1911 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1911 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dyfed^[1]
  • Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 2nd 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 (until 29 April);^[7] William Glynne Charles Gladstone (from 8 July)
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Osmond Williams, 1st Baronet^[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 (until 8 February);^[10] John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids (from 21 March)
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank^[11]
• Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams^[12]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Joshua Pritchard Hughes^[13]
• Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)^[14]
• Bishop of St Davids – John Owen^[15]

Events

• February - April - A Welsh Nationalist League is founded, based in Caernarfonshire, to campaign for Home Rule.^[16]
• 23 June - The future Edward VIII is created Prince of Wales by his father, George V.
• July - Dockers' strike action at Cardiff culminates in rioting. Five hundred troops are drafted into the area.
• 13 July - Prince Edward (later Edward VIII) is invested as Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Caernarfon Castle, devised by David Lloyd George.
• 14 July - New buildings of the University College of North Wales, Bangor, opened.
• 23 July - King George V and Queen Mary lay the foundation stone of the new National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.^[17]
• 29 July - Mawddwy Railway formally reopened, worked by the Cambrian Railways.^[18]
• August - Rioting in Bargoed, Brynamman, Ebbw Vale and Tredegar. Jewish-owned businesses are attacked and troops brought in.
• 19 August - Llanelli riots: During demonstrations in support of a national railway strike (17 - 20 August), two men are shot dead by soldiers of the Worcestershire Regiment in Llanelli. Magistrates' homes are attacked and four more of the crowd are killed outright when explosive material stored on railway property ignites.^[19]
• 21 August - 5 December - A strike at the British Wagon Company's Swansea works leads to rioting in September - October.^{[20] [21] [22]}
• 4 September - Members of the South Wales Miners' Federation return to work after a ten-month strike against colliery owners in the Cambrian Combine which triggered the Tonypandy riots, having accepted the 2s 3d per ton payment rate negotiated prior to the strike by William Abraham.^[23]
• 16 December - The Imperial Copyright Act (coming into effect in 1912) entitles the National Library of Wales to be given by legal deposit a copy of all British publications in specified categories, based on a memorandum drafted by Daniel Lleufer Thomas.^[24]

Arts and literature

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Carmarthen
  • Chair - William Roberts, "Iorwerth VII"^[25]
  • Crown - William Crwys Williams

New books

• Edward Morgan Humphreys - Dirgelwch yr Anialwch ("Mystery of the Desert")
• Sir John Edward Lloyd – A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest
• John Ward – The Roman Era in Britain

Music

• Sir Henry Walford Davies - Symphony in G

Sport

• Boxing - Freddie Welsh loses his British lightweight title to Matt Wells.
• Horse racing - Jack Anthony wins the Grand National for the first time, on "Glenside".
• Rugby league - Merthyr Tydfil RLFC fold after four seasons.
• Rugby union - Wales win their third Grand Slam.

Births

• 27 March - Alwyn D. Rees, writer (died 1974)^[26]
• 13 April - Len Richards, footballer (died 1985)
• 26 May - Gwilym Tilsley, poet and archdruid (died 1997)
• 30 June - Alfred Janes, artist (died 1999)^[27]
• 23 July - Idris Foster, academic (died 1984)^[28]
• 29 August - Raymond Bark-Jones, Wales international rugby player
• 2 September - Jack Petersen, boxer (died 1990)
• 4 September - John Robert Jones, philosopher (died 1970)^[29]
• 12 October - Iorrie Isaacs, Wales international rugby player (died 1966)
• 12 November - Pennar Davies, clergyman and author (died 1996)^[30]
• 20 November - Bernard Cowey, Wales international rugby union player (died 1997)
• 7 December - John Gwyn Griffiths, academic (died 2004)
• date unknown - Dai Francis, miners’ leader (died 1981)

Deaths

• 8 February - Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor, politician, Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire, 63^[31]
• 3 March - Jacob Thomas, Victoria Cross recipient, 78^[32]
• 29 April - Hugh Robert Hughes, genealogist, 83^[33]
• 12 July - Harry Day, Wales international rugby player, 47
• 13 August - Thomas Thomas, boxer, 31 (pneumonia)^[34]
• 18 August - Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford, politician, 82
• 28 August - Jack Williams, Wales international rugby player, 28
• 4 September - Tom Hurry Riches, steam locomotive engineer, 64^[35]
• 12 September - Arthur John Williams, politician, 77^[36]
• 30 September - John David Davies, churchman, wood-carver and antiquarian, 80^[37]
• 3 October - William Tudor Howell, lawyer and politician, 48^[38]
• 14 November - Robert Davies Roberts, scientist and author, 60^[39]
• 6 December - Pryce Lewis, detective and spy, 80 (suicide)^[40]
• 11 December - Rowland Ellis, bishop, 70^[41]

