This article is about the particular significance of the year 1889 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd
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 – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Robert Davies Pryce Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite
Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell Bishop of Llandaff – Richard LewisDeath Of The Bishop Of Llandaff, The Times, 25 January 1905; page 4; Issue 37613; col A Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua Hughes (until 21 January) Alfred George Edwards (from 25 March) Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones
Events January – First Glamorgan County Council elections are held. 8 February – Nine people drown in a ferry accident at Pembroke Dock. 14 February – The first edition of the North Wales Weekly News is published (under the title Weekly News and Visitors’ Chronicle for Colwyn Bay, Colwyn, Llandrillo, Conway, Deganway and Neighbourhood). 13 March – Twenty miners are killed in an accident at the Brynmally Colliery, Wrexham. 1 April – New elected county councils in England and Wales created by the Local Government Act 1888, take up their powers. That for Radnorshire meets in Presteigne. June – A lion escapes from a travelling menagerie at Llandrindod Wells. 18 July – Opening of the first dock basin at Barry. 3 August – Opening of Hawarden Bridge. 12 August – The passing of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act marks the beginning of secondary education in Wales. 15 August – Three men are killed in a mining accident at Wenvoe Quarry, Glamorgan.Western Mail - Friday 16 August 1889, p.3, Accessed via The British Newspaper Archive . Retrieved 19 November 2014. 26 August – Act of incorporation of the Barry Railway Company#Vale of Glamorgan Railway. Approximate date – The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain is co-founded in Salford as the United Kingdom Van Dwellers Protection Association by Jacob Studt and other active Welsh cinema pioneers.
Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Brecon Chair – Evan Rees, "Y Beibl Cymraeg" Crown – Howell Elvet Lewis
New books Owen Morgan Edwards – O'r Bala i Geneva
Music Sir Henry Walford Davies – The Future, for chorus and orchestra
Sport Cricket – Glamorgan County Cricket Club plays its first match, against Warwickshire at Cardiff Arms Park. Rugby union – Bedwas RFC, Blackwood RFC and Llantwit Major RFC are formed.
Births 12 January – John Bryn Edwards, ironmaster and philanthropist (died 1922) 22 January – John Emlyn-Jones, politician (died 1952) 28 January – Phil Waller, Wales and British Lions rugby player (died 1917) 31 January – Jack Evans, footballer (died 1971) 1 February – John Lewis, philosopher (died 1976) 10 February – Howard Spring, novelist (died 1965) 28 February – George Jeffreys, Pentecostal (died 1962) 5 May – Stanley Winmill, Wales international rugby union player (died 1940) 24 June – Harry Symonds, cricketer (died 1945) 17 July – Aled Owen Roberts, politician (died 1949) 5 August – William Davies Thomas, academic (died 1954) 10 August – Irene Steer, swimmer (died 1977) 21 August – Henry Lewis, Professor at Swansea University (died 1968) 23 October – William Havard, Bishop of St Davids and international rugby player (died 1956) 11 December – Cedric Morris, artist (died 1982)
Deaths 21 January – Joshua Hughes, Bishop of St Asaph, 81 27 March – John Bright, Radical politician associated with Llandudno, 77Trevelyan, George Macaulay (1913) The Life of John Bright. Pages 462-3 10 April – Kilsby Jones, nonconformist minister, writer and lecturer, 76 27 May – George Owen Rees, Welsh-Italian doctor, 75 8 June – Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anglo-Welsh poet, 44 (in Ireland)Scott Wilson, Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3rd ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 22019). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition. 17 June – John Hughes, industrialist, 73 (in St Petersburg) 26 June – Walter Rice Howell Powell, landowner and politician, 69 28 September – Samuel Goldsworthy, Wales international rugby player, 34 15 October – Sir Daniel Gooch, railway engineer and politician, 73 29 October – Godfrey Darbishire, Wales rugby international player, 36 14 November – James Stephens, stonemason, Chartist, and later Australian trade unionist, 68 18 November – Charles Easton Spooner, railway pioneer, 71 date unknown – G. Phillips Bevan, statistician, geographer and author, 59/60 probable – Richard Williams Morgan, clergyman and poet
See also 1889 in Ireland
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