1907 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales 1907 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1907 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George V)
• Princess of Wales - Mary
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Dyfed

Events

• 17 February - The cargo ship SS Orianda sinks off Barry after colliding with the SS Heliopolis, with the loss of 14 crew.
• 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.
• 9 July - Edward VII visits Bangor to lay the foundation stone of the new University College of North Wales buildings. Principal Henry Reichel is knighted.
• 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.^[1]
• 10 November - Five miners are killed in an accident at Seven Sisters Colliery.
• 11 December - Seven miners are killed in an accident at Dinas Main Colliery, Gilfach Goch.
• 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.
  • C. H. Watkins 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.
  • 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.
  • The Cray Reservoir is completed to supply Swansea with water.

Arts and literature

Architecture

• St. David's Hotel, a hotel for golfers located at Harlech, in Gwynedd, is designed to plans by the Glasgow School architect George Walton (Architect) for a syndicate of entrepreneurs of which he was a member.^[2] (The proposals were subsequently revised in 1908, and the hotel was built in 1910.^[2] The hotel closed in 2008,^[3] 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
• 11 January - Reg Thomas, athlete
• 6 April - Jacques de Guélis, Special Operations Executive agent (d. 1945)
• 30 April - Harry Bowcott, international rugby player and president of the Welsh Rugby Union (d. 2004)
• 24 May – Gwyn Jones, writer (d. 1999)
• 10 June - Ernie Curtis, footballer (d. 1992)
• 2 July - Dick Duckfield, cricketer (d. 1959)
• 25 August - Albert Fear, Wales international rugby player
• 27 November - Glyn Prosser, Wales international rugby player
• 10 December - Harry Payne, Wales international rugby player (d. 2000)
• 21 December - Will Roberts, painter
• 23 December - Fred Warren, international footballer (d. 1986)
• date unknown - Trevor Thomas, art historian and author

Deaths

• 7 January - David Rowlands (Dewi Môn), minister, academic and writer, 70
• 10 March - George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn, industrialist and politician, 70
• 24 March - John Pugh, minister (Forward Movement)
• 5 July - John Romilly Allen, archaeologist, 60
• 14 August - David Treharne Evans, Lord Mayor of London
• October - Hugh Davies (Pencerdd Maelor), composer
• 29 October - Megan Watts Hughes, singer, 65^[4]
• 10 November - Sir Lewis Morris, Anglo-Welsh poet, 74
• 11 November - Ralph Sweet-Escott, English-born Wales rugby international and Glamorgan cricketer, 38

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