1895 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales 1895 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1895 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents[]

• Monarch – Victoria
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa Môn^[1]

Events[]

• 4 February – Penarth Pier is opened.^[2]
• 11 April – Rhos-on-Sea Pier is opened.^[2]
• 29 March – The National Trust acquires Dinas Oleu, Barmouth, its first property in the UK.
• 1 November – The last turnpike toll-gates in the UK are removed, from Llanfairpwllgwyngyll on Anglesey.

Arts and literature[]

The parliamentary history of the principality of Wales by William Retlaw Williams

Awards[]

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Llanelli

• Chair – John Owen Williams, "Dedwyddwch"^[3]
• Crown –

New books[]

• William Retlaw Williams – The parliamentary history of the principality of Wales

English language[]

• Henry Jones – A Critical Account of the Philosophy of Lotze
• Arthur Machen – The Three Impostors

Welsh language[]

• Daniel Owen – Straeon y Pentan^[4]

Music[]

• – String quartet^[5]

Sport[]

• Golf – The Welsh Golfing Union is founded,^[6] and the first Welsh amateur golf championships are held.
• Horse racing – The Welsh Grand National is held for the first time, at Ely Racecourse, Cardiff. A huge crowd breaks down barriers and almost overwhelms police trying to keep out gatecrashers.^[7]

Births[]

• 22 January – Iorwerth Thomas, politician (died 1966)
• 25 January – Mary Glynne, actress (died 1954)^[8]
• 8 February – Edward Enoch Jenkins, judge (died 1960)^[9]
• 19 February – Mary Dilys Glynne, plant pathologist and mountaineer (died 1991)^[10]
• 23 February – Wilfred Mitford Davies, artist (died 1966)^[11]
• 1 March – William Richard Williams, civil servant (died 1963)
• 11 March – Albert Jenkins, rugby player (died 1953)
• 3 April – Brinley Williams, Wales dual-code rugby international (died 1987)
• 14 April – Albert Evans-Jones ("Cynan"), poet and Archdruid (died 1970)^[12]
• 17 April – Thomas Hughes, clergyman, assistant Bishop of Llandaff (died 1981)^[13]
• 18 May – Tom Rees, airman, victim of the "Red Baron" (died 1916)^[14]
• 8 June – Idwal Jones, humorous writer (died 1937)^[15]
• 24 July – Robert Graves, Royal Welch Fusiliers officer, poet, novelist and classicist often resident in Wales (died 1985)^[16]
• 25 July – Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards (died 1970)^[17]
• 14 September – George Harrison, Glamorgan cricketer (date of death unknown)
• 1 November – David Jones, poet and artist (died 1974)^[18]
• 24 November – William Evans, cardiologist (died 1988)^[19]

Deaths[]

• 8 January – Daniel Harper, academic, 73^[20]
• 15 January – Lady Charlotte Guest, translator of the Mabinogion, 82^[21]
• 16 February – Thomas Briscoe, academic, 81^[22]
• 18 February – James Goronwy Mathias, minister and writer, 53^[23]
• 25 February – Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, politician, 79^[24]
• 2 April – Ellis Thomas Davies, minister and author, 73^[25]
• 3 May – George Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke, 44^[26]
• 8 May – , poet, 51^[27]
• 13 July – John Griffin, Welsh international rugby player, 35
• 18 August – John Arthur Edward Herbert, High Sheriff of Monmouthshire 1849, 76^[28]
• 28 August – Henry Pochin, English industrial chemist, mine-owner and politician, founder of Bodnant Gardens, 71^[29]
• 22 October – Daniel Owen, novelist, 59^[30]
• 23 November – William Davies (Pembrokeshire MP), 74^[31]
• date unknown – David Lewis, Newmanite priest and academic (born 1814)^[32]

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