1889 in Wales
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Template:Short description Template:Use Welsh English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Year in Wales header This article is about the particular significance of the year 1889 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
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- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Richard Davies[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk[3]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves[4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Robert Davies Pryce[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington[13]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite[14]
- Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell[15]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis[16]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua Hughes (until 21 January)[17] Alfred George Edwards (from 25 March)[18]
- Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones[19]
Events
- January – First Glamorgan County Council elections are held.[20]
- 8 February – Nine people drown in a ferry accident at Pembroke Dock.
- 14 February – The first edition of the North Wales Weekly News is published (under the title Weekly News and Visitors’ Chronicle for Colwyn Bay, Colwyn, Llandrillo, Conway, Deganway and Neighbourhood).[21]
- 13 March – Twenty miners are killed in an accident at the Brynmally Colliery, Wrexham.
- 1 April – New elected county councils in England and Wales created by the Local Government Act 1888, take up their powers.[22][23][24] That for Radnorshire meets in Presteigne.
- June – A lion escapes from a travelling menagerie at Llandrindod Wells.[25]
- 18 July – Opening of the first dock basin at Barry.
- 3 August – Opening of Hawarden Bridge.
- 12 August – The passing of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act marks the beginning of secondary education in Wales.
- 15 August – Three men are killed in a mining accident at Wenvoe Quarry, Glamorgan.[26]
- 26 August – Act of incorporation of the Barry Railway Company#Vale of Glamorgan Railway.
- Approximate date – The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain is co-founded in Salford as the United Kingdom Van Dwellers Protection Association by Jacob Studt and other active Welsh cinema pioneers.
Arts and literature
Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Brecon
- Chair – Evan Rees, "Y Beibl Cymraeg"[27]
- Crown – Howell Elvet Lewis
New books
- Owen Morgan Edwards – O'r Bala i Geneva
Music
- Sir Henry Walford Davies – The Future, for chorus and orchestra
Sport
- Cricket – Glamorgan County Cricket Club plays its first match, against Warwickshire at Cardiff Arms Park.
- Rugby union – Bedwas RFC, Blackwood RFC and Llantwit Major RFC are formed.
Births
- 12 January – John Bryn Edwards, ironmaster and philanthropist (died 1922)
- 22 January – John Emlyn-Jones, politician (died 1952)[28]
- 28 January – Phil Waller, Wales and British Lions rugby player (died 1917)[29]
- 31 January – Jack Evans, footballer (died 1971)
- 1 February – John Lewis, philosopher (died 1976)
- 10 February – Howard Spring, novelist (died 1965)[30]
- 28 February – George Jeffreys, Pentecostalist (died 1962)
- 5 May – Stanley Winmill, Wales international rugby union player (died 1940)
- 24 June – Harry Symonds, cricketer (died 1945)
- 17 July – Aled Owen Roberts, politician (died 1949)
- 5 August – William Davies Thomas, academic (died 1954)
- 10 August – Irene Steer, swimmer (died 1977)[31]
- 21 August – Henry Lewis, Professor at Swansea University (died 1968)[32]
- 23 October – William Havard, Bishop of St Davids and international rugby player (died 1956)[33]
- 11 December – Cedric Morris, artist (died 1982)
Deaths
- 21 January – Joshua Hughes, Bishop of St Asaph, 81[17]
- 27 March – John Bright, Radical politician associated with Llandudno, 77[34]
- 10 April – Kilsby Jones, nonconformist minister, writer and lecturer, 76[35]
- 27 May – George Owen Rees, Welsh-Italian doctor, 75
- 8 June – Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anglo-Welsh poet, 44 (in Ireland)
- 17 June – John Hughes, industrialist, 73 (in St Petersburg)[36]
- 26 June – Walter Rice Howell Powell, landowner and politician, 69
- 28 September – Samuel Goldsworthy, Wales international rugby player, 34
- 15 October – Sir Daniel Gooch, railway engineer and politician, 73[37]
- 29 October – Godfrey Darbishire, Wales rugby international player, 36
- 14 November – James Stephens, stonemason, Chartist, and later Australian trade unionist, 68
- 18 November – Charles Easton Spooner, railway pioneer, 71[38]
- date unknown – G. Phillips Bevan, statistician, geographer and author, 59/60[39]
- probable – Richard Williams Morgan, clergyman and poet
See also
References
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- ↑ Western Mail - Friday 16 August 1889, p.3, Accessed via The British Newspaper Archive Template:Subscription required. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
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- ↑ Trevelyan, George Macaulay (1913) The Life of John Bright. Pages 462-3
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