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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1908 to
Wales and
its people .
22 January –
J. Lloyd Williams delivers his paper on Welsh National Melodies and Folk-Songs to the
Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion .
[16]
28 January – In a colliery explosion at
Ammanford ,
David Rees Griffiths is seriously injured. His brother is one of two men killed.
[17]
March – The Local Authorities (Admission of the Press) Act, 1908 is passed as a result of a challenge by Frank Mason, editor of the
Tenby Observer , after the local council tried to ban him from their meetings.
[18]
26 February – In the
West Carmarthenshire by-election , the sitting
Liberal
MP ,
John Lloyd Morgan , retains the seat in the absence of any other candidates.
[19]
[20]
5 March –
Edgeworth David leads the party attempting the ascent of
Mount Erebus in the Antarctic.
[21]
8 April – The
Mawddwy Railway is closed to its remaining (freight) traffic.
[22]
18 June – A giant
turtle weighing half a ton is pulled from the sea at
Pwllheli .
16 July – In the
Pembrokeshire by-election , brought about by elevation to the peerage of the incumbent Liberal MP,
John Wynford Philipps , the seat is retained for the Liberals by
Walter Francis Roch .
[23]
1 September – The barque Amazon sinks off
Margam Sands, with the loss of 18 crew.
[24]
14 October –
John Ballinger is appointed first librarian of the
National Library of Wales .
[25]
November – The North and South Wales Bank is absorbed into the
London City and Midland Bank , bringing an end to
banknote issue in Wales.
[26]
21 December – The
Coal Mines Regulation Act 1908 ("Eight Hours Act") limits the amount of time spent by coal miners underground.
[27]
date unknown
6 January –
Lewis Pugh Pugh , lawyer and politician, 70
[38]
13 January –
Caroline Elizabeth Williams , radical and champion of women's rights, 84
[39]
26 January –
George Thomas Kenyon , politician, 67
[40]
1 February –
Buckley Roderick , Wales international rugby player, 46
[41]
27 February –
Norman Biggs , Wales international rugby player, 37
7 March –
Richard Edwards , Welsh American educator, 85
[42]
21 June –
Allen Raine , novelist, 71
[43]
24 August –
William Bevan , archdeacon of Brecon, 87[
citation needed ]
4 September –
Thomas Judson , Wales international rugby player, (c.) 51
19 October
9 November –
Solomon Andrews , entrepreneur, 73
[45]
1 December –
Howell Jones , Wales international rugby player, 26
24 December –
David John , Mormon leader, 75 (in
Utah )
^ Rhys, James Ednyfed (1959).
"Rees, Evan (Dyfed; 1850-1923), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and archdruid of Wales" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 August 2018 .
^ Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes . Dod. 1921. p. 356.
^ National Museum of Wales (1935). Adroddiad Blynyddol . The Museum. p. 3.
^ The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland . Dalcassian Publishing Company. 1860. p. 443.
^ The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion . The Society. 1986. p. 63.
^ Potter, Matthew (2016). The concept of the 'master' in art education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the present . Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. p. 149.
ISBN
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^ Henry Taylor (1895). "Popish recusants in Flintshire in 1625". Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales . Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales: 304.
^
"Transactions of the Liverpool Welsh National Society 1891-92" . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 March 2022 .
^ Cyril James Oswald Evans (1953). Monmouthshire, Its History and Topography . W. Lewis (printers). p. 190.
^ Glyn Roberts (1959).
"Campbell, Frederick Archibald Vaughan, viscount Emlyn (1847-1898), earl Cawdor (1898-1911)" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 20 March 2022 .
^ Joseph Whitaker, ed. (1913). Whitaker's Almanack . Whitaker's Almanack. p. 847.
^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage . Burke's Peerage Limited. 1925. p. 2437.
^
Havard, William Thomas .
"Hughes, Joshua (1807-1889), bishop" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 26 October 2021 .
