1923 in Wales

none 1923 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1923 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Archbishop of Wales – Alfred George Edwards, Bishop of St AsaphWho was Who 1897–2007, 1991, 978-0-19-954087-7 Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales Dyfed (outgoing)Rhys James Ednyfed Rees, Evan (Dyfed; 1850-1923), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and archdruid of Wales s-REES-EVA-1850 National Library of Wales 2 August 2018 1959 Cadvan (incoming)s-DAVI-CAD-1846 Davies. John Cadvan 10 April 2020 Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron GlanuskDod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes Dod 1921 356 Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest GreavesNational Museum of Wales Adroddiad Blynyddol The Museum 1935 3 Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-EvansThe 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 443 (until 28 December); Ernest Vaughan, 7th Earl of Lisburne (from 28 December) Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Hinds Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Henry Gladstone, later Baron Gladstone Ivor Bulmer-Thomas Gladstone of Hawarden: A Memoir of Henry Neville, Lord Gladstone of Hawarden Murray 1936 197 Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth (until 6 March);Death of the Earl of Plymouth - Vacancy in the Ludlow Division. Shrewsbury Chronicle 9 March 1923 8 Ivor Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth (from 12 April) Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Osmond Williams, 1st BaronetDavies Sir William Llewelyn s-WILL-BRO-1800 Williams family, of Bron Eryri, later called Castell Deudraeth, Meirionnydd 30 January 2020 Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Charles Coltman-RogersBernard Burke Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry Burke's Peerage 1965 534-5 Events 1 January – All major railways in Great Britain are amalgamated into the "Big Four" companies under terms of the Railways Act 1921. The Cambrian Railways and a number of smaller lines and their docks in south Wales are merged into the Great Western Railway and the London and North Western Railway and Midland Railway become part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.Bonavia, Michael R. The Four Great Railways David & Charles Newton Abbot 1980 978-0-7153-7842-7 13 February – The British Broadcasting Company makes its first broadcast in Wales, from "Station 5WA" in Cardiff. Mostyn Thomas opens the programme, singing Dafydd y Garreg Wen and Gwilym Davies becomes the first speaker to broadcast in the Welsh language.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-21426191 Broadcasting in Wales: 90 years since BBC went on air Neil Prior 13 February 2013 BBC 13 February 2013 7 April – At an Anglesey by-election, Sir Robert Thomas (Liberal) returns to the seat he had previously lost. 26 April – In a mining accident at Trimsaran, nine coal miners are killed. 1 June – The final stage of the Welsh Highland Railway re-opens.Peter Johnson The Greatest Little Train Steam Railway 362 41–45 Bauer Publishing May 2009 6 August – Ynysangharad War Memorial Park in Pontypridd is dedicated by Field Marshal Viscount Allenby.Powell Dean Images of Wales Pontypridd Revisited 2007 Tempus Publishing Stroud 112 14 September – Edward Bevan is enthroned as the first Bishop of the new Anglican Diocese of Swansea & Brecon.Ian S. Markham J. Barney Hawkins, I.V. Justyn Terry Leslie Nuñez Steffensen The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Anglican Communion https://books.google.com/books?id=rbwKNhBueasC&pg=PT521 13 March 2013 John Wiley & Sons 978-1-118-32086-0 521Ecclesiastical News. New Bishop Enthroned. The Times Saturday, 15 September 1923; pg. 11; Issue 43447; col C 6 December – In the United Kingdom general election: Ellis Davies returns to Parliament as Liberal MP for Denbigh. David Grenfell is elected unopposed for Labour in Gower. Rhys Hopkin Morris gains Ceredigion for the Independent