1914 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1914 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1914 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1914 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – DyfedRhys 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 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 Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John William Gwynne Hughes Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-WestPotter Matthew The concept of the 'master' in art education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the present Routledge 2016 9781351545471 Abingdon, Oxon 149 Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – William Glynne Charles Gladstone28512 11 July 1911 5168 Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth 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 TreowenCyril James Oswald Evans Monmouthshire, Its History and Topography W. Lewis (printers) 1953 190 Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett MilbankWhitaker's Almanack Joseph Whitaker Whitaker's Almanack 1913 847 Bishop of Bangor – Watkin WilliamsBurke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage Burke's Peerage Limited 1925 2437 Bishop of Llandaff – Joshua Pritchard Hughess-HUGH-JOS-1807 Hughes, Joshua (1807-1889), bishop William Thomas Havard William Havard 26 October 2021 Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)Who was Who 1897–2007, 1991, 978-0-19-954087-7 Bishop of St Davids – John Owens-OWEN-JOH-1854 Owen, John (1854-1926), bishop Thomas Iorwerth Ellis 1959 19 March 2022 Events 14 January - The first trolleybuses in Wales come into operation, in Aberdare. 23 February - Light cruiser HMS Cordelia is launched at Pembroke Dock. 11 March - A Welsh Home Rule Bill is introduced by Edward T. John, MP for East Denbighshire; it fails.John Kendle Ireland and the Federal Solution: The Debate over the United Kingdom Constitution, 1870-1920 https://books.google.com/books?id=ObtgHnfodg0C&pg=PA273 1 January 1989 McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP 978-0-7735-6186-1 273 4 April - Ystradfellte Reservoir inaugurated. 2 May - South Wales Transport begins operating motorbuses in the Swansea area. 4 August - World War I: Declaration of war by the United Kingdom on the German Empire.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 6 August - Pembroke Dock-built Amphion 1911 becomes the first British naval casualty of the war when she strikes mines off the east coast. 18 September - Welsh Church Act, disestablishing the Church in Wales, receives Royal Assent, but simultaneously with the Suspensory Act which delays its coming into effect. 21 September - William Charles Fuller wins the Victoria Cross for carrying a wounded officer to safety under fire.28983 20 November 1914 9663 y 14 November - Light cruiser HMS Carysfort is launched at Pembroke Dock.L. Phillips Pembroke Dockyard and the Old Navy: A Bicentennial History https://books.google.com/books?id=sQSTAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT394 3 February 2014 History Press 978-0-7509-5520-1 394 unknown dates A women's teacher training college opens at Barry; a men's equivalent opens at Caerleon.Great Britain. Department of Education and Science Education: Being the Report of the Department of Education and Science https://books.google.com/books?id=K0Y_AAAAYAAJ 1958 H.M. Stationery Office 125 The hundredth intermediate school in Wales is established under the Welsh Intermediate and Technical Education Act, 1889. William James Thomas, industrialist and philanthropist, is knighted.s2-THOM-JAM-1867 Thomas, Sir William James (1867-1945), Baronet, coalowner, philanthropist Owen Picton Davies 27 November 2018 Pen-coed Castle is restored by D. A. Thomas, Viscount Rhondda.Academi Gymreig The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZEUAQAAIAAJ 2008 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1953-6 512 Arts and literature January - The monthly periodical Welsh Outlook is founded by Thomas Jones (T. J.).https://journals.library.wales/view/1311205/1311206/0#?xywh=-171%2C-571%2C3437%2C5023 Welsh outlook a monthly journal National Library of Wales 27 November 2018 Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales - not heldhttps://eisteddfod.wales/about-us/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair?_ga=2.196744876.1631880097.1570104027-963760572.1570104027 Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod of Wales 3 October 2019February 2021 InternetArchiveBot yes New books Rhoda Broughton - Concerning a VowRhoda Broughton Concerning a Vow https://books.google.com/books?id=2146AQAAMAAJ 1914 Tauchnitz Moelwyn - Caniadau Moelwyn, vol. 4Meic Stephens The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=P51iAAAAMAAJ 1986 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-211586-7 269 Bertrand Russell - Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in PhilosophyA Bibliography of Philosophy: A Partial List of Holdings in the USMA Library https://books.google.com/books?id=_FTUWlwc6IIC&pg=PA40 1972 U. S. Military Academy 40 T. E. Ellis - Pont Orewyns2-SCOT-EVE-1880 Scott-Ellis, Thomas Evelyn (1880 - 1946) yes 16 June 2014 Drama T. Gwynn Jones - Caradog yn RhufainY Gymraes: cyhoeddiad misol darluniadol i ferched Cymru https://books.google.com/books?id=sbsZLfk9A1IC 1913 E.W. Evans. Music David John de Lloyd - Gwlad fy Nhadau (cantata) Ivor Novello - "Keep the Home Fires Burning"home fire burning Fuld James J. The book of world-famous music: classical, popular and folk 316 https://books.google.com/books?id=EVninY59ul0C&pg=PA316 2000 3 March 2010 Courier Dover Publications 978-0-486-41475-1 William Rhys-Herbert - The Bo'sn's Bride (operetta based on a play by Maude Elizabeth Inch)Frances Diodato Bzowski American women playwrights, 1900-1930: a checklist https://books.google.com/books?id=cogUAQAAIAAJ 1992 Greenwood Press 978-0-313-24238-0 189 Film Welsh-descended Harold Lloyd begins his film career. Wild Wales https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/film/pages/culture.shtml Welsh people and culture in film 27 October 2008 BBC Wales Arts 12 December 2020 Sport Boxing 26 January: Percy Jones wins the British, European and World (disputed) featherweight titles. 