^
Who was Who 1897–2007 , 1991,
ISBN
978-0-19-954087-7
^ Thomas Iorwerth Ellis (1959).
"Owen, John (1854-1926), bishop" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 19 March 2022 .
^ Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1908).
The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion . The Society.
^
The Carmarthenshire Antiquary: The Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club . Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club. 1999. p. 92.
^
"Tenby tyranny and Barmy Barney" . Northern Echo . 22 June 2005. Retrieved 23 September 2022 .
^ The Times (London) 17 February 1908 p. 9.
^ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results, 1885-1918 ; Macmillan Press, 1974 p473
^ Eleanor Jacka; Fred Jacka (1 October 2008).
Mawson's Antarctic Diaries . Allen & Unwin. p. 28.
ISBN
978-1-74175-609-8 .
^ Christiansen, Rex; Miller, R. W. The Cambrian Railways . Vol. II. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 44.
ISBN
0-7153-4220-7 .
^
"House of Commons" . Archived from
the original on 18 January 2014.
^
Reference Wales . University of Wales Press. 1994. p. 244.
ISBN
978-0-7083-1234-6 .
^ Andrew Green.
"John Ballinger" . Gwallter . Retrieved 23 September 2022 .
^
The Bankers', Insurance Managers', and Agents' Magazine . Waterlow & Sons Limited. 1908. p. 693.
^ Harrison Francis Bulman (1920).
Coal Mining and the Coal Miner . Methuen & Company, Limited. p. 157.
^ Roy Millward; Adrian Henry Wardle Robinson (1978).
The Welsh Borders . Eyre Methuen.
ISBN
978-0-413-28210-1 .
^ Douglas Bland Hague (1994).
Lighthouses of Wales: Their Architecture and Archaeology . RCAHMW. p. 65.
ISBN
978-1-871184-08-2 .
^
Town and Country Planning . Town and Country Planning Association. 1969. p. 372.
^ Academi Gymreig (2008).
The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales . University of Wales Press. p. 795.
ISBN
978-0-7083-1953-6 .
^
"Winners of the Chair | National Eisteddfod" . eisteddfod.wales . Retrieved 27 February 2021 .
^
"Autobiography of a Super-tramp" . parthianbooks.com/. 2010. Archived from
the original on 9 December 2013. Retrieved 6 April 2013 .
^ David Thomas.
"Roberts, Robert (Silyn) (Rhosyr; 1871-1930), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, social reformer, tutor" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 August 2021 .
^ Richard Bryn Williams.
"Hughes, Annie Harriet (Gwyneth Vaughan, 1852-1910), writer" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 August 2021 .
^ William Llewelyn Davies (1959).
"Williamson, Robert (Mona) Bardd Du Môn (1807-1852), teacher and poet" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 25 May 2024 .
^ Fields of Praise, The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union 1881-1981 , David Smith, Gareth Williams; University of Wales Press (1980), pg 175
ISBN
0-7083-0766-3
^
Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died . A. & C. Black. 2002. p. 670.
ISBN
978-0-7136-6125-5 .
^ Anna Louvain Rees (1 March 2017).
"A champion of female education and a pioneer on the scholarship front" . WalesOnline . Retrieved 10 October 2019 .
^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 31 . Oxford University Press. 2004. p. 343.
ISBN
0-19-861381-4 . Article by J.E. Lloyd, revised by H.C.G. Matthew.
^
The Law Society's Gazette . The Society. 1907. p. 73.
^ Bradsby, Henry C., ed. (1885). History of Bureau County, Illinois. Chicago, IL: World Publishing Company. p. 512.
^ Jones, Sally Roberts. "Puddicombe , Anne Adalisa (1836–1908)".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/35628 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^ Emyr Gwynne Jones.
"Puleston, Sir John Henry (1829-1908), banker and Member of Parliament" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 February 2021 .
^
"Death of Mr Solomon Andrews" . Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald and North and South Wales Independent . National Library of Wales. 13 November 1906. Retrieved 29 March 2022 .