1902 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1902 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – George (later George V)
- Princess of Wales – Mary
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa Môn[1]
Events
- 4 March – Five miners are killed in a mining accident at Milfaen Colliery, Blaenavon.
- 1 May – Cardiff Corporation Tramways begins operating its electric system.
- 3 June – Six miners are killed in an accident at Gerwen Colliery, Llanelli.
- 26 June – In the 1902 Coronation Honours, Isambard Owen and Alfred Thomas receive knighthoods.
- 15 July – Francis Grenfell is created 1st Baron Grenfell of Kilvey in the County of Glamorgan.[2]
- 31 July – Opening of the first section of the Great Orme Tramway at Llandudno, the longest funicular railway in the British Isles.[3]
- August – Opening of the Vale of Rheidol Railway for goods traffic (it opens to passengers on 22 December).[4]
- 11 November – Five miners are killed in an accident at Deep Navigation Colliery, Mountain Ash.
- date unknown
- Alfred Mond founds his nickel works at Clydach in the Swansea Valley.[5]
- 230 Welsh colonists leave Patagonia for Manitoba in Canada.
- Opening of Caernarfon electric power station.
Arts and literature
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales – held in Bangor
- Chair – T. Gwynn Jones[6]
- Crown – Silyn Roberts
New books
English language
- Rhoda Broughton – Lavinia
- Arthur Machen – Hieroglyphics
- Allen Raine – A Welsh Witch
Welsh language
- Hugh Brython Hughes – Tlysau Ynys Prydain
- Thomas Rowland Roberts – Y Monwyson
Music
- Sir Henry Walford Davies – Three Jovial Huntsmen[7]
Sport
- Gymnastics – The Welsh Amateur Gymnastics Association is formed.[8]
- Rugby union – Wales win the Home Nations Championship and take the Triple Crown.
Births
- 4 February – Tal Harris, Wales international rugby player (died 1963)
- 25 February – Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford, politician (died 1993)[9]
- 4 March – David Evans-Bevan, industrialist (died 1973)
- 19 March – Dilys Cadwaladr, poet (died 1979)
- 16 April – Hugh Iorys Hughes, civil engineer (died 1977 in England)
- 22 April – Megan Lloyd George, politician (died 1966)[10]
- 18 June – Morgan Phillips, politician (died 1963)
- 17 July – Nathan Rocyn-Jones, doctor, international rugby player and President of the WRU (died 1984)
- 2 September – Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, political cartoonist (died 1979)
- 21 September – E. E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist of Welsh descent (died 1972)
- 27 October (in Oxford) – Harold Arthur Harris, academic (died 1974)
- 26 November (in Wales or Bristol) – Cyril Bence, academic and politician (died 1992)[11]
- date unknown – Richard Bryn Williams, writer (died 1981)
Deaths
- 1 January – William McConnel, industrialist, 93[12]
- 11 January – James James, harpist and composer, 69[13]
- 19 February – Jeremiah Jones, poet, 46
- 6 March – William Rathbone, politician, 82[14]
- 11 March – Alcwyn Evans, historian, 73[15]
- 6 April – Robert Owen, theologian, 81[16]
- 13 July – Edmund Hannay Watts, industrialist (Wattstown)[17]
- 14 July – Martyn Jordan, Wales international rugby player, 37
- 23 August – Robert Henry Davies, colonial official in British India, 78[18]
- 5 October – Henry Lascelles Carr, journalist[19]
- 17 November – Hugh Price Hughes, minister and anti-Parnell campaigner, 55[20]
- date unknown – Jones Hewson, singer and actor, 27[21]
References
- ^ Hywel Teifi Edwards (20 July 2016). The Eisteddfod. University of Wales Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-78316-914-6.
- ^ "No. 27455". The London Gazette. 18 July 1902. p. 4587.
- ^ Stanley C. Jenkins; Martin Loader (15 March 2015). The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Volume One Chester to Holyhead. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 148. ISBN 978-1-4456-4416-5.
- ^ Lewis Cozens (1950). The Vale of Rheidol Railway. Lewis Cozens.
- ^ Gareth Elwyn Jones; Professor of Anatomy and Structural Biology Gareth Jones (28 October 1994). Modern Wales: A Concise History. Cambridge University Press. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-521-46945-6.
- ^ "T Gwynn Jones and Arthur ap Gwynn Papers". JISC Archives Hub. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
- ^ Edward Wulstan Atkins; Edward Elgar; Sir Ivor Atkins (26 April 1984). The Elgar-Atkins friendship. David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-8583-8.
- ^ "Welsh Gymnastics - About Us". Welsh Gymnastics. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
- ^ Sally Belfrage (3 December 1993). "Obituary: Lord Milford - People - News". The Independent. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
- ^ William Richard Philip George. "Lloyd George (family)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- ^ Tam Dalyell (8 September 1992). "Obituary: Cyril Bence". The Independent. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
- ^ "John Wanklyn McConnel". Nature. 109 (2747): 821. 24 June 1922. doi:10.1038/109821a0.
- ^ Thomas, Daniel Lleufer (1912), Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 2 (1912 supplement ed.), London: Smith, Elder & Co., p. 361
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Rathbone, William (1819-1902), philanthropist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
- ^ Bertie George Charles; Morfudd Nia Jones. "Evans, Alcwyn Caryni (1828-1902), antiquary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
- ^ Thomas, D. L.; rev. Murphy; G. Martin (2004). "Owen, Robert (1820–1902)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 9 May 2008.
- ^ London Gazette, August 1902
- ^ DAVIES, Sir Robert Henry, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)
- ^ Frederick Converse Beach; George Edwin Rines (1912). The Americana: a universal reference library. Scientific American compiling department.
- ^ Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "Hughes, Hugh Price (1847-1902), philanthropist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
- ^ Stone, David. Jones Hewson at Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 12 February 2007