1911 in Wales

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• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dyfed{{cite DWB |last1=Rhys |first1=James Ednyfed |title=Rees, Evan (Dyfed; 1850-1923), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and archdruid of Wales |id=s-REES-EVA-1850 |publisher=National Library of Wales |access-date=2 August 2018 |date=1959}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 2nd 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 |year=2016 |isbn=9781351545471 |location=Abingdon, Oxon |page=149}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes (until 29 April);{{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}} William Glynne Charles Gladstone (from 8 July){{London Gazette |issue=28512 |date=11 July 1911 |page=5168}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Osmond Williams, 1st Baronet{{cite DWB |last1=Davies |first1=Sir William Llewelyn |id=s-WILL-BRO-1800 |title=Williams family, of Bron Eryri, later called Castell Deudraeth, Meirionnydd |access-date=30 January 2020}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar{{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 (until 8 February);{{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}} John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids (from 21 March)
• 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{{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 – Joshua Pritchard Hughes{{cite DWB |id=s-HUGH-JOS-1807 |title=Hughes, Joshua (1807-1889), bishop |first=William Thomas |last=Havard |author-link=William Havard |access-date=26 October 2021}}
• 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}}

• February–April - A Welsh Nationalist League is founded, based in Caernarfonshire, to campaign for Home Rule.{{cite news|newspaper=The Times|location=London|date=1911-03-06|page=10|issue=39525|title=Wales And The Government}}
• 23 June - The future Edward VIII is created Prince of Wales by his father, George V.
• July - Dockers' strike action at Cardiff culminates in rioting. Five hundred troops are drafted into the area.
• 13 July - Prince Edward (later Edward VIII) is invested as Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Caernarfon Castle, devised by David Lloyd George.
• 14 July - New buildings of the University College of North Wales, Bangor, opened.
• 23 July - King George V and Queen Mary lay the foundation stone of the new National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.{{cite web|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/welsh-history-month-national-library-7908396|title=Welsh History Month: The National Library of Wales still dominates the town of Aberystwyth|date=9 October 2014|author=Chris Pyke|website=WalesOnline|access-date=27 November 2018}}
• 29 July - Mawddwy Railway formally reopened, worked by the Cambrian Railways.{{cite book|first1=Rex|last1=Christiansen|first2=R. W.|last2=Miller|title=The Cambrian Railways|volume=II|publisher=David & Charles|location=Newton Abbot|isbn=0-7153-4220-7|page=45}}
• August - Rioting in Bargoed, Brynamman, Ebbw Vale and Tredegar. Jewish-owned businesses are attacked and troops brought in.
• 19 August - Llanelli riots: During demonstrations in support of a national railway strike (17–20 August), two men are shot dead by soldiers of the Worcestershire Regiment in Llanelli. Magistrates' homes are attacked and four more of the crowd are killed outright when explosive material stored on railway property ignites.{{cite news|newspaper=The Times|date=1911-08-21|page=6|issue=39669|title=Fatal Riots At Llanelly|location=London}}
• 21 August–5 December - A strike at the British Wagon Company's Swansea works leads to rioting in September–October.{{cite journal|first=Chris|last=Sambrook|title=The Swansea Wagon Wars|journal=Archive|location=Lydney|issue=104|date=December 2019|pages=48–55}}{{cite news|title=Rioting at Swansea: Waggon Workers Strike|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15277594|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=1911-09-28|access-date=2012-06-28}}{{cite news|url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=WC19111016.2.18.27.2|title=Swansea Riots Resumed|newspaper=Wanganui Chronicle|issue=12824|date=1911-10-16|page=5|access-date=2012-06-28}}
• 4 September - Members of the South Wales Miners' Federation return to work after a ten-month strike against colliery owners in the Cambrian Combine which triggered the Tonypandy riots, having accepted the 2s 3d per ton payment rate negotiated prior to the strike by William Abraham.{{cite web|title=Rhondda marks 100th anniversary of Tonypandy Riots|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11655470|publisher=BBC News}}
• 16 December - The Imperial Copyright Act (coming into effect in 1912) entitles the National Library of Wales to be given by legal deposit a copy of all British publications in specified categories, based on a memorandum drafted by Daniel Lleufer Thomas.{{cite web|first=Eddie|last=May|title=Thomas, Sir Daniel Lleufer (1863–1940)|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/46550|access-date=2012-06-28|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/46550 |date=May 2011}} {{ODNBsub}}

• National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Carmarthen
• Chair - William Roberts, "Iorwerth VII"{{cite web|url=https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair|title=Winners of the Chair|website=National Eisteddfod of Wales|date=3 October 2019|access-date=5 August 2022}}
• Crown - William Crwys Williams

• Edward Morgan Humphreys - Dirgelwch yr Anialwch ("Mystery of the Desert")
• Sir John Edward Lloyd – A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest
• John Ward – The Roman Era in Britain

• Sir Henry Walford Davies - Symphony in G

• Boxing - Freddie Welsh loses his British lightweight title to Matt Wells.
• Horse racing - Jack Anthony wins the Grand National for the first time, on "Glenside".
• Rugby league - Merthyr Tydfil RLFC fold after four seasons.
• Rugby union - Wales win their third Grand Slam.

