1892 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1892 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 – 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


 * 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

 * January – The children's magazine Cymru'r Plant is launched by Owen Morgan Edwards.
 * 5 March – St Michael's & All Angels (Anglican) Theological College is founded at Aberdare.
 * 30 May – The South Wales Argus, published in Newport, is launched.
 * 14 July – Official inauguration of the Liverpool water supply from Lake Vyrnwy. The Vyrnwy dam is the first high masonry gravity dam in Britain.
 * 13 September – The Watkin Path up Snowdon is officially opened by William Ewart Gladstone.
 * 14 September – The Cardiff water supply from Cantref Reservoir is officially inaugurated by the Mayor of Merthyr Tydfil.
 * date unknown
 * J.D. Lewis establishes the Gomer Press at Llandysul.
 * The Parc and Dare Hall in Treorchy opens as a workingmen's institute and library.

Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Rhyl
 * Chair – Evan Jones, "Y Cenhadwr"
 * Crown – John John Roberts, "Dewi Sant"

New books

 * D Davies – Patagonia: a description of the country
 * Daniel James (Gwyrosydd) – Caniadau Gwyrosydd
 * Thomas Gwynn Jones – Eglwys y Dyn Tlawd
 * John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy) – Lloffion yr Amddifad

Music

 * Joseph Parry – Saul of Tarsus (oratorio)
 * David Christmas Williams – Traeth Llafar (cantata)

Sport

 * Baseball – The Welsh Baseball Union is founded.
 * Football – The Welsh Cup is won by Chirk for the fourth time in its 13-year history.
 * Golf – The course at Aberdovey is opened.

Births

 * 23 March – Jack Whitfield, Wales rugby union captain (died 1927)
 * 15 May – Jimmy Wilde, professional boxer (died 1969)
 * 12 June – Hilda Vaughan, novelist (died 1985)
 * 20 June – Geoffrey Crawshay, soldier and social benefactor (died 1954)
 * 25 July – Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, soldier and medical administrator (died 1973)
 * 12 August – Jerry Shea, Welsh rugby union and rugby league player (died 1947)
 * 18 September – Joe Johns, Welsh lightweight boxing champion (died 1927)
 * 12 November – Tudor Davies, operatic tenor (died 1958)
 * 19 November – Huw T. Edwards, trade union leader and politician (died 1970)

Deaths

 * 13 February – William Davies, palaeontologist, 76
 * 5 March – Theophilus Redwood, pharmacist, 85
 * 15 March – Mesac Thomas, Anglican bishop in Australia, 75
 * 22 April – William Williams, Presbyterian missionary in India, 33 (typhoid)
 * 24 April – John Davies (Ossian Gwent), poet, 53
 * 27 April – Edward Wingfield Humphreys, Welsh-born New Zealand politician, 50/51
 * 6 May – Robert J. Davies, Calvinistic Methodist leader, 52
 * 5 June – Robert Rees, singer and musician, 51
 * 19 June – Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn, industrialist and politician, 78
 * 3 October – William Davies (Gwilym Teilo), poet and historian, 61
 * 26 November – Edward Matthews, minister and author, 79
 * 18 December – Richard Owen, anatomist, 88
 * 23 December – John Gibson, architect of the Marble Church, Bodelwyddan, 75
 * 27 December – Samuel Holland, politician, 89