1890 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1890 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Richard Davies^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk^[3]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves^[4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (until 17 January);^[9] Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth (from 26 June)
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Robert Davies Pryce^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington^[13]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite^[14]
• Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell (retired in April) Daniel Lewis Lloyd (from 24 June)^[15]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis^[16]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Alfred George Edwards (from 25 March)^[17]
• Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones^[18]

Events

• 6 February - In a gas explosion at Llanerch Colliery, Pontypool, 176 miners are killed.^[19]
• 10 March - In a gas explosion at Morfa Colliery, Port Talbot, 86 miners are killed.^[20]
• 7 April - An Easter Monday conference at Llangefni leads to agreement with employers on a shorter working day for male agricultural labourers.
• 13 April - At a by-election in Caernarfon, David Lloyd George wins the seat for the Liberals from the Conservatives, defeating H. J. E. Nanney, the local squire; Lloyd George remains the constituency MP until his death in 1945.
• 22 May - Y Cymro is launched by Isaac Foulkes (Llyfrbryf) in Liverpool as a liberal weekly Welsh language "national newspaper for Welshmen at home and abroad"; it is published until 1909.
• Summer - Queen Elisabeth of Romania visits Llandudno, staying for five weeks and later remembering it as "a beautiful haven of peace"; the phrase is later translated into Welsh and used as the town's motto.
• 21 December - Beginning of a 3-week period of severe winter weather causing deaths and disruption to daily life in many parts of Wales.
• Opening of the Rock Mill watermill for woollen milling at Capel Dewi, Llandysul.

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales - held at Bangor

• Chair - Thomas Tudno Jones, "Y Llafurwr" ^[21]
• Crown - John John Roberts, "Ardderchog Lu'r Merthyri"^[22]

New books

• Rhoda Broughton - Alas!
• Arthur Machen - The Great God Pan (in the magazine The Whirlwind)

Music

Events

• The National Musical Association of Wales is formed, with Joseph Parry as a sponsor.^[23]

Works

• John Thomas Rees - "Duw sydd noddfa"^[24]

Sport

• Cricket - The England ladies' team plays an exhibition match at Newport.
• Football - The Welsh Cup is won by Chirk for the third time.
• Hockey - The Welsh Hockey Association is founded.
• Rugby union - Wales win their very first international against England. The only try was scored by Cardiff's 'Buller' Stadden.

Births

• 2 January - Madoline Thomas, actress (died 1989)
• 21 January - Jack Anthony, jockey (died 1954)
• 14 February - Nina Hamnett, artist and Bohemian (died 1956)^[25]
• 1 March - Jack Beames, rugby player (died 1970)
• 16 February - Thomas Ifor Rees, diplomat (died 1977)^[26]
• 20 April - Ernest Roberts, politician (died 1969)^[27]
• 5 May - George Littlewood Hirst, Wales international rugby player (died 1967)
• 14 June - Dai Hiddlestone, Wales international rugby player (died 1973)
• 21 June - W. J. A. Davies, rugby player (died 1967)
• 28 July - Horace Thomas, Wales international rugby player (died 1916)
• 30 August - Llewelyn Wyn Griffith, novelist (died 1977)^[28]
• 13 September - Johnny Basham, boxer (died 1947)
• 19 September - Jim Griffiths, politician, first Secretary of State for Wales (died 1975)^[29]
• 22 November (in Lancashire) - Harry Pollitt, Communist trade union leader and parliamentary candidate for Rhondda East (died 1960)^[30]
• 6 December - Dion Fortune, born Violet Firth, English occultist and novelist (died 1946)
• 16 December - P. J. Grigg, politician (died 1964)

Deaths

• 17 January - Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, landowner, industrialist and politician, 86^[9]
• 20 January - Guillermo Rawson, Argentinian politician and patron of Patagonian Welsh colony, 68^[31]
• 4 March - Henry Davies, journalist, publisher and librarian, 86^[32]
• 19 March - Edmund Swetenham, MP for Caernarfon, 67^[33]
• 8 April - William Jones, Army officer, 81/2
• 21 March - Benjamin Thomas Williams, politician, 57^[34]
• 29 June - Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, 59^[35]
• 12 July - David Pugh, politician, 84^[36]
• 20 July - David Davies "Llandinam", industrialist, 71^[37]
• 6 August - Thomas Babington Jones, cricketer, 39
• 10 October - Charles Herbert James, politician, 73^[38]
• 27 October - Enoch Salisbury, barrister, politician and bibliophile, 70^[39]
• unknown date - John Cambrian Rowland, painter, 70

