Robert Bird (Welsh politician)
- Robert Bird (Welsh politician)
Robert Bird (1839 – 1909) was a Welsh Liberal politician. He served as mayor of Cardiff in 1882. Appointed an Alderman he later served as President of the Cardiff Liberal Association. A loyal Liberal, he opposed the revolt of David Lloyd George, Frank Edwards, Herbert Lewis and David Alfred Thomas over Welsh Disestablishment in 1894.
In 1896, Robert Bird achieved notoriety among Welsh nationalists. On 16 January, the proposal to merge the South Wales Liberal Federation with the Welsh National Federation was put to the Annual General Meeting of the South Wales Liberal Federation, held at Newport, Monmouthshire. Speaking against the motion, Robert Bird declared: “You will find, from Swansea to Newport, a cosmopolitan population who will not submit to the domination of Welsh ideas!” Causing outrage among the supporters of Cymru Fydd.
Further political controversy engulfed Bird when he was chosen as Liberal candidate for Cardiff, due to his opposition to the Boer War. He was eventually dropped and Sir E. J. Reed, the former MP was chosen instead.
A prominent member of the United Methodist Free Church and President of the Cardiff Free Church Council for 1901, Alderman Bird was a generous benefactor to the cause of Nonconformity. The Methodist Chapel at Newport Road, where he was a member, benefited greatly from the family of Robert Bird, while Bird built the Chapel on Penarth Road and leased it to the Free Methodists. Robert Bird was the first superintendent of Penarth Road Chapel, chiefly, one suspects, because he owned it. Bird was described as: ‘a Nonconformist both by birth and conviction.’ His wife laid the foundation stone of the halls attached to Trinity Methodist Church, Newport Road, Cardiff, of which he was a member.
Alderman Bird served on the Committee which secured the National Museum of Wales for Cardiff.
A shipping magnate, Robert Bird was born in Southville, near Bristol in 1839. Bird moved to Cardiff in 1872. He died in 1909, and is buried beneath a grandiose monument in Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff.
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