This article is about the particular significance of the year 1902 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 4 March – Five miners are killed in a mining accident at Milfaen Colliery, Blaenavon. 1 May – Cardiff Corporation Tramways begins operating its electric system. 3 June – Six miners are killed in an accident at Gerwen Colliery, Llanelli. 26 June – In the 1902 Coronation Honours, Isambard Owen and Alfred Thomas receive knighthoods. 15 July – Francis Grenfell is created 1st Baron Grenfell of Kilvey in the County of Glamorgan. 31 July – Opening of the first section of the Great Orme Tramway at Llandudno, the longest funicular railway in the British Isles. 2 August – A. G. Edwards, Bishop of St Davids, is appointed Honorary Chaplain to the Denbighshire Yeomanry. August – Opening of the Vale of Rheidol Railway for goods traffic (it opens to passengers on 22 December). 11 November – Five miners are killed in an accident at Deep Navigation Colliery, Mountain Ash. date unknown Alfred Mond founds his nickel works at Clydach in the Swansea Valley. 230 Welsh colonists leave Patagonia for Manitoba in Canada. Opening of Caernarfon electric power station.

Arts and literature

Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales – held in Bangor Chair – T. Gwynn Jones Crown – R. Silyn Roberts

New books

English language Rhoda Broughton – Lavinia Violet Jacob – The Sheep-stealers Arthur Machen – Hieroglyphics Allen Raine – A Welsh Witch

Welsh language Hugh Brython Hughes – Tlysau Ynys Prydain Thomas Rowland Roberts – Y Monwyson

Music Sir Henry Walford Davies – Three Jovial Huntsmen

Sport Gymnastics – The Welsh Amateur Gymnastics Association is formed. Rugby union – Wales win the Home Nations Championship and take the Triple Crown.

Births 4 February – Tal Harris, Wales international rugby player (died 1963) 25 February – Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford, politician (died 1993) 4 March – David Evans-Bevan, industrialist (died 1973) 19 March – Dilys Cadwaladr, poet (died 1979) 16 April – Hugh Iorys Hughes, civil engineer (died 1977 in England) 22 April – Megan Lloyd George, politician (died 1966) 18 June – Morgan Phillips, politician (died 1963) 17 July – Nathan Rocyn-Jones, doctor, international rugby player and President of the WRU (died 1984) 2 September – Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, political cartoonist (died 1979) 21 September – E. E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist of Welsh descent (died 1972) 27 October (in Oxford) – Harold Arthur Harris, academic (died 1974) 26 November (in Wales or Bristol) – Cyril Bence, academic and politician (died 1992) date unknown – Richard Bryn Williams, writer (died 1981)

Deaths 1 January – William McConnel, industrialist, 93 11 January – James James, harpist and composer, 69 19 February – Jeremiah Jones, poet, 46 6 March – William Rathbone, politician, 82 11 March – Alcwyn Evans, historian, 73 6 April – Robert Owen, theologian, 81 5 June – Arthur Powell Davies, English-born American minister, author, and activist of Welsh parentage (d. 1957) 13 July – Edmund Hannay Watts, industrialist (Wattstown)London Gazette, August 1902 14 July – Martyn Jordan, Wales international rugby player, 37 23 August – Robert Henry Davies, colonial official in British India, 78DAVIES, Sir Robert Henry, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014) 5 October – Henry Lascelles Carr, journalist 18 October – Margaret Jones, travel writer (Y Gymraes o Ganaan), 60 17 November – Hugh Price Hughes, minister and anti-Parnell campaigner, 55 December – Thomas Davies, footballer, 36/37 date unknown – Jones Hewson, singer and actor, 27Stone, David. Jones Hewson at Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 12 February 2007

See also 1902 in Ireland

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