1892 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1892 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Richard Davies
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – W. R. M. Wynne
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite

• Bishop of Bangor – Daniel Lewis Lloyd
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis
• Bishop of St Asaph – Alfred George Edwards
• Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones

Events

• January – The children's magazine Cymru'r Plant is launched by Owen Morgan Edwards.
• 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.
• 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.
• 14 September – The Cardiff water supply from Cantref Reservoir is officially inaugurated by the Mayor of Merthyr Tydfil.
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• J.D. Lewis establishes the Gomer Press at Llandysul.
• 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"
• Crown – John John Roberts, "Dewi Sant"

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)
• 12 June – Hilda Vaughan, novelist (died 1985)
• 20 June – Geoffrey Crawshay, soldier and social benefactor (died 1954)
• 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)
• 19 November – Huw T. Edwards, trade union leader and politician (died 1970)

Deaths

• 13 February – William Davies, palaeontologist, 76
• 5 March – Theophilus Redwood, pharmacist, 85
• 15 March – Mesac Thomas, Anglican bishop in Australia, 75
• 22 April – William Williams, Presbyterian missionary in India, 33 (typhoid)
• 24 April – , poet, 53
• 27 April – Edward Wingfield Humphreys, Welsh-born New Zealand politician, 50/51
• 6 May – Robert J. Davies, Calvinistic Methodist leader, 52
• 5 June – Robert Rees, singer and musician, 51
• 19 June – Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn, industrialist and politician, 78
• 3 October – , poet and historian, 61
• 26 November – Edward Matthews, minister and author, 79
• 18 December – Richard Owen, anatomist, 88
• 23 December – John Gibson, architect of the Marble Church, Bodelwyddan, 75
• 27 December – Samuel Holland, politician, 89

See also

• 1892 in Ireland

References