1895 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1895 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa Môn^[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 (until 12 September);^[12] Powlett Milbank (from 12 September)^[13]
• Bishop of Bangor – Daniel Lewis Lloyd^[14]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis^[15]
• Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)^[16]
• Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones^[17]

Events

• 4 February – Penarth Pier is opened.^[18]
• 11 April – Rhos-on-Sea Pier is opened.^[18]
• 29 March – The National Trust acquires Dinas Oleu, Barmouth, its first property in the UK.
• 1 November – The last turnpike toll-gates in the UK are removed, from Llanfairpwllgwyngyll on Anglesey.

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Llanelli

• Chair – John Owen Williams, "Dedwyddwch"^[19]
• Crown – Lewis William Lewis

New books

English language

• Henry Jones – A Critical Account of the Philosophy of Lotze
• Arthur Machen – The Three Impostors^[20]
• William Retlaw Williams – The parliamentary history of the principality of Wales^[21]

Welsh language

• Daniel Owen – Straeon y Pentan^[22]

Music

• John Thomas Rees – String quartet^[23]

Sport

• Golf – The Welsh Golfing Union is founded,^[24] and the first Welsh amateur golf championships are held.
• Horse racing – 15 April: The Welsh Grand National steeplechase is run for the first time, at Ely Racecourse, Cardiff. A huge crowd breaks down barriers and almost overwhelms police trying to keep out gatecrashers.^[25] Deerstalker is the winner but the horse Barmecide breaks its neck.^[26]

Births

• 22 January – Iorwerth Thomas, politician (died 1966)
• 25 January – Mary Glynne, actress (died 1954)^[27]
• 8 February – Edward Enoch Jenkins, judge (died 1960)^[28]
• 19 February – Mary Dilys Glynne, plant pathologist and mountaineer (died 1991)^[29]
• 23 February – Wilfred Mitford Davies, artist (died 1966)^[30]
• 1 March – William Richard Williams, civil servant (died 1963)
• 11 March – Albert Jenkins, rugby player (died 1953)
• 3 April – Brinley Williams, Wales dual-code rugby international (died 1987)
• 4 April – Nan Braunton, actress (died 1978)
• 14 April – Albert Evans-Jones ("Cynan"), poet and Archdruid (died 1970)^[31]
• 17 April – Thomas Hughes, clergyman, assistant Bishop of Llandaff (died 1981)^[32]
• 18 May – Tom Rees, airman, victim of the "Red Baron" (died 1916)^[33]
• 8 June – Idwal Jones, humorous writer (died 1937)^[34]
• 16 June – David Cuthbert Thomas, soldier who inspired works by both Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves (died 1916)^[35]
• 24 July – Robert Graves, Royal Welch Fusiliers officer, poet, novelist and classicist often resident in Wales (died 1985)^[36]
• 25 July – Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards (died 1970)^[37]
• 14 September – George Harrison, Glamorgan cricketer (date of death unknown)
• 1 November – David Jones, poet and artist (died 1974)^[38]
• 24 November – William Evans, cardiologist (died 1988)^[39]

Deaths

• 8 January – Daniel Harper, academic, 73^[40]
• 15 January – Lady Charlotte Guest, translator of the Mabinogion, 82
• 16 February – Thomas Briscoe, academic, 81^[41]
• 18 February – James Goronwy Mathias, minister and writer, 53^[42]
• 25 February – Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, politician, 79^[43]
• 2 April – Ellis Thomas Davies, minister and author, 73^[44]
• 3 May – George Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke, 44^[45]
• 8 May – Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet, 51^[46]
• 13 July – John Griffin, Welsh international rugby player, 35
• 18 August – John Arthur Edward Herbert, High Sheriff of Monmouthshire 1849, 76^[47]
• 28 August – Henry Pochin, English industrial chemist, mine-owner and politician, founder of Bodnant Garden, 71^[48]
• 22 October – Daniel Owen, novelist, 59^[49]
• 23 November – William Davies (Pembrokeshire MP), 74^[50]
• date unknown – David Lewis, Newmanite priest and academic (born 1814)^[51]

