1898 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1898 to Wales and its people.

← 1897 1896 1895 1894 1893 1898 in Wales → 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1898 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales — Albert Edward
• Princess of Wales — Alexandra
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales — Hwfa Môn[1]

Events

• 22 January — Newspaper Llais Llafur ("Labour Voice") is launched in Ystalyfera,[2] and will continue to be published (under various titles) until 1971.
• 1 April–1 September — Welsh coal strike fails to remove the sliding scale, linking wages to the price of coal.[3]
• 28 March–15 August — Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway runs regular market day passenger services.[4]
• 10 May — Mumbles Pier is opened and the Swansea and Mumbles Railway is extended to it.[5]
• 2 August The Llandudno Motor Touring Co begins running excursions with the first motor buses in Wales at Llandudno.[6]
• 24 October — South Wales Miners' Federation founded.
• date unknown
  • Peak year of slate production in Wales.
  • Opening of new docks at Barry and Port Talbot.[7]
  • Opening of Lluest-wen Reservoir.
  • Closure of the Abercynon to Merthyr Tydfil stretch of the Glamorganshire Canal.
  • The last stained glass window to be designed by Edward Burne-Jones is installed at St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden, by Morris & Co.[8][9]

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales — held at Blaenau Ffestiniog

• Chair — Robert Owen Hughes, "Awen"[10]
• Crown — Richard Roberts, "Charles o'r Bala"[11]

Welsh language

• Beriah Gwynfe Evans — Dafydd Dafis[12]
• Daniel James (Gwyrosydd) — Aeron Awen Gwyrosydd[13]
• John Owen Jones (Ap Ffarmwr) — Cofiant Gladstone[14]
• T. Gwynn Jones — Gwedi Brad a Gofid[15]

Music

• none known

Sport

• Football — The Welsh Cup is won by the "Druids" for the sixth time in its 20-year history
• Rugby union
  • Senghenydd RFC and Ynysybwl RFC are founded.
  • February — The Welsh Rugby Union is readmitted into the International Football Rugby Board after the events of The Gould Affair and Wales can again play international rugby.
  • 19 March — Wales defeat Ireland 11–3 in a game played at Thomond Park, Limerick

Births

• 10 February – Thomas Jones, Baron Maelor, politician (died 1984)
• 20 April – Cliff Williams, Wales international rugby union player (died 1930)
• 29 July – Dorothy Rees, politician (died 1987)
• 29 August – Sydney Hinam, Wales international rugby union player (died 1982)
• 24 September – Henry Arthur Evans, politician (died 1958)
• 6 October – William John Edwards, Cerdd Dant singer (died 1978)
• 25 December – Islwyn Evans, Wales international rugby player (died 1974)

Deaths

• 29 March – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor, politician, 80[16]
• 25 May – Theophilus Harris Davies, sugar magnate, 64[17]
• 17 June – Sir Edward Burne-Jones, artist, 64[18]
• 17 July – Arthur Guest, politician, 56[19]
• 11 August – Owen Humphrey Davies (Eos Llechid), composer, 59[20]
• 6 September – Robert Jones, VC recipient, 41 (suicide)
• 26 September – Joseph Jenkins, farmer and diarist ("The Welsh Swagman"), 80[21]
• 28 September – Thomas Gee, publisher, 83[22]
• 29 October – David Stephen Davies, preacher and colonial leader[23]
• 31 October – William Gilbert Rees, surveyor and explorer, New Zealand settler, 71[24]
• 2 December – Michael D. Jones, Tad y Wladfa, founder of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia, 76[25]
• 17 December – William Norton, Wales international rugby player, 36
• date unknown – John Jones, astronomer, about 80[26]

References

1. Hywel Teifi Edwards (20 July 2016). The Eisteddfod. University of Wales Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-78316-914-6.
2. Huw Walters. "Rees, Ebenezer (1848-1908), printer and publisher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
3. Eric Wyn Evans (1961). The Miners of South Wales. University of Wales Press. pp. 266–267.
4. Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Patrick Stephens Limited. 1990. p. 230. ISBN 978-1-85260-049-5.
5. The Modern Tramway. 1954. p. 122.
6. Patrick Robertson (1975). The Book of Firsts. p. 105.
7. Kenneth O. Morgan (1981). Rebirth of a Nation: Wales, 1880-1980. Oxford University Press. pp. 66. ISBN 978-0-19-821736-7.
8. The Living Church. 1916. p. 640.
9. Huddersfield Daily Chronicle Thursday 5 May 1898, p.3. issue 9599: Memorial window at Haywarden: "the Nativity from the designs of Sir Edward Burne-Jones" soon to be finished for the Gladstone family
10. "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 11 December 2019.
11. "Winners of the Crown". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 17 November 2019.
12. Beriah Gwynfe Evans (1898). Dafydd Dafis, sef hunangofiant ymgeisydd seneddol. Hugues a'i Fab.
13. Aeron awen gwyrosydd, sef pigion o holl weithiau yr awdwr. 1898.
14. Frank Price Jones. "Jones, John Owen (1861-1899), journalist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
15. Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 327.
16. Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes. 1921. p. 46.
17. Edward Clowes Chorley (1950). Historical magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church. US Church Historical Society. p. 231.
18. "No. 26988". The London Gazette. 19 July 1898. p. 4396.
19. The London Gazette. Tho. Newcomb over against Baynards Castle in Thamse-street. 1898. p. 8372.
20. Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. A&C Black. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2.
21. "Biography - Joseph Jenkins". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
22. Bye-gones, Relating to Wales and the Border Counties. 1899. p. 243.
23. Richard Bryn Williams. "Davies, David Stephen (1841-1898), preacher, temperance reformer, man of letters, and colonist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
24. "Obituary". The Press. 1 November 1898. p. 6. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
25. Richard Griffith Owen. "Jones, Michael Daniel (1822-1898), Independent minister and principal of the Independent College at Bala". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
26. Thomas, David (1959), "Jones, John (Ioan Bryngwyn Bach; 1818-1898)", in Lloyd, J. E.; Jenkins, R. T.; Davies, W. Ll.; Davies, M. B. (eds.), Dictionary of Welsh Biography Down to 1940, London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, pp. 481–482