1907 in Wales

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

Incumbents

 * Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dyfed


 * Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 2nd 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 – Joshua Pritchard Hughes
 * Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)
 * Bishop of St Davids – John Owen

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 (Aberystwyth) and National Museum of Wales (Cardiff) 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 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 (new) 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.
 * date unknown
 * 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.

Awards

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

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" (hymn tune, final version)
 * 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. (The proposals were subsequently revised in 1908, and the hotel was built in 1910. The hotel closed in 2008, and planning permission for demolition was approved in 2009).

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 (disputed).
 * 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 (died 1986)
 * 10 January – Nicholas Evans, artist (died 2004)
 * 11 January – Reg Thomas, athlete (died 1946)
 * 4 March – Emlyn John, footballer (died 1962)
 * 6 April – Jacques Vaillant de Guélis, Special Operations Executive agent (died 1945)
 * 30 April – Harry Bowcott, international rugby player and president of the Welsh Rugby Union (died 2004)
 * 7 May – Trevil Morgan, cricketer (died 1976)
 * 24 May – Gwyn Jones, writer (died 1999)
 * June – David Llewellyn, trade unionist (died after 1956)
 * 8 June – Trevor Thomas, art historian and author (died 1993)
 * 10 June – Ernie Curtis, footballer (died 1992)
 * 19 June – Rodney David, cricketer (died 1969)
 * 2 July – Dick Duckfield, cricketer (died 1959)
 * 12 August – Rhys Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Kilgerran, politician (died 1991)
 * 25 August – Albert Fear, Wales international rugby player (died 2000)
 * 25 September – Raymond Glendenning, radio sports commentator (died 1974)
 * 30 September – Arthur Probert, politician (died 1975)
 * 27 November – Glyn Prosser, Wales international rugby player (died 1972)
 * 9 December – T. J. Morgan, academic (died 1986)
 * 10 December – Harry Payne, Wales international rugby player (died 2000)
 * 19 December – William Glynne-Jones, novelist and children's writer (died 1977)
 * 21 December – Will Roberts, painter (died 2000)
 * 22 December – Harold Jones, rugby player (died 1955)
 * 23 December – Fred Warren, international footballer (died 1986)
 * 26 December – Guy Morgan, rugby player and cricketer (died 1973)

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 (Forward Movement)
 * 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