1902 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1902 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa Môn^[1]
  • Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves^[3]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans^[4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th Baronet^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – W. R. M. Wynne^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar^[9]
  • Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank^[11]
• Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams^[12]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis^[13]
• Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)^[14]
• Bishop of St Davids – John Owen^[15]

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.
• 31 July – Opening of the first section of the Great Orme Tramway at Llandudno, the longest funicular railway in the British Isles.^[16]
• 2 August – A. G. Edwards, Bishop of St Davids, is appointed Honorary Chaplain to the Denbighshire Yeomanry.
• August – Opening of the Vale of Rheidol Railway for goods traffic (it opens to passengers on 22 December).^[17]
• 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.^[18]
  • 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 Jones^[19]
  • 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 Huntsmen^[20]

Sport

• Gymnastics – The Welsh Amateur Gymnastics Association is formed.^[21]
• 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)^[22]
• 4 March – David Evans-Bevan, industrialist (died 1973)^[23]
• 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)^[24]
• 18 June – Morgan Phillips, politician (died 1963)^[25]
• 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)^[26]
• 21 September – E. E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist of Welsh descent (died 1972)^[27]
• 27 October (in Oxford) – Harold Arthur Harris, academic (died 1974)
• 26 November (in Wales or Bristol) – Cyril Bence, academic and politician (died 1992)^[28]
• date unknown – Richard Bryn Williams, writer (died 1981)

Deaths

• 1 January – William McConnel, industrialist, 93^[29]
• 11 January – James James, harpist and composer, 69^[30]
• 19 February – Jeremiah Jones, poet, 46
• 6 March – William Rathbone, politician, 82^[31]
• 11 March – Alcwyn Evans, historian, 73^[32]
• 6 April – Robert Owen, theologian, 81^[33]
• 5 June – Arthur Powell Davies, English-born American minister, author, and activist of Welsh parentage (d. 1957)^[34]
• 13 July – Edmund Hannay Watts, industrialist (Wattstown)^[35]
• 14 July – Martyn Jordan, Wales international rugby player, 37
• 23 August – Robert Henry Davies, colonial official in British India, 78^[36]
• 5 October – Henry Lascelles Carr, journalist^[37]
• 18 October – Margaret Jones, travel writer (Y Gymraes o Ganaan), 60^[38]
• 17 November – Hugh Price Hughes, minister and anti-Parnell campaigner, 55^[39]
• December – Thomas Davies, footballer, 36/37^[40]
• date unknown – Jones Hewson, singer and actor, 27^[41]

See also

• 1902 in Ireland

Notes and References

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2. Book: Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes. Dod. 1921. 356.
3. Book: National Museum of Wales. Adroddiad Blynyddol. The Museum. 1935. 3.
4. 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.
5. Book: The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. 1986. 63.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Web site: Transactions of the Liverpool Welsh National Society 1891-92. National Library of Wales. 15 March 2022.
9. Book: Cyril James Oswald Evans. Monmouthshire, Its History and Topography. W. Lewis (printers). 1953. 190.
10. s-CAMP-VAU-1847. Campbell, Frederick Archibald Vaughan, viscount Emlyn (1847-1898), earl Cawdor (1898-1911). Glyn Roberts. 1959. 20 March 2022.
11. Book: Whitaker's Almanack. Joseph Whitaker. Whitaker's Almanack. 1913. 847.
12. Book: Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1925. 2437.
13. Book: David Henry Williams. Catalogue of Seals in the National Museum of Wales: Seal dies, Welsh seals, papal bullae. National Museum of Wales. 1993. 75.
14. [Who's Who (UK)#Who Was Who|''Who was Who 1897–2007'']
15. s-OWEN-JOH-1854. Owen, John (1854-1926), bishop. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. 1959. 19 March 2022.
16. Book: Stanley C. Jenkins. Martin Loader. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Volume One Chester to Holyhead. 15 March 2015. Amberley Publishing Limited. 978-1-4456-4416-5. 148.
17. Book: Lewis Cozens . Lewis Cozens . The Vale of Rheidol Railway. 1950. Lewis Cozens.
18. Book: Gareth Elwyn Jones. Professor of Anatomy and Structural Biology Gareth Jones. Modern Wales: A Concise History. 28 October 1994. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-46945-6. 171.
19. Web site: T Gwynn Jones and Arthur ap Gwynn Papers. JISC Archives Hub. 22 January 2019.
20. Book: Edward Wulstan Atkins. Edward Elgar. Sir Ivor Atkins. The Elgar-Atkins friendship. 26 April 1984. David & Charles. 978-0-7153-8583-8.
21. Web site: Welsh Gymnastics - About Us. Welsh Gymnastics. 22 January 2019.
22. Web site: Sally Belfrage. Obituary: Lord Milford - People - News. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-milford-1465048.html. 1 May 2022. subscription. live. The Independent. 1993-12-03. 2012-09-03.
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24. s2-LLOY-GEO-1888. Lloyd George (family). William Richard Philip George. 14 October 2019.
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27. Pocock . David F. . Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard 1902–1973: An appreciation . Africa . July 1975 . 45 . 3 . 327–330 . 10.1017/S0001972000025456 . 143722277 . free .
28. Web site: Obituary: Cyril Bence. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-cyril-bence-1550065.html. 1 May 2022. subscription. live. 8 September 1992. Tam Dalyell. The Independent. 22 January 2019. Tam Dalyell.
29. Nature. John Wanklyn McConnel. 109. 2747. 821. 24 June 1922. 10.1038/109821a0. free.
30. Encyclopedia: Daniel Lleufer. Thomas. Daniel Lleufer Thomas. Dictionary of National Biography. London. Smith, Elder & Co.. 2. 1912 supplement. 1912. 361.
31. s-RATH-WIL-1819. Rathbone, William (1819–1902), philanthropist. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 3 December 2019.
32. s-EVAN-CAR-1828. Evans, Alcwyn Caryni (1828–1902), antiquary. Bertie George Charles. Morfudd Nia Jones. 3 December 2019.
33. Web site: 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.
34. Web site: 9 May 2003. Manish Mishra-Marzetti. A. Powell Davies. Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography. 29 March 2022.
35. http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/27461/pages/5062/page.pdf London Gazette, August 1902
36. http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U185254 DAVIES, Sir Robert Henry
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38. Griffiths. Griffith Milwyn. JONES, MARGARET ('Y Gymraes o Ganaan'; 1842-1902) traveller and writer. s3-JONE-MAR-1902. 24 February 2021.
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41. Stone, David. Jones Hewson at Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 12 February 2007