1895 in Wales

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

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See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1895 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

Incumbents

For United Kingdom incumbents, see 1895 in the United Kingdom § Incumbents.

• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa Môn^[1]

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Richard Davies^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk^[3]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves^[4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – W. R. M. Wynne^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite (until 12 September);^[12] Powlett Milbank (from 12 September)^[13]

• Bishop of Bangor – Daniel Lewis Lloyd^[14]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis^[15]
• Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)^[16]
• Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones^[17]

Events

• 4 February – Penarth Pier is opened.^[18]
• 11 April – Rhos-on-Sea Pier is opened.^[18]
• 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

 

The parliamentary history of the principality of Wales by William Retlaw Williams

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Llanelli

• Chair – John Owen Williams, "Dedwyddwch"^[19]
• Crown – Lewis William Lewis

New books

English language

• Henry Jones – A Critical Account of the Philosophy of Lotze
• Arthur Machen – The Three Impostors^[20]
• William Retlaw Williams – The parliamentary history of the principality of Wales^[21]

Welsh language

• Daniel Owen – Straeon y Pentan^[22]

Music

• John Thomas Rees – String quartet^[23]

Sport

• Golf – The Welsh Golfing Union is founded,^[24] 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.^[25] Deerstalker is the winner but the horse Barmecide breaks its neck.^[26]

Births

• 22 January – Iorwerth Thomas, politician (died 1966)
• 25 January – Mary Glynne, actress (died 1954)^[27]
• 8 February – Edward Enoch Jenkins, judge (died 1960)^[28]
• 19 February – Mary Dilys Glynne, plant pathologist and mountaineer (died 1991)^[29]
• 23 February – Wilfred Mitford Davies, artist (died 1966)^[30]
• 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)
• 14 April – Albert Evans-Jones ("Cynan"), poet and Archdruid (died 1970)^[31]
• 17 April – Thomas Hughes, clergyman, assistant Bishop of Llandaff (died 1981)^[32]
• 18 May – Tom Rees, airman, victim of the "Red Baron" (died 1916)^[33]
• 8 June – Idwal Jones, humorous writer (died 1937)^[34]
• 24 July – Robert Graves, Royal Welch Fusiliers officer, poet, novelist and classicist often resident in Wales (died 1985)^[35]
• 25 July – Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards (died 1970)^[36]
• 14 September – George Harrison, Glamorgan cricketer (date of death unknown)
• 1 November – David Jones, poet and artist (died 1974)^[37]
• 24 November – William Evans, cardiologist (died 1988)^[38]

Deaths

• 8 January – Daniel Harper, academic, 73^[39]
• 15 January – Lady Charlotte Guest, translator of the Mabinogion, 82^[40]
• 16 February – Thomas Briscoe, academic, 81^[41]
• 18 February – James Goronwy Mathias, minister and writer, 53^[42]
• 25 February – Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, politician, 79^[43]
• 2 April – Ellis Thomas Davies, minister and author, 73^[44]
• 3 May – George Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke, 44^[45]
• 8 May – Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet, 51^[46]
• 13 July – John Griffin, Welsh international rugby player, 35
• 18 August – John Arthur Edward Herbert, High Sheriff of Monmouthshire 1849, 76^[47]
• 28 August – Henry Pochin, English industrial chemist, mine-owner and politician, founder of Bodnant Garden, 71^[48]
• 22 October – Daniel Owen, novelist, 59^[49]
• 23 November – William Davies (Pembrokeshire MP), 74^[50]
• date unknown – David Lewis, Newmanite priest and academic (born 1814)^[51]

See also

• 1895 in Ireland

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4. National Museum of Wales (1935). Adroddiad Blynyddol. The Museum. p. 3.
5. The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Dalcassian Publishing Company. 1860. p. 443.
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