1891 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1891 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 – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Robert Davies Pryce^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite^[13]
• Bishop of Bangor – Daniel Lewis Lloyd^[14]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis^[15]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Alfred George Edwards^[16]
• Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones^[17]

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.^[18]
• 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"^[19]
• 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 Gymdeithasfa^[20]

Welsh language

• Charles Ashton – Bywyd ac Amserau yr Esgob Morgan^[21]
• Thomas Edwards – Darllen a Siarad
• Daniel Owen – Enoc Huws^[22]

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)^[23]
• 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)^[24]
• 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, 76^[25]
• 25 February – William Frost, harpist 44^[26]
• 26 February – David James Jenkins, shipowner and politician, 66
• 18 March – John Basson Humffray, politician, 66^[27]
• 2 May – David Lewis Wooding, genealogist, 62^[28]
• 7 May – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis, 72^[29]
• 10 May – Thomas Richard Lloyd, Anglican clergyman, 70/71^[30]
• 4 July – John Rowlands (Giraldus), antiquary, author and teacher, 67^[31]
• 5 September – Sir Hugh Owen Owen, 2nd Baronet, politician, 87^[32]
• 26 September – David Charles Davies, Nonconformist leader, 65^[33]
• 29 September – Lewys Glyn Dyfi (Lewis Meredith), preacher and writer, 65^[34]
• 23 November – Evan Evans, academic, 78^[35]
• 18 December – Sir Love Jones-Parry, politician, 59^[36]
• 24 December – Richard Owens, architect, 60^[37]

See also

• 1891 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. Book: The Annual Register. Rivingtons. 1892. 179.
10. Book: Reese, M. M. . The royal office of Master of the Horse . Threshold Books Ltd . London . 1976 . 9780901366900 . 348.
11. News: Weyman. Henry T.. Shropshire M.P.s - Memoirs. T.S.A.S., Series 4, Volume XII. 1929. 28.
12. Book: Lodge, Edmund . Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire... . Salzwasser-Verlag GMBH . 2020 . 9783752502664 . 318.
13. Book: Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1885. 1027.
14. s-LLOY-LEW-1843. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. Lloyd, Daniel Lewis (1843-1899), schoolmaster and bishop. National Library of Wales. 1959. 5 November 2021.
15. Death Of The Bishop Of Llandaff, The Times, 25 January 1905; page 4; Issue 37613; col A
16. s-EDWA-GEO-1848. Edwards, Alfred George (1848-1937), first archbishop of Wales. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. 1959. 6 March 2022.
17. Web site: William Basil Jones, Bishop of St Davids . Dictionary of National Biography . 21 April 2011.
18. Book: Cecil John Layton Price. The professional theatre in Wales. 1984. University College of Swansea. 978-0-86076-054-2. 29.
19. Web site: Winners of the Chair . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair . 13 February 2021 . National Eisteddfod of Wales . 18 February 2021.
20. Web site: Jones, Edward (1826–1902), Calvinistic Methodist historian. Robert Thomas Jenkins. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 6 December 2019.
21. Book: Glanmor Williams. Renewal and Reformation: Wales C. 1415–1642. 1993. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-285277-9. 505.
22. Book: LastName, FirstName . Merriam-Webster's encyclopedia of literature . Merriam-Webster . Springfield, Mass . 1995 . 9780877790426 . 848.
23. [Derec Llwyd Morgan|Morgan, Derec Llwyd]
24. Book: Gerald Norris. A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland. June 1981. David & Charles. 978-0-7153-7845-8. 297.
25. Davies, William (1814-1891). Bonney. Thomas George. Thomas George Bonney. 1.
26. s-FROS-FRE-1846. Frost, William Frederick (1846-1891), harpist. Robert David Griffith. 1959. National Library of Wales. 31 January 2021.
27. Humffray, John Basson. 26 August 2022. 586.
28. s3-WOOD-LEW-1828. Wooding, David Lewis (1828-1891), genealogist, historian, bibliophile and shopkeeper. B. A. Mark Williams. 2001. 11 March 2022.
29. Book: The Complete Peerage, Volume X. 1947. St Catherine's Press. 654.
30. s-LLOY-RIC-1820. Lloyd, Thomas Richard (1820–1891), cleric. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. 1959. National Library of Wales. 6 December 2019.
31. Web site: Jones. Evan David. ROWLAND(S), JOHN (Giraldus; 1824–1891). Dictionary of Welsh Biography. 7 April 2016.
32. Web site: Escott. Margaret. Owen, Hugh Owen (1803–1891), of Williamston and Llanstinan, Pemb.. The History of Parliament. 14 March 2018.
33. s-DAVI-CHA-1826. Davies, David Charles (1826-1891). Gwilym Arthur Edwards. 1959. National Library of Wales. 31 January 2021.
34. s-MERE-LEW-1826. Meredith, Lewis (1826–1891), preacher and writer. Griffith Thomas Roberts. 1959. National Library of Wales. 6 December 2019.
35. Iolo Davies, A Certaine Schoole (D. Brown & Son, Cowbridge, 1967), pp. 66 and 145
36. s-PARR-MAD-1658. Parry (and Jones-Parry) family, Madryn, Llŷn. Thomas Richards. 1959. 11 March 2022.
37. Web site: Richard Owens – Architect, Architects of Greater Manchester. The Victorian Society. manchestervictorianarchitects.org.uk. 16 April 2020.