1892 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1892 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 – W. R. M. Wynne^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort^[10]
  • Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite^[12]
• Bishop of Bangor – Daniel Lewis Lloyd^[13]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis^[14]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Alfred George Edwards^[15]
• Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones^[16]

Events

• January – The children's magazine Cymru'r Plant is launched by Owen Morgan Edwards.^[17]
• 5 March – St Michael's & All Angels (Anglican) Theological College is founded at Aberdare.
• 30 May – The South Wales Argus, published in Newport, is launched.^[18]
• 14 July – Official inauguration of the Liverpool water supply from Lake Vyrnwy. The Vyrnwy dam is the first high masonry gravity dam in Britain.
• 13 September – The Watkin Path up Snowdon is officially opened by William Ewart Gladstone.^[19]
• 14 September – The Cardiff water supply from Cantref Reservoir is officially inaugurated by the Mayor of Merthyr Tydfil.^[20]
• date unknown
  • J.D. Lewis establishes the Gomer Press at Llandysul.^[21]
  • The Parc and Dare Hall in Treorchy opens as a workingmen's institute and library.^[22]

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Rhyl

• Chair – Evan Jones, "Y Cenhadwr"^[23]
• Crown – John John Roberts, "Dewi Sant"^[24]

New books

• D Davies – Patagonia: a description of the country
• Daniel James (Gwyrosydd) – Caniadau Gwyrosydd
• Thomas Gwynn Jones – Eglwys y Dyn Tlawd
• John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy) – Lloffion yr Amddifad

Music

• Joseph Parry – Saul of Tarsus (oratorio)
• David Christmas Williams – Traeth Llafar (cantata)

Sport

• Baseball – The Welsh Baseball Union is founded.
• Football – The Welsh Cup is won by Chirk for the fourth time in its 13-year history.
• Golf – The course at Aberdovey is opened.

Births

• 23 March – Jack Whitfield, Wales rugby union captain (died 1927)
• 15 May – Jimmy Wilde, professional boxer (died 1969)^[25]
• 12 June – Hilda Vaughan, novelist (died 1985)^[26]
• 20 June – Geoffrey Crawshay, soldier and social benefactor (died 1954)^[27]
• 25 July – Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, soldier and medical administrator (died 1973)
• 12 August – Jerry Shea, Welsh rugby union and rugby league player (died 1947)
• 18 September – Joe Johns, Welsh lightweight boxing champion (died 1927)
• 12 November – Tudor Davies, operatic tenor (died 1958)^[28]
• 19 November – Huw T. Edwards, trade union leader and politician (died 1970)^[29]

Deaths

• 13 February – William Davies, palaeontologist, 76^[30]
• 5 March – Theophilus Redwood, pharmacist, 85^[31]
• 15 March – Mesac Thomas, Anglican bishop in Australia, 75
• 22 April – William Williams, Presbyterian missionary in India, 33 (typhoid)^[32]
• 24 April – John Davies (Ossian Gwent), poet, 53
• 27 April – Edward Wingfield Humphreys, Welsh-born New Zealand politician, 50/51^[33]
• 6 May – Robert J. Davies, Calvinistic Methodist leader, 52^[34]
• 5 June – Robert Rees, singer and musician, 51^[35]
• 19 June – Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn, industrialist and politician, 78^[36]
• 3 October – William Davies (Gwilym Teilo), poet and historian, 61
• 26 November – Edward Matthews, minister and author, 79^[37]
• 18 December – Richard Owen, anatomist, 88^[38]
• 23 December – John Gibson, architect of the Marble Church, Bodelwyddan, 75
• 27 December – Samuel Holland, politician, 89

See also

• 1892 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. Web site: Transactions of the Liverpool Welsh National Society 1891-92. National Library of Wales. 15 March 2022.
10. Book: Reese, M. M. . The royal office of Master of the Horse . Threshold Books Ltd . London . 1976 . 9780901366900 . 348.
11. Book: Lodge, Edmund . Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire... . Salzwasser-Verlag GMBH . 2020 . 9783752502664 . 318.
12. Book: Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1885. 1027.
13. s-LLOY-LEW-1843. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. Lloyd, Daniel Lewis (1843-1899), schoolmaster and bishop. National Library of Wales. 1959. 5 November 2021.
14. Death Of The Bishop Of Llandaff, The Times, 25 January 1905; page 4; Issue 37613; col A
15. s-EDWA-GEO-1848. Edwards, Alfred George (1848-1937), first archbishop of Wales. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. 1959. 6 March 2022.
16. Web site: William Basil Jones, Bishop of St Davids . Dictionary of National Biography . 21 April 2011.
17. Book: Alfred Owen Hughes Jarman. Gwilym Rees Hughes. Hywel Teifi Edwards. Dafydd Johnston. A Guide to Welsh Literature: c. 1800-1900. 2000. University of Wales Press. 978-0-7083-1605-4. 205.
18. Book: Ifano Jones. A History of Printing and Printers in Wales to 1810, and of Successive and Related Printers to 1923: Also, A History of Printing and Printers In Monmouthshire to 1923. 1925. W. Lewis. 260.
19. Book: Jim Grindle. One Hundred Hill Walks from Liverpool. 30 September 2011. Mainstream Publishing. 978-1-78057-351-9. 10.
20. Book: Charles Wilkins. The History of Merthyr Tydfil. 1908. J. Williams and Sons. 532.
21. Book: Geraint Evans. Helen Fulton. The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature. 18 April 2019. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-107-10676-5. 596.
22. Country Life. not listed. 188. 22-26. Country Life, Limited. 1994. 99.
23. 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.
24. Web site: Winners of the Crown. National Eisteddfod of Wales. 17 November 2019.
25. Book: W. Buchanan-Taylor. What Do You Know about Boxing?. 1947. Heath Cranton. 224.
26. 62359 . Vaughan [married name Morgan], Hilda Campbell . Stephens . Meic . Meic Stephens.
27. Book: Arthur Charles Fox-Davies. Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour. 1910. T.C. & E.C. Jack. 385.
28. Book: Gerald Norris. A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland. June 1981. David & Charles. 978-0-7153-7845-8. 295.
29. Book: Paul Ward. Huw T. Edwards: British Labour and Welsh Socialism. 15 February 2011. University of Wales Press. 978-1-78316-445-5. 17.
30. Davies, William (1814-1891). Bonney. Thomas George. Thomas George Bonney. 1.
31. Book: Western Druggist. 1892. 122.
32. Book: J. Meirion Lloyd . History of the Church in Mizoram: Harvest in the Hills . 1991 . Synod Publication Board. 17–23.
33. News: OBITUARY.. 30 April 1892. 7270. The Star. 2. 5 May 2020.
34. Web site: Davies, Robert (1790-1841), Calvinistic Methodist elder, etc.. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 6 December 2019.
35. Web site: Biography of Robert Rees . Griffith, Robert David . National Library of Wales. 27 December 2011.
36. Book: Michael Stenton. Who's who of British members of Parliament: a biographical dictionary of the House of Commons. 1976. The Harvester Press. 978-0-85527-219-7. 110.
37. s-MATT-EDW-1813. Matthews, Edward (1813-1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author. Gomer Morgan Roberts. 1959. National Library of Wales. 5 May 2020.
38. Book: Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002. July 2006. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 0-902-198-84-X. 5 May 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf. 4 March 2016. dead.