Liberals (from the Liberals). Thomas Henry Parry retains Flintshire for the Liberals with an increased majority. December – Agnes Twiston Hughes becomes the first Welsh woman to qualify as a solicitor.The Law Times https://books.google.com/books?id=QGsvAQAAMAAJ 1924 Office of The Law Times 156–470 date unknown Maurice Jones succeeds Gilbert Joyce as Principal of St David's University College, Lampeter.J. Gwynn Williams The University of Wales, 1839-1939 https://books.google.com/books?id=poHkAAAAMAAJ 1 December 1997 University of Wales Press 406 9780708314364 Sir William Henry Hoare Vincent becomes a member of the Council of India.Aparna Basu G.L. Mehta, a Many Splendoured Man https://books.google.com/books?id=0P9ahUa7wrgC&pg=PA70 2001 Concept Publishing Company 978-81-7022-891-2 70 Coal production at Llay Main Colliery in the North Wales Coalfield begins. Arts and literature 5 February – W. H. Davies marries Helen Payne, an ex-prostitute thirty years his junior, at East Grinstead.Barbara Hooper Time to Stand and Stare: A Life of W.H. Davies, the Tramp-poet https://books.google.com/books?id=oZ1lAAAAMAAJ 2004 Peter Owen 978-0-7206-1205-9 126 30 May – BBC Cardiff (station 5WA) broadcasts the first full performance of a new orchestral opera.David Sillito Mystery of BBC radio's first broadcasts revealed 100 years on https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63583081 BBC News 2022-11-14 2022-11-14 6 June – Charles Langbridge Morgan marries Hilda Vaughan. W. S. Gwynn Williams becomes Director of Music for the Gorsedd of Bards.Emrys Cleaver Musicians of Wales: An Account of the Lives and Work of the Major Musicians of Wales in the Nineteenth Century and Into the Twentieth https://books.google.com/books?id=EstOAAAAMAAJ 1968 John Jones 90 Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Mold, Flintshire) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – D. Cledlyn Davies, "Dychweliad Arthur"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod of Wales 17 November 2019 11 April 2020 13 February 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair dead National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Albert Evans Jones, "Yr Ynys Unig"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners Winners of the Crown National Eisteddfod of Wales 17 November 2019 11 April 2020 7 November 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191107194429/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners dead New books English language Graham John – A Century of Welsh MusicThe Open Shelf Cleveland Public Library 1925 77 Thomas Richards – Religious Developments in Wales (1654–1662) Welsh language Edward Tegla Davies – Gŵr Pen y BrynR. M. Jones, Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg 1902-1936, page 430 (in Welsh) John Owen – Gwybodaeth y Sanctaidds2-OWEN-JOH-1864 Owen, John (1864-1953), minister (Presb. C.W.) and author Gomer Morgan Roberts 28 March 2020 Music W. S. Gwynn Williams brings out a new edition of Folk Songs from Anglesey With Pianoforte Accompaniment, with English words by Robert Bryan.William Sidney Gwynn Williams Welsh National Music and Dance Gwynn Publishing Company 1975 154 Film 14 September - G.A. Cheetham, son of cinema pioneer Arthur Cheetham, films the unveiling of the war memorial at Aberystwyth and other scenes of the life of the town, to be shown in local cinemas. Ivor Novello appears in The Man Without Desire, The White Rose and Bonnie Prince Charlie. Sport Boxing 18 June – Jimmy Wilde loses his world flyweight title and retires from the sport. Football 5 March – Wales draw 2–2 in their British Home Championship match against England, played at Ninian Park, Cardiff. Rugby union 7 December – Old Penarthians RFC is founded.https://oldpenarthians.rfc.wales/club-history Club History Old Penarthians RFC 11 April 2022 23 May 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220523061859/https://oldpenarthians.rfc.wales/club-history dead Births 22 February – Bleddyn Williams, rugby player (died 