30 March: Jimmy Wilde wins the European flyweight title. 7 July: Freddie Welsh wins the World lightweight title 14 December: Johnny Basham wins the British welterweight title. Rugby union 14 March: After Percy Jones is targeted by Irish players during the 1914 Five Nations Championship, Harry Uzzell leads his men in retaliation in a game notorious for its on the field violence. Wales win the match, and the Welsh pack are dubbed the 'Terrible Eight' by the press. Births 28 January - Trefor Morgan, financier (d. 1970) 11 February - Mervyn Levy, art critic (d. 1996) 12 March - Tommy Farr, boxer (d. 1986)Patricia Burgess Roland Turner The Annual Obituary https://books.google.com/books?id=8EsYAAAAIAAJ 1989 St James Press 164 978-1-55862-013-1 12 March - Cliff Jones, Wales international rugby captain (d. 1990) 21 March - Sir Goronwy Daniel, academic and civil servant (d. 2003)Meic Stephens Welsh Lives - Gone but Not Forgotten https://books.google.com/books?id=ZRsvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT41 20 September 2012 Y Lolfa 978-1-84771-605-7 41 23 April - Glyn Daniel, archaeologist and television presenter (d. 1986)Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=_U6vCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA427 25 December 2015 Springer 978-1-349-81366-7 427 18 May - Louis Ford, footballer 24 May Sir Granville Beynon, physicist, (d. 1996) Harry Parr Davies, composer and songwriter (d. 1955) 9 September - Alexander Cordell, novelist (d. 1997)R. Reginald Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Vol 2 https://books.google.com/books?id=L25ycEzuXxIC&pg=PA864 1 September 2010 Wildside Press LLC 978-0-941028-77-6 864 12 September - Desmond Llewelyn, actor (d. 1999)Ann Palmer Letters to the Dead: Things I Wish I'd Said https://books.google.com/books?id=MyTdAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA169 20 June 2014 CCB Publishing 978-1-77143-126-2 169 22 October - David Tecwyn Lloyd, author (d. 1992)s8-LLOY-TEC-1914 Lloyd, David Tecwyn (1914-1992), literary critic, author, educationalist Ieuan Parri yes 9 October 2019 27 October - Dylan Thomas, poet (d. 1953)James A. Davies Dylan Thomas's Swansea, Gower and Laugharne https://books.google.com/books?id=MWmuBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT15 15 February 2014 University of Wales Press 978-1-78316-133-1 15 21 November - Charles Fisher, poet (d. 2006)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/charles-fisher-6109809.html Charles Fisher 6 February 2006 The Independent 3 April 2022 2 December - Russell Taylor, Wales international rugby player 7 December - Bryan Hopkin, economist (d. 2009)The International Who's Who 1992-93 https://books.google.com/books?id=zEp1LT7dQMoC 1 August 1992 Taylor & Francis 978-0-946653-84-3 737 date unknown - Norah Isaac, educationalist (died 2003) Deaths 22 February - Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne, 78Wimborne, Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron 32 1021 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/EB1922_-_Volume_32.djvu/page1059-960px-EB1922_-_Volume_32.djvu.jpg 4 May - Rowland Griffiths, rugby player, 28 (typhoid) 17 May - John L. Griffiths, US lawyer and diplomat of Welsh parentage, 58Griffiths Funeral Monday; Services for Consul General to be Held in First Presbyterian Church https://www.nytimes.com/1914/05/30/archives/griffiths-funeral-monday-services-for-consul-general-to-be-held-in.html New York Times May 30, 1914 2011-03-11 16 June - John Hughes (Landore), composer, 42 (cerebral haemorrhage)https://www.calonlan.wales/john-hughes John Hughes The Calon Lan Society 9 October 2019Meic Stephens Meic Stephens The new companion to the literature of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=WoMYAAAAIAAJ 23 September 1998 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1383-1 82 18 June - Abel Davies, rugby union player, 53? 21 June - Morgan Bransby Williams, engineer, 89https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Morgan_Bransby_Williams Morgan Bransby Williams - 1914 Obituary Grace's Guide to British Industrial History 27 November 2018 23 July - Harry Evans, conductor and composer, 41s-EVAN-HAR-1873 Evans, Harry (1873-1914), musician Robert David Griffith yes 9 October 2019 8 August - Sir Edward Anwyl, academic, 48s-ANWY-EDW-1866 Anwyl, Sir Edward (1866-1914), Celtic scholar Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams yes 11 June 2019 22 August (in Swanley) - James Dickson Innes, artist, 27 (tuberculosis)Art and Artists https://books.google.com/books?id=eELrAAAAMAAJ 1977 Hansom Books 34 27 August - William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, 77s-LEWI-THO-1837 Lewis, Sir William Thomas (1837-1914), first Baron Merthyr of Senghenydd, coal magnate Robert Thomas Jenkins yes 11 June 2019 17 September - Shadrach Pryce, clergyman and educationalist, 81s-PRYC-JOH-1828 Pryce, John (1828-1903), dean of Bangor yes 11 June 2019 2 October - Jack Hughes, footballer, 59Who's Who of Welsh International Soccer Players Davies Gareth Garland Ian 1991 Bridge Books 1-872424-11-2 90 22 October - William Morgan, cricketer, 51/2 27 October - Sir T. Marchant Williams, lawyer and author, 68/9s-WILL-MAR-1845 Williams, Sir Thomas Marchant (1845-1914), barrister and writer Edward Morgan Humphreys yes 9 October 2019 See also 1914 in Ireland References Category:1914 in Wales Wales Category:1914 in Europe Category:1910s in Wales