1892 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1870s; 1880s; 1890s; 1900s; 1910s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1892 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1892 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
Princess of Wales – Alexandra
Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd

Events

January – The children's magazine Cymru'r Plant is launched by Owen Morgan Edwards.[1]
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.[2]
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.[3]
14 September – The Cardiff water supply from Cantref Reservoir is officially inaugurated by the Mayor of Merthyr Tydfil.[4]
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- J.D. Lewis establishes the Gomer Press at Llandysul.[5]
- The Parc and Dare Hall in Treorchy opens as a workingmen's institute and library.

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Rhyl

Chair – Evan Jones, "Y Cenhadwr"[6]
Crown – John John Roberts, "Dewi Sant"[7]

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)[8]
12 June – Hilda Vaughan, novelist (died 1985)
20 June – Geoffrey Crawshay, soldier and social benefactor (died 1954)[9]
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)[10]
19 November – Huw T. Edwards, trade union leader and politician (died 1970)[11]

Deaths

13 February – William Davies, palaeontologist, 76[12]
5 March – Theophilus Redwood, pharmacist, 85[13]
15 March – Mesac Thomas, Anglican bishop in Australia, 75[14]
22 April – William Williams, Presbyterian missionary in India, 33 (typhoid)[15]
24 April – John Davies (Ossian Gwent), poet, 53
27 April – Edward Wingfield Humphreys, Welsh-born New Zealand politician, 50/51[16]
6 May – Robert J. Davies, Calvinistic Methodist leader, 52[17]
5 June – Robert Rees, singer and musician, 51[18]
19 June – Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn, industrialist and politician, 78[19]
3 October – William Davies (Gwilym Teilo), poet and historian, 61
26 November – Edward Matthews, minister and author, 79[20]
18 December – Richard Owen, anatomist, 88[21]
23 December – John Gibson, architect of the Marble Church, Bodelwyddan, 75
27 December – Samuel Holland, politician, 89

References

Alfred Owen Hughes Jarman; Gwilym Rees Hughes; Hywel Teifi Edwards; Dafydd Johnston (2000). A Guide to Welsh Literature: c. 1800-1900. University of Wales Press. p. 205. ISBN 978-0-7083-1605-4.
Ifano Jones (1925). 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. W. Lewis. p. 260.
Jim Grindle (30 September 2011). One Hundred Hill Walks from Liverpool. Mainstream Publishing. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-78057-351-9.
Charles Wilkins (1908). The History of Merthyr Tydfil. J. Williams and Sons. p. 532.
Geraint Evans; Helen Fulton (18 April 2019). The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature. Cambridge University Press. p. 596. ISBN 978-1-107-10676-5.
"Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 October 2019.
"Winners of the Crown". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 17 November 2019.
W. Buchanan-Taylor (1947). What Do You Know about Boxing?. Heath Cranton. p. 224.
Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (1910). Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour. T.C. & E.C. Jack. p. 385.
Gerald Norris (June 1981). A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland. David & Charles. p. 295. ISBN 978-0-7153-7845-8.
Paul Ward (15 February 2011). Huw T. Edwards: British Labour and Welsh Socialism. University of Wales Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-78316-445-5.
Bonney, Thomas George (1901). "Davies, William (1814-1891)" . Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Western Druggist. 1892. p. 122.
Thorn, Barbara. "Thomas, Mesac (1816–1892)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 12 February 2013 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
J. Meirion Lloyd (1991). History of the Church in Mizoram: Harvest in the Hills. Synod Publication Board. pp. 17–23.
"OBITUARY". The Star (7270). 30 April 1892. p. 2. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "Davies, Robert (1790-1841), Calvinistic Methodist elder, etc". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
Griffith, Robert David. "Biography of Robert Rees". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
Michael Stenton (1976). Who's who of British members of Parliament: a biographical dictionary of the House of Commons. The Harvester Press. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-85527-219-7.
Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Matthews, Edward (1813-1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 May 2020.

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[1] Alfred Owen Hughes Jarman; Gwilym Rees Hughes; Hywel Teifi Edwards; Dafydd Johnston (2000). A Guide to Welsh Literature: c. 1800-1900. University of Wales Press. p. 205. ISBN 978-0-7083-1605-4.

[2] Ifano Jones (1925). 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. W. Lewis. p. 260.

[3] Jim Grindle (30 September 2011). One Hundred Hill Walks from Liverpool. Mainstream Publishing. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-78057-351-9.

[4] Charles Wilkins (1908). The History of Merthyr Tydfil. J. Williams and Sons. p. 532.

[5] Geraint Evans; Helen Fulton (18 April 2019). The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature. Cambridge University Press. p. 596. ISBN 978-1-107-10676-5.

[6] "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 October 2019.

[7] "Winners of the Crown". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 17 November 2019.

[8] W. Buchanan-Taylor (1947). What Do You Know about Boxing?. Heath Cranton. p. 224.

[9] Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (1910). Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour. T.C. & E.C. Jack. p. 385.

[10] Gerald Norris (June 1981). A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland. David & Charles. p. 295. ISBN 978-0-7153-7845-8.

[11] Paul Ward (15 February 2011). Huw T. Edwards: British Labour and Welsh Socialism. University of Wales Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-78316-445-5.

[12] Bonney, Thomas George (1901). "Davies, William (1814-1891)" . Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[13] Western Druggist. 1892. p. 122.

[14] Thorn, Barbara. "Thomas, Mesac (1816–1892)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 12 February 2013 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.

[15] J. Meirion Lloyd (1991). History of the Church in Mizoram: Harvest in the Hills. Synod Publication Board. pp. 17–23.

[16] "OBITUARY". The Star (7270). 30 April 1892. p. 2. Retrieved 5 May 2020.

[17] Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "Davies, Robert (1790-1841), Calvinistic Methodist elder, etc". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 December 2019.

[18] Griffith, Robert David. "Biography of Robert Rees". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 December 2011.

[19] Michael Stenton (1976). Who's who of British members of Parliament: a biographical dictionary of the House of Commons. The Harvester Press. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-85527-219-7.

[20] Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Matthews, Edward (1813-1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 May 2020.

[21] Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 May 2020.