• 27 March - Alwyn D. Rees, writer (died 1974){{cite ODNB |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/75837 |first=Hywel Meilyr |last=Davies |title=Rees, Alwyn David}}
• 13 April - Len Richards, footballer (died 1985)
• 26 May - Gwilym Tilsley, poet and archdruid (died 1997)
• 30 June - Alfred Janes, artist (died 1999){{cite news |author=Gooding, Mel |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-alfred-janes-1068986.html |title=Obituary: Alfred Janes|date=6 February 1999 |newspaper=The Independent |location=London |access-date=20 March 2011}}
• 23 July - Idris Foster, academic (died 1984){{Cite DWB|id=s6-FOST-LLE-1911|title=Foster, Idris, Llewelyn (1911-1984), Welsh and Celtic Scholar|author=Robert Geraint Gruffydd|access-date=24 November 2019}}
• 29 August - Raymond Bark-Jones, Wales international rugby player
• 2 September - Jack Petersen, boxer (died 1990)
• 4 September - John Robert Jones, philosopher (died 1970){{cite DWB|id=s2-JONE-ROB-1911|title=Jones, John Robert (1911-1970), philosopher and patriot|author=Mary Beynon Davies|year=2001|access-date=4 October 2022}}
• 12 October - Iorrie Isaacs, Wales international rugby player (died 1966)
• 12 November - Pennar Davies, clergyman and author (died 1996){{cite book|author=Meic Stephens|title=Necrologies: A Book of Welsh Obituaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XUIqAQAAMAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Seren|isbn=978-1-85411-476-1|page=29}}
• 20 November - Bernard Cowey, Wales international rugby union player (died 1997)
• 7 December - John Gwyn Griffiths, academic (died 2004)
• date unknown - Dai Francis, miners’ leader (died 1981)

• 8 February - Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor, politician, Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire, 63{{cite DNB12|wstitle=Campbell, Frederick Archibald Vaughan}}
• 3 March - Jacob Thomas, Victoria Cross recipient, 78{{cite book|author=Max Arthur|title=Symbol of Courage: The Men Behind the Medal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7JjBbZwtikwC&pg=PA680|year=2005|publisher=Pan Macmillan|isbn=978-0-330-49133-4|pages=680}}
• 29 April - Hugh Robert Hughes, genealogist, 83{{cite book|title=Collections Historical & Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire|publisher=The Club|year=1910|page=281}}
• 12 July - Harry Day, Wales international rugby player, 47
• 13 August - Thomas Thomas, boxer, 31 (pneumonia){{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-THOM-THO-1880|title=Thomas, Thomas (1880-1911), first British middle-weight boxing champion|author=Moelwyn Idwal Williams|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=9 October 2019}}
• 18 August - Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford, politician, 82
• 28 August - Jack Williams, Wales international rugby player, 28
• 4 September - Tom Hurry Riches, steam locomotive engineer, 64{{cite book|title=The Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v8c-AQAAMAAJ|year=1911|publisher=The Institute|page=456}}
• 12 September - Arthur John Williams, politician, 77{{cite web|url=https://archiveswales.llgc.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?inst_id=1&coll_id=458&expand= |title=Papers of A. J. Williams|website=Archives Wales|access-date=27 November 2018}}
• 30 September - John David Davies, churchman, wood-carver and antiquarian, 80{{cite DWB|id=s-ELLI-ROW-1841|title=Davies, John David (1841-1911), cleric and antiquary|author=Walter Thomas Morgan|year=1959|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=9 October 2019}}
• 3 October - William Tudor Howell, lawyer and politician, 48"Mr Tudor Howell MP". The Yorkshire Post (16610). 19 September 1900. p. 5
• 14 November - Robert Davies Roberts, scientist and author, 60{{cite DNB12|wstitle=Roberts, Robert Davies|volume=3}}{{acad|id=RBRS871RD|name=Roberts, Robert Davies}}
• 6 December - Pryce Lewis, detective and spy, 80 (suicide)Mortimer, Gavin (2010). Double Death: The True Story of Pryce Lewis, the Civil War's Most Daring Spy. New York, Walker Publishing Company. {{ISBN|978-0-8027-1769-6}}, pages 234-7
• 11 December - Rowland Ellis, bishop, 70{{cite DWB|id=s-ELLI-ROW-1841|title=Ellis, Rowland (1841-1911), bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney|author=Walter Thomas Morgan|year=1959|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=9 October 2019}}

• 1911 in Ireland

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