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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1895 to
Wales and
its people .
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
The parliamentary history of the principality of Wales by
William Retlaw Williams
Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at
Llanelli
New books
English language
Welsh language
Music
Sport
Births
22 January –
Iorwerth Thomas , politician (died 1966)
25 January –
Mary Glynne , actress (died
1954 )
[27]
8 February –
Edward Enoch Jenkins , judge (died
1960 )
[28]
19 February –
Mary Dilys Glynne , plant pathologist and mountaineer (died
1991 )
[29]
23 February –
Wilfred Mitford Davies , artist (died
1966 )
[30]
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 )
[31]
17 April –
Thomas Hughes , clergyman, assistant Bishop of Llandaff (died
1981 )
[32]
18 May –
Tom Rees , airman, victim of the "Red Baron" (died 1916)
[33]
8 June –
Idwal Jones , humorous writer (died
1937 )
[34]
24 July –
Robert Graves , Royal Welch Fusiliers officer, poet, novelist and classicist often resident in Wales (died 1985)
[35]
25 July – Sir
Ifan ab Owen Edwards (died
1970 )
[36]
14 September –
George Harrison , Glamorgan cricketer (date of death unknown)
1 November –
David Jones , poet and artist (died 1974)
[37]
24 November –
William Evans , cardiologist (died
1988 )
[38]
Deaths
8 January –
Daniel Harper , academic, 73
[39]
15 January –
Lady Charlotte Guest , translator of the Mabinogion , 82
[40]
16 February –
Thomas Briscoe , academic, 81
[41]
18 February –
James Goronwy Mathias , minister and writer, 53
[42]
25 February –
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare , politician, 79
[43]
2 April –
Ellis Thomas Davies , minister and author, 73
[44]
3 May –
George Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke , 44
[45]
8 May –
Thomas Jones (Tudno) , poet, 51
[46]
13 July –
John Griffin , Welsh international rugby player, 35
18 August –
John Arthur Edward Herbert , High Sheriff of Monmouthshire 1849, 76
[47]
28 August –
Henry Pochin , English industrial chemist, mine-owner and politician, founder of
Bodnant Garden , 71
[48]
22 October –
Daniel Owen , novelist, 59
[49]
23 November –
William Davies (Pembrokeshire MP) , 74
[50]
date unknown –
David Lewis , Newmanite priest and academic (born 1814)
[51]
See also
References
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The Eisteddfod . University of Wales Press. p. 39.
ISBN
978-1-78316-914-6 .
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins (1959).
"Davies, Richard (1818-1896), M.P." .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 24 November 2021 .
^ Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes . Dod. 1921. p. 356.
^ National Museum of Wales (1935). Adroddiad Blynyddol . The Museum. p. 3.
^ The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland . Dalcassian Publishing Company. 1860. p. 443.
^ Edward Arthur Copleston (1878). Where's where? Pt. 1. A concise gazetteer of Somerset. Pt. 2. Statistical, educational, parliamentary and practical information . p. 80.
^ Potter, Matthew (2016). The concept of the 'master' in art education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the present . Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. p. 149.
ISBN
9781351545471 .
^ Henry Taylor (1895). "Popish recusants in Flintshire in 1625". Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales . Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales: 304.
^
"Transactions of the Liverpool Welsh National Society 1891-92" . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 March 2022 .
^ Reese, M. M. (1976). The royal office of Master of the Horse . London: Threshold Books Ltd. p. 348.
ISBN
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^ Lodge, Edmund (2020). Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire.. . Salzwasser-Verlag GMBH. p. 318.
ISBN
9783752502664 .
^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage . Burke's Peerage Limited. 1885. p. 1027.
^ Joseph Whitaker, ed. (1913). An Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1913 . Whitaker's Almanack. p. 847.
^
Thomas Iorwerth Ellis (1959).
"Lloyd, Daniel Lewis (1843-1899), schoolmaster and bishop" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 November 2021 .
^ David Henry Williams (1993). Catalogue of Seals in the National Museum of Wales: Seal dies, Welsh seals, papal bullae . National Museum of Wales. p. 75.
^
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ISBN
978-0-19-954087-7
^
"William Basil Jones, Bishop of St Davids" . Dictionary of National Biography . Retrieved 21 April 2011 .
