1907 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1907 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents[]
- Monarch – Edward VII
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dyfed
Events[]
- 3 January - Formal opening of the residence at St Deiniol's Library.[1]
- 17 February – The cargo ship SS Orianda sinks off Barry after colliding with the SS Heliopolis, with the loss of 14 crew.[2]
- 5 March – Six miners are killed in a shaft accident at Windsor Colliery, Abertridwr.
- 19 March – The National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth) and National Museum of Wales (Cardiff) receive their charters.
- 11 May – Swansea Corporation's newly constructed Cray Reservoir is filled with water for the first time.
- 11 July – Edward VII visits Bangor to lay the foundation stone of the new University College of North Wales buildings. Principal Henry Reichel is knighted.[3]
- 13 July – Opening of the Queen Alexandra Dock in Cardiff, attended by the King and Queen.
- 25 July – Francis Edwards, MP for Radnorshire, is created a baronet.
- 1 November – First performance of John Hughes' hymn tune "Cwm Rhondda" in its final version, at Capel Rhondda Welsh Baptist Chapel, Hopkinstown, Pontypridd with the composer at the (new) organ.[4]
- 10 November – Five miners are killed in an accident at Seven Sisters Colliery.
- 14 December – Seven miners are killed in an accident at Dinas Main Colliery, Gilfach Goch.[5]
- December – Edgeworth David joins Ernest Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole.
- date unknown
- Owen Morgan Edwards becomes Chief Inspector of Schools for Wales.
- The Board of Education establishes a special Welsh department.
- designs and builds the first aircraft in Wales at Cardiff, and names it Robin Goch.
- Opening of Dolgarrog hydroelectric power station.
- Oakdale Colliery is sunk in the Sirhowy Valley.[6]
- The silver and lead mine at Llywernog reopens in order to prospect for zinc.
- The British Glanzstoff Manufacturing Company starts an artificial silk factory in Flint.
Arts and literature[]
Awards[]
- National Eisteddfod of Wales – held in Swansea
- Chair – , "John Bunyan"[7]
- Crown – John Dyfnallt Owen
New books[]
English language[]
- Eliot Crawshay-Williams – Across Persia
- W. H. Davies – New Poems
- Arthur Machen – The Hill of Dreams
Welsh language[]
- – Llwyn Hudol
- John Jones (Myrddin Fardd) – Gwerin-Eiriau Sir Gaernarfon
- John Morris-Jones – Caniadau
- Joshua Thomas – Hanes y Bedyddwyr
- T. Marchant Williams – Odlau Serch a Bywyd
Music[]
- – Crowns of Golden Light and The Voyage
- John Hughes – "Cwm Rhondda" (hymn tune, final version)
- David Vaughan Thomas – Llyn y Fan
Architecture[]
- St. David's Hotel, a hotel for golfers located at Harlech, in Gwynedd, is designed to plans by the Glasgow School architect George Henry Walton for a syndicate of entrepreneurs of which he was a member.[8] (The proposals were subsequently revised in 1908, and the hotel was built in 1910.[8] The hotel closed in 2008,[9] and planning permission for demolition was approved in 2009).
Sport[]
- 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 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.
Births[]
- 3 January – Ray Milland, actor (died 1986)[10]
- 10 January – Nicholas Evans, artist (died 2004)[11]
- 11 January – Reg Thomas, athlete (died 1946)
- 4 March - Emlyn John, footballer (died 1962)
- 6 April – Jacques Vaillant de Guélis, Special Operations Executive agent (died 1945)[12]
- 30 April – Harry Bowcott, international rugby player and president of the Welsh Rugby Union (died 2004)[13]
- 7 May – Trevil Morgan, cricketer (died 1976)[14]
- 24 May – Gwyn Jones, writer (died 1999)[15]
- June – David Llewellyn, trade unionist (died after 1956)
- 8 June – , art historian and author (died 1993)[16]
- 10 June – Ernie Curtis, footballer (died 1992)
- 19 June – Rodney David, cricketer (died 1969)
- 2 July – Dick Duckfield, cricketer (died 1959)[17]
- 12 August – Rhys Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Kilgerran, politician (died 1991)[18]
- 25 August – Albert Fear, Wales international rugby player (died 2000)
- 25 September – Raymond Glendenning, radio sports commentator (died 1974)[19]
- 30 September – Arthur Probert, politician (died 1975)[20]
- 27 November – Glyn Prosser, Wales international rugby player (died 1972)
- 9 December – T. J. Morgan, academic (died 1986)[21]
- 10 December – Harry Payne, Wales international rugby player (died 2000)
- 19 December – William Glynne-Jones, novelist and children's writer (died 1977)[22]
- 21 December – Will Roberts, painter (died 2000)[23]
- 22 December – Harold Jones, rugby player (died 1955)
- 23 December – Fred Warren, international footballer (died 1986)
- 26 December – Guy Morgan, rugby player and cricketer (died 1973)
Deaths[]
- 7 January – David Rowlands (Dewi Môn), minister, academic and writer, 70[24]
- 13 January – Frances Elizabeth Wynne, artist, 71[25]
- 10 March – George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn, industrialist and politician, 70[26]
- 24 March – , minister (Forward Movement)
- 2 June – Rose Mary Crawshay, philanthropist, 79[27]
- 5 July – John Romilly Allen, archaeologist, 60[28]
- 14 August – , Lord Mayor of London
- October – , composer
- 27 September – Alfred Davies, businessman and politician, 58[29]
- 29 October – Megan Watts Hughes, singer, 65[30]
- 11 November – Ralph Sweet-Escott, English-born Wales rugby international and Glamorgan cricketer, 38
- 12 November – Sir Lewis Morris, Anglo-Welsh poet, 74[31]
- 27 November – Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea, politician, 64[32]
- 30 November – John Price, footballer, 52/3
References[]
- ^ Church of England (1908). The Official Year-book of the Church of England. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. pp. 15, 493.
