1902 in Wales

1902 in Wales

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

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - George, Prince of Wales, son of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom
*Princess of Wales - Mary of Teck
*Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Hwfa Môn

Events

*March 4 - Five miners are killed in an accident at Milfaen Colliery, Blaenavon.
*June 3 - Six miners are killed in an accident at Gerwen Colliery, Llanelli.
*November 11 - Five miners are killed in an accident at Deep Navigation Colliery, Mountain Ash.
*Alfred Mond founds his nickel works at Clydach in the Swansea valley.
*230 Welsh colonists leave Patagonia for Manitoba in Canada.
*Opening of the Great Orme tramway, the longest cable railway in the UK.
*Opening of Caernarfon electric power station.
*Opening of
**Vale of Rheidol railway
**Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway
*Isambard Owen is knighted.

Arts and literature

Awards

*National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Bangor
**Chair - T. Gwynn Jones
**Crown - Silyn Roberts

New books

*Rhoda Broughton - "Lavinia"
*Arthur Machen - "Hieroglyphics"
*Allen Raine - "A Welsh Witch"
*Thomas Rowland Roberts - "Y Monwyson"

Music

*Sir Henry Walford Davies - "Three Jovial Huntsmen"

port

*Gymnastics - The Welsh Amateur Gymnastics Association is formed.
*Rugby union - Wales win the Home Nations Championship and take the Triple Crown.

Births

*25 February - Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford, politician (died 1993)
*4 March - David Evans-Bevan, industrialist (died 1973)
*22 April - Megan Lloyd George, politician (died 1966)
*18 June - Morgan Phillips, politician (died 1963)
*21 September - E. E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist of Welsh descent (died 1972)
*27 October (in Oxford) - Harold Arthur Harris, academic
*"date unknown"
**Dilys Cadwaladr, poet (died 1979)
**Richard Bryn Williams, writer (died 1981)

Deaths

*January 11 - James James, harpist and composer, 68
*March 6 - William Rathbone, politician, 82
*November 17 - Hugh Price Hughes, minister and anti-Parnell campaigner, 55
*"date unknown"
**Jeremiah Jones, poet
**Edmund Hannay Watts, industrialist (Wattstown)


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