1902 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1902 to Wales and its people.

← 1901 1900 1899 1898 1897 1902 in Wales → 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1902 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – George (later George V)
• Princess of Wales – Mary
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa Môn[1]

Events

• 4 March – Five miners are killed in a mining accident at Milfaen Colliery, Blaenavon.
• 1 May – Cardiff Corporation Tramways begins operating its electric system.
• 3 June – Six miners are killed in an accident at Gerwen Colliery, Llanelli.
• 26 June – In the 1902 Coronation Honours, Isambard Owen and Alfred Thomas receive knighthoods.
• 15 July – Francis Grenfell is created 1st Baron Grenfell of Kilvey in the County of Glamorgan.[2]
• 31 July – Opening of the first section of the Great Orme Tramway at Llandudno, the longest funicular railway in the British Isles.[3]
• August – Opening of the Vale of Rheidol Railway for goods traffic (it opens to passengers on 22 December).[4]
• 11 November – Five miners are killed in an accident at Deep Navigation Colliery, Mountain Ash.
• date unknown
  • Alfred Mond founds his nickel works at Clydach in the Swansea Valley.[5]
  • 230 Welsh colonists leave Patagonia for Manitoba in Canada.
  • Opening of Caernarfon electric power station.

Arts and literature

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales – held in Bangor
  • Chair – T. Gwynn Jones[6]
  • Crown – Silyn Roberts

New books

English language

• Rhoda Broughton – Lavinia
• Arthur Machen – Hieroglyphics
• Allen Raine – A Welsh Witch

Welsh language

• Hugh Brython Hughes – Tlysau Ynys Prydain
• Thomas Rowland Roberts – Y Monwyson

Music

• Sir Henry Walford Davies – Three Jovial Huntsmen[7]

Sport

• Gymnastics – The Welsh Amateur Gymnastics Association is formed.[8]
• Rugby union – Wales win the Home Nations Championship and take the Triple Crown.

Births

• 4 February – Tal Harris, Wales international rugby player (died 1963)
• 25 February – Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford, politician (died 1993)[9]
• 4 March – David Evans-Bevan, industrialist (died 1973)
• 19 March – Dilys Cadwaladr, poet (died 1979)
• 16 April – Hugh Iorys Hughes, civil engineer (died 1977 in England)
• 22 April – Megan Lloyd George, politician (died 1966)[10]
• 18 June – Morgan Phillips, politician (died 1963)
• 17 July – Nathan Rocyn-Jones, doctor, international rugby player and President of the WRU (died 1984)
• 2 September – Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, political cartoonist (died 1979)
• 21 September – E. E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist of Welsh descent (died 1972)
• 27 October (in Oxford) – Harold Arthur Harris, academic (died 1974)
• 26 November (in Wales or Bristol) – Cyril Bence, academic and politician (died 1992)[11]
• date unknown – Richard Bryn Williams, writer (died 1981)

Deaths

• 1 January – William McConnel, industrialist, 93[12]
• 11 January – James James, harpist and composer, 69[13]
• 19 February – Jeremiah Jones, poet, 46
• 6 March – William Rathbone, politician, 82[14]
• 11 March – Alcwyn Evans, historian, 73[15]
• 6 April – Robert Owen, theologian, 81[16]
• 13 July – Edmund Hannay Watts, industrialist (Wattstown)[17]
• 14 July – Martyn Jordan, Wales international rugby player, 37
• 23 August – Robert Henry Davies, colonial official in British India, 78[18]
• 5 October – Henry Lascelles Carr, journalist[19]
• 17 November – Hugh Price Hughes, minister and anti-Parnell campaigner, 55[20]
• date unknown – Jones Hewson, singer and actor, 27[21]

References

1. Hywel Teifi Edwards (20 July 2016). The Eisteddfod. University of Wales Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-78316-914-6.
2. "No. 27455". The London Gazette. 18 July 1902. p. 4587.
3. Stanley C. Jenkins; Martin Loader (15 March 2015). The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Volume One Chester to Holyhead. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 148. ISBN 978-1-4456-4416-5.
4. Lewis Cozens (1950). The Vale of Rheidol Railway. Lewis Cozens.
5. Gareth Elwyn Jones; Professor of Anatomy and Structural Biology Gareth Jones (28 October 1994). Modern Wales: A Concise History. Cambridge University Press. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-521-46945-6.
6. "T Gwynn Jones and Arthur ap Gwynn Papers". JISC Archives Hub. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
7. Edward Wulstan Atkins; Edward Elgar; Sir Ivor Atkins (26 April 1984). The Elgar-Atkins friendship. David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-8583-8.
8. "Welsh Gymnastics - About Us". Welsh Gymnastics. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
9. Sally Belfrage (3 December 1993). "Obituary: Lord Milford - People - News". The Independent. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
10. William Richard Philip George. "Lloyd George (family)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
11. Tam Dalyell (8 September 1992). "Obituary: Cyril Bence". The Independent. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
12. "John Wanklyn McConnel". Nature. 109 (2747): 821. 24 June 1922. doi:10.1038/109821a0.
13. Thomas, Daniel Lleufer (1912), Dictionary of National Biography, 2 (1912 supplement ed.), London: Smith, Elder & Co., p. 361
14. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Rathbone, William (1819-1902), philanthropist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
15. Bertie George Charles; Morfudd Nia Jones. "Evans, Alcwyn Caryni (1828-1902), antiquary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
16. Thomas, D. L.; rev. Murphy; G. Martin (2004). "Owen, Robert (1820–1902)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 9 May 2008.
17. London Gazette, August 1902
18. DAVIES, Sir Robert Henry, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)
19. Frederick Converse Beach; George Edwin Rines (1912). The Americana: a universal reference library. Scientific American compiling department.
20. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "Hughes, Hugh Price (1847-1902), philanthropist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
21. Stone, David. Jones Hewson at Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 12 February 2007