1913 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1913 to Wales and its people.

← 1912 1911 1910 1909 1908 1913 in Wales → 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1913 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Edward
• Princess of Wales - vacant
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Dyfed

Events

Mrs Pankhurst speaks in Cardiff

• 19 February - Suffragette arson attack on a house being built for David Lloyd George near Walton Heath Golf Club in Surrey. Emmeline Pankhurst, in a speech in Cardiff this evening, claims to have incited this and other incidents.[1]
• 5 June - The last ship built at Porthmadog, Y Gestiana, is launched; on 4 October she is wrecked on her maiden voyage, on the coast of Nova Scotia.
• 14 June - Three years after leaving Cardiff on her fateful voyage to the Antarctic, Captain Robert Falcon Scott's ship Terra Nova returns to the port, commanded by Scott's former comrade Teddy Evans.
• 14 October - Senghenydd Colliery Disaster: 439 men are killed in a mining accident at Universal Colliery, Senghenydd - the worst accident in British mining history. 1913 is the peak year for coal production in Wales.
• 27 October - A tornado hits South Wales, killing four people.[2]
• Diplomat William Henry Hoare Vincent is knighted.
• Carmarthen Farm Institute is founded - the first of its kind.
• Monmouthshire Training College is founded at Caerleon, with Edward Anwyl as its first principal.
• School of Mines founded at Treforest, a predecessor of the University of South Wales.

Arts and literature

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Abergavenny
  • Chair - Thomas Jacob Thomas, "Aelwyd y Cymro"[3]
  • Crown - William Evans (Wil Ifan)

New books

English language

• Sabine Baring-Gould - Lives of the British Saints, volume 4[4]
• W. H. Davies - Foliage[5]
• Frances Hoggan - American Negro Women During Their First Fifty Years of Freedom
• Thomas Gwynn Jones - Cofiant Thomas Gee
• Sir John Morris-Jones - Welsh Grammar: Historical and Comparative
• Edward Thomas - The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans

Welsh language

• T. Gwynn Jones - Brethyn Cartref[6]
• Moelona - Teulu Bach Nantoer

Music

• Robert Griffith - Llyfr Cerdd Dannau[7]
• Morfydd Llwyn Owen - Nocturne (Charles Lucas Medal)[8]

Film

• The American adaptation of Ivanhoe is filmed at Chepstow Castle.

Sport

• Boxing
  • 2 June - Bill Beynon wins the British and Empire bantamweight championship.
• Rugby Union
  • 18 January - Wales are defeated 12–0 by England in a game played at the National Stadium, Cardiff

Births

• 7 March – E. Gwyndaf Evans, poet and archdruid (died 1986)[9]
• 13 March – Tessie O'Shea, entertainer and actress (d. 1995)[10]
• 29 March - R. S. Thomas, poet (d. 2000)[11]
• 31 March - Dai Rees, golfer (died 1983)[12]
• 8 May - Tom Rees, Wales international rugby player (d. 1991)
• 27 May - Mervyn Stockwood, Anglican bishop (d. 1995)[13]
• 5 June - Moelwyn Merchant, poet and novelist (d. 1997)[14]
• 6 July - Gwyn Thomas, author (died 1981)[15]
• 23 July - Michael Foot, politician, MP for Ebbw Vale 1960-1992 (died 2010)[16]
• 7 September - William "Wendy" Davis, Wales international rugby player (d. 2002)
• 2 October - Vivian Ridler, printer (died 2009)[17]
• 18 December - Eddie Morgan, Wales international rugby player (d. 1978)

Deaths

• 4 February - Tom Williams, Wales international rugby player and sports administrator, c.52
• 8 February - James Webb, Wales rugby international, 50
• 16 February (in Australia) - Lewis Thomas, colliery proprietor and politician
• 11 March - Godfrey Charles Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, British Army officer, politician and philanthropist, 81
• 19 March - John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia), harpist, 87[18]
• 30 March - Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke, politician, 60[19]
• 3 April (in London) - Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff, politician, 87[20]
• 15 April - William Jones, Victoria Cross recipient, c.73
• 4 June (in London) - Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel, politician, 78
• 24 July - Hugh Brython Hughes, children's author, 65[21]
• 17 August - Harry Bowen, Wales international rugby player, 49
• 22 September - Emmeline Lewis Lloyd, alpine mountaineer, 85[22]
• c. 8 October - John Jones (Coch Bach y Bala), notorious criminal, c.59
• 6 November - Sir William Henry Preece, electrical engineer, 79[23]
• 7 November (in Broadstone, Dorset) - Alfred Russel Wallace, scientist, 90[24]
• 19 December (in South Africa) - Bert Gould, Wales international rugby player, 43
• date unknown - Thomas Thomas (apTommas), harpist and younger brother of John Thomas, 82/3

References

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2. "The Devastating South Wales Tornado of October 1913". Retrieved 28 June 2012.
3. "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 October 2019.
4. Frank D. Reno (2000). Historic Figures of the Arthurian Era: Authenticating the Enemies and Allies of Britain's Post-Roman King. McFarland. pp. 327. ISBN 978-0-7864-0648-7.
5. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
6. Mark Meredith (1930). Who's who in Literature. Literary Year Books Press. p. 248.
7. Phyllis Kinney (15 June 2016). Welsh Traditional Music. University of Wales Press. p. 258. ISBN 978-1-78316-858-3.
8. Laura Seddon (15 April 2016). British Women Composers and Instrumental Chamber Music in the Early Twentieth Century. Routledge. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-317-17134-8.
9. "Y Parch E Gwyndaf Evans BA" (PDF). Eco'r Wyddfa (in Welsh): 3. April 1986.
10. Dennis Gifford (25 April 1995). "Obituary: Tessie O'Shea". The Independent. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
11. William Virgil Davis (2007). R.S. Thomas: Poetry and Theology. Baylor University Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-932792-49-2.
12. D. Ben Rees. "Rees, David James (Dai) (1913-1983), golfer and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
13. Priests and Prelates: The Daily Telegraph Clerical Obituaries. A&C Black. 23 June 2006. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-8264-8100-9.
14. David Shaw; Paul Merchant (3 May 1997). "Obituary: The Rev Professor W. Moelwyn Merchant". The Independent. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
15. Janet Podell (May 1982). Annual Obituary, 1981. Thomson Gale. p. 272. ISBN 978-0-912289-51-9.
16. "Michael Foot". The Telegraph. 3 March 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
17. Nicolas Barker (13 January 2009). "Vivian Ridler: Printer to Oxford University from 1958 to 1978 and founder of the Perpetua Press". The Independent. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
18. "Thomas, John Pencerdd Gwalia (1826-1913), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
19. The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. 1914. p. 120.
20. The Solicitors' Journal. The Journal. 1938. p. 270.
21. Jones, Gwynn (1983). "Hugh Brython Hughes", in Dewiniaid Difyr. Gwasg Gomer.
22. Ioan Bowen Rees. "Lewis Lloyd, Emmeline (1827-1913), one of the first women to climb in the Alps". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
23. Paul J. Nahin (13 November 2002). Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age. JHU Press. p. 287. ISBN 978-0-8018-6909-9.
24. Indraneil Das; Andrew Alek Tuen (25 April 2016). Naturalists, Explorers and Field Scientists in South-East Asia and Australasia. Springer. p. 79. ISBN 978-3-319-26161-4.