1899 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1899 to Wales and its people.

← 1898 1897 1896 1895 1894 1899 in Wales → 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1899 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

• 25 January – Adelina Patti marries her third husband, Baron Rolf Cederström, in a Roman Catholic service at Brecon.[2]
• 20 March – W. H. Davies, "tramp-poet", loses his foot trying to jump a freight train at Renfrew, Ontario.[3]
• 29 March – A French barque, Le Maréchal Lannes, is wrecked off Grassholm, with the loss of its crew of 25.
• April – The Duke and Duchess of York visit Gwydir Castle.
• 23 May – William Goscombe John's statue of "The Little Girl" at Llansannan is unveiled by Mrs Herbert Roberts.[4]
• 20 July – A rabid dog attacks a group of children in Pontarddulais. In August, eight of them are sent to the Pasteur Institute in Paris to be inoculated.
• 2 September – Arthur Wade-Evans takes the surname "Wade-Evans" by deed poll.[5]
• date unknown
  • Businessman Arthur Keen buys the Dowlais Iron Company from Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne.
  • The Rhymney Railway opens Caerphilly railway works.[6]
  • The George Hotel, Chepstow, is rebuilt.[7]
  • Explorer Henry Morton Stanley is knighted.
  • In the United States, J. Vyrnwy Morgan, pastor of the First Baptist Church at Omaha, Nebraska, relocates to Denver, Colorado, for the sake of his wife's health. (She dies on New Year's Day 1900.)[8]

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Cardiff

• Chair – withheld[9]
• Crown – R. Gwylfa Roberts, "Y Diddanydd Arall"[10]

New books

English language

• Rhoda Broughton – Foes in Law
• Allen Raine – By Berwyn Banks
• William Retlaw Jefferson Williams – The Parliamentary History of Oxford, 1213-1899[11]

Welsh language

• John Hughes – Ysgol Jacob[12]
• Daniel Evan Jones – Hanes Plwyf Llangeler a Phenboyr[13]
• John Owen Jones (Ap Ffarmwr) – Cofiant Gladstone
• James Morris – Cofiant Thomas Jones, Conwyl[14]

Music

• 11 March – The Gramophone Company makes the first recording in the Welsh language, including Madge Breese singing Hen wlad fy nhadau.

Works

• Walford Davies – Overture, A Welshman in London[15]

Sport

• Football
  • The Welsh Cup is won by the "Druids" for the seventh time in its 21-year history.
  • Cardiff City F.C. is founded, under the name of "Riverside Reserves".
• Yachting – The River Towy Yacht Club is founded.

Births

• 18 February – Mervyn Johns, actor (died 1992)
• 8 March – Eric Linklater, writer (died 1974)
• 14 April – Arthur Owens, intelligence agent (died 1957)
• 28 April – Len Davies, footballer (died 1945)
• 17 May – H. H. Price, philosopher (died 1984)
• 18 May
  • Ronald Armstrong-Jones, barrister (died 1966)[16]
  • David James Jones (Gwenallt), poet (died 1968)
• 16 June – Jack Gore, Wales international rugby player (died 1971)
• 15 July – Idris Cox, political activist (died 1989)
• 16 July – Ernie Finch, Wales international rugby player (died 1983)
• 12 December – Charlie Jones, footballer (died 1966)
• 20 December – Martyn Lloyd-Jones, preacher (died 1981)

Deaths

• 9 January – Harry Congreve Evans, Australian journalist of Welsh descent, 38[17]
• 4 February – William Hughes, Welsh-born US politician, 57[18]
• 2 March – John Owen Jones (Ap Ffarmwr), journalist, 38[19]
• 22 March – Tom Morgan Wales international rugby player, 32
• 5 April
  • T. E. Ellis, politician, 40[20]
  • Richard P. Howell, Welsh-born US carpenter, businessman, and politician, 67[21]
• 16 April – William Roberts, physician, 69[22]
• 19 May – Elias Owen, clergyman and antiquarian, 65[23]
• 4 August – Daniel Lewis Lloyd, bishop and academic, 55[24]
• 18 August – Nicholas Bennett, historian, 76[25]
• 28 August – Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer, 31[26]
• 9 September – William Pamplin, English-born botanist, 93[27]
• 13 October – Charles Ashton, literary historian, 51 (suicide)[28]
• 18 November – Henry Hicks, geologist, 62
• 23 November – Dai St. John, heavyweight boxer, 28
• 11 December – Stephen W. Williams, civil engineer and architect, 62

References

1. Hywel Teifi Edwards (20 July 2016). The Eisteddfod. University of Wales Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-78316-914-6.
2. Edward T. James; Janet Wilson James; Paul S. Boyer (1971). Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Harvard University Press. pp. 31. ISBN 978-0-674-62734-5.
3. Moult, Thomas (1934). W. H. Davies. London: Thornton Butterworth.
4. Wrexham Advertiser, 27 May 1899.
5. Mary Auronwy James; Brynley Francis Roberts. "Wade-Evans, Arthur Wade (1875-1964), clergyman and historian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
6. "Timeline History of Caerphilly". Welcome to Caerphilly. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
7. Clash, Hilary (1988). The History of the George Inn, Chepstow. pp. 4–12. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
8. Millward, Edward (1961). "John Vyrnwy Morgan". National Library of Wales Journal. 12.
9. "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 11 December 2019.
10. "Winners of the Crown". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 17 November 2019.
11. Evan David Jones. "Williams, William Retlaw Jefferson (1863-1944), solicitor, genealogist, and historian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
12. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Hughes, John (1850-1932), Calvinistic Methodist minister, author, and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
13. John Evans. "Jones, Daniel Evan (1860-1941), author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
14. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Morris, James (1853-1914), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
15. "Sir Henry Walford Davies(1869-1941); Catalogue of the Orchestral/Choral Music". Unsung Composers. 27 March 2012. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
16. Anne de Courcy (20 December 2012). Snowdon: The Biography. Orion. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-297-85604-7.
17. "The Late Mr. Harry Evans". South Australian Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 11 January 1899. p. 6. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
18. The Law Makers of Wisconsin. Milwaukee: The Evening Wisconsin Company. 1899. p. 50.
19. Frank Price Jones. "Jones, John Owen (1861-1899), journalist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
20. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "Ellis, T.E. (1859-1899), M.P. for Merioneth (1886-99) and chief Liberal whip (1894-5)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
21. 'The Death Of Hon. R.P. Howell,' Racine Weekly Journal, 6 April 1899, pg. 3
22.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Power, D'Arcy (1901). "Roberts, William (1830-1899)". Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
23. Cholerton, Moira. "Death". Elias Owen (1833–1899). Retrieved 2 December 2011.
24. Joseph Haydn; Benjamin Vincent (1906). Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages and Nations. Ward, Lock & Company. p. 118.
25. Robert David Griffith. "Bennett, Nicholas (1823-1899), musician and historian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
26. McClure's Magazine. S.S. McClure, Limited. May 1902. p. 118.
27. Evan Roberts. "Pamplin, William (1806-1899), botanist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
28. "Charles Ashton Letters and Newspaper Cuttings". Archives Wales. Archived from the original on 23 May 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2013.