1907 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1907 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Events

3 January – Formal opening of the residence at St Deiniol's Library.
17 February – The cargo ship SS Orianda sinks off Barry after colliding with the SS Heliopolis, with the loss of 14 crew.
5 March – Six miners are killed in a shaft accident at Windsor Colliery, Abertridwr.
19 March – The National Library of Wales and National Museum of Wales receive their charters.
11 May – Swansea Corporation's newly constructed Cray Reservoir is filled with water for the first time.
11 July – Edward VII visits Bangor to lay the foundation stone of the new [University of Wales national rugby union team|Wales, Bangor|University College of North Wales] buildings. Principal Henry Reichel is knighted.
13 July – Opening of the Queen Alexandra Dock in Cardiff, attended by the King and Queen.
25 July – Francis Edwards, MP for Radnorshire, is created a baronet.
1 November – First performance of John Hughes' hymn tune "Cwm Rhondda" in its final version, at Capel Rhondda Welsh Baptist Chapel, Hopkinstown, Pontypridd with the composer at the organ.
10 November – Five miners are killed in an accident at Seven Sisters Colliery.
14 December – Seven miners are killed in an accident at Dinas Main Colliery, Gilfach Goch.
December – Edgeworth David joins Ernest Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole.
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*Owen Morgan Edwards becomes Chief Inspector of Schools for Wales.
*The Board of Education establishes a special Welsh department.
*C. H. Watkins designs and builds the first aircraft in Wales at Cardiff, and names it Robin Goch.
*Opening of Dolgarrog hydroelectric power station.
*Oakdale Colliery is sunk in the Sirhowy Valley.
*The silver and lead mine at Llywernog reopens in order to prospect for zinc.

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held in Swansea
*Chair – Thomas Davies, "John Bunyan"
*Crown – John Dyfnallt Owen

New books

English language

Eliot Crawshay-Williams – Across Persia
W. H. Davies – New Poems
Arthur Machen – ''The Hill of Dreams''

Welsh language

Emyr Davies – Llwyn Hudol
John Jones (Myrddin Fardd) – Gwerin-Eiriau Sir Gaernarfon
John Morris-Jones – Caniadau
Joshua Thomas – Hanes y Bedyddwyr
T. Marchant Williams – ''Odlau Serch a Bywyd''

Music

T. Hopkin Evans – Crowns of Golden Light and The Voyage
John Hughes – "Cwm Rhondda"
David Vaughan Thomas – ''Llyn y Fan''

Architecture

St David's Hotel, a hotel for golfers located at Harlech, in Gwynedd, is designed to plans by the Glasgow School architect George Henry Walton for a syndicate of entrepreneurs of which he was a member..

Sport

Bowls – The Welsh Open Bowls Championship is launched.
Boxing
*1 June – Jim Driscoll wins the British featherweight title.
*8 August – Joe White wins the British welterweight title.
Rugby league
*Ebbw Vale RLFC and Merthyr Tydfil RLFC are formed, the first Welsh rugby league teams.
Rugby union
*Wales finish second in the 1907 Home Nations Championship
*1 January – Cardiff beat the touring South Africa national team, 17 - 0.

Births

3 January – Ray Milland, actor
10 January – Nicholas Evans, artist
11 January – Reg Thomas, athlete
4 March – Emlyn John, footballer
6 April – Jacques Vaillant de Guélis, Special Operations Executive agent
30 April – Harry Bowcott, international rugby player and president of the Welsh Rugby Union
7 May – Trevil Morgan, cricketer
24 May – Gwyn Jones, writer
June – David Llewellyn, trade unionist
8 June – Trevor Thomas, art historian and author
10 June – Ernie Curtis, footballer
19 June – Rodney David, cricketer
2 July – Dick Duckfield, cricketer
12 August – Rhys Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Kilgerran, politician
25 August – Albert Fear, Wales international rugby player
25 September – Raymond Glendenning, radio sports commentator
30 September – Arthur Probert, politician
27 November – Glyn Prosser, Wales international rugby player
9 December – T. J. Morgan, academic
10 December – Harry Payne, Wales international rugby player
19 December – William Glynne-Jones, novelist and children's writer
21 December – Will Roberts, painter
22 December – Harold Jones, rugby player
23 December – Fred Warren, international footballer
26 December – Guy Morgan, rugby player and cricketer

Deaths

7 January – David Rowlands (Dewi Môn), minister, academic and writer, 70
13 January – Frances Elizabeth Wynne, artist, 71
10 March – George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn, industrialist and politician, 70
24 March – John Pugh, minister
2 June – Rose Mary Crawshay, philanthropist, 79
5 July – John Romilly Allen, archaeologist, 60
14 August – David Treharne Evans, Lord Mayor of London
October – Hugh Davies (Pencerdd Maelor), composer
27 September – Alfred Davies, businessman and politician, 58
29 October – Megan Watts Hughes, singer, 65
11 November – Ralph Sweet-Escott, English-born Wales rugby international and Glamorgan cricketer, 38
12 November – Sir Lewis Morris, Anglo-Welsh poet, 74
27 November – Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea, politician, 64
30 November – John Price, footballer, 52/3