1907 in Wales

1907 in Wales
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Other events of 1907

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1907 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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 and National Museum of Wales receive their charters.
9 July - King 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.
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.
Francis Edwards, MP for Radnorshire, is created a baronet.
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.

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.^[1] (The proposals were subsequently revised in 1908, and the hotel was built in 1910.^[1] The hotel closed in 2008,^[2] and planning permission for demolition was approved in 2009).

Bowls - The Welsh Open Bowls Championship is launched.
Boxing
- 1 June - Jim Driscoll wins the British featherweight title.
- 8 August - Joe White wins the British welterweight title (disputed).
Rugby league
- Ebbw Vale RLFC and Merthyr Tydfil RLFC are formed, the very first Welsh rugby league teams.
Rugby union
- Wales finish second in the 1907 Home Nations Championship
- 1 January - Cardiff beat the touring South Africa national team, 17 - 0.

3 January - Ray Milland, actor
11 January - Reg Thomas, athlete
30 April - Harry Bowcott, international rugby player and president of the Welsh Rugby Union (died 2004)
10 June - Ernie Curtis, footballer (died 1992)
25 August - Albert Fear, Wales international rugby player
27 November - Glyn Prosser, Wales international rugby player
10 December - Harry Payne, Wales international rugby player (died 2000)
21 December - Will Roberts, painter
23 December - Fred Warren, international footballer (d. 1986)
date unknown - Trevor Thomas, art historian and author

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

^ ^a ^b 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