:1891 in Wales

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• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd{{cite DWB|id=s-GRIF-DAV-1800|title=Griffith, David (Clwydfardd; 1800-1894), eisteddfodic bard and arch-druid|author=Daniel Williams|year=1959|fewer-links=yes|access-date=24 November 2021}}

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Richard Davies{{Cite DWB|id=s-DAVI-RIC-1818 |title=Davies, Richard (1818-1896), M.P.|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|year=1959|access-date=24 November 2021}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk{{cite book|title=Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes|publisher=Dod|year=1921|page=356}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves{{cite book|author=National Museum of Wales|title=Adroddiad Blynyddol|publisher= The Museum|year=1935|page=3}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans{{cite book|title=The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland|publisher=Dalcassian Publishing Company|year=1860|page=443}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor{{cite book|author=Edward Arthur Copleston|title=Where's where? Pt. 1. A concise gazetteer of Somerset. Pt. 2. Statistical, educational, parliamentary and practical information|year=1878|page=80}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West{{cite book | last = Potter | first = Matthew | title = The concept of the 'master' in art education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the present | publisher = Routledge | location = Abingdon, Oxon | year = 2016 | isbn = 9781351545471 | page=149}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes{{cite journal|journal=Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales|title=Popish recusants in Flintshire in 1625|author=Henry Taylor|publisher=Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales|year=1895|page=304}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Robert Davies Pryce{{cite book|title=The Annual Register|publisher=Rivingtons|year=1892|page=179}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort{{cite book | last = Reese | first = M. M. | title = The royal office of Master of the Horse | publisher = Threshold Books Ltd | location = London | year = 1976 | isbn = 9780901366900 | page=348}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis{{cite news|last=Weyman|first=Henry T.|title=Shropshire M.P.s - Memoirs|work=T.S.A.S., Series 4, Volume XII|year=1929|page=28}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington{{cite book | last = Lodge | first = Edmund | title = Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire... | publisher = Salzwasser-Verlag GMBH | year = 2020 | isbn = 9783752502664 | page=318}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite{{cite book|title=Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage|publisher=Burke's Peerage Limited|year=1885|page=1027}}

• Bishop of Bangor – Daniel Lewis Lloyd{{cite DWB|id=s-LLOY-LEW-1843|author=Thomas Iorwerth Ellis|title=Lloyd, Daniel Lewis (1843-1899), schoolmaster and bishop|publisher=National Library of Wales|year=1959|access-date=5 November 2021}}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard LewisDeath Of The Bishop Of Llandaff, The Times, 25 January 1905; page 4; Issue 37613; col A
• Bishop of St Asaph – Alfred George Edwards{{cite DWB|id=s-EDWA-GEO-1848|title=Edwards, Alfred George (1848-1937), first archbishop of Wales|author=Thomas Iorwerth Ellis|year=1959|access-date=6 March 2022}}
• Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones{{cite web | url=http://www.llangynfelyn.org/dogfennau/william_basil_DNB.html | title=William Basil Jones, Bishop of St Davids | work=Dictionary of National Biography | access-date=21 April 2011}}

• 5 April – The United Kingdom Census (the first to record what languages are spoken in Wales by everyone over the age of three) shows there to be 1,685,614 speakers of Welsh in Wales, 54.4% of the population.
• 12 August – Adelina Patti opens her private theatre at Craig-y-Nos Castle.{{cite book|author=Cecil John Layton Price|title=The professional theatre in Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e9siAAAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=University College of Swansea|isbn=978-0-86076-054-2|page=29}}
• date unknown – The South Wales and Monmouthshire Training School of Cookery and the Domestic Arts opens in Cardiff.
• Owen Morgan Edwards launches his popular monthly magazine Cymru.

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Swansea

• Chair – John Owen Williams, "Yr Haul"{{cite web|url=https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair |archive-date=13 February 2021 |title=Winners of the Chair |website=National Eisteddfod of Wales |access-date=18 February 2021}}
• Crown – David Adams

• George Essex Evans – The Repentance of Magdalene Despar and other poems
• William Nicholas Johns – History of the Church of S. Gwynllyw (S. Woolos, Newport)
• Edward Jones – Y Gymdeithasfa{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-JONE-EDW-1826|title=Jones, Edward (1826–1902), Calvinistic Methodist historian|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=6 December 2019}}

• Charles Ashton – Bywyd ac Amserau yr Esgob Morgan{{cite book|author=Glanmor Williams|title=Renewal and Reformation: Wales C. 1415–1642|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HU0Y3kJ2qRwC&pg=PA505|year=1993|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-285277-9|pages=505}}
• Thomas Edwards – Darllen a Siarad
• Daniel Owen – Enoc Huws{{cite book | last = LastName | first = FirstName | title = Merriam-Webster's encyclopedia of literature | publisher = Merriam-Webster | location = Springfield, Mass | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780877790426 | page=848}}

• Football – The Welsh Cup is won by Shrewsbury Town.

