1901 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1901 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa Môn


 * Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
 * 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 – Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th Baronet
 * 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 – Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar *Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor
 * Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank


 * Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams
 * Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis
 * Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)
 * Bishop of St Davids – John Owen

Events

 * January – Samuel Thomas Evans becomes the last QC appointed by Queen Victoria.
 * 22 January – Albert Edward, Prince of Wales accedes to the throne as King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, following the death of Queen Victoria.
 * 31 March – The 10-yearly Census of England and Wales is taken. The population of Wales is shown to have topped two million for the first time in history. Over 15% of the population speak Welsh as their sole language.
 * 3 April – Frederick Rutherfoord Harris, MP for Monmouth Boroughs, is unseated for alleged electoral malpractice.
 * 17 April – Mawddwy Railway passenger services are suspended "pending repairs"; goods services are also suspended between May and October.
 * 7 May – In the by-election at Monmouth Boroughs, Joseph Lawrence becomes the new Conservative MP.
 * 24 May – 81 miners are killed in an accident at Universal Colliery, Senghenydd.
 * 10 September – Twelve miners are killed in a mining accident at Llanbradach Colliery in Glamorgan.
 * 9 November
 * Prince George, Duke of Cornwall and York (later George V) and his wife Mary of Teck officially become Prince and Princess of Wales.
 * Shipping magnate Alfred Lewis Jones is awarded a knighthood.
 * December – The Rhymney Railway opens Caerphilly railway works.
 * Gomer Berry and William Ewart Berry co-found Advertising World.
 * Samuel Walker Griffith helps draft the Australian constitution.
 * Construction of Port Talbot Steelworks begins.
 * Construction of the 156-room Grand Hotel at Llandudno, the largest in Wales at the time.

Arts and literature

 * Arthur Machen joins Frank Benson's travelling theatre company.

Awards

 * National Eisteddfod of Wales – held in Merthyr Tydfil
 * Chair – Evan Rees, "Y Diwigiwr"
 * Crown – John Gwili Jenkins

English language

 * J. E. Morris – The Welsh Wars of Edward I
 * The Dau Wynne – A Maid of Cymru

Welsh language

 * Morris Williams (Nicander) – Damhegion Esop ar Gân (published posthumously)
 * Owen Morgan Edwards (ed) – Gwaith Dafydd ab Gwilym (Cyfres y Fil)

Sport

 * Rugby Union
 * 9 February – Scotland beat Wales 18–8 at Inverleith, Edinburgh.
 * Pontypool RFC and Tenby United RFC are founded.

Births

 * 4 January – Lonza Bowdler, Wales international rugby player (died 1963)
 * 18 February – Will Owen, politician (died 1981)
 * 27 February – Iorwerth Peate, social anthropologist, poet and author, founder of the Welsh Folk Museum (died 1982)
 * 4 March – Edward Prosser Rhys, journalist and poet (died 1945)
 * 1 April – Tom Jones, cricketer (died 1935)
 * 18 April – Mel Rosser, dual-code international rugby player (died 1988)
 * 22 May – David Morgan Jenkins, rugby player (died 1968)
 * 11 June – Jack Livesey, actor (died 1961 in the United States)
 * 22 June – Naunton Wayne, actor (died 1970)
 * 3 September – Alexander Tudor-Hart, doctor and political activist (died 1992)
 * 10 September – Rowe Harding, Wales and British Lions rugby player (died 1991)
 * 9 November – Rhys Davies, writer (died 1978)
 * 10 December – Ivor Jones, rugby player (died 1982)
 * 24 December – Hilary Marquand, economist and MP (died 1972)
 * date unknown – Ivor R. Davies, Welsh-descended organist and composer (died 1970)

Deaths

 * 20 January – James Harvey Insole, English-born colliery proprietor, 79
 * 7 February – Leonard Watkins, Wales international rugby union player, 41
 * 21 February – John Deffett Francis, artist, 85
 * 14 May – Fanny Price-Gwynne, polymath, 82
 * June – Abel Jones (Bardd Crwst), balladeer, 71
 * 1 June
 * John Viriamu Jones, scientist, 45
 * Morgan Albert Ellis, Welsh-American preacher (born 1832)
 * 30 June – John Jones Griffiths
 * 18 August – Evan James, rugby player, 32
 * 26 August – Robert Ricketts Evans, executioner
 * 5 September – Rhys Gwesyn Jones, minister and author, 75
 * 15 September – John Richards (Isalaw), musician, 58
 * 22 September – William Davies (Mynorydd), artist, 75
 * 24 November – Evan Lewis, Dean of Bangor, 83
 * 26 November – Robert Clayton, cricketer, 57
 * 16 December – David Lewis, Archdeacon of Carmarthen, 62