1902 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1902 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1902 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa Môn^[1]

• Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves^[3]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans^[4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th Baronet^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – W. R. M. Wynne^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar^[9]
• Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank^[11]

• Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams^[12]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis^[13]
• Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)^[14]
• John Owen^[15]

• 4 March – Five miners are killed in a mining accident at Milfaen Colliery, Blaenavon
  .
• 1 May – Cardiff Corporation Tramways
  begins operating its electric system.
• 3 June – Six miners are killed in an accident at Gerwen Colliery, Llanelli
  .
• 26 June – In the 1902 Coronation Honours, Isambard Owen and Alfred Thomas
  receive knighthoods.
• 15 July – Francis Grenfell is created 1st Baron Grenfell of Kilvey in the County of Glamorgan.^[16]
• 31 July – Opening of the first section of the Great Orme Tramway at Llandudno, the longest funicular railway in the British Isles.^[17]
• Denbighshire Yeomanry.^[18]
• August – Opening of the Vale of Rheidol Railway for goods traffic (it opens to passengers on 22 December).^[19]
• Mountain Ash
  .
• date unknown
  • Alfred Mond founds his nickel works at Clydach in the Swansea Valley.^[20]
  • 230 Welsh colonists leave Patagonia for Manitoba in Canada.
  • Opening of Caernarfon electric power station.

Arts and literature

Awards

• Bangor
  • Chair – T. Gwynn Jones^[21]
  • Crown – R. Silyn Roberts

New books

English language

• Rhoda Broughton – Lavinia
• Violet Jacob – The Sheep-stealers
• Arthur Machen – Hieroglyphics
• Allen Raine – A Welsh Witch

Welsh language

• Hugh Brython Hughes – Tlysau Ynys Prydain
• Thomas Rowland Roberts – Y Monwyson

Music

• Sir Henry Walford Davies – Three Jovial Huntsmen^[22]

Sport

• Gymnastics – The Welsh Amateur Gymnastics Association is formed.^[23]
• Rugby union – Wales win the Home Nations Championship and take the Triple Crown.

Births

• 4 February – Tal Harris, Wales international rugby player (died 1963
  )
• 25 February – Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford, politician (died 1993)^[24]
• 4 March – David Evans-Bevan, industrialist (died 1973)^[25]
• 19 March – Dilys Cadwaladr, poet (died 1979
  )
• 16 April – Hugh Iorys Hughes, civil engineer (died 1977 in England
  )
• 22 April – Megan Lloyd George, politician (died 1966)^[26]
• 18 June – Morgan Phillips, politician (died 1963
  )
• 17 July – Nathan Rocyn-Jones
  , doctor, international rugby player and President of the WRU (died 1984)
• Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, political cartoonist (died 1979)^[27]
• 21 September – E. E. Evans-Pritchard
  , anthropologist of Welsh descent (died 1972)
• 27 October (in Oxford) – Harold Arthur Harris, academic (died 1974
  )
• 26 November (in Wales or Bristol) – Cyril Bence, academic and politician (died 1992)^[28]
• date unknown – Richard Bryn Williams, writer (died 1981)

Deaths

• 1 January – William McConnel, industrialist, 93^[29]
• 11 January – James James, harpist and composer, 69^[30]
• 19 February – Jeremiah Jones
  , poet, 46
• 6 March – William Rathbone, politician, 82^[31]
• 11 March – Alcwyn Evans, historian, 73^[32]
• 6 April – Robert Owen, theologian, 81^[33]
• Arthur Powell Davies, English-born American minister, author, and activist of Welsh parentage (d. 1957)^[34]
• 13 July – Edmund Hannay Watts, industrialist (Wattstown)^[35]
• 14 July – Martyn Jordan
  , Wales international rugby player, 37
• 23 August – Robert Henry Davies, colonial official in British India, 78^[36]
• 5 October – Henry Lascelles Carr, journalist^[37]
• 18 October – Margaret Jones, travel writer (Y Gymraes o Ganaan), 60^[38]
• 17 November – Hugh Price Hughes, minister and anti-Parnell campaigner, 55^[39]
• December – Thomas Davies, footballer, 36/37^[40]
• date unknown – Jones Hewson, singer and actor, 27^[41]

See also

• 1902 in Ireland

References