1889 in Wales

1889 in Wales

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Other events of 1889

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1889 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – The Prince Albert Edward, son of Queen Victoria
• Princess of Wales – Alexandra of Denmark
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Clwydfardd

Events

• 8 February - Nine people drown in a ferry accident at Pembroke Dock.
• 13 March - 20 miners are killed in an accident at the Brynmally Colliery, Wrexham.
• 18 July - Opening of the first dock basin at Barry.
• 3 August - Opening of Hawarden Bridge.
• 26 August - Act of incorporation of the Barry Railway.
• The passing of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act marks the beginning of secondary education in Wales.
• The Showmen's Guild is co-founded by Jacob Studt and other active Welsh cinema pioneers.

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales - held at Brecon

• Chair - Evan Rees
• Crown - Howell Elvet Lewis

New books

• Owen Morgan Edwards - O'r Bala i Geneva

Music

Sport

• Cricket - Glamorgan County Cricket Club plays its first match, against Warwickshire at Cardiff Arms Park.
• Rugby union - Bedwas RFC, Blackwood RFC and Llantwit Major RFC are formed.

Births

• 12 January - John Bryn Edwards, ironmaster and philanthropist (died 1922)
• 28 January - Phil Waller, Wales and British Lions rugby player (died 1917)
• 31 January - Jack Evans, footballer (died 1971)
• 1 February - John Lewis, philosopher (died 1976)
• 10 February - Howard Spring, novelist (died 1965)
• 5 May - Stanley Winmill, Wales international rugby union player (died 1940)
• 24 June - Harry Symonds, cricketer (died 1945)
• 5 August - William Davies Thomas, academic (died 1954)
• 23 October - William Havard, Bishop of St. Davids and international rugby player (died 1956)
• 11 December - Cedric Morris, artist (died 1982)

Deaths

• 21 January - Joshua Hughes, Bishop of St Asaph, 81
• June - John Hughes, industrialist (in St Petersburg)
• 8 June - Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anglo-Welsh poet, 44
• 26 June - Walter Rice Howell Powell, landowner and politician, 69
• 28 September - Samuel Goldsworthy, Wales international rugby player, 34
• 29 October - Godfrey Darbishire, Wales rugby international player, 36
• 14 November - James Stephens, stonemason, Chartist, and later Australian trade unionist, 68
• probable - Richard Williams Morgan, clergyman and poet