1909 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1909 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 - Dyfed

Events

*16 January - Edgeworth David is a member of the expedition which successfully reaches the Magnetic South Pole.
*August - Noah Ablett is a founding member of the Plebs' League at Ruskin College, Oxford.
*October - Monthly rainfall of 56.5 inches is measured at Llyn Llydaw, Snowdonia - a British record.
*29 October - A mining accident at Darren Colliery, New Tredegar, kills 26 men.
*Thirty-six men are killed when a trench collapses during construction of the Alexandra Dock in Newport.
*King's Dock, Swansea, is opened.
*Thomas Rees becomes principal of Bala-Bangor Theological College.
*The first mines rescue station in south Wales is opened at Aberaman.
*The Bryn Eglwys slate quarry, the Abergynolwyn estate and village and Talyllyn Railway are purchased by Sir Henry Haydn Jones.

Arts and literature

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Awards

*National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in London
**Chair - T. Gwynn Jones
**Crown - W. J. Gruffydd

New books

*Emrys ap Iwan - "Homilïau" vol. 2 (posthumous)
*Edward Thomas - "The South Country"

Music

*Evan Thomas Davies - "Ynys y Plant"

port

*Boxing
**23 August - Freddie Welsh wins the European lightweight title.
**8 November - Freddie Welsh wins the British lightweight title, and becomes the first Welshman to be awarded a Lonsdale Belt.
**Thomas Thomas is awarded the first Lonsdale Belt at middleweight.

*Athletics (track and field)
**23 August - Welshman Fred 'Tenby' Davies beats Irishman Bert Day at Pontypridd to become world champion over the half-mile distance.

*Rugby union
**Wales win their second Grand Slam.

Births

*29 January - George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy
*11 June - Ronnie Boon, Wales rugby union player
*28 July - Jack Morley, Wales and British Lions rugby player
*25 August - Arwel Hughes, composer
*24 October - Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones, politician
*7 November - Eirene White, politician
*29 November - Goronwy Rees, journalist and academic
*14 December - Ronald Welch, historical novelist
*"date unknown"
**Aneirin Talfan Davies, writer and publisher
**Isaac Davies (Eic Davies), dramatist
**Arthur Probert, politician
**Evan Roberts, botanist
**Howard Thomas, radio and television producer
**Mansel Thomas, composer and conductor

Deaths

*9 January - Frederick Courtenay Morgan, politician, 74
*31 May - Thomas Price, Prime Minister of South Australia
*1 August - Hugh Rowlands, VC recipient
*10 November - George Essex Evans, Welsh-Australian poet
*11 December - Ludwig Mond, industrialist
*13 December - Sir Alfred Lewis Jones, shipping magnate
*"date unknown"
**Ivor James, educationist
**Catherine Prichard, poet