# 1907 in Wales

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

## Incumbents

* Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dyfed
* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 2nd 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 – Joshua Pritchard Hughes
* Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)
* Bishop of St Davids – John Owen

## Events

* 3 January – Formal opening of the residence at St Deiniol's Library.
* 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.
* 11 May – Swansea Corporation's newly constructed Cray Reservoir is filled with water for the first time.
* 11 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.
* 10 November – Five miners are killed in an accident at Seven Sisters Colliery.
* 14 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.

## Arts and literature
### Awards

* National Eisteddfod of Wales – held in Swansea
** Chair – Thomas Davies, "John Bunyan"
** Crown – John Dyfnallt Owen

### New books
#### English language

* Eliot Crawshay-Williams – Across Persia
* W. H. Davies – New Poems
* Arthur Machen – The Hill of Dreams

#### Welsh language

* Emyr Davies – Llwyn Hudol
* John Jones (Myrddin Fardd) – Gwerin-Eiriau Sir Gaernarfon
* John Morris-Jones – Caniadau
* Joshua Thomas – Hanes y Bedyddwyr
* T. Marchant Williams – Odlau Serch a Bywyd

### Music

* T. Hopkin Evans – Crowns of Golden Light and The Voyage
* John Hughes – "Cwm Rhondda" (hymn tune, final version)
* David Vaughan Thomas – Llyn y Fan

## Architecture

* St David's Hotel, a hotel for golfers located at Harlech, in Gwynedd, is designed to plans by the Glasgow School architect George Henry Walton for a syndicate of entrepreneurs of which he was a member. (The proposals were subsequently revised in 1908, and the hotel was built in 1910. The hotel closed in 2008, 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 (died 1986)
* 10 January – Nicholas Evans, artist (died 2004)
* 11 January – Reg Thomas, athlete (died 1946)
* 4 March – Emlyn John, footballer (died 1962)
* 6 April – Jacques Vaillant de Guélis, Special Operations Executive agent (died 1945)
* 30 April – Harry Bowcott, international rugby player and president of the Welsh Rugby Union (died 2004)
* 7 May – Trevil Morgan, cricketer (died 1976)
* 24 May – Gwyn Jones, writer (died 1999)
* June – David Llewellyn, trade unionist (died after 1956)
* 8 June – Trevor Thomas, art historian and author (died 1993)
* 10 June – Ernie Curtis, footballer (died 1992)
* 19 June – Rodney David, cricketer (died 1969)
* 2 July – Dick Duckfield, cricketer (died 1959)
* 12 August – Rhys Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Kilgerran, politician (died 1991)
* 25 August – Albert Fear, Wales international rugby player (died 2000)
* 25 September – Raymond Glendenning, radio sports commentator (died 1974)
* 30 September – Arthur Probert, politician (died 1975)
* 27 November – Glyn Prosser, Wales international rugby player (died 1972)
* 9 December – T. J. Morgan, academic (died 1986)
* 10 December – Harry Payne, Wales international rugby player (died 2000)
* 19 December – William Glynne-Jones, novelist and children's writer (died 1977)
* 21 December – Will Roberts, painter (died 2000)
* 22 December – Harold Jones, rugby player (died 1955)
* 23 December – Fred Warren, international footballer (died 1986)
* 26 December – Guy Morgan, rugby player and cricketer (died 1973)

## Deaths

* 7 January – David Rowlands (Dewi Môn), minister, academic and writer, 70
* 13 January – Frances Elizabeth Wynne, artist, 71
* 10 March – George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn, industrialist and politician, 70
* 24 March – John Pugh, minister (Forward Movement)
* 2 June – Rose Mary Crawshay, philanthropist, 79
* 5 July – John Romilly Allen, archaeologist, 60
* 14 August – David Treharne Evans, Lord Mayor of London
* October – Hugh Davies (Pencerdd Maelor), composer
* 27 September – Alfred Davies, businessman and politician, 58
* 29 October – Megan Watts Hughes, singer, 65
* 11 November – Ralph Sweet-Escott, English-born Wales rugby international and Glamorgan cricketer, 38
* 12 November – Sir Lewis Morris, Anglo-Welsh poet, 74
* 27 November – Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea, politician, 64
* 30 November – John Price, footballer, 52/3