1894 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1894 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd (until 30 October)^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Richard Davies^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk^[3]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves^[4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – W. R. M. Wynne^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort^[10]
  • Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite^[12]
• Bishop of Bangor – Daniel Lewis Lloyd^[13]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis^[14]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Alfred George Edwards^[15]
• Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones^[16]

Events

• 19 February – The first new intermediate school in Wales opens at Caernarfon. Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen is one of the first Welsh medium schools.^[17]
• 10 March – T. E. Ellis is appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury in the Gladstone's fourth ministry, and becomes Chief Whip of the Liberal Party.^[18]
• March/April – In the "Welsh Revolt", MPs Herbert Lewis, David Alfred Thomas, David Lloyd George and Frank Edwards resign the Liberal whip.^[19]
• 23 June – A firedamp explosion at Albion Colliery, Cilfynydd, Glamorgan, results in the death of 290 coal miners and 123 horses underground, making it the worst disaster in Welsh mining history to date (it will be exceeded only by that at Senghenydd in 1913).^{[20] [21]}
• August
  • The Prince of Wales attends the National Eisteddfod.
  • Owen Morgan Edwards makes his first report on county schools in Wales https://web.archive.org/web/20070805061133/http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/InterSchools.html
• unknown dates
• Dissolution of the North Wales Scholarship Association.
• John Philipps, later 1st Viscount St Davids, resigns as MP for Mid Lanarkshire.
• Richard Mills the younger establishes the Rhos Herald, a weekly bilingual newspaper, with himself as editor.^[22]

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Caernarfon

• Chair – Howell Elvet Lewis, "Hunanaberth"^[23]
• Crown – Ben Davies, "Tennyson"^[24]

New books

English language

• Sir John Rhys – Outlines of the Phonology of the Manx Gaelic^[25]

Welsh language

• Evan Thomas Davies (Dyfrig) – Pregethau ac Anerchiadau^[26]
• W. J. Davis – Hanes Plwyf Llandysul, first publication by Gomer Press, Llandysul
• Owen Morgan Edwards – Ystraeon o Hanes Cymru^[27]
• Daniel Owen – Gwen Tomos^[28]
• Sarah Winifred Parry – Sioned (serialization begins)^[29]

Music

• Sir Henry Walford Davies – Sonata No. 1 in E minor, for Piano and Violin^[30]
• Spillers Records is founded in Cardiff; by 2010 it will be regarded the world's oldest surviving record shop.

Sport

• Cricket
  • 22 June / 23 June – Glamorgan play against the touring South Africans. The Glamorgan team contains three Wales rugby internationals, Billy Bancroft, Selwyn Biggs and Ralph Sweet-Escott.
  • William Brain plays his first match for Glamorgan.
• Football
  • The Welsh Cup is won by Chirk for the fifth time in its 15-year history.
  • The North Wales Coast League is established.^[31]
• Rugby union
  • 1 January – Gwyn Nicholls plays his first match for Cardiff.
  • Abercrave RFC, Llanhilleth RFC and Ynysddu RFC are founded.

Births

• 14 March – Ben Beynon, Welsh rugby union international and Swansea Town player (died 1969)
• 21 March – William Hubert Vaughan, public servant (died 1959)
• 16 May – Sir Leonard Twiston Davies, patron of the arts (died 1953)^[32]
• 23 June – Prince Edward (later Prince of Wales, Edward VIII then Duke of Windsor; died 1972)
• 4 July – Ambrose Bebb, author and politician (died 1955)^[33]
• 10 July – Emrys Hughes, politician (died 1969)^[34]
• 31 July – Fred Keenor, footballer (died 1972)
• 23 August – Gareth Hughes, actor (died 1965)
• 27 August – Ike Fowler, dual-code international rugby union player (died 1981)
• 22 October – Llew Edwards, featherweight boxer (died 1965)
• 30 October – Peter Warlock, composer (died 1930)^[35]

Deaths

• 24 February – John Roberts, politician, 58^[36]
• 8 March – John Bickerton Morgan, geologist, 34^[37]
• 20 March – John Davies (Taliesin Hiraethog), poet, 52^[38]
• 18 June – David Davies, Australian politician, about 54
• 30 October – David Griffith (Clwydfardd), poet, 93^[1]
• 4 November – Idris Williams, 59^[39]
• 28 November – Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea, 73^[40]
• 13 December – Morgan Morgan, politician, 61^[41]
• 25 December – Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, 75^[42]
• 30 December – David Thomas, preacher and publisher, 81^[43]

