1905 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales 1905 in The United Kingdom Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1905 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents[]

• Bishop of St Davids – A. G. Edwards, later Archbishop of Wales^[1]
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dyfed

Events[]

• 31 January – 1904–1905 Welsh Revival: Rev writes to the Western Mail, criticising the "so-called" revival led by Evan Roberts.^[2]
• 10 March – 33 men are killed in a mining accident at Cambrian Colliery, Clydach Vale, Rhondda.
• 29 March – Evan Roberts embarks on his first and only mission outside Wales, spending a three-week period in Liverpool.^[3]
• 27 May – Thomas Price becomes Premier of South Australia.
• 30 June – Opening of the Prichard Jones Institute at Newborough, Anglesey.
• 11 July – National Colliery disaster at Wattstown in the Rhondda: an underground explosion kills 120 men, with just one survivor.^[4]
• 28 August – The Dyserth branch line is opened to passengers.^[5]
• 21 October - The centenary of the death of Horatio Nelson is commemorated in a ceremony at The Kymin. Participants include Lady Llangattock.
• 28 October - Edward VII grants city status to Cardiff.
• 10 December – David Lloyd George joins the new Liberal Cabinet of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as President of the Board of Trade.
• 18 December – The earldom of Plymouth is revived in favour of Robert George Windsor-Clive, 14th Baron Windsor, who also becomes Viscount Windsor of St. Fagan's.
• 28 December – Godfrey Morgan is created Viscount Tredegar.^[6]
• Sir John Williams purchases the Peniarth manuscripts at the instigation of John Gwenogvryn Evans.

Arts and literature[]

• Edward Morgan Humphreys joins the staff of Y Genedl Gymreig.

Awards[]

• National Eisteddfod of Wales – held in Mountain Ash
  • Chair – No winner^[7]
  • Crown –

New books[]

English language[]

• David Ffrangcon Davies – The Singing of the Future^[8]
• W. H. Davies – The Soul's Destroyer^[9]
• Allen Raine - Hearts of Wales^[10]
• Owen Rhoscomyl – Flame-Bearers of Welsh History^[11]

Welsh language[]

• Gwaith Ann Griffiths (ed. Owen Morgan Edwards)
• John Jones (Myrddin Fardd) – Cynfeirdd Lleyn^[12]
• Gwyneth Vaughan - O Gorlannau'r Defaid^[13]
• – Yr Hen Ddoctor^[14]

Film[]

• The Life of Charles Peace made by Ifan ab Owen Edwards^[15]

Music[]

• David John de Lloyd is the first music graduate of University of Wales, Aberystwyth.^[16]
• John Hughes - "Cwm Rhondda" (hymn tune, first version, as "Rhondda")
• William Penfro Rowlands – "Blaenwern" (hymn tune)

Sport[]

• Bowls – The is formed in Cardiff.
• Rugby union
  • 11 March – Wales win the Home Nations Championship and take the Triple Crown.
  • 16 December – Wales defeat the first touring New Zealand team at Cardiff Arms Park.

Births[]

• 6 January – Idris Davies, poet (died 1953)^[17]
• 10 February – Rachel Thomas, actress (died 1995)^[18]
• 28 February – Glyn Jones, writer (died 1995)^[19]
• 1 March – Doris Hare, actress (died 2000)^[20]
• 18 April – Alun Oldfield-Davies, controller of BBC Wales (died 1988)
• 18 May – , historian (died 1964)
• 28 June – Albert Clifford Williams, politician (died 1987)^[21]
• 11 July – Jack Bassett, Wales international rugby union player (died 1989)
• 2 August – Myrna Loy, actress of Welsh descent (died 1993)^[22]
• 13 August – Gareth Jones, journalist and advisor to David Lloyd George (died 1935)^[23]
• 28 August – Cyril Walters, cricketer (died 1992)
• 31 October – W. F. Grimes, archaeologist (died 1988)
• 26 November – Emlyn Williams, dramatist and actor (died 1987)^[24]
• 10 December – John Edward Jones, Plaid Cymru leader (died 1970)^[25]
• 18 December – Stanley Cornwell Lewis, artist (died 2009)
• 22 December – Gwyn Richards, dual-code rugby player (died 1985)
• 29 December – Billy Williams, dual-code international rugby player (died 1973)

Deaths[]

• 24 January – Richard Lewis, Bishop of Llandaff, 83^[26]
• 7 March – Robert Isaac Jones, pharmacist, writer and printer^[27]
• 14 March – Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey, eccentric (died in Monte Carlo), 29^[28]
• 25 April – David Watkin Jones, poet, 73
• 29 May – Robert Franklin John, Welsh-born farmer and political figure in British Columbia, 54^[29]
• August/September – Peter Rees Jones, entrepreneur, 62
• 14 October – John Thomas, photographer, 67
• 15 October – , poet and musician, 66^[30]
• 19 October – Anne Ceridwen Rees, practising physician in the US, 31^[31]
• 23 October – William Phillips, botanist, 83^[32]
• 28 October – Barry Girling, Wales international rugby union player
• 10 November – Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn), poet and archdruid, 82^[33]
• 19 November – Watkin Hezekiah Williams (Watcyn Wyn), schoolmaster and poet, 61^[34]
• 25 November – , educationist, 56^[35]
• 8 December – Edward Davies, US-born minister, publisher of Y Cenhadwr, 78^[36]
• 9 December – Arthur Humphreys-Owen, barrister, landowner and politician, 69^[37]
• 14 December – Nathaniel Jones, minister and poet, 73^[38]
• 17 December – Robert Jones Derfel, poet and dramatist, 81^[39]

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