1894 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1894 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales — The Prince Albert Edward, son of Queen Victoria
• Princess of Wales — Alexandra of Denmark
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales — Clwydfardd

Events

• February — The first new intermediate school in Wales opens at Caernarfon.
• 23 June — A firedamp explosion at Albion Colliery, Cilfynydd, Glamorgan, results in the death of 290 coal miners and 123 horses underground, making it the worst disaster in Welsh mining history to date (it will be exceeded only by that at Senghenydd in 1913).^[1][2]
• August
  • The Prince of Wales attends the National Eisteddfod.
  • Owen Morgan Edwards makes his first report on county schools in Wales
• Opening of South Dock, Newport.
• T. E. Ellis becomes Chief Whip of the Liberal Party.
• In the "Welsh Revolt", MPs Herbert Lewis, David Alfred Thomas, David Lloyd George and Frank Edwards resign the Liberal whip.
• Dissolution of the North Wales Scholarship Association.
• Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen opens - one of the first Welsh medium schools.
• John Philipps, later 1st Viscount St Davids, resigns as MP for Mid Lanarkshire.

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales — held at Caernarfon

• Chair — Howell Elvet Lewis
• Crown — Ben Davies

New books

• Evan Thomas Davies (Dyfrig) — Pregethau ac Anerchiadau
• W. J. Davis — Hanes Plwyf Llandysul, first publication by Gomer Press, Llandysul
• Owen Morgan Edwards — Ystraeon o Hanes Cymru
• Daniel Owen — Enoc Huws
• Sir John Rhys — Outlines of the Phonology of the Manx Gaelic

Music

• Sir Henry Walford Davies — Symphony in D

Sport

• Cricket
  • 22 June / 23 June — Glamorgan play against the touring South Africans. The Glamorgan team contains three Wales rugby internationals, Billy Bancroft, Selwyn Biggs and Ralph Sweet-Escott.
  • William Brain, plays his first match for Glamorgan.
• Football
  • The Welsh Cup is won by Chirk for the fifth time in its 15-year history.
  • The North Wales Coast League is established.
• Rugby union
  • 1 January — Gwyn Nicholls plays his first match for Cardiff.
  • Abercrave RFC, Llanhilleth RFC and Ynysddu RFC are founded.

Births

• 14 March — Ben Beynon, Welsh rugby union international and Swansea Town player (died 1969)
• 21 March — William Hubert Vaughan, public servant (died 1959)
• 16 May — Sir Leonard Twiston Davies, patron of the arts (died 1953)
• 23 June — Prince Edward (later Prince of Wales, Edward VIII then Duke of Windsor; died 1972)
• 4 July — Ambrose Bebb, author and politician (died 1955)
• 10 July — Emrys Hughes, politician (died 1969)
• 31 July — Fred Keenor, footballer (died 1972)
• 23 August — Gareth Hughes, actor (died 1965)
• 27 August — Ike Fowler, dual-code international rugby union player (died 1981)
• 22 October — Llew Edwards, featherweight boxer (died 1965)
• 30 October — Peter Warlock, composer (died 1930)

Deaths

• 24 February — John Roberts, politician, 58
• 8 March — John Bickerton Morgan, geologist, 34
• 30 October — David Griffith (Clwydfardd), poet, 93
• 28 November — Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea, 73
• 25 December — Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, 75

References

1. "Albion Colliery". BBC Wales. 2008. Retrieved 2010-10-15.
2. "Albion Colliery Cilfynydd". Welsh Coal Mines. Retrieved 2010-10-15.