1895 in Wales

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)
 * 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.

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

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)
 * 18 May – Tom Rees, airman, victim of the "Red Baron" (died 1916)
 * 8 June – Idwal Jones, humorous writer (died 1937)
 * 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)

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)