1922 in Wales

none thumb | right | Photo of a welsh rugby team in 1922 1922 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1922 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1922 in the United Kingdom#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 – 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 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 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 – Arthur Walsh, 3rd Baron Ormathwaite (until 20 January);Obituary, The Times, 15 March 1937 Charles Coltman-Rogers (from 20 January)Bernard Burke Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry Burke's Peerage 1965 534–5 Events 1 January - The Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway is incorporated into the Great Western Railway. 25 January - A letter written by Ifan ab Owen Edwards to the children's periodical Cymru'r Plant results in establishment of the Welsh youth organisation Urdd Gobaith Cymru. February - The last fighting ship completes fitting out and commissioning at Pembroke Dock, Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Capetown. 26 April - The last ship is launched from Pembroke Dock, Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker Oleander. 18 October - In a by-election at Newport, caused by the death of Liberal MP Lewis Haslam, Reginald Clarry wins the seat for the Conservatives. 22 October - David Lloyd George is replaced by Bonar Law as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, after the Conservatives leave the Coalition Government. 23 December - Cargo ship Maid of Delos sinks in St George's Channel off Skomer with all 26 crew killed.Casualty reports The Times London 1922-12-27 17 43223SS Maid of Delos (+1922) Wrecksite https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?154338 2019-09-17 2020-01-26 Arts and literature Wilfred Mitford Davies sets up the first Welsh children's book publisher, Cymru'r Plant. The Gregynog Press is established by the sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies (granddaughters of Victorian industrialist David Davies) of Gregynog Hall.Harrop Dorothy A. A History of the Gregynog Press Pinner Private Libraries Association 1980 978-0-900002-63-2 The University of Wales Press is established. Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Ammanford) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - J. Lloyd-Jones, "Y Gaeaf"https://eisteddfod.wales/chair-winners Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod of Wales 1 June 2025 National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Robert Beynon, "Y Tannau Coll"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners Winners of the Crown National Eisteddfod of Wales 17 November 2019 25 February 2020 7 November 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191107194429/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners dead New books English language J. O. Francis - Cross Currents (play)Cross Currents Francis J. O. Samuel French 1922 Henry Jones - A Faith that EnquiresBernard E Jones Earnest Enquirers After Truth: A Gifford Anthology: excerpts from Gifford Lectures 1888-1968 https://books.google.com/books?id=4ZGMAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA212 18 October 2013 Routledge 978-1-136-50154-8 212 Arthur Machen - The Secret GloryDennis Denisoff Decadent and Occult Works by Arthur Machen https://books.google.com/books?id=e8ZmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA31 11 July 2018 MHRA 978-1-78188-217-7 31 Welsh language D. Ambrose Jones - cy Llenyddiaeth a Llenorion Cymreig y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg J. Glyn Davies cy Cerddi Huw Puw Music 10 October - Contralto Leila Megane makes the first recording of Sir Edward Elgar's Sea Pictures, with Elgar himself conducting.https://eisteddfod.wales/node/31 Leila Megane: the opera star from Llŷn and Eifionydd Eisteddfod 23 August 2025 Walford Davies is knighted for his services to music.s2-DAVI-WAL-1869 Davies, Sir Henry Walford John Charles McLean 2001 23 August 2025 Film The Last King of Wales, starring Charles Ashton Lyn Harding makes an early screen appearance in When Knighthood Was in Flower. Ivor Novello stars in The Bohemian GirlJames Robert Parish Ronald L. Bowers The MGM stock company: the golden era https://books.google.com/books?id=GLRZAAAAMAAJ February 1974 Allan 978-0-7110-0501-3 127 Broadcasting Preparations begin for the start of radio broadcasting by the BBC in Cardiff; the first broadcast will take place in February 1923.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 9 June 2024 Sport Rugby union - Wales wins the Five Nations championship. Football (soccer) Cardiff City FC win the Welsh Cup Porth F.C. win the Welsh Football League, but are suspended from the SWMFA for failing to pay their debts.Martin Johnes Soccer and Society: South Wales, 1900-1939 https://books.google.com/books?id=uWaBAAAAMAAJ 1 January 2002 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1741-9 76 Garden Village Football Club is formed. Births 2 January – D. Geraint James, physician (d. 2010)‘James, Dr (David) Geraint’, Who's Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 8 May 2014 15 January – Emlyn Davies, rugby international (d. 2016) 16 February – Sir Geraint Evans, opera singer (d. 1992)Goodwin, Noël: "Evans, Sir Geraint Llewellyn (1922–1992)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 14 Dec 2008 14 March – Colin Fletcher, pioneering backpacker and writer (d. 2007)https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/19/sports/othersports/19fletcher.html Colin Fletcher, 85, a Trailblazer of Modern Backpacking, Dies The New York Times 2007-06-19 24 March – Arthur "Waring" Bowen, solicitor and charity