1899 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1899 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}}

Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
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 – Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th Baronet{{cite book|title=The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion|publisher=The Society|year=1986|page=63}}
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 – W. R. M. Wynne{{cite web|url=https://cylchgronau.llyfrgell.cymru/view/2043441/2044175/159|title=Transactions of the Liverpool Welsh National Society 1891-92|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=15 March 2022}}
Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (until 30 April);{{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}} Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar (from 23 June){{cite book | author=Cyril James Oswald Evans|title=Monmouthshire, Its History and Topography|publisher=W. Lewis (printers)|year=1953| page=190}}
Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor{{cite DWB|id=s-CAMP-VAU-1847|title=Campbell, Frederick Archibald Vaughan, viscount Emlyn (1847-1898), earl Cawdor (1898-1911)|author=Glyn Roberts|year=1959|access-date=20 March 2022}}
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank{{cite book|title=Whitaker's Almanack|editor=Joseph Whitaker|publisher=Whitaker's Almanack|year=1913|page=847}}

Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams (from 2 February){{cite book|title=Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage|publisher=Burke's Peerage Limited|year=1925|page=2437}}
Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis{{cite book|author=David Henry Williams|title=Catalogue of Seals in the National Museum of Wales: Seal dies, Welsh seals, papal bullae|publisher=National Museum of Wales|year=1993|page=75}}
Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)Who was Who 1897–2007, 1991, {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}
Bishop of St Davids – John Owen{{cite DWB|id=s-OWEN-JOH-1854|title=Owen, John (1854-1926), bishop|author=Thomas Iorwerth Ellis|year=1959|access-date=19 March 2022}}

Events

25 January – Adelina Patti marries her third husband, Baron Rolf Cederström, in a Roman Catholic service at Brecon.{{cite book|author1=Edward T. James|author2=Janet Wilson James|author3=Paul S. Boyer|title=Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw02jame_0|url-access=registration|year=1971|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-62734-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw02jame_0/page/n38 31]}}
20 March – W. H. Davies, "tramp-poet", loses his foot trying to jump a freight train at Renfrew, Ontario.{{cite book|last=Moult|first=Thomas|year=1934|title=W. H. Davies|location=London|publisher=Thornton Butterworth}}
29 March – A French barque, Le Maréchal Lannes, is wrecked off Grassholm, with the loss of its crew of 25.
April – The Duke and Duchess of York visit Gwydir Castle.
23 May – William Goscombe John's statue of "The Little Girl" at Llansannan is unveiled by Mrs Herbert Roberts.Wrexham Advertiser, 27 May 1899.
20 July – A rabid dog attacks a group of children in Pontarddulais. In August, eight of them are sent to the Pasteur Institute in Paris to be inoculated.
18 August – Llest Colliery explosion at Pontyrhyl in Glamorganshire kills 19 coal miners.{{cite web|title=Llest Colliery Explosion - Pontyrhyl - 1899|url=https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/accidents-disasters/glamorganshire/llest-colliery-explosion-pontyrhyl-1899/|work=Northern Mine Research Society|accessdate=2023-06-06}}
2 September – Arthur Wade-Evans takes the surname "Wade-Evans" by deed poll.{{cite DWB|id=s2-WADE-WAD-1875|title=Wade-Evans, Arthur Wade (1875-1964), clergyman and historian|author1=Mary Auronwy James|author2=Brynley Francis Roberts|access-date=16 October 2019}}
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Businessman Arthur Keen buys the Dowlais Iron Company from Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne.
The George Hotel, Chepstow, is rebuilt.{{cite book|last=Clash|first=Hilary|title=The History of the George Inn, Chepstow|url=http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewobject/llgc-id:1338814/article/000017950|accessdate=20 July 2013|year=1988|pages=4–12}}
Explorer Henry Morton Stanley is knighted.
In the United States, J. Vyrnwy Morgan, pastor of the First Baptist Church at Omaha, Nebraska, relocates to Denver, Colorado, for the sake of his wife's health. (She dies on New Year's Day 1900.){{cite journal|first=Edward|last=Millward|authorlink=Edward Millward|title=John Vyrnwy Morgan|journal=National Library of Wales Journal|volume=12|year=1961}}

Arts and literature

=Awards=

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Cardiff

Chair – withheld{{cite web|url=https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair|title=Winners of the Chair|website=National Eisteddfod of Wales|date=11 December 2019}}
Crown – R. Gwylfa Roberts, "Y Diddanydd Arall"{{cite web|url=https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners|title=Winners of the Crown|website=National Eisteddfod of Wales|date=17 November 2019}}

=New books=

==English language==

Rhoda Broughton – Foes in Law
Allen Raine – By Berwyn Banks
William Retlaw Jefferson Williams – The Parliamentary History of Oxford, 1213-1899{{cite DWB|id=s2-WILL-JEF-1863|title=Williams, William Retlaw Jefferson (1863-1944), solicitor, genealogist, and historian|author=Evan David Jones|fewer-links=yes|access-date=16 October 2019}}

==Welsh language==

John Hughes – Ysgol Jacob{{cite DWB|id=s-HUGH-JOH-1850|title=Hughes, John (1850-1932), Calvinistic Methodist minister, author, and poet|author=Gomer Morgan Roberts|fewer-links=yes|access-date=16 October 2019}}
Daniel Evan Jones – Hanes Plwyf Llangeler a Phenboyr{{cite DWB|id=s2-JONE-EVA-1860|title=Jones, Daniel Evan (1860-1941), author|author=John Evans|fewer-links=yes|access-date=16 October 2019}}
John Owen Jones (Ap Ffarmwr) – Cofiant Gladstone
James Morris – Cofiant Thomas Jones, Conwyl{{cite DWB|id=s-MORR-JAM-1853|title=Morris, James (1853-1914), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|fewer-links=yes|access-date=16 October 2019}}

=Music=

11 March – The Gramophone Company makes the first recording in the Welsh language, including Madge Breese singing Hen wlad fy nhadau.