• 4 January – Bryn Lewis, Wales international rugby player (killed in action 1917)
• 13 February – Kate Roberts, author (died 1985)Morgan, Derec Llwyd (1991), Kate Roberts. Writers of Wales series. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. {{ISBN|0-7083-1115-6}}. An introduction to her work in English.
• 14 February – Gwynn Parry Jones, tenor (died 1963)
• 14 March – Billy Geen, Wales international rugby union player (killed in action 1915)
• 29 March – Tom Parker, Wales international rugby union captain (died 1967)
• 8 April – Bill Beynon, British bantamweight boxing champion (died 1932)
• 9 May – Fred Perrett, Wales international rugby union (died of wounds 1918)
• 1 October – Morfydd Llwyn Owen, composer, pianist and mezzo-soprano (died 1918){{cite book|author=Gerald Norris|title=A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KcMXAQAAIAAJ|date=June 1981|publisher=David & Charles|isbn=978-0-7153-7845-8|page=297}}
• 29 November – Glyn Stephens, Wales international rugby union captain (died 1965)

• 6 January – Hugh Owen Thomas, pioneering orthopaedic surgeon, 57
• 13 February – William Davies, palaeontologist, 76{{cite DNB|wstitle=Davies, William (1814-1891)|last=Bonney|first=Thomas George|authorlink=Thomas George Bonney|supplement=1}}
• 25 February – William Frost, harpist 44{{cite DWB|id=s-FROS-FRE-1846|title=Frost, William Frederick (1846-1891), harpist|author=Robert David Griffith|year=1959|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=31 January 2021}}
• 26 February – David James Jenkins, shipowner and politician, 66
• 18 March – John Basson Humffray, politician, 66{{cite re-member|name=Humffray, John Basson|accessdate=26 August 2022|num2=586}}
• 2 May – David Lewis Wooding, genealogist, 62{{cite DWB|id=s3-WOOD-LEW-1828|title=Wooding, David Lewis (1828-1891), genealogist, historian, bibliophile and shopkeeper|author=B. A. Mark Williams|year=2001|access-date=11 March 2022}}
• 7 May – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis, 72{{cite book|title=The Complete Peerage, Volume X|year=1947|publisher=St Catherine's Press|page=654}}
• 10 May – Thomas Richard Lloyd, Anglican clergyman, 70/71{{cite DWB|id=s-LLOY-RIC-1820|title=Lloyd, Thomas Richard (1820–1891), cleric|author=Thomas Iorwerth Ellis|year=1959|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=6 December 2019}}
• 4 July – John Rowlands (Giraldus), antiquary, author and teacher, 67{{cite web|last1=Jones|first1=Evan David|title=ROWLAND(S), JOHN (Giraldus; 1824–1891)|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-ROWL-JOH-1824|publisher=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|accessdate=7 April 2016}}
• 5 September – Sir Hugh Owen Owen, 2nd Baronet, politician, 87{{cite web|last1=Escott|first1=Margaret|title=Owen, Hugh Owen (1803–1891), of Williamston and Llanstinan, Pemb.|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/owen-hugh-1803-1891|website=The History of Parliament|accessdate=14 March 2018}}
• 26 September – David Charles Davies, Nonconformist leader, 65{{cite DWB|id=s-DAVI-CHA-1826|title=Davies, David Charles (1826-1891)|author=Gwilym Arthur Edwards|year=1959|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=31 January 2021}}
• 29 September – Lewys Glyn Dyfi (Lewis Meredith), preacher and writer, 65{{cite DWB|id=s-MERE-LEW-1826|title=Meredith, Lewis (1826–1891), preacher and writer|author=Griffith Thomas Roberts|year=1959|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=6 December 2019}}
• 23 November – Evan Evans, academic, 78Iolo Davies, A Certaine Schoole (D. Brown & Son, Cowbridge, 1967), pp. 66 and 145
• 18 December – Sir Love Jones-Parry, politician, 59{{cite DWB|id=s-PARR-MAD-1658|title=Parry (and Jones-Parry) family, Madryn, Llŷn|author=Thomas Richards|year=1959|access-date=11 March 2022}}
• 24 December – Richard Owens, architect, 60{{Cite web|url=https://manchestervictorianarchitects.org.uk/index.php/architects/richard-owens|title=Richard Owens – Architect, Architects of Greater Manchester|publisher=The Victorian Society|website=manchestervictorianarchitects.org.uk|access-date=16 April 2020}}

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