This article is about the particular significance of the year 1895 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa Môn

Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Richard Davies 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 – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor 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 – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite (until 12 September); Powlett Milbank (from 12 September)

Bishop of Bangor – Daniel Lewis Lloyd 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 – Basil Jones

Events 4 February – Penarth Pier is opened. 11 April – Rhos-on-Sea Pier is opened. 29 March – The National Trust acquires Dinas Oleu, Barmouth, its first property in the UK. 1 November – The last turnpike toll-gates in the UK are removed, from Llanfairpwllgwyngyll on Anglesey.

Arts and literature

Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Llanelli Chair – John Owen Williams, "Dedwyddwch" Crown – Lewis William Lewis

New books English language Henry Jones – A Critical Account of the Philosophy of Lotze Arthur Machen – The Three Impostors William Retlaw Williams – The parliamentary history of the principality of Wales

Welsh language Daniel Owen – Straeon y Pentan

Music John Thomas Rees – String quartet

Sport Golf – The Welsh Golfing Union is founded, and the first Welsh amateur golf championships are held. Horse racing – 15 April: The Welsh Grand National steeplechase is run for the first time, at Ely Racecourse, Cardiff. A huge crowd breaks down barriers and almost overwhelms police trying to keep out gatecrashers. Deerstalker is the winner but the horse Barmecide breaks its neck.

Births 22 January – Iorwerth Thomas, politician (died 1966) 25 January – Mary Glynne, actress (died 1954) 8 February – Edward Enoch Jenkins, judge (died 1960) 19 February – Mary Dilys Glynne, plant pathologist and mountaineer (died 1991) 23 February – Wilfred Mitford Davies, artist (died 1966) 1 March – William Richard Williams, civil servant (died 1963) 11 March – Albert Jenkins, rugby player (died 1953) 3 April – Brinley Williams, Wales dual-code rugby international (died 1987) 4 April – Nan Braunton, actress (died 1978) 14 April – Albert Evans-Jones ("Cynan"), poet and Archdruid (died 1970) 17 April – Thomas Hughes, clergyman, assistant Bishop of Llandaff (died 1981)'HUGHES, Rt. Rev Thomas Maurice', Who's Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012.. 18 May – Tom Rees, airman, victim of the "Red Baron" (died 1916) 8 June – Idwal Jones, humorous writer (died 1937) 16 June – David Cuthbert Thomas, soldier who inspired works by both Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves (died 1916) 24 July – Robert Graves, Royal Welch Fusiliers officer, poet, novelist and classicist often resident in Wales (died 1985) 25 July – Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards (died 1970) 14 September – George Harrison, Glamorgan cricketer (date of death unknown) 1 November – David Jones, poet and artist (died 1974) 24 November – William Evans, cardiologist (died 1988)Evans W, Journey to Harley Street; David Rendel, London (1968)

Deaths 8 January – Daniel Harper, academic, 73 15 January – Lady Charlotte Guest, translator of the Mabinogion, 82 16 February – Thomas Briscoe, academic, 81 18 February – James Goronwy Mathias, minister and writer, 53 25 February – Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, politician, 79 2 April – Ellis Thomas Davies, minister and author, 73 3 May – George Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke, 44 8 May – Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet, 51 13 July – John Griffin, Welsh international rugby player, 35 18 August – John Arthur Edward Herbert, High Sheriff of Monmouthshire 1849, 76 28 August – Henry Pochin, English industrial chemist, mine-owner and politician, founder of Bodnant Garden, 71 22 October – Daniel Owen, novelist, 59 23 November – William Davies (Pembrokeshire MP), 74 date unknown – David Lewis, Newmanite priest and academic (born 1814)

See also 1895 in Ireland

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