- ^ Shipbuilding & Shipping Record: A Journal of Shipbuilding, Marine Engineering, Dock, Harbours & Shipping. 1926.
- ^ J. Gwynn Williams (1985). The University College of North Wales: Foundations, 1884-1927. University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-0893-6.
- ^ "The Writing of Cwm Rhondda". Feed Me Now and Evermore. Rhondda Cynon Taff Library, Museum & Heritage Service. Archived from the original on 6 January 2009. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
- ^ Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords (1908). Sessional Papers. H.M. Stationery Office. p. 128.
- ^ Nash, Gerallt (1995). Workmen's halls and institutes : Oakdale Workmen's Institute. Cardiff: National Museums & Galleries of Wales. p. 13. ISBN 9780720004304.
- ^ "Winners of the Chair | National Eisteddfod". eisteddfod.wales. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: 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
- ^ Parkinson, David (2011). "Ray Milland". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/57315. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Peter Wakelin (15 March 2004). "Nicholas Evans". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ Greg Lewis. "Unknown WW2 secret agent buried in Cardiff cemetery". BBC News. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
- ^ Rob Cole (16 December 2004). "Harry Bowcott". The Independent. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ Wilfred Wooller, "J. T. Morgan", The Cricketer, February 1977, p. 21.
- ^ Stephens, Meic (10 December 1999). "Obituary: Professor Gwyn Jones". The Independent. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
- ^ Stuart, Robert (9 July 1993). "Obituary: Trevor Thomas". The Independent. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ Hignell, Dr. A. K. (2000). "Profile of Dick Duckfield". Hon Statistician and Historian to Glamorgan CCC. Cricket Archive. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
- ^ Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died. A. & C. Black. 2002. p. 497. ISBN 978-0-7136-6125-5.
- ^ Nicolas Sellens (2005). Commentating Greats: From Alliss to Wolstenholme. West Ridge. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-9540733-1-2.
- ^ Stenton, Michael; Lees, Stephen (1981). Who's Who of British Members of Parliament. IV. Brighton: Harvester Press. p. 302.
- ^ Brynley Francis Roberts. "Morgan, Thomas John". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
- ^ Something about the Author. Gale Research. July 1977. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-8103-0070-5.
- ^ Meic Stephens (20 September 2012). Welsh Lives - Gone but Not Forgotten. Y Lolfa. p. 171. ISBN 978-1-84771-605-7.
- ^ John Dyfnallt Owen. "Rowlands, David ('Dewi Môn'; 1836-1907), gweinidog Annibynnol a phrifathro". Dictionary of Welsh Biography (in Welsh). National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ Bernard Burke; Ashworth Peter Burke (1910). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage. Harrison. p. 144.
- ^ Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland ...: Including All the Titled Classes. S. Low, Marston & Company. 1923. p. 682.
- ^ Charles Wilkins (of Merthyr-Tydfil.) (1908). The History of Merthyr Tydfil. J. Williams and Sons. p. 276.
- ^ Henderson, I. B. "Allen, John Romilly". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30388. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Death of Mr Alfred Davies, of, Hampstead, London. Ex-M.P. for Carmarthen Boroughs". Carmarthen Weekly Reporter. William Morgan Evans. 4 October 1907. p. 2. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
- ^ "Dictionary of Welsh Biography". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
- ^ Stephens, Meic. "Morris, Sir Lewis (1833–1907)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 23 July 2007.
- ^ Harrow School (1925). The Harrow School Register, 1845-1925. Second Series... Longmans, Green and Company. p. 121.
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