1902 in Wales

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

• 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)
• 14 July – Martyn Jordan, Wales international rugby player, 37
• 23 August – Robert Henry Davies, colonial official in British India, 78
• 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, 27

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