1901 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1901 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa Môn

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
• 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 – Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th Baronet
• 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 – Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar*Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank

• Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis
• Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)
• Bishop of St Davids – John Owen

Events

• January – Samuel Thomas Evans becomes the last QC appointed by Queen Victoria.
• 22 January – Albert Edward, Prince of Wales accedes to the throne as King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, following the death of Queen Victoria.
• 31 March – The 10-yearly Census of England and Wales is taken. The population of Wales is shown to have topped two million for the first time in history. Over 15% of the population speak Welsh as their sole language.
• 3 April – Frederick Rutherfoord Harris, MP for Monmouth Boroughs, is unseated for alleged electoral malpractice.
• 17 April – Mawddwy Railway passenger services are suspended "pending repairs"; goods services are also suspended between May and October.
• 7 May – In the by-election at Monmouth Boroughs, Joseph Lawrence becomes the new Conservative MP.
• 24 May – 81 miners are killed in an accident at Universal Colliery, Senghenydd.
• 10 September – Twelve miners are killed in a mining accident at Llanbradach Colliery in Glamorgan.
• 9 November
• Prince George, Duke of Cornwall and York (later George V) and his wife Mary of Teck officially become Prince and Princess of Wales.
• Shipping magnate Alfred Lewis Jones is awarded a knighthood.
• December – The Rhymney Railway opens Caerphilly railway works.
• Gomer Berry and William Ewart Berry co-found Advertising World.
• Samuel Walker Griffith helps draft the Australian constitution.
• Construction of Port Talbot Steelworks begins.
• Construction of the 156-room Grand Hotel at Llandudno, the largest in Wales at the time.

Arts and literature

• Arthur Machen joins Frank Benson's travelling theatre company.

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales – held in Merthyr Tydfil
• Chair – Evan Rees, "Y Diwigiwr"
• Crown – John Gwili Jenkins

New books

English language

• J. E. Morris – The Welsh Wars of Edward I
• The Dau Wynne – A Maid of Cymru

Welsh language

• Morris Williams (Nicander) – Damhegion Esop ar Gân (published posthumously)
• Owen Morgan Edwards (ed) – Gwaith Dafydd ab Gwilym (Cyfres y Fil)

Sport

• Rugby Union
• 9 February – Scotland beat Wales 18–8 at Inverleith, Edinburgh.
• Pontypool RFC and Tenby United RFC are founded.

Births

• 4 January – Lonza Bowdler, Wales international rugby player (died 1963)
• 18 February – Will Owen, politician (died 1981)
• 27 February – Iorwerth Peate, social anthropologist, poet and author, founder of the Welsh Folk Museum (died 1982)
• 4 March – Edward Prosser Rhys, journalist and poet (died 1945)
• 1 April – Tom Jones, cricketer (died 1935)
• 18 April – Mel Rosser, dual-code international rugby player (died 1988)
• 22 May – David Morgan Jenkins, rugby player (died 1968)
• 11 June – Jack Livesey, actor (died 1961 in the United States)
• 22 June – Naunton Wayne, actor (died 1970)
• 3 September – Alexander Tudor-Hart, doctor and political activist (died 1992)
• 10 September – Rowe Harding, Wales and British Lions rugby player (died 1991)
• 9 November – Rhys Davies, writer (died 1978)
• 10 December – Ivor Jones, rugby player (died 1982)
• 24 December – Hilary Marquand, economist and MP (died 1972)
• date unknown – Ivor R. Davies, Welsh-descended organist and composer (died 1970)

Deaths

• 20 January – James Harvey Insole, English-born colliery proprietor, 79
• 7 February – Leonard Watkins, Wales international rugby union player, 41
• 21 February – John Deffett Francis, artist, 85
• 14 May – Fanny Price-Gwynne, polymath, 82
• June – Abel Jones (Bardd Crwst), balladeer, 71
• 1 June
• John Viriamu Jones, scientist, 45
• Morgan Albert Ellis, Welsh-American preacher (born 1832)
• 30 June – John Jones Griffiths
• 18 August – Evan James, rugby player, 32
• 26 August – Robert Ricketts Evans, executioner
• 5 September – Rhys Gwesyn Jones, minister and author, 75
• 15 September – John Richards (Isalaw), musician, 58
• 22 September – William Davies (Mynorydd), artist, 75
• 24 November – Evan Lewis, Dean of Bangor, 83
• 26 November – Robert Clayton, cricketer, 57
• 16 December – David Lewis, Archdeacon of Carmarthen, 62

See also

• 1901 in Ireland

References