See also

• 1890 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. s-GRIF-DAV-1800. Griffith, David (Clwydfardd; 1800-1894), eisteddfodic bard and arch-druid. Daniel Williams. 1959. yes. 24 November 2021.
2. s-DAVI-RIC-1818 . Davies, Richard (1818-1896), M.P.. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 1959. 24 November 2021.
3. Book: Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes. Dod. 1921. 356.
4. Book: National Museum of Wales. Adroddiad Blynyddol. The Museum. 1935. 3.
5. Book: The 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.
6. Book: Edward Arthur Copleston. Where's where? Pt. 1. A concise gazetteer of Somerset. Pt. 2. Statistical, educational, parliamentary and practical information. 1878. 80.
7. Book: Potter, Matthew . The concept of the 'master' in art education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the present . Routledge . Abingdon, Oxon . 2016 . 9781351545471 . 149.
8. Journal 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.
9. s-TALB-MAR-1700 . William Llewelyn Davies . Talbot family, of Margam Abbey and Penrice Castle Glamorganshire . yes . 1959 . 24 November 2021.
10. Book: The Annual Register. Rivingtons. 1892. 179.
11. Book: Reese, M. M. . The royal office of Master of the Horse . Threshold Books Ltd . London . 1976 . 9780901366900 . 348.
12. News: Weyman. Henry T.. Shropshire M.P.s - Memoirs. T.S.A.S., Series 4, Volume XII. 1929. 28.
13. Book: Lodge, Edmund . Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire... . Salzwasser-Verlag GMBH . 2020 . 9783752502664 . 318.
14. Book: Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1885. 1027.
15. s-LLOY-LEW-1843. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. Lloyd, Daniel Lewis (1843-1899), schoolmaster and bishop. National Library of Wales. 1959. 5 November 2021.
16. Death Of The Bishop Of Llandaff, The Times, 25 January 1905; page 4; Issue 37613; col A
17. s-EDWA-GEO-1848. Edwards, Alfred George (1848-1937), first archbishop of Wales. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. 1959. 6 March 2022.
18. Web site: William Basil Jones, Bishop of St Davids . Dictionary of National Biography . 21 April 2011.
19. Book: Francis, Hywel . The Fed : a history of the South Wales miners in the twentieth century . University of Wales Press . Cardiff . 1998 . 9780708314227 . 80.
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21. Web site: Winners of the Chair. National Eisteddfod of Wales. 11 December 2019.
22. Web site: Winners of the Crown. National Eisteddfod of Wales. 17 November 2019.
23. Web site: History. Welsh Music Guild. 9 March 2022.
24. s2-REES-THO-1857. Rees, John Thomas (1857-1949), musician. 2001. David Ewart Parry Williams. Evan David Jones. 9 March 2022.
25. Book: Nina Hamnett. Laughing Torso - Reminiscences of Nina Hamnett. 23 March 2011. Read Books Limited. 978-1-4465-4552-2. 7.
26. Book: Great Britain. Foreign Office. The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular Year Book for .... 1949. Harrison and Sons. 3937.
27. Book: All India Reporter. 1938. D.V. Chitaley. 65.
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29. s6-GRIF-JAM-1890. John Graham Jones. 2008. Griffiths, James (Jeremiah) (1890-1975), Labour politician and cabinet minister. 9 March 2022.
30. Book: Morgan, Kevin . Harry Pollitt . Manchester University Press Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press . Manchester New York New York . 1993 . 9780719032479 . 1.
31. Larrain, Jacob (1893). Biografía del doctor Guillermo Rawson. La Plata: Imp., Lit. y Encuad. de Solá Hnos. Sesé y Ca.
32. Cheltenham Looker-In, March 1890
33. Web site: The Late Mr. Swetemham, M.P.. 28 March 1890. Llangollen Advertiser via National Library of Wales. 16 June 2018.
34. Web site: Will of the Late Mr B. T. Williams, Q.C.1890-04-28South Wales Daily News - Welsh Newspapers. newspapers.library.wales. en. 2020-03-05.
35. Book: James Louis Garvin. Franklin Henry Hooper. Warren E. Cox. The Encyclopedia Britannica. 1929. The Encyclopedia Britannica Company. 891.
36. News: The Late Mr David Pugh M.P.. 30 November 2016. Carmarthen Journal. 17 October 1890. 8.
37. Web site: Bulmer-Thomas. Ivor. David Davis, Llandinam (1818-1890), industrialist and Member of Parliament. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 6 December 2019.
38. s-JAME-HER-1817. James, Charles Herbert (1817-1890), M.P.. 1959. National Library of Wales. 30 January 2021. Walter Thomas Morgan.
39. Salisbury, Enoch Robert Gibbon. 50.