1890 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1890 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
Events
- 6 February - In an accident at Llanerch Colliery, Pontypool, 176 miners are killed.
- 10 March - In an accident at Morfa Colliery, Port Talbot, 86 miners are killed.
- 7 April - An Easter Monday conference at Llangefni leads to agreement with employers on a shorter working day for male agricultural labourers.
- 13 April - At a by-election in Caernarfon, David Lloyd George wins the seat for the Liberals from the Conservatives, defeating H. J. E. Nanney, the local squire; Lloyd George remains the constituency MP until his death in 1945.
- 22 May - Y Cymro is launched by Isaac Foulkes (Llyfrbryf) in Liverpool as a liberal weekly Welsh language "national newspaper for Welshmen at home and abroad"; it is published until 1909.
- Summer - Queen Elisabeth of Romania visits Llandudno, staying for five weeks and later remembering it as "a beautiful haven of peace"; the phrase is later translated into Welsh and used as the town's motto.
- 21 December - Beginning of a 3-week period of severe winter weather causing deaths and disruption to daily life in many parts of Wales.
- Opening of the Rock Mill watermill for woollen milling at Capel Dewi, Llandysul.
Arts and literature
Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales - held at Bangor
New books
- Anne Beale - Old Gwen
- Rhoda Broughton - Alas!
- Arthur Machen - The Great God Pan (in the magazine The Whirlwind)
Music
Sport
- Cricket - The England ladies' team plays an exhibition match at Newport.
- Football - The Welsh Cup is won by Chirk for the third time.
- Hockey - The Welsh Hockey Association is founded.
- Rugby union - Wales win their very first international against England. The only try was scored by Cardiff's 'Buller' Stadden.
Births
- 2 January - Madoline Thomas, actress (died 1989)
- 21 January - Jack Anthony, jockey (died 1954)
- 14 February - Nina Hamnett, artist and Bohemian (died 1956)[3]
- 1 March - Jack Beames, rugby player (died 1970)
- 16 February - Thomas Ifor Rees, diplomat (died 1977)[4]
- 20 April - Ernest Roberts, politician (died 1969)[5]
- 5 May - George Littlewood Hirst, Wales international rugby player (died 1967)
- 14 June - Dai Hiddlestone, Wales international rugby player (died 1973)
- 21 June - W. J. A. Davies, rugby player (died 1967)
- 28 July - Horace Thomas, Wales international rugby player (died 1916)
- 30 August - Llewelyn Wyn Griffith, novelist (died 1977)[6]
- 13 September - Johnny Basham, boxer (died 1947)
- 19 September - Jim Griffiths, politician, first Secretary of State for Wales (died 1975)
- 22 November - (in Lancashire) Harry Pollitt, Communist trade union leader and parliamentary candidate for Rhondda East (died 1960)
- 16 December - P. J. Grigg, politician (died 1964)
Deaths
- 17 January - Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, landowner, 86[7]
- 20 January - Guillermo Rawson, Argentinian politician and patron of Patagonian Welsh colony, 68[8]
- 4 March - Henry Davies, journalist, publisher and librarian, 86[9]
- 19 March - Edmund Swetenham, MP for Caernarfon, 67[10]
- 8 April - William Jones, Army officer, 81/2
- 21 March - Benjamin Thomas Williams, politician, 57[11]
- 29 June - Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, 59[12]
- 12 July - David Pugh, politician, 84[13]
- 20 July - David Davies "Llandinam", industrialist, 71[14]
- 6 August - Thomas Babington Jones, cricketer, 39
- 10 October - Charles Herbert James, politician, 73[15]
- 27 October - Enoch Salisbury, barrister, politician and bibliophile, 70[16]
- unknown date - John Cambrian Rowland, painter, 70
References
- "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 11 December 2019.
- "Winners of the Crown". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 17 November 2019.
- Nina Hamnett (23 March 2011). Laughing Torso - Reminiscences of Nina Hamnett. Read Books Limited. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-4465-4552-2.
- Great Britain. Foreign Office (1949). The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular Year Book for ... Harrison and Sons. p. 3937.
- All India Reporter. D.V. Chitaley. 1938. p. 65.
- Meic Stephens (1 October 2007). Poetry 1900-2000. Summersdale Publishers Limited. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-84839-722-4.
- TALBOT, Christopher Rice Mansel (1803-1890), of Penrice Castle and Margam Park, Glam. History of Parliament Online
- Larrain, Jacob (1893). Biografía del doctor Guillermo Rawson. La Plata: Imp., Lit. y Encuad. de Solá Hnos. Sesé y Ca. (in Spanish)
- Cheltenham Looker-In, March 1890
- "The Late Mr. Swetemham, M.P." Llangollen Advertiser via National Library of Wales. 28 March 1890. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
- "Will of the Late Mr B. T. Williams, Q.C.|1890-04-28|South Wales Daily News - Welsh Newspapers". newspapers.library.wales. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
- James Louis Garvin; Franklin Henry Hooper; Warren E. Cox (1929). The Encyclopedia Britannica. The Encyclopedia Britannica Company. p. 891.
- "The Late Mr David Pugh M.P." Carmarthen Journal. 17 October 1890. p. 8. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- Bulmer-Thomas, Ivor. "David Davis, Llandinam (1818-1890), industrialist and Member of Parliament". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
- Walter Thomas Morgan. "James, Charles Herbert (1817-1890), M.P." Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). . Dictionary of National Biography. 50. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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