1902 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1902 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

 * 4 March – Five miners are killed in a mining accident at Milfaen Colliery, Blaenavon.
 * 1 May – Cardiff Corporation Tramways begins operating its electric system.
 * 3 June – Six miners are killed in an accident at Gerwen Colliery, Llanelli.
 * 26 June – In the 1902 Coronation Honours, Isambard Owen and Alfred Thomas receive knighthoods.
 * 15 July – Francis Grenfell is created 1st Baron Grenfell of Kilvey in the County of Glamorgan.
 * 31 July – Opening of the first section of the Great Orme Tramway at Llandudno, the longest funicular railway in the British Isles.
 * 2 August – A. G. Edwards, Bishop of St Davids, is appointed Honorary Chaplain to the Denbighshire Yeomanry.
 * August – Opening of the Vale of Rheidol Railway for goods traffic (it opens to passengers on 22 December).
 * 11 November – Five miners are killed in an accident at Deep Navigation Colliery, Mountain Ash.
 * date unknown
 * Alfred Mond founds his nickel works at Clydach in the Swansea Valley.
 * 230 Welsh colonists leave Patagonia for Manitoba in Canada.
 * Opening of Caernarfon electric power station.

Awards

 * National Eisteddfod of Wales – held in Bangor
 * Chair – T. Gwynn Jones
 * Crown – R. Silyn Roberts

English language

 * Rhoda Broughton – Lavinia
 * Violet Jacob – The Sheep-stealers
 * Arthur Machen – Hieroglyphics
 * Allen Raine – A Welsh Witch

Welsh language

 * Hugh Brython Hughes – Tlysau Ynys Prydain
 * Thomas Rowland Roberts – Y Monwyson

Music

 * Sir Henry Walford Davies – Three Jovial Huntsmen

Sport

 * Gymnastics – The Welsh Amateur Gymnastics Association is formed.
 * Rugby union – Wales win the Home Nations Championship and take the Triple Crown.

Births

 * 4 February – Tal Harris, Wales international rugby player (died 1963)
 * 25 February – Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford, politician (died 1993)
 * 4 March – David Evans-Bevan, industrialist (died 1973)
 * 19 March – Dilys Cadwaladr, poet (died 1979)
 * 16 April – Hugh Iorys Hughes, civil engineer (died 1977 in England)
 * 22 April – Megan Lloyd George, politician (died 1966)
 * 18 June – Morgan Phillips, politician (died 1963)
 * 17 July – Nathan Rocyn-Jones, doctor, international rugby player and President of the WRU (died 1984)
 * 2 September – Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, political cartoonist (died 1979)
 * 21 September – E. E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist of Welsh descent (died 1972)
 * 27 October (in Oxford) – Harold Arthur Harris, academic (died 1974)
 * 26 November (in Wales or Bristol) – Cyril Bence, academic and politician (died 1992)
 * date unknown – Richard Bryn Williams, writer (died 1981)

Deaths

 * 1 January – William McConnel, industrialist, 93
 * 11 January – James James, harpist and composer, 69
 * 19 February – Jeremiah Jones, poet, 46
 * 6 March – William Rathbone, politician, 82
 * 11 March – Alcwyn Evans, historian, 73
 * 6 April – Robert Owen, theologian, 81
 * 5 June – Arthur Powell Davies, English-born American minister, author, and activist of Welsh parentage (d. 1957)
 * 13 July – Edmund Hannay Watts, industrialist (Wattstown)
 * 14 July – Martyn Jordan, Wales international rugby player, 37
 * 23 August – Robert Henry Davies, colonial official in British India, 78
 * 5 October – Henry Lascelles Carr, journalist
 * 18 October – Margaret Jones, travel writer (Y Gymraes o Ganaan), 60
 * 17 November – Hugh Price Hughes, minister and anti-Parnell campaigner, 55
 * December – Thomas Davies, footballer, 36/37
 * date unknown – Jones Hewson, singer and actor, 27