1892 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1892 to Wales and its people.

← 1891 1890 1889 1888 1887 1892 in Wales → 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1892 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

• January – The children's magazine Cymru'r Plant is launched by Owen Morgan Edwards.[1]
• 5 March – St Michael's & All Angels (Anglican) Theological College is founded at Aberdare.
• 30 May – The South Wales Argus, published in Newport, is launched.[2]
• 14 July – Official inauguration of the Liverpool water supply from Lake Vyrnwy. The Vyrnwy dam is the first high masonry gravity dam in Britain.
• 13 September – The Watkin Path up Snowdon is officially opened by William Ewart Gladstone.[3]
• 14 September – The Cardiff water supply from Cantref Reservoir is officially inaugurated by the Mayor of Merthyr Tydfil.[4]
• date unknown
  • J.D. Lewis establishes the Gomer Press at Llandysul.[5]
  • The Parc and Dare Hall in Treorchy opens as a workingmen's institute and library.

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Rhyl

• Chair – Evan Jones, "Y Cenhadwr"[6]
• Crown – John John Roberts, "Dewi Sant"[7]

New books

• D Davies – Patagonia: a description of the country
• Daniel James (Gwyrosydd) – Caniadau Gwyrosydd
• Thomas Gwynn Jones – Eglwys y Dyn Tlawd
• John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy) – Lloffion yr Amddifad

Music

• Joseph Parry – Saul of Tarsus (oratorio)
• David Christmas Williams – Traeth Llafar (cantata)

Sport

• Baseball – The Welsh Baseball Union is founded.
• Football – The Welsh Cup is won by Chirk for the fourth time in its 13-year history.
• Golf – The course at Aberdovey is opened.

Births

• 23 March – Jack Whitfield, Wales rugby union captain (died 1927)
• 15 May – Jimmy Wilde, professional boxer (died 1969)[8]
• 12 June – Hilda Vaughan, novelist (died 1985)
• 20 June – Geoffrey Crawshay, soldier and social benefactor (died 1954)[9]
• 25 July – Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, soldier and medical administrator (died 1973)
• 12 August – Jerry Shea, Welsh rugby union and rugby league player (died 1947)
• 18 September – Joe Johns, Welsh lightweight boxing champion (died 1927)
• 12 November – Tudor Davies, operatic tenor (died 1958)[10]
• 19 November – Huw T. Edwards, trade union leader and politician (died 1970)[11]

Deaths

• 13 February – William Davies, palaeontologist, 76[12]
• 5 March – Theophilus Redwood, pharmacist, 85[13]
• 15 March – Mesac Thomas, Anglican bishop in Australia, 75[14]
• 22 April – William Williams, Presbyterian missionary in India, 33 (typhoid)[15]
• 24 April – John Davies (Ossian Gwent), poet, 53
• 27 April – Edward Wingfield Humphreys, Welsh-born New Zealand politician, 50/51[16]
• 6 May – Robert J. Davies, Calvinistic Methodist leader, 52[17]
• 5 June – Robert Rees, singer and musician, 51[18]
• 19 June – Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn, industrialist and politician, 78[19]
• 3 October – William Davies (Gwilym Teilo), poet and historian, 61
• 26 November – Edward Matthews, minister and author, 79[20]
• 18 December – Richard Owen, anatomist, 88[21]
• 23 December – John Gibson, architect of the Marble Church, Bodelwyddan, 75
• 27 December – Samuel Holland, politician, 89

References

1. Alfred Owen Hughes Jarman; Gwilym Rees Hughes; Hywel Teifi Edwards; Dafydd Johnston (2000). A Guide to Welsh Literature: c. 1800-1900. University of Wales Press. p. 205. ISBN 978-0-7083-1605-4.
2. Ifano Jones (1925). A History of Printing and Printers in Wales to 1810, and of Successive and Related Printers to 1923: Also, A History of Printing and Printers In Monmouthshire to 1923. W. Lewis. p. 260.
3. Jim Grindle (30 September 2011). One Hundred Hill Walks from Liverpool. Mainstream Publishing. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-78057-351-9.
4. Charles Wilkins (1908). The History of Merthyr Tydfil. J. Williams and Sons. p. 532.
5. Geraint Evans; Helen Fulton (18 April 2019). The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature. Cambridge University Press. p. 596. ISBN 978-1-107-10676-5.
6. "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 October 2019.
7. "Winners of the Crown". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 17 November 2019.
8. W. Buchanan-Taylor (1947). What Do You Know about Boxing?. Heath Cranton. p. 224.
9. Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (1910). Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour. T.C. & E.C. Jack. p. 385.
10. Gerald Norris (June 1981). A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland. David & Charles. p. 295. ISBN 978-0-7153-7845-8.
11. Paul Ward (15 February 2011). Huw T. Edwards: British Labour and Welsh Socialism. University of Wales Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-78316-445-5.
12. Bonney, Thomas George (1901). "Davies, William (1814-1891)" . Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
13. Western Druggist. 1892. p. 122.
14. Thorn, Barbara. "Thomas, Mesac (1816–1892)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 12 February 2013 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
15. J. Meirion Lloyd (1991). History of the Church in Mizoram: Harvest in the Hills. Synod Publication Board. pp. 17–23.
16. "OBITUARY". The Star (7270). 30 April 1892. p. 2. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
17. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "Davies, Robert (1790-1841), Calvinistic Methodist elder, etc". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
18. Griffith, Robert David. "Biography of Robert Rees". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
19. Michael Stenton (1976). Who's who of British members of Parliament: a biographical dictionary of the House of Commons. The Harvester Press. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-85527-219-7.
20. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Matthews, Edward (1813-1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
21. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 May 2020.