1905 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1905 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 (until 19 December); Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk (from 19 December)^[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 (until 24 January);^[13] Joshua Pritchard Hughes (from 1 June)^[14]
• Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)^[15]
• Bishop of St Davids – John Owen^[16]

Events

• 31 January – 1904–1905 Welsh Revival: Rev Peter Price writes to the Western Mail, criticising the "so-called" revival led by Evan Roberts.^[17]
• 10 March – 33 men are killed in a mining accident at Cambrian Colliery, Clydach Vale, Rhondda.
• 29 March – Evan Roberts embarks on his first and only mission outside Wales, spending a three-week period in Liverpool.^[18]
• 27 May – Thomas Price becomes Premier of South Australia.
• 30 June – Opening of the Prichard Jones Institute at Newborough, Anglesey.
• 11 July – National Colliery disaster at Wattstown in the Rhondda: an underground explosion kills 120 men, with just one survivor.^[19]
• 28 August – The Dyserth branch line is opened to passengers.^[20]
• 21 October - The centenary of the death of Horatio Nelson is commemorated in a ceremony at The Kymin. Participants include Lady Llangattock.
• 28 October - Edward VII grants city status to Cardiff, the only such grant of his reign.^[21]
• 10 December – David Lloyd George joins the new Liberal Cabinet of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as President of the Board of Trade.
• 18 December – The earldom of Plymouth is revived in favour of Robert George Windsor-Clive, 14th Baron Windsor, who also becomes Viscount Windsor of St. Fagan's.
• 28 December – Godfrey Morgan is created Viscount Tredegar.^[22]
• Sir John Williams purchases the Peniarth manuscripts at the instigation of John Gwenogvryn Evans.

Arts and literature

• Edward Morgan Humphreys joins the staff of Y Genedl Gymreig.

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales – held in Mountain Ash
  • Chair – No winner^[23]
  • Crown – Thomas Mathonwy Davies

New books

English language

• David Ffrangcon Davies – The Singing of the Future^[24]
• W. H. Davies – The Soul's Destroyer^[25]
• Allen Raine - Hearts of Wales^[26]
• Owen Rhoscomyl – Flame-Bearers of Welsh History^[27]

Welsh language

• Gwaith Ann Griffiths (ed. Owen Morgan Edwards)
• John Jones (Myrddin Fardd) – Cynfeirdd Lleyn^[28]
• Gwyneth Vaughan - O Gorlannau'r Defaid^[29]
• John Watson – Yr Hen Ddoctor^[30]

Film

• The Life of Charles Peace made by Ifan ab Owen Edwards^[31]

Music

• David John de Lloyd is the first music graduate of University of Wales, Aberystwyth.^[32]
• John Hughes - "Cwm Rhondda" (hymn tune, first version, as "Rhondda")
• William Penfro Rowlands – "Blaenwern" (hymn tune)

Sport

• Bowls – The International Bowling Board is formed in Cardiff.
  • • Rugby union 11 March – Wales win the Home Nations Championship and take the Triple Crown.
  • 16 December – Wales defeat the first touring New Zealand team at Cardiff Arms Park.

Births

• 6 January – Idris Davies, poet (died 1953)^[33]
• 10 February – Rachel Thomas, actress (died 1995)^[34]
• 28 February – Glyn Jones, writer (died 1995)^[35]
• 1 March – Doris Hare, actress (died 2000)^[36]
• 18 April – Alun Oldfield-Davies, controller of BBC Wales (died 1988)
• 18 May – Thomas Jones Pierce, historian (died 1964)
• 28 June – Albert Clifford Williams, politician (died 1987)^[37]
• 11 July – Jack Bassett, Wales international rugby union player (died 1989)
• 2 August – Myrna Loy, actress of Welsh descent (died 1993)^[38]
• 13 August – Gareth Jones, journalist and advisor to David Lloyd George (died 1935)^[39]
• 28 August – Cyril Walters, cricketer (died 1992)
• 16 October – Barry Livesey, actor (died 1959)
• 31 October – W. F. Grimes, archaeologist (died 1988)
• 26 November – Emlyn Williams, dramatist and actor (died 1987)^[40]
• 10 December – John Edward Jones, Plaid Cymru leader (died 1970)^[41]
• 18 December – Stanley Cornwell Lewis, artist (died 2009)^[42]
• 22 December – Gwyn Richards, dual-code rugby player (died 1985)
• 29 December – Billy Williams, dual-code international rugby player (died 1973)