See also

• 1894 in Ireland

Notes and References

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2. s-DAVI-RIC-1818 . Davies, Richard (1818-1896), M.P.. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 1959. 24 November 2021.
3. Book: Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes. Dod. 1921. 356.
4. Book: National Museum of Wales. Adroddiad Blynyddol. The Museum. 1935. 3.
5. 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.
6. Book: Edward Arthur Copleston. Where's where? Pt. 1. A concise gazetteer of Somerset. Pt. 2. Statistical, educational, parliamentary and practical information. 1878. 80.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Web site: Transactions of the Liverpool Welsh National Society 1891-92. National Library of Wales. 15 March 2022.
10. Book: Reese, M. M. . The royal office of Master of the Horse . Threshold Books Ltd . London . 1976 . 9780901366900 . 348.
11. Book: Lodge, Edmund . Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire... . Salzwasser-Verlag GMBH . 2020 . 9783752502664 . 318.
12. Book: Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1885. 1027.
13. s-LLOY-LEW-1843. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. Lloyd, Daniel Lewis (1843-1899), schoolmaster and bishop. National Library of Wales. 1959. 5 November 2021.
14. Death Of The Bishop Of Llandaff, The Times, 25 January 1905; page 4; Issue 37613; col A
15. s-EDWA-GEO-1848. Edwards, Alfred George (1848-1937), first archbishop of Wales. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. 1959. 6 March 2022.
16. Web site: William Basil Jones, Bishop of St Davids . Dictionary of National Biography . 21 April 2011.
17. Book: Owen E. Jones. The Welsh Intermediate Education Act of 1889: A Centenary Appraisal. 1990. Welsh Office. 978-0-7504-0068-8. 25.
18. Book: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. 1982. The Society. 146.
19. Book: Don M. Cregier. Bounder from Wales: Lloyd George's career before the First World War. 1976. University of Missouri Press. 978-0-8262-0203-1. 110.
20. Web site: Albion Colliery. BBC Wales. 2008. 2010-10-15.
21. Web site: Albion Colliery Cilfynydd. Welsh Coal Mines. 2010-10-15.
22. Book: Humphreys, Maggie . Dictionary of composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland . Mansell . London Herndon, VA . 1997 . 9780720123302 . 234.
23. Web site: Winners of the Chair. National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 February 2020.
24. Web site: Winners of the Crown. National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 February 2020.
25. Book: Per Sture Ureland. George Broderick. Language contact in the British Isles: Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Language Contact in Europe, Douglas, Isle of Man, 1988. 9 May 2011. Walter de Gruyter. 978-3-11-167865-8. 56.
26. Book: Who's who. 1919. A. & C. Black. 627.
27. Book: Meic Stephens. The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. registration. April 1986. Oxford University Press. 168.
28. Book: Gareth King. The Routledge Intermediate Welsh Reader. 2 May 2013. Routledge. 978-1-135-12043-6. 133.
29. Book: Aaron, Jane. Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales: Nation, Gender and Identity. 2010. University of Wales Press. Cardiff, Wales. 978-0-7083-2287-1. 183.
30. Book: Henry Cope Colles. Walford Davies, a biography. 1947. Oxford University Press. 28.
31. Book: Richard Cox. British Sport: a Bibliography to 2000: Volume 1: Nationwide Histories. 16 December 2013. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-135-28721-4. 145.
32. Web site: Davies, Sir Leonard Twiston (1894–1953), patron of the arts and of folk life studies. Iorwerth Peate. Iorwerth Peate. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 10 December 2019.
33. Web site: Bebb, William Ambrose. Thomas Parry. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 10 December 2019.
34. Book: A. Thomas Lane. Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders. 1995. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-26456-6. 432.
35. Book: Ian Alfred Copley. The music of Peter Warlock: a critical survey. 1979. D. Dobson. 1. 9780234772492.
36. Book: Stenton, Michael . Who's who of British members of Parliament : a biographical dictionary of the House of Commons based on annual volumes of Dod's Parliamentary companion and other sources . Harvester Press Humanities Press . Hassocks, Sussex, Eng. Atlantic Highlands, N.J . 1976 . 9780855273156 . 305.
37. Book: Thomas Mardy Rees. Notable Welshmen (1700–1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. 1908. Herald Office. 435.
38. John Davies. s-DAVI-JOH-1841. 1959. National Library of Wales. Williams. Griffith John. 4 July 2017.
39. News: Sudden Death at Porth. 12 March 2014. South Wales Daily Post. 6 November 1894.
40. Vivian, Henry Hussey.
41. News: Death of a Welsh Knight – Sir Morgan Morgan suddenly expires – widespread sorrow in South Wales . Weekly Mail . Wales and the West of England . 7 . 15 December 1894 . Welsh Newspapers Online .
42. Book: Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. 1914. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1903.
43. Thomas Rowland Roberts, Eminent Welshmen (1908), p. 507-508.