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:1895 in Wales

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{{Year in Wales header|1895}}

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1895 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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  • Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa Môn{{cite book|author=Hywel Teifi Edwards|title=The Eisteddfod|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K81RDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT39|date=20 July 2016|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-1-78316-914-6|pages=39}}

Events

Arts and literature

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=Awards=

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Llanelli

  • Chair – John Owen Williams, "Dedwyddwch"{{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 – Lewis William Lewis

=New books=

==English language==

  • Henry Jones – A Critical Account of the Philosophy of Lotze
  • Arthur Machen – The Three Impostors{{cite book | last = Sutherland | first = John | title = The Stanford companion to Victorian fiction | publisher = Stanford University Press | location = Stanford, Calif | year = 1989 | isbn = 9780804718424 | page=628}}
  • William Retlaw Williams – The parliamentary history of the principality of Wales{{cite book|author=William Retlaw Williams|title=The Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales...|publisher=E. Davis and Bell|year=1895}}

==Welsh language==

  • Daniel Owen – Straeon y Pentan{{cite book|author=John Buchanan-Brown|title=Cassell's Encyclopaedia of World Literature: Biographies L-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AIEYAAAAIAAJ|year=1953|publisher=Morrow|page=274|isbn=9780688002282}}

=Music=

  • John Thomas Rees – String quartet{{Cite DWB|id=s2-REES-THO-1857|title=Rees, John Thomas (1857-1949), musician|author1=David Ewart Parry Williams|author2=Evan David Jones|access-date=26 August 2021}}

Sport

  • Golf – The Welsh Golfing Union is founded,{{cite book|author1=Carradice, Phil|author2=Trudy|author1-link=Phil Carradice|title=Golf in Wales: A Pictorial History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=szqIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT6|date=15 June 2010|publisher=Amberley Publishing|location=Stroud|isbn=978-1-4456-2347-4|pages=6}} and the first Welsh amateur golf championships are held.
  • Horse racing – 15 April: The Welsh Grand National steeplechase is run for the first time, at Ely Racecourse, Cardiff. A huge crowd breaks down barriers and almost overwhelms police trying to keep out gatecrashers.{{cite web|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/youngsters-odds-uncover-history-racecourse-2123566|work=Wales Online|title=Youngsters are odds on to uncover history of racecourse|date=2009-02-13|access-date=2015-08-20}} Deerstalker is the winner but the horse Barmecide breaks its neck.{{cite news|title=Cardiff Spring Meeting|newspaper=Western Mail|location=Cardiff|date=1895-04-16|page=7}}

Births

  • 22 January – Iorwerth Thomas, politician (died 1966)
  • 25 January – Mary Glynne, actress (died 1954){{cite book|author=Scott Wilson|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA283|date=19 August 2016|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-2599-7|pages=283}}
  • 8 February – Edward Enoch Jenkins, judge (died 1960){{cite web|title=Sir (Edward) Enoch Jenkins (1895-1960), Judge|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp136483/sir-edward-enoch-jenkins|website=National Portrait Gallery|access-date=27 September 2015}}
  • 19 February – Mary Dilys Glynne, plant pathologist and mountaineer (died 1991){{cite book|author=Jean Beagle Ristaino|title=Pioneering Women in Plant Pathology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SPsfAQAAIAAJ|year=2008|publisher=APS Press|isbn=978-0-89054-359-7|page=87}}
  • 23 February – Wilfred Mitford Davies, artist (died 1966){{Cite DWB|id=s2-DAVI-MIT-1895|title=Davies, Wilfred Mitford (1895–1966), artist|author=Margaret Mitford Williams|access-date=4 February 2020}}
  • 1 March – William Richard Williams, civil servant (died 1963)
  • 11 March – Albert Jenkins, rugby player (died 1953)
  • 3 April – Brinley Williams, Wales dual-code rugby international (died 1987)
  • 4 April – Nan Braunton, actress (died 1978)
  • 14 April – Albert Evans-Jones ("Cynan"), poet and Archdruid (died 1970){{Cite DWB|id=s2-JONE-EVA-1895|title=Jones, Sir Cynan (Albert) Evans ('Cynan'; 1895–1970), poet, dramatist and eisteddfodwr|author=Thomas Parry|access-date=9 July 2019}}
  • 17 April – Thomas Hughes, clergyman, assistant Bishop of Llandaff (died 1981)[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U165555 'HUGHES, Rt. Rev Thomas Maurice'], Who's Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012.{{doi|10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U165555}}.
  • 18 May – Tom Rees, airman, victim of the "Red Baron" (died 1916){{cite book|author=Mike O'Connor|title=Airfields and Airmen: Cambrai|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3JDHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA185|date=26 September 2003|publisher=Pen and Sword|isbn=978-1-78340-269-4|pages=185}}
  • 8 June – Idwal Jones, humorous writer (died 1937){{Cite DWB|id=s-JONE-MER-1895|title=Jones, Richard Idwal (1895-1937), better known as Idwal Jones, schoolmaster, poet, and dramatist|author=David Gwenallt Jones|access-date=10 December 2019}}
  • 16 June – David Cuthbert Thomas, soldier who inspired works by both Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves (died 1916){{cite web|url=https://www.cricketmuseum.wales/david-cuthbert-thonas/|title=David Cuthbert Thomas|website=Cricket Museum Wales|access-date=18 August 2024|language=en}}
  • 24 July – Robert Graves, Royal Welch Fusiliers officer, poet, novelist and classicist often resident in Wales (died 1985){{cite web|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp01882 |title=National Portrait Gallery – Person – Robert Ranke Graves |publisher=Npg.org.uk |access-date=19 December 2010}}
  • 25 July – Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards (died 1970){{Cite DWB|id=s2-EDWA-OWE-1895|title=Edwards, Sir Ifan ab Owen (1895–1970), lecturer, founder of Urdd Gobaith Cymru|author=Mary Auronwy James|access-date=4 February 2020}}
  • 14 September – George Harrison, Glamorgan cricketer (date of death unknown)
  • 1 November – David Jones, poet and artist (died 1974){{cite book|author=John Matthias|title=David Jones, man and poet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_t9aAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 1989|publisher=National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine|isbn=978-0-943373-03-4|page=32}}
  • 24 November – William Evans, cardiologist (died 1988)Evans W, Journey to Harley Street; David Rendel, London (1968)

