1895 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1895 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa Môn

• 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 (until 12 September); Powlett Milbank (from 12 September)

• Bishop of Bangor – Daniel Lewis Lloyd
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis
• Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)
• Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones

Events

• 4 February – Penarth Pier is opened.
• 11 April – Rhos-on-Sea Pier is opened.
• 29 March – The National Trust acquires Dinas Oleu, Barmouth, its first property in the UK.
• 1 November – The last turnpike toll-gates in the UK are removed, from Llanfairpwllgwyngyll on Anglesey.

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Llanelli

• Chair – John Owen Williams, "Dedwyddwch"
• Crown – Lewis William Lewis

New books

English language

• Henry Jones – A Critical Account of the Philosophy of Lotze
• Arthur Machen – The Three Impostors
• William Retlaw Williams – The parliamentary history of the principality of Wales

Welsh language

• Daniel Owen – Straeon y Pentan

Music

• John Thomas Rees – String quartet

Sport

• Golf – The Welsh Golfing Union is founded, and the first Welsh amateur golf championships are held.
• Horse racing – 15 April: The Welsh Grand National steeplechase is run for the first time, at Ely Racecourse, Cardiff. A huge crowd breaks down barriers and almost overwhelms police trying to keep out gatecrashers. Deerstalker is the winner but the horse Barmecide breaks its neck.

Births

• 22 January – Iorwerth Thomas, politician (died 1966)
• 25 January – Mary Glynne, actress (died 1954)
• 8 February – Edward Enoch Jenkins, judge (died 1960)
• 19 February – Mary Dilys Glynne, plant pathologist and mountaineer (died 1991)
• 23 February – Wilfred Mitford Davies, artist (died 1966)
• 1 March – William Richard Williams, civil servant (died 1963)
• 11 March – Albert Jenkins, rugby player (died 1953)
• 3 April – Brinley Williams, Wales dual-code rugby international (died 1987)
• 4 April – Nan Braunton, actress (died 1978)
• 14 April – Albert Evans-Jones ("Cynan"), poet and Archdruid (died 1970)
• 17 April – Thomas Hughes, clergyman, assistant Bishop of Llandaff (died 1981)
• 18 May – Tom Rees, airman, victim of the "Red Baron" (died 1916)
• 8 June – Idwal Jones, humorous writer (died 1937)
• 16 June – David Cuthbert Thomas, soldier who inspired works by both Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves (died 1916)
• 24 July – Robert Graves, Royal Welch Fusiliers officer, poet, novelist and classicist often resident in Wales (died 1985)
• 25 July – Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards (died 1970)
• 14 September – George Harrison, Glamorgan cricketer (date of death unknown)
• 1 November – David Jones, poet and artist (died 1974)
• 24 November – William Evans, cardiologist (died 1988)

Deaths

• 8 January – Daniel Harper, academic, 73
• 15 January – Lady Charlotte Guest, translator of the Mabinogion, 82
• 16 February – Thomas Briscoe, academic, 81
• 18 February – James Goronwy Mathias, minister and writer, 53
• 25 February – Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, politician, 79
• 2 April – Ellis Thomas Davies, minister and author, 73
• 3 May – George Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke, 44
• 8 May – Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet, 51
• 13 July – John Griffin, Welsh international rugby player, 35
• 18 August – John Arthur Edward Herbert, High Sheriff of Monmouthshire 1849, 76
• 28 August – Henry Pochin, English industrial chemist, mine-owner and politician, founder of Bodnant Garden, 71
• 22 October – Daniel Owen, novelist, 59
• 23 November – William Davies (Pembrokeshire MP), 74
• date unknown – David Lewis, Newmanite priest and academic (born 1814)

See also

• 1895 in Ireland

References