1895 in Wales
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 )4 April – Nan Braunton , actress (died 1978 )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] 16 June – David Cuthbert Thomas , soldier who inspired works by both Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves (died 1916 )[ 35] 24 July – Robert Graves , Royal Welch Fusiliers officer, poet, novelist and classicist often resident in Wales (died 1985)[ 36] 25 July – Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards (died 1970 )[ 37] 14 September – George Harrison , Glamorgan cricketer (date of death unknown)1 November – David Jones , poet and artist (died 1974)[ 38] 24 November – William Evans , cardiologist (died 1988 )[ 39]
Deaths
8 January – Daniel Harper , academic, 73[ 40] 15 January – Lady Charlotte Guest , translator of the Mabinogion , 82[ 41] 16 February – Thomas Briscoe , academic, 81[ 42] 18 February – James Goronwy Mathias , minister and writer, 53[ 43] 25 February – Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare , politician, 79[ 44] 2 April – Ellis Thomas Davies , minister and author, 73[ 45] 3 May – George Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke , 44[ 46] 8 May – Thomas Jones (Tudno) , poet, 51[ 47] 13 July – John Griffin , Welsh international rugby player, 3518 August – John Arthur Edward Herbert , High Sheriff of Monmouthshire 1849, 76[ 48] 28 August – Henry Pochin , English industrial chemist, mine-owner and politician, founder of Bodnant Garden , 71[ 49] 22 October – Daniel Owen , novelist, 59[ 50] 23 November – William Davies (Pembrokeshire MP) , 74[ 51] date unknown – David Lewis , Newmanite priest and academic (born 1814)[ 52]
See also
References
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