1889 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1889 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales â Clwydfardd[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey â Richard Davies[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire â Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk[3]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â John Ernest Greaves[4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â Herbert Davies-Evans[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire â John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire â William Cornwallis-West[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire â Hugh Robert Hughes[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â Robert Davies Pryce[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire â Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington[13]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite[14]
- Bishop of Bangor â James Colquhoun Campbell[15]
- Bishop of Llandaff â Richard Lewis[16]
- Bishop of St Asaph â Joshua Hughes (until 21 January)[17] Alfred George Edwards (from 25 March)[18]
- Bishop of St Davids â Basil Jones[19]
Events
- January â First Glamorgan County Council elections are held.[20]
- 8 February â Nine people drown in a ferry accident at Pembroke Dock.
- 14 February â The first edition of the North Wales Weekly News is published (under the title Weekly News and Visitorsâ Chronicle for Colwyn Bay, Colwyn, Llandrillo, Conway, Deganway and Neighbourhood).[21]
- 13 March â Twenty miners are killed in an accident at the Brynmally Colliery, Wrexham.
- 1 April â New elected county councils in England and Wales created by the Local Government Act 1888, take up their powers.[22][23][24] That for Radnorshire meets in Presteigne.
- June â A lion escapes from a travelling menagerie at Llandrindod Wells.[25]
- 18 July â Opening of the first dock basin at Barry.
- 3 August â Opening of Hawarden Bridge.
- 12 August â The passing of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act marks the beginning of secondary education in Wales.
- 15 August â Three men are killed in a mining accident at Wenvoe Quarry, Glamorgan.[26]
- 26 August â Act of incorporation of the Barry Railway Company#Vale of Glamorgan Railway.
- Approximate date â The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain is co-founded in Salford as the United Kingdom Van Dwellers Protection Association by Jacob Studt and other active Welsh cinema pioneers.
Arts and literature
Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales â held at Brecon
- Chair â Evan Rees, "Y Beibl Cymraeg"[27]
- Crown â Howell Elvet Lewis
New books
- Owen Morgan Edwards â O'r Bala i Geneva
Music
- Sir Henry Walford Davies â The Future, for chorus and orchestra
Sport
- Cricket â Glamorgan County Cricket Club plays its first match, against Warwickshire at Cardiff Arms Park.
- Rugby union â Bedwas RFC, Blackwood RFC and Llantwit Major RFC are formed.
Births
- 12 January â John Bryn Edwards, ironmaster and philanthropist (died 1922)
- 22 January â John Emlyn-Jones, politician (died 1952)[28]
- 28 January â Phil Waller, Wales and British Lions rugby player (died 1917)[29]
- 31 January â Jack Evans, footballer (died 1971)
- 1 February â John Lewis, philosopher (died 1976)[30]
- 10 February â Howard Spring, novelist (died 1965)[31]
- 28 February â George Jeffreys, Pentecostal (died 1962)[32]
- 5 May â Stanley Winmill, Wales international rugby union player (died 1940)
- 24 June â Harry Symonds, cricketer (died 1945)
- 17 July â Aled Owen Roberts, politician (died 1949)
- 5 August â William Davies Thomas, academic (died 1954)
- 10 August â Irene Steer, swimmer (died 1977)[33]
- 21 August â Henry Lewis, Professor at Swansea University (died 1968)[34]
- 23 October â William Havard, Bishop of St Davids and international rugby player (died 1956)[35]
- 11 December â Cedric Morris, artist (died 1982)
Deaths
- 21 January â Joshua Hughes, Bishop of St Asaph, 81[17]
- 27 March â John Bright, Radical politician associated with Llandudno, 77[36]
- 10 April â Kilsby Jones, nonconformist minister, writer and lecturer, 76[37]
- 27 May â George Owen Rees, Welsh-Italian doctor, 75
- 8 June â Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anglo-Welsh poet, 44 (in Ireland)[38]
- 17 June â John Hughes, industrialist, 73 (in St Petersburg)[39]
- 26 June â Walter Rice Howell Powell, landowner and politician, 69
- 28 September â Samuel Goldsworthy, Wales international rugby player, 34
- 15 October â Sir Daniel Gooch, railway engineer and politician, 73[40]
- 29 October â Godfrey Darbishire, Wales rugby international player, 36
- 14 November â James Stephens, stonemason, Chartist, and later Australian trade unionist, 68
- 18 November â Charles Easton Spooner, railway pioneer, 71[41]
- date unknown â G. Phillips Bevan, statistician, geographer and author, 59/60[42]
- probable â Richard Williams Morgan, clergyman and poet