2009)http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6683977.ece https://archive.today/20100524094243/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6683977.ece dead May 24, 2010 Bleddyn Williams: Welshrugby player The Times 11 July 2009 11 July 2009 London 28 February – John Gwilliam, rugby player (died 2016) 3 April – John Ormond, poet and journalist (died 1990)M. Wynn Thomas John Ormond https://books.google.com/books?id=YCRbAAAAMAAJ 1997 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1406-7 62 21 April – Ronald Cass, film composer (died 2006)Ronald Cass https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jul/28/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries 28 July 2006 Shorter The Guardian 19 November 2025 Eric 25 April – Paul Whitsun-Jones, actor (died 1974)December 2025 26 July – Bernice Rubens, novelist (died 2004)94398 Rubens, Bernice (1923-2004) Cunningham Valentine 2008 19 August – Dill Jones, pianist (died 1984)David Griffiths Dill Jones Discography https://books.google.com/books?id=vyc5AQAAIAAJ 2000 G. Bielderman 3 3 September – Robin Williams, broadcaster and essayist (died 2003) 22 September – Dannie Abse, poet (died 2014)William D. Rubinstein Michael Jolles Hilary L. Rubinstein William Rubinstein Hilary L. Rubinstein The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History https://books.google.com/books?id=hJc8afOZV0QC&pg=PA13 22 February 2011 Palgrave Macmillan 978-1-4039-3910-4 13 30 September – Donald Swann, musician (died 1994)Smith Lyn Swann's Way: A Life in Song 1993 Arthur James Limited London 0-85305-329-4 297 1 October – Trevor Ford, footballer (died 2003) 5 October – (in South Africa) Glynis Johns, actress (died 2024)British Film and Television Yearbook https://books.google.com/books?id=0rcQAAAAIAAJ 1956 British and American Film Press 178 13 October – Les Pearce, rugby league player and coach (died 2018) 6 November – Donald Houston, actor (died 1991) The Annual Obituary 1991 St. James Press Detroit, Mich 1992 9781558621756 631 13 November – Alf Sherwood, footballer (died 1990) 21 November – Harry Greene, television D-I-Y expert (died 2013) 30 November – John James, historical novelist (died 1993) 8 December – Gwilym Prys Davies, Baron Prys-Davies, politician (died 2017)https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/13/lord-prys-davies-obituary Lord Prys-Davies obituary 13 April 2017 Julia Langdon The Guardian 19 April 2019 11 December – Denis Brian, Welsh journalist and author (died 2017) 19 December – Elwyn Jones, television writer (died 1982) Deaths 9 January – Richard John Lloyd Price, squire of Rhiwlas, 79 22 February – John Jenkins, Prime Minister of South Australia, of Welsh parentage, 71John Jenkins A090471b.htm Jenkins, John Greeley (1851–1923) 6 March General Sir Owen Thomas, politician, 64Michael Stenton Who's who of British Members of Parliament: 1919-1945 Harvester Press 1976 353 Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth, Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, 65 19 March – Evan Rees (Dyfed), poet, 73Rhys James Ednyfed Rees, Evan (Dyfed; 1850 - 1923), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and archdruid of Wales s-REES-EVA-1850 2 August 2018 1959 1 April – Georgiana Rolls, Baroness Llangattock, socialite, benefactor and collector, 86Flight International https://books.google.com/books?id=oJzoAAAAMAAJ 1924 IPC Transport Press Limited 4 May – J. Brynach Davies (Brynach), poet, 49 27 May – Charles Lewis, rugby player, 70s-LEWI-PRY-1853 Lewis, Charles Prytherch (1853–1923), Welsh Rugby footballer and Oxford 'triple Blue' Williams Moelwyn Idwal 16 May 2008 18 July – Thomas Arthur Lewis, teacher, lawyer and politician, 41The Times obituary, 20 July 1923, p. 12 12 October – John Cadvan Davies, poet and hymn-writer, 77s-DAVI-CAD-1846 DAVIES, JOHN CADVAN (Cadvan; 1846 - 1923), Wesleyan minister Edward Tegla Davies Edward Tegla Davies 6 January 2019 date unknown – Edward Bowen, footballer, 64/65 See also 1923 in Northern Ireland References 1923 Wales Category:1923 in Europe Category:1920s in Wales