This article is about the particular significance of the year 1893 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales â held at Pontypridd
New books
Music
- Hymnau yr Eglwys (collection of hymns)
Sport
Births
- 15 January â Ivor Novello, composer and actor (died 1951)
- 27 January â John Russell, VC recipient (died 1917)
- 25 February
- Billy Jennings, footballer (died 1968)
- Gordon Lang, politician (died 1981)
- 23 May â Tudor Thomas, pioneering ophthalmic surgeon (died 1976)
- 24 May â William Hubert Davies, musician (died 1965)
- 1 June â Lewis Valentine, political activist (died 1986)
- 2 June â David James Davies, economist, industrialist and writer (died 1956)
- 1 July â Douglas Marsden-Jones, rugby player (died 1955)
- 2 July â Ralph Hancock, garden architect (died 1950)
- 13 July â Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar, poet, occultist and horticulturalist (died 1949)
- 1 August â Lionel Beaumont Thomas, MC, businessman and politician (died 1942)
- 15 October â Saunders Lewis, Welsh nationalist poet, dramatist and critic (died 1985)
- 18 October â Ivor Rees, VC recipient (died 1967)
- 29 December â Cyril Lakin, politician (died 1948)
- 31 December â Ossie Male, rugby player (died 1975)
- date unknown â Eleanor Evans, actress, singer and theatre director (died 1969)
Deaths
- 14 January â John Hawley Edwards, footballer, 42
- 23 January â Dr William Price, eccentric, 92
- 28 January â David Owen, politician in Wisconsin, 64
- 29 January â Griffith Edwards (Gutyn Padarn), poet and antiquary, 80
- 12 February â Thomas Eyton-Jones, surgeon, physician, magistrate, local politician and army officer, 60
- 27 March â John Roberts, Sr., billiards champion, 69
- 30 March â Richard Crawley, writer, 52
- 24 August â Willie Llewelyn, cricketer, 25 (suicide)
- 5 September â Morgan Lloyd, politician, 71
- 17 September â Edwin Cynrig Roberts, Patagonian colonist, about 55
- 1 October â Samuel Griffith, Pennsylvania politician, 77
- 23 December â Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet, MP and founder of the Elliot Home for Seamen in Newport 79
See also
References