Deaths

• 24 January – Richard Lewis, Bishop of Llandaff, 83^[43]
• 7 March – Robert Isaac Jones, pharmacist, writer and printer^[44]
• 14 March – Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey, eccentric (died in Monte Carlo), 29^[45]
• 25 April – David Watkin Jones, poet, 73
• 29 May – Robert Franklin John, Welsh-born farmer and political figure in British Columbia, 54^[46]
• August/September – Peter Rees Jones, entrepreneur, 62
• 14 October – John Thomas, photographer, 67
• 15 October – Thomas Howells (Hywel Cynon), poet and musician, 66^[47]
• 19 October – Anne Ceridwen Rees, practising physician in the US, 31^[48]
• 23 October – William Phillips, botanist, 83^[49]
• 28 October – Barry Girling, Wales international rugby union player
• 10 November – Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn), poet and archdruid, 82^[50]
• 19 November – Watkin Hezekiah Williams (Watcyn Wyn), schoolmaster and poet, 61^[51]
• 25 November – William Cadwaladr Davies, educationist, 56^[52]
• 8 December – Edward Davies, US-born minister, publisher of Y Cenhadwr, 78^[53]
• 9 December – Arthur Humphreys-Owen, barrister, landowner and politician, 69^[54]
• 14 December – Nathaniel Jones, minister and poet, 73^[55]
• 17 December – Robert Jones Derfel, poet and dramatist, 81^[56]

