1907 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1907 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- 17 February - The cargo ship SS Orianda sinks off Barry after colliding with the SS Heliopolis, with the loss of 14 crew.
- 5 March - Six miners are killed in a shaft accident at Windsor Colliery, Abertridwr.
- 19 March - The National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth) and National Museum of Wales (Cardiff) receive their charters.
- 9 July - Edward VII visits Bangor to lay the foundation stone of the new University College of North Wales buildings. Principal Henry Reichel is knighted.
- 13 July - Opening of the Queen Alexandra Dock in Cardiff, attended by the King and Queen.
- 25 July - Francis Edwards, MP for Radnorshire, is created a baronet.
- 1 November - First performance of John Hughes' hymn tune "Cwm Rhondda" in its final version, at Capel Rhondda Welsh Baptist Chapel, Hopkinstown, Pontypridd with the composer at the (new) organ.[1]
- 10 November - Five miners are killed in an accident at Seven Sisters Colliery.
- 11 December - Seven miners are killed in an accident at Dinas Main Colliery, Gilfach Goch.
- December - Edgeworth David joins Ernest Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole.
- Owen Morgan Edwards becomes Chief Inspector of Schools for Wales.
- The Board of Education establishes a special Welsh department.
- C. H. Watkins designs and builds the first aircraft in Wales at Cardiff, and names it Robin Goch.
- Opening of Dolgarrog hydroelectric power station.
- The silver and lead mine at Llywernog reopens in order to prospect for zinc.
Arts and literature
Awards
New books
English language
Welsh language
Music
- T. Hopkin Evans - Crowns of Golden Light and The Voyage
- John Hughes (1873-1932) - "Cwm Rhondda" (hymn tune, final version)
- David Vaughan Thomas - Llyn y Fan
Architecture
- St. David's Hotel, a hotel for golfers located at Harlech, in Gwynedd, is designed to plans by the Glasgow School architect George Walton (Architect) for a syndicate of entrepreneurs of which he was a member.[2] (The proposals were subsequently revised in 1908, and the hotel was built in 1910.[2] The hotel closed in 2008,[3] and planning permission for demolition was approved in 2009).
Sport
Births
- 3 January - Ray Milland, actor
- 11 January - Reg Thomas, athlete
- 30 April - Harry Bowcott, international rugby player and president of the Welsh Rugby Union (d. 2004)
- 24 May – Gwyn Jones, writer (d. 1999)
- 10 June - Ernie Curtis, footballer (d. 1992)
- 2 July - Dick Duckfield, cricketer (d. 1959)
- 25 August - Albert Fear, Wales international rugby player
- 27 November - Glyn Prosser, Wales international rugby player
- 10 December - Harry Payne, Wales international rugby player (d. 2000)
- 21 December - Will Roberts, painter
- 23 December - Fred Warren, international footballer (d. 1986)
- date unknown - Trevor Thomas, art historian and author
Deaths
- 7 January - David Rowlands (Dewi Môn), minister, academic and writer
- 10 March - George Sholto Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn, industrialist and politician
- 24 March - John Pugh, minister (Forward Movement)
- 5 July - John Romilly Allen, archaeologist
- 14 August - David Treharne Evans, Lord Mayor of London
- October - Hugh Davies (Pencerdd Maelor), composer
- 29 October - Megan Watts Hughes, singer
- 10 November - Sir Lewis Morris, Anglo-Welsh poet
- 11 November - Ralph Sweet-Escott, English born, Wales rugby international, 38
References
- ↑ "The Writing of Cwm Rhondda". Feed Me Now and Evermore. Rhondda Cynon Taff Library, Museum & Heritage Service. Retrieved 2011-01-05.
- 1 2 Moon, K.; "George Walton: Designer and Architect"; White Cockade Publishing, Dorset, 1993; ISBN 1-873487-01-0 (hb) ISBN 1-873487-02-9 (pb)
- ↑ Haslam, R., Orbach., J., Voelcker, A.; Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of Wales, Gwynedd; 2009; Yale University Press ISBN 0-300-14169-6
