# 1904 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1904 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 - Opening of Llanelli North Dock.
* 5 January - Opening of Tanat Valley Light Railway between Llynclys and Llangynog.
* February - Beginning of the 1904–1905 Welsh revival in religion.
* 4 May - Charles Rolls and Henry Royce meet for the first time in Manchester to agree production of Rolls-Royce motor cars.
* 31 May - Wentwood Reservoir inaugurated for Newport Corporation.
* 26 May - Harvey du Cros junior makes the first successful ascent of Snowdon by automobile.
* 11 June - Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey, is declared bankrupt; from 29 July sales of his assets at Plas Newydd (Anglesey) begin.
* 21 July - Edward VII and Queen Alexandra open the Elan Valley Reservoirs.
* 3 August - The first Royal Welsh Show is held at Aberystwyth.
* September - The second Pan-Celtic Congress is held at Caernarfon.
* 28–29 September - A conference at Blaenannerch reinforces the strength of the religious revival.
* October - Evan Roberts begins preaching.
* c. October - Mrs H. Millicent McKenzie is appointed Associated Professor of Education at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire in Cardiff, the first woman in Britain to hold a professorial title.
* 3 October - Five people are killed in a railway accident near Loughor.
* 31 October - Rhondda Tramways Company begins operation.
* November - Joseph Jenkins, instigator of the religious revival, is guest preacher at meetings in Bethany, Ammanford, and "converts" incumbent minister Nantlais Williams.
* In local authority elections, the Liberal Party win control of all county councils in Wales.
* Orthopaedic surgeon Robert Jones becomes Honorary Surgeon to the Baschurch Home in Shropshire which he will develop into the world's first specialized orthopaedic hospital.
* Thomas Marchant Williams is knighted in recognition of his role in founding the National Eisteddfod Society.
* No. 1 blast furnace at the old Blaenavon Ironworks is shut down.

## Arts and literature

* February - Gwen John arrives in Paris, in the company of Dorelia McNeill.

### Awards

* National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Rhyl
** Chair - J. Machreth Rees, "Geraint ac Enid"
** Crown - Richard Machno Humphreys

### New books
#### English language

* Joseph Bradney - A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time, vol. 1

#### Welsh language

* Owen Dafydd (died c. 1814) - Cynhyrchion Barddonol yr Hen Felinydd Owen Dafydd Cwmaman
* Daniel Jenkins and David Lewis - Cerddi Cerngoch
* Eluned Morgan - Dringo'r Andes
* R. Silyn Roberts - Trystan ac Esyllt a Chaniadau Eraill

### Music

* Sir Henry Walford Davies - Everyman (oratorio)

## Sport

* Rugby league - In the first international league match, played between England and Other nationalities, ex-Wales rugby international Jack Rhapps becomes the World's first dual-code rugby international.
* Rugby union - Percy Bush scores 104 points for the British team on their tour of Australia and New Zealand.

## Births

* 6 March - Hugh Williams, actor and dramatist (died 1969)
* 17 March - Daniel Granville West, Baron Granville-West, politician (died 1984)
* 12 April - David Jenkins, Wales national rugby footballer (died 1951)
* 18 May - Eynon Evans, actor and screenwriter (died 1989)
* 7 June - Tom Lewis, Wales international rugby player (died 1994)
* 8 June - Angus McBean, photographer (died 1990)
* 26 June
** Prof Seaborne Davies, law teacher and three times President of the National Eisteddfod (died 1984)
** Lynn Ungoed-Thomas, politician (died 1972)
* 27 June - Emrys Davies, cricketer (died 1975)
* 28 July - Ned Jenkins, Wales international rugby player (died 1990)
* 31 July - Harold Davies, Baron Davies of Leek, politician (died 1985)
* 4 August – Sir Thomas Parry, academic (died 1985)
* 8 August - Dai Parker, Wales and British Lion rugby player (died 1965)
* 22 August - Tommy Rees, Wales dual-code rugby player (died 1968)
* 12 September
** Euros Bowen, poet (died 1988)
** Donald Holroyde Hey, chemist (died 1987)
* 24 September - George Andrews, Wales dual-code rugby player (died 1989)
* 27 September - John Gwilym Jones, dramatist (died 1988)
* 30 September - Waldo Williams, poet (died 1971)
* 10 October (in Somerset) – Leslie Morris, politician in Canada (died 1964)
* 15 October - Sir Julian Hodge, banker (died 2004)
* 3 November - Caradog Prichard, poet and novelist (died 1980)
* 30 November - Philip Burton, theatre director and radio producer (died 1995)
* date unknown - Richard Vaughan, novelist (died 1983)

## Deaths

* 21 April - William Williams, businessman and politician, 64
* 10 May - Sir Henry Morton Stanley, journalist and explorer, 63
* 26 June - William Ormsby-Gore, 2nd Baron Harlech, 85
* 12 July – Samuel M. Jones, mayor of Toledo, Ohio, USA, 57
* 17 July - Isaac Roberts, astronomer, 75
* 25 July - James Valentine, English rugby international, 37 (struck by lightning while on holiday in Barmouth)
* September - Benjamin Davies, Welsh-descended Canadian politician, 91
* 4 October - James Lewis Thomas, architect, 78
* 21 November - Jimmy Michael, cyclist, 27 (alcohol-related)
* 24 November - Lewis Jones, one of the founders of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia, 68
* 26 December - William Henry Powell, American Civil War hero, 79
* 29 December - Edward Treharne, Wales international rugby player, 42 (heart attack)