1905 in Wales

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Year in Wales header This article is about the particular significance of the year 1905 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa Môn

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk (until 19 December); Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk (from 19 December)
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – W. R. M. Wynne
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank

• Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis (until 24 January); Joshua Pritchard Hughes (from 1 June)
• Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)
• Bishop of St Davids – John Owen

Events

• 31 January – 1904–1905 Welsh Revival: Rev Peter Price writes to the Western Mail, criticising the "so-called" revival led by Evan Roberts.
• 10 March – 33 men are killed in a mining accident at Cambrian Colliery, Clydach Vale, Rhondda.
• 29 March – Evan Roberts embarks on his first and only mission outside Wales, spending a three-week period in Liverpool.
• 27 May – Thomas Price becomes Premier of South Australia.
• 30 June – Opening of the Prichard Jones Institute at Newborough, Anglesey.
• 11 July – National Colliery disaster at Wattstown in the Rhondda: an underground explosion kills 120 men, with just one survivor.
• 28 August – The Dyserth branch line is opened to passengers.
• 21 October - The centenary of the death of Horatio Nelson is commemorated in a ceremony at The Kymin. Participants include Lady Llangattock.
• 28 October - Edward VII grants city status to Cardiff, the only such grant of his reign.
• 10 December – David Lloyd George joins the new Liberal Cabinet of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as President of the Board of Trade.
• 18 December – The earldom of Plymouth is revived in favour of Robert George Windsor-Clive, 14th Baron Windsor, who also becomes Viscount Windsor of St. Fagan's.
• 28 December – Godfrey Morgan is created Viscount Tredegar.
• Sir John Williams purchases the Peniarth manuscripts at the instigation of John Gwenogvryn Evans.

Arts and literature

• Edward Morgan Humphreys joins the staff of Y Genedl Gymreig.

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales – held in Mountain Ash
  • Chair – No winner
  • Crown – Thomas Mathonwy Davies

New books

English language

• David Ffrangcon Davies – The Singing of the Future
• W. H. Davies – The Soul's Destroyer
• Allen Raine - Hearts of Wales
• Owen Rhoscomyl – Flame-Bearers of Welsh History

Welsh language

• Gwaith Ann Griffiths (ed. Owen Morgan Edwards)
• John Jones (Myrddin Fardd) – Cynfeirdd Lleyn
• Gwyneth Vaughan - O Gorlannau'r Defaid
• John Watson – Yr Hen Ddoctor

Film

• The Life of Charles Peace made by Ifan ab Owen Edwards

Music

• David John de Lloyd is the first music graduate of University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
• John Hughes - "Cwm Rhondda" (hymn tune, first version, as "Rhondda")
• William Penfro Rowlands – "Blaenwern" (hymn tune)

Sport

• Bowls – The International Bowling Board is formed in Cardiff.
• Rugby union
  • 11 March – Wales win the Home Nations Championship and take the Triple Crown.
  • 16 December – Wales defeat the first touring New Zealand team at Cardiff Arms Park.

Births

• 6 January – Idris Davies, poet (died 1953)
• 10 February – Rachel Thomas, actress (died 1995)
• 28 February – Glyn Jones, writer (died 1995)
• 1 March – Doris Hare, actress (died 2000)
• 18 April – Alun Oldfield-Davies, controller of BBC Wales (died 1988)
• 18 May – Thomas Jones Pierce, historian (died 1964)
• 28 June – Albert Clifford Williams, politician (died 1987)
• 11 July – Jack Bassett, Wales international rugby union player (died 1989)
• 2 August – Myrna Loy, actress of Welsh descent (died 1993)
• 13 August – Gareth Jones, journalist and advisor to David Lloyd George (died 1935)
• 28 August – Cyril Walters, cricketer (died 1992)
• 16 October – Barry Livesey, actor (died 1959)
• 31 October – W. F. Grimes, archaeologist (died 1988)
• 26 November – Emlyn Williams, dramatist and actor (died 1987)
• 10 December – John Edward Jones, Plaid Cymru leader (died 1970)
• 18 December – Stanley Cornwell Lewis, artist (died 2009)
• 22 December – Gwyn Richards, dual-code rugby player (died 1985)
• 29 December – Billy Williams, dual-code international rugby player (died 1973)

Deaths

• 24 January – Richard Lewis, Bishop of Llandaff, 83
• 7 March – Robert Isaac Jones, pharmacist, writer and printer
• 14 March – Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey, eccentric (died in Monte Carlo), 29
• 25 April – David Watkin Jones, poet, 73
• 29 May – Robert Franklin John, Welsh-born farmer and political figure in British Columbia, 54
• August/September – Peter Rees Jones, entrepreneur, 62
• 14 October – John Thomas, photographer, 67
• 15 October – Thomas Howells (Hywel Cynon), poet and musician, 66
• 19 October – Anne Ceridwen Rees, practising physician in the US, 31
• 23 October – William Phillips, botanist, 83
• 28 October – Barry Girling, Wales international rugby union player
• 10 November – Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn), poet and archdruid, 82
• 19 November – Watkin Hezekiah Williams (Watcyn Wyn), schoolmaster and poet, 61
• 25 November – William Cadwaladr Davies, educationist, 56
• 8 December – Edward Davies, US-born minister, publisher of Y Cenhadwr, 78
• 9 December – Arthur Humphreys-Owen, barrister, landowner and politician, 69
• 14 December – Nathaniel Jones, minister and poet, 73
• 17 December – Robert Jones Derfel, poet and dramatist, 81

See also

• 1905 in Ireland