1901 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales 1901 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1901 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales — Albert Edward (until 22 January); George (from 9 November)
• Princess of Wales — Alexandra (until 22 January); Mary (from 9 November)
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales — Hwfa Môn

Events

• January — Samuel Thomas Evans becomes the last QC appointed by Queen Victoria.
• 22 January — Albert Edward, Prince of Wales accedes to the throne as King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, following the death of Queen Victoria.
• 31 March — The 10-yearly Census of England and Wales is taken. The population of Wales is shown to have topped two million for the first time in history. Over 15% of the population speak Welsh as their sole language.^[1]
• 3 April — Frederick Rutherfoord Harris, MP for Monmouth Boroughs, is unseated for alleged electoral malpractice.^[2]
• 7 May — In the by-election at Monmouth Boroughs, Joseph Lawrence becomes the new Conservative MP.^[3]
• 24 May — 81 miners are killed in an accident at Universal Colliery, Senghenydd.
• 10 September — Twelve miners are killed in a mining accident at Llanbradach Colliery in Glamorgan.
• 9 November — Prince George, Duke of Cornwall and York (later George V) and his wife Mary of Teck officially become Prince and Princess of Wales.
• Gomer Berry and William Ewart Berry co-found Advertising World.
• Samuel Walker Griffith helps draft the Australian constitution.
• Shipping magnate Alfred Lewis Jones is knighted.
• Construction of Port Talbot Steelworks begins.
• Construction of the 156-room Grand Hotel at Llandudno, the largest in Wales at the time.

Arts and literature

• Arthur Machen joins Frank Benson’s travelling theatre company.

Sport

• Rugby Union
  • 9 February - Scotland beat Wales 18–8 at Inverleith, Edinburgh.
  • Pontypool RFC and Tenby United RFC are founded.

Births

• 4 January — Lonza Bowdler, Wales international rugby player (died 1963)
• 20 January — Cecil Griffiths, athlete (died 1973)
• 18 February — Will Owen, politician (died 1981)
• 27 February — Iorwerth Peate, poet, author and founder of the Museum of Welsh Life (died 1982)
• 4 March — Edward Prosser Rhys, journalist and poet (died 1945)^[4]
• 18 April — Mel Rosser, dual-code international rugby player (died 1988)
• 19 April — John Ellis Williams, novelist (died 2008)
• 1 July — Candy Evans, miner, boxer, dual-code international rugby union and professional rugby league footballer (died 1952)
• 3 September — Alexander Tudor-Hart, doctor and political activist (died 1992)^[5]
• 10 September — Rowe Harding, Wales and British Lions rugby player (died 1991)
• 9 November — Rhys Davies, writer (died 1978)
• 10 December — Ivor Jones, rugby player (died 1982)
• 24 December — Hilary Marquand, economist and MP (died 1972)

Deaths

• 7 February — Leonard Watkins, Wales international rugby union player, 41
• 21 February — John Deffett Francis, artist, 85
• June — Abel Jones (Bardd Crwst), balladeer (born 1830)
• 1 June
  • John Viriamu Jones, scientist, 45
  • Morgan Albert Ellis, Welsh-American preacher (born 1832)
• 18 August — Evan James, rugby player, 32
• 5 September — Rhys Gwesyn Jones, minister and author
• 15 September — John Richards (Isalaw), musician (born 1843)
• 22 September — William Davies (Mynorydd), artist (born 1826)
• 24 November — Evan Lewis, Dean of Bangor, 83
• 26 November — Robert Clayton, cricketer, 57

References