workerhttp://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101068998/Arthur-Bowen Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Arthur Bowen www.oxforddnb.com 2017-09-10 16 April (in London) Kingsley Amis, novelist associated with Swansea (d. 1995)John McDermott Kingsley Amis: An English Moralist https://books.google.com/books?id=BNmvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA7 16 January 1989 Palgrave Macmillan UK 978-1-349-19687-6 7 Rees Stephens, Welsh international rugby union captain (d. 1998) 21 April – Allan Watkins, England Test cricketer (d. 2011)If The Cap Fits Bateman Colin 1993 Tony Williams Publications 1-869833-21-X 184 https://archive.org/details/ifcapfits0000unse/page/184 7 May Gwyn Hughes, footballer (d. 1999) Monica Jones, lecturer in English literature, a lover of Philip Larkin (d. 2001)Sutherland John 2001-03-15 Monica Jones https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/mar/15/guardianobituaries.books 2024-02-09 The Guardian en-GB 0261-3077 11 June – Tom Cole, Welsh-American racing driver (d. 1953) 26 June – William Griffiths, hockey player (d. 2010) 4 July (in the United States) – Phyllis Kinney, expert on Welsh folk musicPhyllis Kinney: 100 https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/online/llyfrgell-genedlaethol-cymru-the-national-library-of-wales/phyllis-kinney-100/e-omqrxq Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales 25 September 2022 (d. 2026) 18 July Ray Cale, dual code international rugby player (d. 2006) Ray Lambert, footballer (d. 2009) 20 July – Ruth Bidgood (née Jones), poet (d. 2022)Ruth Bidgood Obituary https://www.serenbooks.com/newsentry/ruth-bidgood-obituary 8 March 2022 Seren Books 8 March 2022 10 August – Bert Evans, Welsh-American footballer (d. 2008) 12 September – Arthur Daniels, rugby league player (d. 2001)http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=GnDexYyUsdv4%2Bsg0TrbZ1w&scan=1 Birth details at freebmd.org.uk freebmd.org.uk 31 December 2011 1 January 2012 3 October – Hugh James, aviator (d. 2015)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11345480/Squadron-Leader-Hugh-Jimmy-James-obituary.html Squadron Leader Hugh 'Jimmy' James – obituary 14 January 2015 Telegraph.co.uk 13 April 2015 31 October – Talfryn Thomas, comedy actor (d. 1982) 18 December – Maldwyn Jones, historian (d. 2007) White John Maldwyn Allen Jones Obituary The Independent 15 April 2007 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/maldwyn-allen-jones-448884.html https://web.archive.org/web/20101103022452/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/maldwyn-allen-jones-448884.html dead 3 November 2010 7 October 2008 22 December – Eryl Davies, teacher and school inspector (d. 1982)The Times 3 June 1982 14 Mr E. O. Davies date unknown Thomas Nathaniel Davies, painter (d. 1996) Denis Griffiths, tenor (d. 2001) Deaths 29 January – George Owen, footballer, 56 4 February – Sir Henry Jones, philosopher, 69s-JONE-HEN-1852 Jones, Henry (1852-1922), philosopher Daniel Davies 30 May 2019 25 February – Mary Jane Evans, teacher, preacher and actress, 34s3-EVAN-JAN-1888 Evans, (née Francis), Mary Jane ('Llaethferch'; 1888-1922), elocutionist Evan David Jones yes 5 August 2019 9 April – Constance Jones, English-born philosopher and educator, 74Stout G.F. The Late Miss E. E. Constance Jones Mind 1922 31 123 383–384 2249490 10.1093/mind/xxxi.123.383 https://zenodo.org/record/1431817 22 April – W. Llewelyn Williams, lawyer and historian, 55 3 May – Dick Kedzlie, Wales international rugby player, 59 14 May – William Abraham ("Mabon"), politician, 79s-ABRA-WIL-1842 Abraham, William (Mabon; 1842-1922), M.P. and first president of the South Wales Miners' Federation Huw Morris-Jones yes 30 May 2019 16 May – Thomas Powel, Celtic scholar, 76/77s-POWE-THO-1845 Powel, Thomas (1845-1922), Celtic scholar Henry Lewis yes 25 February 2020 2 June – Sir John David Rees, politician, 67 20 June – John Williams, politician, 60Stenton Michael Lees Stephen Who's Who of British Members of Parliament III 1979 Harvester Press Brighton 0855273259 379 8 July – James Bevan Edwards, army officer and politician, 86A.J. Hill edwards-sir-james-bevan-3470 4 1972 Edwards, Sir James Bevan (1834–1922) 20 October 2021 6 August – Thomas Pryce-Jenkins, Wales international rugby player, 60Jones Stephen Paul Beken Dragon in Exile, The Centenary History of London Welsh R.F.C. 1985 Springwood Books London 0-86254-125-5 5 12 August – Arthur Griffith, Irish-born nationalist politician of Welsh descent, 50 22 August – John Bryn Edwards, ironmaster, 33Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland ... Including All the Titled Classes https://books.google.com/books?id=sI7KJ-hGhDMC 1923 S. Low, Marston & Company 192 12 September – George Rowles, Wales international rugby player, 56Jenkins John M. Who's Who of Welsh International Rugby Players 1991 Bridge Books Wrexham 145 1-872424-10-4 etal 28 September – Charlie Newman, Wales rugby union captain, 65 21 December – William Morris (Rhosynnog), Baptist minister, 79s-MORR-WIL-1843 Morris, William (Rhosynnog, 1843-1922), Baptist minister of Noddfa, Treorchy, Glamorganshire William Joseph Rhys yes 25 February 2020 25 December – Percy Jones, former world boxing champion, 29http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/other-sport/boxing-percy-jones-real-knockout-2163061 Chris Haines Boxing: Percy Jones was a real knockout Wales Online 10 July 2008 30 May 2019 27 December – Thomas William Rhys Davids, Pali scholar, 79 Ridding C. Mary Tin Pe Maung 1923 607190 Obituary: Professor T. W. Rhys Davids Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London 3 1 Cambridge University Press 201–210 10.1017/S0041977X0000032X free See also 1922 in Northern Ireland References Category:1922 in Europe Category:1920s in Wales