1913 in Wales

1913 in Wales

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1913 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland

Other events of 1913

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1913 to Wales and its people.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Arts and literature 3.1 Awards 3.2 New books 3.3 Music 4 Film 5 Sport 6 Births 7 Deaths

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Edward, Prince of Wales, son of King George V of the United Kingdom
• Princess of Wales - vacant
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Dyfed

Events

• 14 June - Three years after leaving Cardiff on her fateful voyage to the Antarctic, Captain Robert Falcon Scott's ship Terra Nova returns to the port, commanded by Scott's former comrade Teddy Evans.
• 14 October - Senghenydd Colliery Disaster: 439 men are killed in a mining accident at Universal Colliery, Senghenydd - the worst accident in British mining history. 1913 is the peak year for coal production in Wales.
• 27 October - A tornado hit South Wales, killing four people. [1]
• Civil servant William Henry Hoare Vincent is knighted.
• Carmarthen Farm Institute is founded - the first of its kind.
• Monmouthshire Training College is founded at Caerleon, with Sir Edward Anwyl as its first principal.

Arts and literature

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Abergavenny
  • Chair - Thomas Jacob Thomas
  • Crown - William Evans (Wil Ifan)

New books

• Frances Hoggan - American Negro Women During Their First Fifty Years of Freedom
• Thomas Gwynn Jones - Cofiant Thomas Gee
• Sir John Morris-Jones - Welsh Grammar: Historical and Comparative
• Moelona - Teulu Bach Nantoer
• Edward Thomas - The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans

Music

Film

• Ivanhoe is filmed at Chepstow Castle.

Sport

• Boxing
  • 2 June - Bill Beynon wins the British and Empire bantamweight championship.
• Rugby Union
  • 18 January - Wales are defeated 12–0 by England in a game played at the National Stadium, Cardiff

Births

• 29 March - Ronald Stuart Thomas, poet
• 8 May - Tom Rees, Wales international rugby player
• 27 May - Mervyn Stockwood, Anglican bishop
• 5 June - Moelwyn Merchant, poet and novelist
• 6 July - Gwyn Thomas, author
• 23 July - Michael Foot, politician, MP for Ebbw Vale 1960-1992
• 28 September - Edith Pargeter, Shropshire novelist
• 18 December - Eddie Morgan, Wales international rugby player

Deaths

• 4 February - Tom Williams, Wales international rugby player and sports administrator
• 8 February - James Webb, Wales rugby international
• 16 February (in Australia) - Lewis Thomas, colliery proprietor and politician
• 11 March - Charles Morgan, Viscount Tredegar
• 19 March - John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia), harpist
• 30 March - Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke
• 3 April - Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff, politician
• 15 April - William Jones, Victoria Cross recipient
• 4 June - Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel, politician
• 17 August - Harry Bowen, Wales international rugby player
• 6 November - Sir William Henry Preece, engineer
• 7 November - Alfred Russel Wallace, scientist
• 19 December - Bert Gould, Wales international rugby player
• date unknown
  • John Jones (Coch Bach y Bala), notorious criminal