See also

• 1911 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. Rhys . James Ednyfed . Rees, Evan (Dyfed; 1850-1923), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and archdruid of Wales . s-REES-EVA-1850 . National Library of Wales . 2 August 2018 . 1959.
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. Davies . Sir William Llewelyn . s-WILL-BRO-1800 . Williams family, of Bron Eryri, later called Castell Deudraeth, Meirionnydd. 30 January 2020.
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. s-HUGH-JOS-1807 . Hughes, Joshua (1807-1889), bishop . William Thomas . Havard . William Havard . 26 October 2021.
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. News: The Times. London. 1911-03-06. 10. 39525. Wales And The Government.
17. Web site: Welsh History Month: The National Library of Wales still dominates the town of Aberystwyth. 9 October 2014. Chris Pyke. WalesOnline. 27 November 2018.
18. Book: Rex. Christiansen. R. W.. Miller. The Cambrian Railways. II. David & Charles. Newton Abbot. 0-7153-4220-7. 45.
19. News: The Times. 1911-08-21. 6. 39669. Fatal Riots At Llanelly. London.
20. Chris. Sambrook. The Swansea Wagon Wars. Archive. Lydney. 104. December 2019. 48–55.
21. News: Rioting at Swansea: Waggon Workers Strike. The Sydney Morning Herald. 1911-09-28. 2012-06-28.
22. News: Swansea Riots Resumed. Wanganui Chronicle. 12824. 1911-10-16. 5. 2012-06-28.
23. Web site: Rhondda marks 100th anniversary of Tonypandy Riots. BBC News.
24. Web site: Eddie. May. Thomas, Sir Daniel Lleufer (1863–1940). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press . 2012-06-28. 10.1093/ref:odnb/46550 . May 2011.
25. Web site: Winners of the Chair. National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 October 2019. 5 August 2022.
26. 10.1093/ref:odnb/75837 . Hywel Meilyr . Davies . Rees, Alwyn David .
27. News: Gooding, Mel . Obituary: Alfred Janes. 6 February 1999 . . London . 20 March 2011 .
28. s6-FOST-LLE-1911. Foster, Idris, Llewelyn (1911-1984), Welsh and Celtic Scholar. Robert Geraint Gruffydd. 24 November 2019.
29. s2-JONE-ROB-1911. Jones, John Robert (1911-1970), philosopher and patriot. Mary Beynon Davies. 2001. 4 October 2022.
30. Book: Meic Stephens. Necrologies: A Book of Welsh Obituaries. 2008. Seren. 978-1-85411-476-1. 29.
31. Campbell, Frederick Archibald Vaughan.
32. Book: Max Arthur. Symbol of Courage: The Men Behind the Medal. 2005. Pan Macmillan. 978-0-330-49133-4. 680.
33. Book: Collections Historical & Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire. The Club. 1910. 281.
34. Web site: Thomas, Thomas (1880-1911), first British middle-weight boxing champion. Moelwyn Idwal Williams. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 9 October 2019.
35. Book: The Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute. 1911. The Institute. 456.
36. Web site: Papers of A. J. Williams. Archives Wales. 27 November 2018.
37. s-ELLI-ROW-1841. Davies, John David (1841-1911), cleric and antiquary. Walter Thomas Morgan. 1959. National Library of Wales. 9 October 2019.
38. "Mr Tudor Howell MP". The Yorkshire Post (16610). 19 September 1900. p. 5
39. Roberts, Robert Davies. 3.
40. Mortimer, Gavin (2010). Double Death: The True Story of Pryce Lewis, the Civil War's Most Daring Spy. New York, Walker Publishing Company., pages 234-7
41. s-ELLI-ROW-1841. Ellis, Rowland (1841-1911), bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney. Walter Thomas Morgan. 1959. National Library of Wales. 9 October 2019.