1890s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1890 - 1899 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - Edward Albert, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Princess of Wales - Alexandra of Denmark
*Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
**Clwydfardd (to 1894)
**Hwfa Môn (from 1895)

Events

*Events of 1890
*Events of 1891
*Events of 1892
*Events of 1893
*Events of 1894
*Events of 1895
*Events of 1896
*Events of 1897
*Events of 1898
*Events of 1899

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales
*1890 - Bangor
**Chair - Thomas Tudno Jones
**Crown - John John Roberts
*1891 - Swansea
**Chair - John Owen Williams
**Crown - David Adams
*1892 - Rhyl
**Chair - Evan Jones
**Crown - John John Roberts
*1893 - Pontypridd
**Chair - John Ceulanydd Williams
**Crown - Ben Davies
*1894 - Caernarfon
**Chair - Howell Elvet Lewis
**Crown - Ben Davies
*1895 - Llanelli
**Chair - John Owen Williams
**Crown - Lewis William Lewis
*1896 - Llandudno
**Chair - Ben Davies
**Crown - "withheld"
*1897 - Newport
**Chair - John Thomas Job
**Crown - Thomas Mafonwy Davies
*1898 - Blaenau Ffestiniog
**Chair - Robert Owen Hughes
**Crown - Richard Roberts
*1899 - Cardiff
**Chair - "withheld"
**Crown - Richard Roberts

New books

*Anne Beale - "Old Gwen" (1890)
*Rhoda Broughton
**"Alas!" (1890)
**"Mrs Bligh" (1892)
**"Foes in Law" (1899)
*"Caniadau Cymru" (anthology) (1897)
*Amy Dillwyn - "Maggie Steele's Diary" (1892)
*Owen Morgan Edwards - "Cymru" (1892)
*Beriah Gwynfe Evans - "Dafydd Dafis" (1898)
*John Gruffydd Moelwyn Hughes - "Caniadau Moelwyn" (1893)
*Arthur Machen - "The Three Impostors" (1895)
*Daniel Owen - "Enoc Huws" (1891)

Film

*1896 - The first news film ever shot in Britain shows the Prince and Princess of Wales visiting an exhibition in Cardiff. This was also the first ever motion picture of the prince.

Music

*Sir Henry Walford Davies - "Symphony in D" (1894)
*Joseph Parry - "Saul of Tarsus" (oratorio) (1892)

port

*Horse racing - The Welsh Grand National is run for the first time, at Ely, Cardiff.

Births

*1890
**June 21 - W. J. A. Davies, rugby player (died 1967)
**December 16 - P. J. Grigg, politician (died 1964)
*1891
**February 13 - Kate Roberts, author (died 1985)
*1893
**January 15 - Ivor Novello, composer and actor (died 1951)
**"date unknown" - Lewis Valentine, political activist
*1894
**June 23 - Edward, future Prince of Wales (died 1972)
**"date unknown" - Ambrose Bebb, author and politician (died 1955)
*1895
**January 22 - Iorwerth Thomas, politician (died 1966)
**March 1 - William Richard Williams, civil servant (died 1963)
**"date unknown" - Albert Evans-Jones ("Cynan"), poet and Archdruid (died 1970)
*1896
**May 1 - Hubert William Lewis, VC recipient (died 1977)
*1897
**November 15 - Aneurin Bevan, politician (died 1960)
*1898
**February 10 - Thomas Jones, Baron Maelor, politician (died 1984)
**July 29 - Dorothy Rees, politician (died 1987)
**September 24 - Henry Arthur Evans, politician (died 1958)
**"date unknown" - William John Edwards, cerdd dant singer (died 1978)
*1899
**May 17 - H. H. Price, philosopher (died 1984)
**December 20 - Martyn Lloyd-Jones, preacher (died 1981)
**"date unknown" - Len Davies, footballer (died 1945)

Deaths

*1890
**January 17 - Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, landowner (born 1803)
**January 20 - Guillermo Rawson, Argentinian politician and patron of Patagonian Welsh colony (born 1821)
**March 19 - Edmund Swetenham, MP for Caernarfon
**June 29 - Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon (born 1831)
**July 20 - David Davies "Llandinam", industrialist (born 1818)
*1891
**September 26 - David Charles Davies, Nonconformist leader (born 1826)
**"date unknown"
**Love Jones-Parry, politician (born 1832)
**Hugh Owen Thomas, pioneering orthopaedic surgeon (born 1834)
*1893
**January 23 - Dr William Price, eccentric (born 1800)
*1894
**February 24 - John Roberts, politician (born 1835)
*1895
**January 15 - Lady Charlotte Guest, translator of the "Mabinogion" (born 1812)
**October 22 - Daniel Owen, novelist (born 1836)
*1896
**January 17 - Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover, patron of the arts (born 1802)
**December 30 - Evan Herber Evans, Nonconformist leader (born 1836)
*1897
**October 15 - Charles John Vaughan, former Dean of Llandaff (born 1816)
*1898
**June 17 - Sir Edward Burne-Jones, artist (born 1833)
**September 28 - Thomas Gee, publisher (born 1815)
**December 2 - Michael D. Jones, Patagonian settler (born 1822)
*1899
**April 5 - T. E. Ellis, politician (born 1859)
**August - Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer (born 1867)