See also

• 1905 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. Book: Hywel Teifi Edwards. The Eisteddfod. 20 July 2016. University of Wales Press. 978-1-78316-914-6. 39.
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. s-HUGH-JOS-1807 . Hughes, Joshua (1807-1889), bishop . William Thomas . Havard . William Havard . 26 October 2021.
15. [Who's Who (UK)#Who Was Who|''Who was Who 1897–2007'']
16. s-OWEN-JOH-1854. Owen, John (1854-1926), bishop. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. 1959. 19 March 2022.
17. Rhodri Hayward, Resisting History: Religious Transcendence and the Invention of the Unconscious (Manchester University Press, 2007) p 124
18. http://www.revival-library.org/catalogues/1904ff/hughes.html Gwilym Hughes, "The story of the Liverpool mission"
19. Book: Great Britain. Parliament. The Parliamentary Debates. 1905. Reuter's Telegram Company. 1362.
20. Book: Peter E. Baughan. North and mid Wales. 1980. David & Charles. 978-0-7153-7850-2. 80.
21. Book: Beckett, J.V. . City Status in the British Isles, 1830–2002 . Ashgate Publishing Ltd . 2005 . 2 . 978-0-7546-5067-6 . 2 October 2008 . 28 May 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210528130543/https://books.google.com/books?id=jqqSSOyjBEoC&pg=PP8 . live.
22. s-MORG-TRE-1384 . MORGAN family, of Tredegar Park, Monmouth . Walter Thomas . Morgan . 1959 . 1 June 2014.
23. Web site: Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod. 2021-02-27. eisteddfod.wales.
24. Book: David Thomas Ffrangcon- Davies. The Singing of the Future. 1905. J. Lane.
25. Book: Ian Ousby. The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Literature in English. 23 February 1996. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-43627-4. 104.
26. Book: Allen Raine. Hearts of Wales: An Old Romance. 1905. Hutchinson.
27. Book: Owen Rhoscomyl (pseud.). Flame-bearers of Welsh History: Being the Outline of the Story of 'The Sons of Cunedda'. 1905.
28. Book: Eric Hobsbawm. Terence Ranger. The Invention of Tradition. 26 March 2012. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-107-60467-4. 49.
29. Book: Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940. Paratowyd dan nawdd Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion. 1953. Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorio. 350.
30. Book: Cardiff. Free Libraries. Bibliography of Wales. 1900. 491.
31. Book: Noël Burch. Life to Those Shadows. 21 November 1990. University of California Press. 978-0-520-07144-5. 104.
32. s2-LLOY-JOH-1883. De Lloyd, David John (1883-1948), musician. Selwyn . Jones . 2001.
33. Book: Idris Davies. The Complete Poems of Idris Davies. 1994. University of Wales Press. 978-0-7083-1272-8. xi.
34. Web site: Obituary: Rachel Thomas. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaryrachel-thomas-1572351.html . 1 May 2022 . subscription . live. The Independent. 10 February 1995. 5 September 2015.
35. Web site: Obituary: Glyn Jones . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-glyn-jones-1615167.html . 1 May 2022 . subscription . live . The Independent . Meic Stephens . 11 April 1995 . 3 May 2010.
36. Book: Harris M. Lentz. Obituaries in the Performing Arts. 2000. McFarland & Company. 978-0-7864-1024-8. 100.
37. s8-WILL-CLI-1905. Williams, Albert Clifford (1905-1987), Labour politician. Jones. John Graham. 21 October 2021.
38. News: Myrna Loy, Model of Urbanity in 'Thin Man' Roles, Dies at 88. December 15, 1993. August 30, 2018. Peter B.. Flint. The New York Times.
39. "Mr. Gareth Jones: Journalist and Linguist". The Times. 17 August 1935. Issue 47145, p. 12.
40. News: Krebs . Albin . 26 September 1987 . Emlyn Williams, Welsh Actor and Writer, Dies . The New York Times . 18 October 2016.
41. s8-WILL-CLI-1905. Jones, John Edward (1905-1970), secretary and organiser of Plaid Cymru, 1930-62. Evans. Gwynfor. Gwynfor Evans. 21 October 2021.
42. Web site: Stanley starts his century in fine style. Manchester Evening News. 31 December 2005. 28 March 2022.
43. Death Of The Bishop Of Llandaff, The Times, 25 January 1905; page 4; Issue 37613; col A
44. s-JONE-ISA-1815 . Jones, Robert Isaac (Alltud Eifion; 1815–1905), pharmacist, littérateur, and printer . William Rowlands . 1959 . 1 March 2020 . yes.
45. Book: The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage of the British Empire. 1907. 164.
46. Web site: Vital Event Death Registration . BC Archives . 2011-08-01 .
47. s-HOWE-THO-1839 . HOWELLS, THOMAS (Hywel Cynon, 1839 - 1905), collier, printer, poet, preacher, and musician . Robert David . Griffith . 1959 . 11 October 2019 . yes.
48. D. R. Lewis, "The Late Anne C. Rees, M. D. (Ceridwen)" The Cambrian 25(12)(December 1905): 543-544.
49. Phillips, William. 3.
50. s-WILL-ROW-1823 . WILLIAMS, ROWLAND (Hwfa Môn; 1823–1905), Independent minister, and archdruid of Wales. Richard Griffith Owen . 1959 . 2 February 2019 . yes.
51. s-WILL-HEZ-1844 . Williams, Watkin Hezekiah (Watcyn Wyn; 1844–1905), schoolmaster, poet, and preacher . Brinley . Rees . Brinley Rees . 1959 . 2 February 2019 . yes.
52. s-DAVI-CAD-1849 . Davies, William Cadwaladr (1849–1905), educationist . John Edward Lloyd . 1959 . 1 March 2020 . yes.
53. s-DAVI-EDW-1827 . Davies, Edward (1827–1905), Independent minister in the U.S.A., and author. Robert (Bob) Owen . 1959 . 1 March 2020 . yes.
54. s-HUMP-CHA-1836 . Humphreys-Owen, Arthur (1836–1905), Member of Parliament . Robert Thomas Jenkins . 1959 . 1 March 2020 . yes.
55. s-JONE-NAT-1832 . Jones, Nathaniel Cynhafal (1832–1905), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet. Idwal Lewis . 1959 . 1 March 2020 . yes.
56. s-DERF-JON-1824 . Derfel, Robert Jones (1824–1905), poet and socialist. David Gwenallt . Jones . David Gwenallt Jones . 1959 . 2 February 2019 . yes.