Deaths

  • 8 January – Daniel Harper, academic, 73{{Cite book|title=Jesus College 1571–1971| last=Baker|first=J. N. L| author-link=J. N. L. Baker | date=1971 |publisher=Oxonian Press Ltd, Oxford |pages=91–93 |isbn=0-9502164-0-2}}
  • 15 January – Lady Charlotte Guest, translator of the Mabinogion, 82{{ODNBweb|last=James|first=B. Ll.|id=5461|title=Clark, George Thomas}}
  • 16 February – Thomas Briscoe, academic, 81{{Cite DWB|id=s-BRIS-THO-1813| title=Briscoe, Thomas (1813–1895), cleric and scholar |last=Williams James| first=John| access-date=2008-04-20}}
  • 18 February – James Goronwy Mathias, minister and writer, 53{{Cite DWB|id=s-MATH-GOR-1842|title=Mathias, James Goronwy (Goronwy Ddu; 1842–1895), Baptist minister and littérateur|author=Benjamin George Owens|access-date=10 December 2019}}
  • 25 February – Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, politician, 79{{Cite DWB|id=s-BRUC-AUS-1815|title=Bruce, Henry Austin (1815–1895), 1st Baron Aberdare|author=James Frederick Rees|access-date=10 December 2019}}
  • 2 April – Ellis Thomas Davies, minister and author, 73{{Cite DWB|id=s-DAVI-THO-1822|title=Davies, Ellis Thomas (1822–1895), Independent minister|author=Richard Griffith Owen|access-date=10 December 2019}}
  • 3 May – George Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke, 44{{cite book|author=William Shakespeare|title=Shakespeare and the Bible: Fifty Sonnets with Their Scriptural Harmonies|url=https://archive.org/details/shakspeareandbi00shakgoog|year=1896|publisher=Samuel Bagster}}
  • 8 May – Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet, 51{{Cite DWB|id=s-JONE-TUD-1844|title=Jones, Thomas (Tudno; 1844–1895), cleric and poet|author=Thomas Parry| access-date=13 February 2020}}
  • 13 July – John Griffin, Welsh international rugby player, 35
  • 18 August – John Arthur Edward Herbert, High Sheriff of Monmouthshire 1849, 76{{cite book|author=Joseph Jackson Howard|title=Visitation of England and Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uvU7AAAAMAAJ|year=1896|publisher=Priv. print|page=29}}
  • 28 August – Henry Pochin, English industrial chemist, mine-owner and politician, founder of Bodnant Garden, 71{{cite book|author=H. T. Milliken|title=The Road to Bodnant: The Story Behind the Foundation of the Famous North Wales Garden|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nni0AAAAIAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Morten|isbn=978-0-85972-021-2|page=vii}}
  • 22 October – Daniel Owen, novelist, 59{{Cite DWB|id=s-OWEN-DAN-1836|title=Owen, Daniel (1836-1895), novelist|author=Katherine Williams|access-date=10 December 2019}}
  • 23 November – William Davies (Pembrokeshire MP), 74{{cite news|publisher=South Wales Daily Post|date=23 November 1895 |title=Death of Sir William Davies|url=https://papuraunewydd.llyfrgell.cymru/view/3353959/3353962|access-date=19 December 2020}}
  • date unknown – David Lewis, Newmanite priest and academic (born 1814){{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34513|title=Lewis, Evan (1818–1901)|last=Thomas|first=D. L.|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/34513|access-date=26 April 2008}}

See also

References

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