# 1901 in Wales

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

## Incumbents

* Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa Môn
* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – W. R. M. Wynne
* Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar*Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank
* Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams
* Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis
* Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)
* Bishop of St Davids – John Owen

## 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.
* 3 April – Frederick Rutherfoord Harris, MP for Monmouth Boroughs, is unseated for alleged electoral malpractice.
* 17 April – Mawddwy Railway passenger services are suspended "pending repairs"; goods services are also suspended between May and October.
* 7 May – In the by-election at Monmouth Boroughs, Joseph Lawrence becomes the new Conservative MP.
* 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.
** Shipping magnate Alfred Lewis Jones is awarded a knighthood.
* December – The Rhymney Railway opens Caerphilly railway works.
* Gomer Berry and William Ewart Berry co-found Advertising World.
* Samuel Walker Griffith helps draft the Australian constitution.
* 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.

### Awards

* National Eisteddfod of Wales – held in Merthyr Tydfil
** Chair – Evan Rees, "Y Diwigiwr"
** Crown – John Gwili Jenkins

### New books
#### English language

* J. E. Morris – The Welsh Wars of Edward I
* The Dau Wynne – A Maid of Cymru

#### Welsh language

* Morris Williams (Nicander) – Damhegion Esop ar Gân (published posthumously)
* Owen Morgan Edwards (ed) – Gwaith Dafydd ab Gwilym (Cyfres y Fil)

## 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)
* 18 February – Will Owen, politician (died 1981)
* 27 February – Iorwerth Peate, social anthropologist, poet and author, founder of the Welsh Folk Museum (died 1982)
* 4 March – Edward Prosser Rhys, journalist and poet (died 1945)
* 1 April – Tom Jones, cricketer (died 1935)
* 18 April – Mel Rosser, dual-code international rugby player (died 1988)
* 22 May – David Morgan Jenkins, rugby player (died 1968)
* 11 June – Jack Livesey, actor (died 1961 in the United States)
* 22 June – Naunton Wayne, actor (died 1970)
* 3 September – Alexander Tudor-Hart, doctor and political activist (died 1992)
* 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)
* date unknown – Ivor R. Davies, Welsh-descended organist and composer (died 1970)

## Deaths

* 20 January – James Harvey Insole, English-born colliery proprietor, 79
* 7 February – Leonard Watkins, Wales international rugby union player, 41
* 21 February – John Deffett Francis, artist, 85
* 14 May – Fanny Price-Gwynne, polymath, 82
* June – Abel Jones (Bardd Crwst), balladeer, 71
* 1 June
** John Viriamu Jones, scientist, 45
** Morgan Albert Ellis, Welsh-American preacher (born 1832)
* 30 June – John Jones Griffiths
* 18 August – Evan James, rugby player, 32
* 26 August – Robert Ricketts Evans, executioner
* 5 September – Rhys Gwesyn Jones, minister and author, 75
* 15 September – John Richards (Isalaw), musician, 58
* 22 September – William Davies (Mynorydd), artist, 75
* 24 November – Evan Lewis, Dean of Bangor, 83
* 26 November – Robert Clayton, cricketer, 57
* 16 December – David Lewis, Archdeacon of Carmarthen, 62