1890 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1890 to Wales and its people.

← 1889 1888 1887 1886 1885 1890 in Wales → 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1890 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
• Princess of Wales – Alexandra
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Clwydfardd

Events

• 6 February - In an accident at Llanerch Colliery, Pontypool, 176 miners are killed.
• 10 March - In an accident at Morfa Colliery, Port Talbot, 86 miners are killed.
• 7 April - An Easter Monday conference at Llangefni leads to agreement with employers on a shorter working day for male agricultural labourers.
• 13 April - At a by-election in Caernarfon, David Lloyd George wins the seat for the Liberals from the Conservatives, defeating H. J. E. Nanney, the local squire; Lloyd George remains the constituency MP until his death in 1945.
• 22 May - Y Cymro is launched by Isaac Foulkes (Llyfrbryf) in Liverpool as a liberal weekly Welsh language "national newspaper for Welshmen at home and abroad"; it is published until 1909.
• Summer - Queen Elisabeth of Romania visits Llandudno, staying for five weeks and later remembering it as "a beautiful haven of peace"; the phrase is later translated into Welsh and used as the town's motto.
• 21 December - Beginning of a 3-week period of severe winter weather causing deaths and disruption to daily life in many parts of Wales.
• Opening of the Rock Mill watermill for woollen milling at Capel Dewi, Llandysul.

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales - held at Bangor

• Chair - Thomas Tudno Jones, "Y Llafurwr" [1]
• Crown - John John Roberts, "Ardderchog Lu'r Merthyri"[2]

New books

• Anne Beale - Old Gwen
• Rhoda Broughton - Alas!
• Arthur Machen - The Great God Pan (in the magazine The Whirlwind)

Music

Sport

• Cricket - The England ladies' team plays an exhibition match at Newport.
• Football - The Welsh Cup is won by Chirk for the third time.
• Hockey - The Welsh Hockey Association is founded.
• Rugby union - Wales win their very first international against England. The only try was scored by Cardiff's 'Buller' Stadden.

Births

• 2 January - Madoline Thomas, actress (died 1989)
• 21 January - Jack Anthony, jockey (died 1954)
• 14 February - Nina Hamnett, artist and Bohemian (died 1956)[3]
• 1 March - Jack Beames, rugby player (died 1970)
• 16 February - Thomas Ifor Rees, diplomat (died 1977)[4]
• 20 April - Ernest Roberts, politician (died 1969)[5]
• 5 May - George Littlewood Hirst, Wales international rugby player (died 1967)
• 14 June - Dai Hiddlestone, Wales international rugby player (died 1973)
• 21 June - W. J. A. Davies, rugby player (died 1967)
• 28 July - Horace Thomas, Wales international rugby player (died 1916)
• 30 August - Llewelyn Wyn Griffith, novelist (died 1977)[6]
• 13 September - Johnny Basham, boxer (died 1947)
• 19 September - Jim Griffiths, politician, first Secretary of State for Wales (died 1975)
• 22 November - (in Lancashire) Harry Pollitt, Communist trade union leader and parliamentary candidate for Rhondda East (died 1960)
• 16 December - P. J. Grigg, politician (died 1964)

Deaths

• 17 January - Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, landowner, 86[7]
• 20 January - Guillermo Rawson, Argentinian politician and patron of Patagonian Welsh colony, 68[8]
• 4 March - Henry Davies, journalist, publisher and librarian, 86[9]
• 19 March - Edmund Swetenham, MP for Caernarfon, 67[10]
• 8 April - William Jones, Army officer, 81/2
• 21 March - Benjamin Thomas Williams, politician, 57[11]
• 29 June - Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, 59[12]
• 12 July - David Pugh, politician, 84[13]
• 20 July - David Davies "Llandinam", industrialist, 71[14]
• 6 August - Thomas Babington Jones, cricketer, 39
• 10 October - Charles Herbert James, politician, 73[15]
• 27 October - Enoch Salisbury, barrister, politician and bibliophile, 70[16]
• unknown date - John Cambrian Rowland, painter, 70

References

1. "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 11 December 2019.
2. "Winners of the Crown". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 17 November 2019.
3. Nina Hamnett (23 March 2011). Laughing Torso - Reminiscences of Nina Hamnett. Read Books Limited. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-4465-4552-2.
4. Great Britain. Foreign Office (1949). The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular Year Book for ... Harrison and Sons. p. 3937.
5. All India Reporter. D.V. Chitaley. 1938. p. 65.
6. Meic Stephens (1 October 2007). Poetry 1900-2000. Summersdale Publishers Limited. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-84839-722-4.
7. TALBOT, Christopher Rice Mansel (1803-1890), of Penrice Castle and Margam Park, Glam. History of Parliament Online
8. Larrain, Jacob (1893). Biografía del doctor Guillermo Rawson. La Plata: Imp., Lit. y Encuad. de Solá Hnos. Sesé y Ca. (in Spanish)
9. Cheltenham Looker-In, March 1890
10. "The Late Mr. Swetemham, M.P." Llangollen Advertiser via National Library of Wales. 28 March 1890. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
11. "Will of the Late Mr B. T. Williams, Q.C.|1890-04-28|South Wales Daily News - Welsh Newspapers". newspapers.library.wales. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
12. James Louis Garvin; Franklin Henry Hooper; Warren E. Cox (1929). The Encyclopedia Britannica. The Encyclopedia Britannica Company. p. 891.
13. "The Late Mr David Pugh M.P." Carmarthen Journal. 17 October 1890. p. 8. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
14. Bulmer-Thomas, Ivor. "David Davis, Llandinam (1818-1890), industrialist and Member of Parliament". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
15. Walter Thomas Morgan. "James, Charles Herbert (1817-1890), M.P." Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
16. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Salisbury, Enoch Robert Gibbon" . Dictionary of National Biography. 50. London: Smith, Elder & Co.