1899 in Wales

1899 in Wales
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1899 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland
Other events of 1899

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1899 to Wales and its people.

Contents

1 Incumbents
2 Events
3 Arts and literature
4 Sport
5 Births
6 Deaths

Incumbents

Prince of Wales — The Prince Albert Edward, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
Princess of Wales — Alexandra of Denmark
Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales — Hwfa Môn

Events

29 March — A French barque, Le Marechal Lannes, is wrecked off Grassholm, with the loss of its crew of 25.
April — The Duke and Duchess of York visit Gwydir Castle.
20 July — A rabid dog attacks a group of children in Pontarddulais. In August, eight of them are sent to the Pasteur Institute in Paris to be inoculated.
Arthur Keen buys the Dowlais Iron Company from Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne.

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales — held at Cardiff

Chair — withheld
Crown — Richard Roberts

New books

Rhoda Broughton — Foes in Law
John Owen Jones (Ap Ffarmwr) — Cofiant Gladstone
Allen Raine — By Berwyn Banks

Music

11 march — The Gramophone Company makes the first recording in the Welsh language, including Madge Breese singing Hen wlad fy nhadau.

Sport

Football
- The Welsh Cup is won by the "Druids" for the seventh time in its 21-year history.
- Cardiff City F.C. is founded, under the name of "Riverside Reserves".

Births

18 February — Mervyn Johns, actor (died 1992)
8 March — Eric Linklater, writer (died 1974)
28 April — Len Davies, footballer (died 1945)
17 May — H. H. Price, philosopher (died 1984)
18 May — David James Jones (Gwenallt), poet (died 1968)
16 June — Jack Gore, Wales international rugby player (died 1971)
16 July — Ernie Finch, Wales international rugby player (died 1983)
12 December — Charlie Jones, footballer (died 1966)
20 December — Martyn Lloyd-Jones, preacher (died 1981)

Deaths

2 March — John Owen Jones (Ap Ffarmwr), journalist, 38
22 March — Tom Morgan Wales international rugby player, 32
5 April — T. E. Ellis, politician, 40
4 August — Daniel Lewis Lloyd, bishop and academic, 55
28 August — Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer, 31
18 November — Henry Hicks, geologist, 62