1891 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1891 to Wales and its people.

← 1890 1889 1888 1887 1886 1891 in Wales → 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1891 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Albert Edward[1]
• Princess of Wales – Alexandra[2]
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd[3]

Events

• 5 April – The United Kingdom Census (the first to record what languages are spoken in Wales by everyone over the age of three) shows there to be 1,685,614 speakers of Welsh in Wales, 54.4% of the population.
• 12 August – Adelina Patti opens her private theatre at Craig-y-Nos Castle.[4]
• date unknown – The South Wales and Monmouthshire Training School of Cookery and the Domestic Arts opens in Cardiff.
• Owen Morgan Edwards launches his popular monthly magazine Cymru.

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Swansea

• Chair – John Owen Williams, "Yr Haul"[5]
• Crown – David Adams

English language

• George Essex Evans – The Repentance of Magdalene Despar and other poems
• William Nicholas Johns – History of the Church of S. Gwynllyw (S. Woolos, Newport)
• Edward Jones – Y Gymdeithasfa[6]

Welsh language

• Charles Ashton – Bywyd ac Amserau yr Esgob Morgan[7]
• Thomas Edwards – Darllen a Siarad
• Daniel Owen – Enoc Huws

Music

Sport

• Football – The Welsh Cup is won by Shrewsbury Town.

Births

• 4 January – Bryn Lewis, Wales international rugby player (killed in action 1917)
• 13 February – Kate Roberts, author (died 1985)[8]
• 14 February – Gwynn Parry Jones, tenor (died 1963)
• 14 March – Billy Geen, Wales international rugby union player (killed in action 1915)
• 29 March – Tom Parker, Wales international rugby union captain (died 1967)
• 8 April – Bill Beynon, British bantamweight boxing champion (died 1932)
• 9 May – Fred Perrett, Wales international rugby union (died of wounds 1918)
• 1 October – Morfydd Llwyn Owen, composer, pianist and mezzo-soprano (died 1918)[9]
• 29 November – Glyn Stephens, Wales international rugby union captain (died 1965)

Deaths

• 6 January – Hugh Owen Thomas, pioneering orthopaedic surgeon, 57
• 13 February – William Davies, palaeontologist, 76[10]
• 25 February – William Frost, harpist 44[11]
• 26 February – David James Jenkins, shipowner and politician, 66
• 18 March – John Basson Humffray, politician, 66[12]
• 2 May – David Lewis Wooding, genealogist, 62
• 7 May – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis, 72[13]
• 10 May – Thomas Richard Lloyd, Anglican clergyman, 70/71[14]
• 4 July – John Rowlands (Giraldus), antiquary, author and teacher, 67[15]
• 5 September – Sir Hugh Owen Owen, 2nd Baronet, politician, 87[16]
• 26 September – David Charles Davies, Nonconformist leader, 65[17]
• 29 September – Lewys Glyn Dyfi (Lewis Meredith), preacher and writer, 65[18]
• 23 November – Evan Evans, academic, 78[19]
• 18 December – Sir Love Jones-Parry, politician, 59
• 24 December – Richard Owens, architect, 60

References

1. Glasgow (Scotland). Chamberlain's Office; James Nicol (1891). Vital, Social, and Economic Statistics of the City of Glasgow, 1885-1891. Maclehose & Sons. p. 392.
2. Helmut Gernsheim; Alison Gernsheim (1962). Edward VII and Queen Alexandra: A Biography in Word and Picture. F. Muller. p. 987.
3. Daniel Williams. "Griffith, David (Clwydfardd; 1800–1894), eisteddfodic bard and arch-druid". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
4. Cecil John Layton Price (1984). The professional theatre in Wales. University College of Swansea. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-86076-054-2.
5. "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 October 2019.
6. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones, Edward (1826–1902), Calvinistic Methodist historian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
7. Glanmor Williams (1993). Renewal and Reformation: Wales C. 1415–1642. Oxford University Press. p. 505. ISBN 978-0-19-285277-9.
8. Morgan, Derec Llwyd (1991), Kate Roberts. Writers of Wales series. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 0-7083-1115-6. An introduction to her work in English.
9. Gerald Norris (June 1981). A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland. David & Charles. p. 297. ISBN 978-0-7153-7845-8.
10. Bonney, Thomas George (1901). "Davies, William (1814-1891)" . Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
11. Robert David Griffith. "Frost, William Frederick (1846-1891), harpist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
12. "Humffray, John Basson". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 7 July 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
13. The Complete Peerage, Volume X. St Catherine's Press. 1947. p. 654.
14. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "Lloyd, Thomas Richard (1820–1891), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
15. Jones, Evan David. "ROWLAND(S), JOHN (Giraldus; 1824–1891)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
16. Escott, Margaret. "Owen, Hugh Owen (1803–1891), of Williamston and Llanstinan, Pemb". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
17. Gwilym Arthur Edwards. "Davies, David Charles (1826-1891)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
18. Griffith Thomas Roberts. "Meredith, Lewis (1826–1891), preacher and writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
19. Iolo Davies, A Certaine Schoole (D. Brown & Son, Cowbridge, 1967), pp. 66 and 145