=Works=

Walford Davies – Overture, A Welshman in London{{cite web|url=http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php?topic=2685.0|title=Sir Henry Walford Davies(1869-1941); Catalogue of the Orchestral/Choral Music|website=Unsung Composers|date=27 March 2012|access-date=18 August 2017}}

Sport

Football
The Welsh Cup is won by the "Druids" for the seventh time in its 21-year history.
Cardiff City F.C. is founded, under the name of "Riverside Reserves".
Yachting – The River Towy Yacht Club is founded.

Births

18 February – Mervyn Johns, actor (died 1992)
8 March – Eric Linklater, writer (died 1974)
30 March – Cyril Radcliffe, lawyer and public servant involved in the Partition of India (died 1977)
14 April – Arthur Owens, intelligence agent (died 1957)
28 April – Len Davies, footballer (died 1945)
17 May – H. H. Price, philosopher (died 1984){{cite journal|author=J. Harrison|title=Henry Habberley Price, 1899–1984|journal=Proceedings of the British Academy|volume=80|year=1991|pages=473–91}}
18 May
Ronald Armstrong-Jones, barrister (died 1966){{cite book|author=Anne de Courcy|authorlink = Anne de Courcy|title=Snowdon: The Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lcnxitUe_i0C&pg=PP16|date=20 December 2012|publisher=Orion|isbn=978-0-297-85604-7|pages=16}}
David James Jones (Gwenallt), poet (died 1968){{cite DWB|id=s2-JONE-JAM-1899|title=Jones, David James ('Gwenallt'; 1899-1968), poet, critic and scholar|author=Brynley Francis Roberts|year=2001|access-date=15 March 2022}}
16 June – Jack Gore, Wales international rugby player (died 1971)
15 July – Idris Cox, political activist (died 1989)
16 July – Ernie Finch, Wales international rugby player (died 1983)
12 December – Charlie Jones, footballer (died 1966)
20 December – Martyn Lloyd-Jones, preacher (died 1981)

Deaths

9 January – Harry Congreve Evans, Australian journalist of Welsh descent, 38{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54413837 |title=The Late Mr. Harry Evans |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=Adelaide |date=11 January 1899 |accessdate=13 January 2015 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
4 February – William Hughes, Welsh-born US politician, 57{{cite book|title=The Law Makers of Wisconsin|location=Milwaukee|publisher=The Evening Wisconsin Company|year=1899|page=50}}
2 March – John Owen Jones (Ap Ffarmwr), journalist, 38{{cite DWB|id=s1-JONE-OWN-1861|title=Jones, John Owen (1861-1899), journalist|author=Frank Price Jones|fewer-links=yes|access-date=11 December 2019}}
22 March – Tom Morgan, Wales international rugby player, 32
5 April
T. E. Ellis, politician, 40{{cite DWB|id=s-ELLI-EDW-1859|title=Ellis, T.E. (1859-1899), M.P. for Merioneth (1886-99) and chief Liberal whip (1894-5)|author=Thomas Iorwerth Ellis|fewer-links=yes|access-date=16 October 2019}}
Richard P. Howell, Welsh-born US carpenter, businessman, and politician, 67'The Death Of Hon. R.P. Howell,' Racine Weekly Journal, 6 April 1899, pg. 3
16 April – William Roberts, physician, 69{{DNBSupp|wstitle=Roberts, William (1830-1899)|first=D'Arcy|last=Power}}
19 May – Elias Owen, clergyman and antiquarian, 65{{cite web|last=Cholerton |first=Moira|title=Death |url=http://www.owen.cholerton.org/05_elias_20.php |work=Elias Owen (1833–1899)|accessdate=2 December 2011}}
4 August – Daniel Lewis Lloyd, bishop and academic, 55{{cite book|author1=Joseph Haydn|author2=Benjamin Vincent|title=Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages and Nations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2taUqgen5LQC|year=1906|publisher=Ward, Lock & Company|page=118}}
18 August – Nicholas Bennett, historian, 76{{cite DWB|id=s-BENN-NIC-1823|title=Bennett, Nicholas (1823-1899), musician and historian|author=Robert David Griffith|fewer-links=yes|access-date=16 October 2019}}
28 August – Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer, 31{{cite book|title=McClure's Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHEDAAAAMAAJ|date=May 1902|publisher=S.S. McClure, Limited|page=118}}
9 September – William Pamplin, English-born botanist, 93{{cite DWB|id=s3-PAMP-WIL-1806|title=Pamplin, William (1806-1899), botanist|author=Evan Roberts|fewer-links=yes|access-date=16 October 2019}}
13 October – Charles Ashton, literary historian, 51 (suicide){{cite web|url=http://www.archiveswales.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?inst_id=39&coll_id=10868&expand=|publisher=Archives Wales|title=Charles Ashton Letters and Newspaper Cuttings|accessdate=17 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523080437/http://www.archiveswales.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?inst_id=39&coll_id=10868&expand=|archive-date=23 May 2012|url-status=dead}}
18 November – Henry Hicks, geologist, 62
23 November – Dai St. John, heavyweight boxer, 28
11 December – Stephen W. Williams, civil engineer and architect, 62