1894 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1894 to Wales and its people.

← 1893 1892 1891 1890 1889 1894 in Wales → 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1894 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

• 19 February – The first new intermediate school in Wales opens at Caernarfon. Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen is one of the first Welsh medium schools.[1]
• 10 March – T. E. Ellis is appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury in the Gladstone's fourth ministry, and becomes Chief Whip of the Liberal Party.[2]
• March/April – In the "Welsh Revolt", MPs Herbert Lewis, David Alfred Thomas, David Lloyd George and Frank Edwards resign the Liberal whip.[3]
• 23 June – A firedamp explosion at Albion Colliery, Cilfynydd, Glamorgan, results in the death of 290 coal miners and 123 horses underground, making it the worst disaster in Welsh mining history to date (it will be exceeded only by that at Senghenydd in 1913).[4][5]
• August
  • The Prince of Wales attends the National Eisteddfod.
  • Owen Morgan Edwards makes his first report on county schools in Wales
• Dissolution of the North Wales Scholarship Association.
• John Philipps, later 1st Viscount St Davids, resigns as MP for Mid Lanarkshire.

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Caernarfon

• Chair – Howell Elvet Lewis, "Hunanaberth"[6]
• Crown – Ben Davies, "Tennyson"[7]

New books

English language

• Sir John Rhys – Outlines of the Phonology of the Manx Gaelic[8]

Welsh language

• Evan Thomas Davies (Dyfrig) – Pregethau ac Anerchiadau[9]
• W. J. Davis – Hanes Plwyf Llandysul, first publication by Gomer Press, Llandysul
• Owen Morgan Edwards – Ystraeon o Hanes Cymru[10]
• Daniel Owen – Gwen Tomos[11]
• Sarah Winifred Parry – Sioned (serialization begins)[12]

Music

• Sir Henry Walford Davies – Sonata No. 1 in E minor, for Piano and Violin[13]

Sport

• Cricket
  • 22 June / 23 June – Glamorgan play against the touring South Africans. The Glamorgan team contains three Wales rugby internationals, Billy Bancroft, Selwyn Biggs and Ralph Sweet-Escott.
  • William Brain plays his first match for Glamorgan.
• Football
  • The Welsh Cup is won by Chirk for the fifth time in its 15-year history.
  • The North Wales Coast League is established.[14]
• Rugby union
  • 1 January – Gwyn Nicholls plays his first match for Cardiff.
  • Abercrave RFC, Llanhilleth RFC and Ynysddu RFC are founded.

Births

• 14 March – Ben Beynon, Welsh rugby union international and Swansea Town player (died 1969)
• 21 March – William Hubert Vaughan, public servant (died 1959)
• 16 May – Sir Leonard Twiston Davies, patron of the arts (died 1953)[15]
• 23 June – Prince Edward (later Prince of Wales, Edward VIII then Duke of Windsor; died 1972)
• 4 July – Ambrose Bebb, author and politician (died 1955)[16]
• 10 July – Emrys Hughes, politician (died 1969)[17]
• 31 July – Fred Keenor, footballer (died 1972)
• 23 August – Gareth Hughes, actor (died 1965)
• 27 August – Ike Fowler, dual-code international rugby union player (died 1981)
• 22 October – Llew Edwards, featherweight boxer (died 1965)
• 30 October – Peter Warlock, composer (died 1930)[18]

Deaths

• 24 February – John Roberts, politician, 58
• 8 March – John Bickerton Morgan, geologist, 34[19]
• 20 March – John Davies (Taliesin Hiraethog), poet, 52[20]
• 18 June – David Davies, Australian politician, about 54[21]
• 30 October – David Griffith (Clwydfardd), poet, 93[22]
• 4 November – Idris Williams, 59[23]
• 28 November – Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea, 73[24]
• 13 December – Morgan Morgan, politician, 61[25]
• 25 December – Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, 75[26]
• 30 December – David Thomas, preacher and publisher, 81[27]

References

1. Owen E. Jones (1990). The Welsh Intermediate Education Act of 1889: A Centenary Appraisal. Welsh Office. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-7504-0068-8.
2. Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (1982). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. p. 146.
3. Don M. Cregier (1976). Bounder from Wales: Lloyd George's career before the First World War. University of Missouri Press. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-8262-0203-1.
4. "Albion Colliery". BBC Wales. 2008. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
5. "Albion Colliery Cilfynydd". Welsh Coal Mines. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
6. "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 February 2020.
7. "Winners of the Crown". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 February 2020.
8. Per Sture Ureland; George Broderick (9 May 2011). Language contact in the British Isles: Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Language Contact in Europe, Douglas, Isle of Man, 1988. Walter de Gruyter. p. 56. ISBN 978-3-11-167865-8.
9. Who's who. A. & C. Black. 1919. p. 627.
10. Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 168.
11. Gareth King (2 May 2013). The Routledge Intermediate Welsh Reader. Routledge. p. 133. ISBN 978-1-135-12043-6.
12. Aaron, Jane (2010). Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales: Nation, Gender and Identity. Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-7083-2287-1.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
13. Henry Cope Colles (1947). Walford Davies, a biography. Oxford University Press. p. 28.
14. Richard Cox (16 December 2013). British Sport: a Bibliography to 2000: Volume 1: Nationwide Histories. Taylor & Francis. p. 145. ISBN 978-1-135-28721-4.
15. Iorwerth Peate. "Davies, Sir Leonard Twiston (1894–1953), patron of the arts and of folk life studies". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
16. Thomas Parry. "Bebb, William Ambrose". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
17. A. Thomas Lane (1995). Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 432. ISBN 978-0-313-26456-6.
18. Ian Alfred Copley (1979). The music of Peter Warlock: a critical survey. D. Dobson. p. 1.
19. Thomas Mardy Rees (1908). Notable Welshmen (1700–1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. Herald Office. p. 435.
20. Williams, Griffith John. "John Davies". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
21. Reiger, Kerreen M. "Davies, David Mortimer (1840–1894)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 6 December 2013 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
22. Daniel Williams. "Griffith, David (Clwydfardd; 1800–1894), eisteddfodic bard and arch-druid". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
23. "Sudden Death at Porth". South Wales Daily Post. 6 November 1894. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
24. "Vivian, Henry Hussey" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
25. "Death of a Welsh Knight – Sir Morgan Morgan suddenly expires – widespread sorrow in South Wales". Weekly Mail. Wales and the West of England. 15 December 1894. p. 7 – via Welsh Newspapers Online.
26. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1914. p. 1903.
27. Thomas Rowland Roberts, Eminent Welshmen (1908), p. 507-508.