1892 in Wales
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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]
- date unknown
- 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). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). 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. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
- ^ J. Meirion Lloyd (1991). History of the Church in Mizoram: Harvest in the Hills. Synod Publication Board. pp. 17–23.
- ^ "OBITUARY". The Star. No. 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.