1897 in Wales
List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1897 to Wales and its people .
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Newport
New books
English language
Welsh language
Music
Walford Davies – Overture in D minor
Llyfr Hymnau a Thonau y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd (collection of hymns)[29]
Film
Sport
Births
Deaths
14 January – William Basil Jones , Bishop of St David's, 75[34]
30 January – Sarah Thomas , centenarian, 109[35]
3 February – David Pugh Evans , songwriter, 31
2 March – Evan Owen Phillips , Dean of St David's, 70[36] [37]
1 April – William Gwynn , Rugby union international
16 April – Thomas Lewis , Welsh-born Australian politician, 75[38]
10 May – Walter Evans , footballer, about 30[39]
12 May – Thomas Llewellyn Thomas , linguist, 56[40]
June – Hugh Jones , Archdeacon of St Asaph, 81[41]
1 September – John Griffiths , Archdeacon of Llandaff, 77[42]
6 September – Thomas Rees Morgan , engineer, 63
8 September – James Milo Griffith , sculptor, 54[43]
16 September – Edward Edwards (Pencerdd Ceredigion), musician, 83[44]
20 September – Hugh Morris , footballer, 25 (tuberculosis)[45]
15 October – Charles John Vaughan , former Dean of Llandaff, 81[46]
12 November – Isaac Evans , trade union leader and politician, 49 (post-operative complications)[47]
24 November – Arthur James Herbert , Quartermaster-General, 77[48]
2 December – Thomas Lewis , politician, 76[49]
4 December – Griffith Rhys Jones ("Caradog"), choral conductor, 62[50]
See also
References
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^ 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 9780901366900 .
^ Joseph Whitaker, ed. (1913). Whitaker's Almanack . 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.
^ Who was Who 1897–2007 , 1991, ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
^ "William Basil Jones, Bishop of St Davids" . Dictionary of National Biography . Retrieved 21 April 2011 .
^ Thomas Iorwerth Ellis (1959). "Owen, John (1854-1926), bishop" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 19 March 2022 .
^ Stephens, Meic (1998). The new companion to the literature of Wales . Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 206. ISBN 9780708313831 .
^ Marshall, John (1979). The Guinness book of rail facts and feats . Enfield England: Guinness Superlatives. p. 42. ISBN 9780900424564 .
^ Eija Suomela-Salmi; Fred Dervin (2009). Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Perspectives on Academic Discourse . John Benjamins Publishing. p. 101. ISBN 978-90-272-5437-5 .
^ Price, Cecil (1984). The professional theatre in Wales . Swansea: University College of Swansea. p. 34. ISBN 9780860760542 .
^ Walter Bezant Lowe (1912). The Heart of Northern Wales: As it was and as it Is, Being an Account of the Pre-historical and Historical Remains of Aberconway and the Neighbourhood . W.B. Lowe. pp. 247–8.
^ "Education in Montgomeryshire". The Montgomeryshire Collections . 62–63. Clifton Press: 147. 1972.
^ John B. Hilling (15 August 2018). The Architecture of Wales: From the First to the Twenty-First Century . University of Wales Press. p. 169. ISBN 978-1-78683-285-6 .
^ Gani, M. S. J. (1997). Cement and concrete . London New York: Chapman & Hall. p. 8. ISBN 9780412790508 .
^ "Winners of the Chair" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . 11 December 2019.
^ "Winners of the Crown" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . 17 November 2019.
^ John S. Ellis (15 November 2016). Owen Rhoscomyl . University of Wales Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-78316-950-4 .
^ Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940. Paratowyd dan nawdd Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion (in Welsh). Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorioa. 1953. p. 127.
^ Meic Stephens (1986). Cydymaith i lenyddiaeth Cymru (in Welsh). Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. p. 471. ISBN 978-0-7083-0915-5 .
^ Journal of the Folk-Song Society . The Society. 1910. p. 299.
^ John Davies. "EDWARDS, NESS (1897–1968), trade unionist and Member of Parliament" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 March 2019 .
^ NA NA (25 December 2015). Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers . Springer. p. 566. ISBN 978-1-349-81366-7 .
^ William John Townsend Collins (1948). Monmouthshire Writers: A Literary History and Anthology . R.H. Johns. p. 157.
^ John Graham Jones. "Bevan, Aneurin (1897–1960), politician and one of the founders of the Welfare State" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 June 2019 .
^ "William Basil Jones, Bishop of St Davids" . Dictionary of National Biography . Retrieved 21 April 2011 .
^ "Mrs. Sarah Thomas" . The Llanelly Mercury and South Wales Advertiser . 30 January 1897. Retrieved 1 January 2020 .
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Phillips, Evan Owen (1826–1897), dean of S. Davids" . Welsh Biography Online . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 February 2020 .
^ The Times , Friday, 5 Mar 1897; pg. 10; Issue 35143; col B Obituary The Very Rev E.O. Phillips
^ "Mr Thomas Lewis (1821-1897)" . Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 1 July 2020 .
^ Davies, Gareth; Garland, Ian (1991). Who's Who of Welsh International Soccer Players . Bridge Books. p. 61. ISBN 1-872424-11-2 .
^ Jones, Gwilym Arthur; Ellis, Thomas Iorwerth . "Thomas, Thomas Llewelyn (1840–1897), scholar, teacher and linguist" . Welsh Biography Online . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 December 2019 .
^ "Obituary". The Times . 19 June 1897. p. 11.
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^ The Cambrian . T.J. Griffiths. 1898. p. 185 .
^ Robert David Griffith (1959). "Edwards, Edward (1816–1897), musician" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 February 2020 .
^ Davies, Gareth; Garland, Ian (1991). Who's Who of Welsh International Soccer Players . Bridge Books. p. 146. ISBN 1-872424-11-2 .
^ Roach, John. "Vaughan, Charles John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/28124 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Joyce Bellamy and John Saville, "Evans, Isaac", Dictionary of Labour Biography , vol.I, pp.113–114
^ "Obituary: General Sir Arthur James Herbert, K.C.B.". The Times . 25 November 1897. p. 6.
^ Frederic Boase (1965). Modern English Biography: Containing Many Thousand Concise Memoirs of Persons who Have Died Between the Years 1851–1900, with an Index of the Most Interesting Matter . Frank Cass. p. 49 -50.
^ Robert David Griffith (1959). "Jones, Griffith Rhys (1834–1897), conductor of a once well-known South Wales choir, 'Côr Caradog' " . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 December 2019 .