^
a
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ISBN
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^
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Archived from the original on 13 February 2021. Retrieved 18 February 2021 .
^ Sutherland, John (1989). The Stanford companion to Victorian fiction . Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press. p. 628.
ISBN
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^ William Retlaw Williams (1895). The Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales.. . E. Davis and Bell.
^ John Buchanan-Brown (1953).
Cassell's Encyclopaedia of World Literature: Biographies L-Z . Morrow. p. 274.
ISBN
9780688002282 .
^ David Ewart Parry Williams; Evan David Jones.
"Rees, John Thomas (1857-1949), musician" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 26 August 2021 .
^
Carradice, Phil ; Trudy (15 June 2010).
Golf in Wales: A Pictorial History . Stroud: Amberley Publishing. p. 6.
ISBN
978-1-4456-2347-4 .
^
"Youngsters are odds on to uncover history of racecourse" . Wales Online . 13 February 2009. Retrieved 20 August 2015 .
^ "Cardiff Spring Meeting". Western Mail . Cardiff. 16 April 1895. p. 7.
^ Scott Wilson (19 August 2016).
Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed . McFarland. p. 283.
ISBN
978-1-4766-2599-7 .
^
"Sir (Edward) Enoch Jenkins (1895-1960), Judge" . National Portrait Gallery . Retrieved 27 September 2015 .
^ Jean Beagle Ristaino (2008).
Pioneering Women in Plant Pathology . APS Press. p. 87.
ISBN
978-0-89054-359-7 .
^ Margaret Mitford Williams.
"Davies, Wilfred Mitford (1895–1966), artist" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 4 February 2020 .
^ Thomas Parry.
"Jones, Sir Cynan (Albert) Evans ('Cynan'; 1895–1970), poet, dramatist and eisteddfodwr" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 9 July 2019 .
^
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^ Mike O'Connor (26 September 2003).
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ISBN
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^ David Gwenallt Jones.
"Jones, Richard Idwal (1895-1937), better known as Idwal Jones, schoolmaster, poet, and dramatist" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 10 December 2019 .
^
"National Portrait Gallery – Person – Robert Ranke Graves" . Npg.org.uk. Retrieved 19 December 2010 .
^ Mary Auronwy James.
"Edwards, Sir Ifan ab Owen (1895–1970), lecturer, founder of Urdd Gobaith Cymru" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 4 February 2020 .
^ John Matthias (1 January 1989).
David Jones, man and poet . National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine. p. 32.
ISBN
978-0-943373-03-4 .
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^
Baker, J. N. L (1971). Jesus College 1571–1971 . Oxonian Press Ltd, Oxford. pp. 91–93.
ISBN
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^ James, B. Ll. "Clark, George Thomas".
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UK public library membership required.)
^ Williams James, John.
"Briscoe, Thomas (1813–1895), cleric and scholar" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 20 April 2008 .
^ Benjamin George Owens.
"Mathias, James Goronwy (Goronwy Ddu; 1842–1895), Baptist minister and littérateur" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 10 December 2019 .
^ James Frederick Rees.
"Bruce, Henry Austin (1815–1895), 1st Baron Aberdare" .
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National Library of Wales . Retrieved 10 December 2019 .
^ Richard Griffith Owen.
"Davies, Ellis Thomas (1822–1895), Independent minister" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 10 December 2019 .
^ William Shakespeare (1896).
Shakespeare and the Bible: Fifty Sonnets with Their Scriptural Harmonies . Samuel Bagster.
^ Thomas Parry.
"Jones, Thomas (Tudno; 1844–1895), cleric and poet" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 13 February 2020 .
^ Joseph Jackson Howard (1896).
Visitation of England and Wales . Priv. print. p. 29.
^ H. T. Milliken (1975).
The Road to Bodnant: The Story Behind the Foundation of the Famous North Wales Garden . Morten. p. vii.
ISBN
978-0-85972-021-2 .
^ Katherine Williams.
"Owen, Daniel (1836-1895), novelist" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 10 December 2019 .
^
"Death of Sir William Davies" . South Wales Daily Post. 23 November 1895. Retrieved 19 December 2020 .
^ Thomas, D. L. (2004).
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UK public library membership required.)