1902 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales 1902 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

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

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George, Prince of Wales, son of Edward VII
• Princess of Wales - Mary of Teck
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Hwfa Môn

Events

• 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.
• 31 July - Opening of first section of the Great Orme Tramway at Llandudno, the longest funicular railway in the British Isles.
• August - Opening of Vale of Rheidol Railway for goods traffic (it opens to passengers on 22 December).
• 11 November - Five miners are killed in an accident at Deep Navigation Colliery, Mountain Ash.
• Alfred Mond founds his nickel works at Clydach in the Swansea valley.
• 230 Welsh colonists leave Patagonia for Manitoba in Canada.
• Opening of Caernarfon electric power station.
• Isambard Owen is knighted.

Arts and literature

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Bangor
  • Chair - T. Gwynn Jones
  • Crown - Silyn Roberts

New books

English language

• Rhoda Broughton - Lavinia
• 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

Sport

• Gymnastics - The Welsh Amateur Gymnastics Association is formed.
• 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)
• 4 March - David Evans-Bevan, industrialist (died 1973)
• 19 March - Dilys Cadwaladr, poet (died 1979)
• 22 April - Megan Lloyd George, politician (died 1966)
• 18 June - Morgan Phillips, politician (died 1963)
• 17 July - Nathan Rocyn-Jones, doctor, international rugby player and President of the WRU (died 1984)
• 2 September - Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, political cartoonist (died 1979)
• 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 Bristol) - Cyril Bence, academic and politician (died 1992)
• date unknown - Richard Bryn Williams, writer (died 1981)

Deaths

• 1 January - William McConnel, industrialist, 93
• 11 January - James James, harpist and composer, 68
• 6 March - William Rathbone, politician, 82
• 11 March - Alcwyn Evans, historian, 73
• 13 July - Edmund Hannay Watts, industrialist (Wattstown)^[1]
• 14 July - Martyn Jordan, Wales international rugby player, 37
• 5 October - Henry Lascelles Carr, journalist
• 17 November - Hugh Price Hughes, minister and anti-Parnell campaigner, 55
• date unknown - Jeremiah Jones, poet

References

1. London Gazette, August 1902