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)Who was Who 1897–2007, 1991, 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.The Times, 3 September 1920. 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)Gwaith Dafydd ap Gwilym
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)Musical Opinion – Volume 94 – Page 483 1970 OBITUARY Ivor R. Davies, F.R.C.O., LJLA.M.
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
See also 1901 in Ireland
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