1913 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1913 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

For United Kingdom incumbents, see 1913 in the United Kingdom § Incumbents.

• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dyfed ^[1]

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk ^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves ^[3]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans ^[4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th Baronet (until 15 June); ^[5] John William Gwynne Hughes (from 15 September)
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West ^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – William Glynne Charles Gladstone ^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Osmond Williams, 1st Baronet ^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar (until 11 March) ^[9] Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen (from 4 April)
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank ^[10]

• Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams ^[11]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Joshua Pritchard Hughes ^[12]
• Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales) ^[13]
• Bishop of St Davids – John Owen ^[14]

Events

Mrs Pankhurst speaks in Cardiff

• 19 February - Suffragette arson attack on a house being built for David Lloyd George near Walton Heath Golf Club in Surrey. Emmeline Pankhurst, in a speech in Cardiff this evening, claims to have incited this and other incidents. ^[15]
• 5 June - The last ship built at Porthmadog, Y Gestiana, is launched; on 4 October she is wrecked on her maiden voyage, on the coast of Nova Scotia.
• 14 June - Three years after leaving Cardiff on her fateful voyage to the Antarctic, Captain Robert Falcon Scott's ship Terra Nova returns to the port, commanded by Scott's former comrade Teddy Evans.
• 14 October - Senghenydd Colliery Disaster: 439 men are killed in a mining accident at Universal Colliery, Senghenydd - the worst accident in British mining history. 1913 is the peak year for coal production in Wales.
• 27 October - A tornado hits South Wales, killing four people. ^[16]
• Diplomat William Henry Hoare Vincent is knighted.
• Carmarthen Farm Institute is founded - the first of its kind.
• Monmouthshire Training College is founded at Caerleon, with Edward Anwyl as its first principal.
• School of Mines founded at Treforest, a predecessor of the University of South Wales.

Arts and literature

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Abergavenny
  • Chair - Thomas Jacob Thomas, "Aelwyd y Cymro" ^[17]
  • Crown - William Evans (Wil Ifan)

New books

English language

• Sabine Baring-Gould - Lives of the British Saints, volume 4 ^[18]
• W. H. Davies - Foliage ^[19]
• Frances Hoggan - American Negro Women During Their First Fifty Years of Freedom
• Thomas Gwynn Jones - Cofiant Thomas Gee
• Sir John Morris-Jones - Welsh Grammar: Historical and Comparative
• Edward Thomas - The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans

Welsh language

• T. Gwynn Jones - Brethyn Cartref ^[20]
• Moelona - Teulu Bach Nantoer

Music

• Robert Griffith - Llyfr Cerdd Dannau ^[21]
• Morfydd Llwyn Owen - Nocturne (Charles Lucas Medal) ^[22]

Film

• The American adaptation of Ivanhoe is filmed at Chepstow Castle. ^[23]

Sport

• Boxing
  • 2 June - Bill Beynon wins the British and Empire bantamweight championship.
• Rugby Union
  • 18 January - Wales are defeated 12–0 by England in a game played at the National Stadium, Cardiff

Births

• 7 March – E. Gwyndaf Evans, poet and archdruid (died 1986) ^[24]
• 13 March – Tessie O'Shea, entertainer and actress (d. 1995) ^[25]
• 29 March - R. S. Thomas, poet (d. 2000) ^[26]
• 31 March - Dai Rees, golfer (died 1983) ^[27]
• 8 May - Tom Rees, Wales international rugby player (d. 1991)
• 27 May - Mervyn Stockwood, Anglican bishop (d. 1995) ^[28]
• 5 June - Moelwyn Merchant, poet and novelist (d. 1997) ^[29]
• 15 June - Sir James Hamlyn Williams-Drummond, Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire, 56 ^[30]
• 6 July - Gwyn Thomas, author (died 1981) ^[31]
• 23 July - Michael Foot, politician, MP for Ebbw Vale 1960-1992 (died 2010) ^[32]
• 7 September - William "Wendy" Davis, Wales international rugby player (d. 2002)
• 2 October - Vivian Ridler, printer (died 2009) ^[33]
• 18 December - Eddie Morgan, Wales international rugby player (d. 1978)

Deaths

• 4 February - Tom Williams, Wales international rugby player and sports administrator, c.52
• 8 February - James Webb, Wales rugby international, 50
• 16 February (in Australia) - Lewis Thomas, colliery proprietor and politician, 80 ^[34]
• 11 March - Godfrey Charles Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, British Army officer, politician and philanthropist, 81 ^[9]
• 19 March - John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia), harpist, 87 ^[35]
• 30 March - Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke, politician, 60 ^[36]
• 3 April (in London) - Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff, politician, 87 ^[37]
• 15 April - William Jones, Victoria Cross recipient, c.73
• 4 June (in London) - Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel, politician, 78
• 24 July - Hugh Brython Hughes, children's author, 65 ^[38]
• 17 August - Harry Bowen, Wales international rugby player, 49
• 22 September - Emmeline Lewis Lloyd, alpine mountaineer, 85 ^[39]
• c. 8 October - John Jones (Coch Bach y Bala), notorious criminal, c.59
• 6 November - Sir William Henry Preece, electrical engineer, 79 ^[40]
• 7 November (in Broadstone, Dorset) - Alfred Russel Wallace, scientist, 90 ^[41]
• 19 December (in South Africa) - Bert Gould, Wales international rugby player, 43
• date unknown - Thomas Thomas (apTommas), harpist and younger brother of John Thomas, 82/3

See also

• 1913 in Ireland

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