See also

• 1895 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. 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. Book: An Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1913. Joseph Whitaker. Whitaker's Almanack. 1913. 847.
14. s-LLOY-LEW-1843. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. Lloyd, Daniel Lewis (1843-1899), schoolmaster and bishop. National Library of Wales. 1959. 5 November 2021.
15. 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.
16. [Who's Who (UK)#Who Was Who|''Who was Who 1897–2007'']
17. Web site: William Basil Jones, Bishop of St Davids . Dictionary of National Biography . 21 April 2011.
18. Book: Martin. Easdown. Darlah. Thomas. Piers of Wales. Stroud. Amberley Publishing. 2010. 9781848689206.
19. Web site: Winners of the Chair . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair . 13 February 2021 . National Eisteddfod of Wales . 18 February 2021.
20. Book: Sutherland, John . The Stanford companion to Victorian fiction . Stanford University Press . Stanford, Calif . 1989 . 9780804718424 . 628.
21. Book: William Retlaw Williams. The Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales.... E. Davis and Bell. 1895.
22. Book: John Buchanan-Brown. Cassell's Encyclopaedia of World Literature: Biographies L-Z. 1953. Morrow. 274. 9780688002282.
23. s2-REES-THO-1857. Rees, John Thomas (1857-1949), musician. David Ewart Parry Williams. Evan David Jones. 26 August 2021.
24. Book: Carradice, Phil. Trudy. Phil Carradice. Golf in Wales: A Pictorial History. 15 June 2010. Amberley Publishing. Stroud. 978-1-4456-2347-4. 6.
25. Web site: Youngsters are odds on to uncover history of racecourse. Wales Online. 2009-02-13. 2015-08-20.
26. News: Cardiff Spring Meeting. Western Mail. Cardiff. 1895-04-16. 7.
27. Book: Scott Wilson. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.. 19 August 2016. McFarland. 978-1-4766-2599-7. 283.
28. Web site: Sir (Edward) Enoch Jenkins (1895-1960), Judge. National Portrait Gallery. 27 September 2015.
29. Book: Jean Beagle Ristaino. Pioneering Women in Plant Pathology. 2008. APS Press. 978-0-89054-359-7. 87.
30. s2-DAVI-MIT-1895. Davies, Wilfred Mitford (1895–1966), artist. Margaret Mitford Williams. 4 February 2020.
31. s2-JONE-EVA-1895. Jones, Sir Cynan (Albert) Evans ('Cynan'; 1895–1970), poet, dramatist and eisteddfodwr. Thomas Parry. 9 July 2019.
32. http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U165555 'HUGHES, Rt. Rev Thomas Maurice'
33. Book: Mike O'Connor. Airfields and Airmen: Cambrai. 26 September 2003. Pen and Sword. 978-1-78340-269-4. 185.
34. s-JONE-MER-1895. Jones, Richard Idwal (1895-1937), better known as Idwal Jones, schoolmaster, poet, and dramatist. David Gwenallt Jones. 10 December 2019.
35. Web site: David Cuthbert Thomas. Cricket Museum Wales. 18 August 2024. en.
36. Web site: National Portrait Gallery – Person – Robert Ranke Graves . Npg.org.uk . 19 December 2010.
37. s2-EDWA-OWE-1895. Edwards, Sir Ifan ab Owen (1895–1970), lecturer, founder of Urdd Gobaith Cymru. Mary Auronwy James. 4 February 2020.
38. Book: John Matthias. David Jones, man and poet. 1 January 1989. National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine. 978-0-943373-03-4. 32.
39. Evans W, Journey to Harley Street; David Rendel, London (1968)
40. Book: Baker, J. N. L. Jesus College 1571–1971. J. N. L. Baker . 1971 . Oxonian Press Ltd, Oxford . 91–93 . 0-9502164-0-2.
41. s-BRIS-THO-1813. Briscoe, Thomas (1813–1895), cleric and scholar . Williams James. John. 2008-04-20.
42. s-MATH-GOR-1842. Mathias, James Goronwy (Goronwy Ddu; 1842–1895), Baptist minister and littérateur. Benjamin George Owens. 10 December 2019.
43. s-BRUC-AUS-1815. Bruce, Henry Austin (1815–1895), 1st Baron Aberdare. James Frederick Rees. 10 December 2019.
44. s-DAVI-THO-1822. Davies, Ellis Thomas (1822–1895), Independent minister. Richard Griffith Owen. 10 December 2019.
45. Book: William Shakespeare. Shakespeare and the Bible: Fifty Sonnets with Their Scriptural Harmonies. 1896. Samuel Bagster.
46. s-JONE-TUD-1844. Jones, Thomas (Tudno; 1844–1895), cleric and poet. Thomas Parry. 13 February 2020.
47. Book: Joseph Jackson Howard. Visitation of England and Wales. 1896. Priv. print. 29.
48. Book: H. T. Milliken. The Road to Bodnant: The Story Behind the Foundation of the Famous North Wales Garden. 1975. Morten. 978-0-85972-021-2. vii.
49. s-OWEN-DAN-1836. Owen, Daniel (1836-1895), novelist. Katherine Williams. 10 December 2019.
50. News: South Wales Daily Post. 23 November 1895 . Death of Sir William Davies. 19 December 2020.
51. Lewis, Evan (1818–1901). Thomas. D. L.. 2004. 10.1093/ref:odnb/34513. 26 April 2008.