1890s in Wales

Incumbents

Prince of Wales — Albert Edward

Princess of Wales — Alexandra

Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales

Clwydfardd (to 1894)

Hwfa Môn (from 1895)

Events

Events of 1890

Events of 1891

Events of 1892

Events of 1893

Events of 1894

Events of 1895

Events of 1896

Events of 1897

Events of 1898

Events of 1899

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales

1890 — Bangor

Chair — Thomas Tudno Jones

Crown — John John Roberts

1891 — Swansea

Chair — John Owen Williams

Crown — David Adams

1892 — Rhyl

Chair — Evan Jones

Crown — John John Roberts

1893 — Pontypridd

Chair — John Ceulanydd Williams

Crown — Ben Davies

1894 — Caernarfon

Chair — Howell Elvet Lewis

Crown — Ben Davies

1895 — Llanelli

Chair — John Owen Williams

Crown — Lewis William Lewis

1896 — Llandudno

Chair — Ben Davies

Crown — withheld

1897 — Newport

Chair — John Thomas Job

Crown — Thomas Mafonwy Davies

1898 — Blaenau Ffestiniog

Chair — Robert Owen Hughes

Crown — Richard Roberts

1899 — Cardiff

Chair — withheld

Crown — Richard Roberts

New books

Anne Beale — Old Gwen (1890)

Rhoda Broughton

Alas! (1890)

Mrs Bligh (1892)

Foes in Law (1899)

Caniadau Cymru (anthology) (1897)

Amy Dillwyn — Maggie Steele's Diary (1892)

Owen Morgan Edwards — Cymru (1892)

Beriah Gwynfe Evans — Dafydd Dafis (1898)

John Gruffydd Moelwyn Hughes — Caniadau Moelwyn (1893)

Arthur Machen — The Three Impostors (1895)

Daniel Owen — Enoc Huws (1891)

Film

1896 — The first news film ever shot in Britain shows the Prince and Princess of Wales visiting an exhibition in Cardiff. This was also the first ever motion picture of the prince.

Music

Sir Henry Walford Davies — Symphony in D (1894)

Joseph Parry — Saul of Tarsus (oratorio) (1892)

Sport

Horse racing — The Welsh Grand National is run for the first time, at Ely, Cardiff.

Births

1890

21 June — W. J. A. Davies, rugby player (died 1967)

16 December — P. J. Grigg, politician (died 1964)

1891

13 February — Kate Roberts, author (died 1985)

1893

15 January — Ivor Novello, composer and actor (died 1951)

date unknown — Lewis Valentine, political activist

1894

23 June — Prince Edward (later Prince of Wales, Edward VIII and finally Duke of Windsor; died 1972)

date unknown — Ambrose Bebb, author and politician (died 1955)

1895

22 January — Iorwerth Thomas, politician (died 1966)

1 March — William Richard Williams, civil servant (died 1963)

date unknown — Albert Evans-Jones ("Cynan"), poet and Archdruid (died 1970)

1896

1 May — Hubert William Lewis, VC recipient (died 1977)

1897

15 November — Aneurin Bevan, politician (died 1960)

1898

10 February — Thomas Jones, Baron Maelor, politician (died 1984)

29 July — Dorothy Rees, politician (died 1987)

24 September — Henry Arthur Evans, politician (died 1958)

date unknown — William John Edwards, cerdd dant singer (died 1978)

1899

17 May — H. H. Price, philosopher (died 1984)

20 December — Martyn Lloyd-Jones, preacher (died 1981)

date unknown — Len Davies, footballer (died 1945)

Deaths

1890

17 January — Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, landowner (born 1803)

20 January — Guillermo Rawson, Argentinian politician and patron of Patagonian Welsh colony (born 1821)

19 March — Edmund Swetenham, MP for Caernarfon

29 June — Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon (born 1831)

20 July — David Davies "Llandinam", industrialist (born 1818)

1891

26 September — David Charles Davies, Nonconformist leader (born 1826)

date unknown

Sir Love Jones-Parry, politician (born 1832)

Hugh Owen Thomas, pioneering orthopaedic surgeon (born 1834)

1893

23 January — Dr William Price, eccentric (born 1800)

1894

24 February — John Roberts, politician (born 1835)

1895

15 January — Lady Charlotte Guest, translator of the Mabinogion (born 1812)

22 October — Daniel Owen, novelist (born 1836)

1896

17 January — Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover, patron of the arts (born 1802)

30 December — Evan Herber Evans, Nonconformist leader (born 1836)

1897

15 October — Charles John Vaughan, former Dean of Llandaff (born 1816)

1898

17 June — Sir Edward Burne-Jones, artist (born 1833)

28 September — Thomas Gee, publisher (born 1815)

2 December — Michael D. Jones, Patagonian settler (born 1822)

1899

5 April — T. E. Ellis, politician (born 1859)

August — Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer (born 1867)