1891 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1891 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 – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
- 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 – Daniel Lewis Lloyd
- Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis
- Bishop of St Asaph – Alfred George Edwards
- Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones
Events
- 5 April – The United Kingdom Census shows there to be 1,685,614 speakers of Welsh in Wales, 54.4% of the population.
- 12 August – Adelina Patti opens her private theatre at Craig-y-Nos Castle.
- date unknown – The South Wales and Monmouthshire Training School of Cookery and the Domestic Arts opens in Cardiff.
- Owen Morgan Edwards launches his popular monthly magazine Cymru.
Arts and literature
Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Swansea- Chair – John Owen Williams, "Yr Haul"
- Crown – David Adams
New books
English language
- George Essex Evans – The Repentance of Magdalene Despar and other poems
- William Nicholas Johns – History of the Church of S. Gwynllyw
- Edward Jones – ''Y Gymdeithasfa''
Welsh language
- Charles Ashton – Bywyd ac Amserau yr Esgob Morgan
- Thomas Edwards – Darllen a Siarad
- Daniel Owen – ''Enoc Huws''
Sport
- Football – The Welsh Cup is won by Shrewsbury Town.
Births
- 4 January – Bryn Lewis, Wales international rugby player
- 13 February – Kate Roberts, author
- 14 February – Gwynn Parry Jones, tenor
- 14 March – Billy Geen, Wales international rugby union player
- 29 March – Tom Parker, Wales international rugby union captain
- 8 April – Bill Beynon, British bantamweight boxing champion
- 9 May – Fred Perrett, Wales international rugby union
- 1 October – Morfydd Llwyn Owen, composer, pianist and mezzo-soprano
- 29 November – Glyn Stephens, Wales international rugby union captain
Deaths
- 6 January – Hugh Owen Thomas, pioneering orthopaedic surgeon, 57
- 13 February – William Davies, palaeontologist, 76
- 25 February – William Frost, harpist 44
- 26 February – David James Jenkins, shipowner and politician, 66
- 18 March – John Basson Humffray, politician, 66
- 2 May – David Lewis Wooding, genealogist, 62
- 7 May – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis, 72
- 10 May – Thomas Richard Lloyd, Anglican clergyman, 70/71
- 4 July – John Rowlands (Giraldus), antiquary, author and teacher, 67
- 5 September – Sir Hugh Owen Owen, 2nd Baronet, politician, 87
- 26 September – David Charles Davies, Nonconformist leader, 65
- 29 September – Lewys Glyn Dyfi, preacher and writer, 65
- 23 November – Evan Evans, academic, 78
- 18 December – Sir Love Jones-Parry, politician, 59
- 24 December – Richard Owens, architect, 60