - Bob Thomas, Wales international rugby player 8 March - David Gwynn, Wales international rugby player, 48https://hdl.handle.net/10107/3349033 Death of Mr Dai Gwynn 11 March 1910 31 March 2022 The Cambrian 10107/3349033 21 March - Sir Edmund Buckley, 1st Baronet, landowner, 75Dan Quine Dan Quine The Hendre Ddu Tramway Lydney Lightmoor Press 2022 978-1-915069-15-3 25 April - Ann Harriet Hughes (Gwyneth Vaughan), novelist, 57/8Richard Bryn Williams 1959 Hughes, Annie Harriet s-HUGH-HAR-1852 2016-03-25 6 May - Edward VII, Prince of Wales 1841–1901, 68Dana Bentley-Cranch Bentley-Cranch Dana Edward VII: Image of an Era 1841–1910 Her Majesty's Stationery Office London 1992 978-0-11-290508-0 151 10 May - Anna Laetitia Waring, poet and hymn-writer, 87 Scott Rosemary Waring, Anna Letitia (1823–1910) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36742 26 April 2010 12 July - Charles Stewart Rolls, aviator and co-founder of Rolls-Royce, 32 26 July - Henry Williams politician in Australia, about 68Williams, Henry Parliament of Victoria 1985 http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1539 https://web.archive.org/web/20060823071200/http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1539 dead 23 August 2006 15 October 2011 24 November - Thomas Lloyd Williams, Welsh-American writer, 79s-WILL-LLO-1830 Williams, Thomas Lloyd (1830-1910), Welsh-American writer Robert (Bob) Owen 14 October 2019 15 December - John Hugh Jones, Roman Catholic priest, translator and tutor, 67s-JONE-HUG-1843 Jones, John Hugh (1843-1910), Roman Catholic priest Edward Morgan Humphreys 14 October 2019 See also 1910 in Ireland References Category:1910 in Wales Wales Category:1910 in Europe Category:1910s in Wales