1926 in Wales

none 1926 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1926 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1926 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 – Elfeds2-LEWI-ELV-1860 Lewis, Howell Elvet ('Elfed'; 1860–1953), Independent minister, hymn-writer, poet Emlyn Glasnant Jenkins 2001 12 April 2022 Events 28 January – Orthopaedic surgeon Robert Jones is created a baronet (Jones of Rhyl).Roll of the baronets Home Office, Standing Council of the Baronetage 1926 46 2 February – Spelling of the town of Carnarvon changed to Caernarvon (modern-day Caernarfon); the county makes the same change on 1 July. 28 April – J. G. Parry-Thomas breaks the world land speed record on Pendine Sands, in his new car, "Babs". 1 May – A lockout of coal miners leads to the declaration of the 1926 United Kingdom general strike. Police and miners clash eighteen times in the course of industrial disputes in the South Wales coalfield.The Labour Year Book https://books.google.com/books?id=Ypk2AAAAMAAJ 1927 Co-operative Printing Society Limited 271–2 June - England footballer Dixie Dean fractures his skull in a motorcycle accident near Holywell but goes on to make a full recovery. 23 June – Llwyn-on Reservoir inaugurated for water supply to Cardiff. 6 August – Edward, Prince of Wales visits Llandrindod Wells for a scout jamboree. October – Miners begin to return to work in large numbers. 14 October – David Lloyd George becomes the first Welshman to lead the Liberal Party.Timothy Venning Compendium of British Office Holders https://books.google.com/books?id=LJqIDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA503 25 July 2005 Palgrave Macmillan UK 978-0-230-50587-2 503 29 November – New Jubilee Bridge (Queensferry) across the River Dee is opened. unknown dates The first parachute jump from an RAF plane is made at RAF Sealand in Flintshire. Sir William Henry Hoare Vincent represents India at the League of Nations.s-VINC-ENT-1650 Vincent family Robert Thomas Jenkins 1959 15 April 2022 The Roman amphitheatre at Isca Augusta near Caerleon is excavated by Victor Erle Nash-Williams. Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Swansea) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - D. Gwenallt Jones, "Y Mynach"https://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 2019 4 October 2019 29 September 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190929131826/https://eisteddfod.wales/about-us/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair dead National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - David Emrys Jones New books Joseph Alfred Bradney - Memorandum, being an attempt to give a chronology of the decay of the Welsh language in the eastern part of the County of MonmouthNikolas Coupland Alan Richard Thomas English in Wales: Diversity, Conflict, and Change https://books.google.com/books?id=tPwYt3gVbu4C&pg=PA81 1990 Multilingual Matters 978-1-85359-031-3 81 David Davies - The Influence of the French Revolution on Welsh Life and LiteratureMarion Löffler Political Pamphlets and Sermons from Wales 1790-1806 https://books.google.com/books?id=4IGvBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA296 15 October 2014 University of Wales Press 978-1-78316-101-0 296 Thomas Mardy Rees - Seth Joshua and Frank Joshua Bertrand Russell - On Education, Especially in Early Childhood Hilda Vaughan - Here are LoversWisconsin Library Bulletin https://books.google.com/books?id=TmyvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA111 1927 Division of Library Services, Department of Public Instruction. 111 Music David John de Lloyd succeeds Walford Davies as Professor of Music at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Peter Warlock - Capriol Suite Film Ivor Novello stars in The Triumph of the Rat.Alan Burton Steve Chibnall Historical Dictionary of British Cinema https://books.google.com/books?id=Q8SRjwJqwukC&pg=PA316 11 July 2013 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-8026-9 316 Broadcasting The organisers of the National Eisteddfod refuse to allow proceedings to be broadcast on radio.John Davies Broadcasting and the BBC in Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=R7kVAQAAMAAJ 1994 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1273-5 Sport Boxing 5 April - Dick Power beats Tom Norris at Taff Vale Park in Pontypridd to become the new Welsh heavyweight champion. Cricket - The South Wales and Monmouthshire Cricket Association is founded.John Davies Nigel Jenkins Menna Baines The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZEUAQAAIAAJ 2008 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1953-6 Rugby league - Wales defeat New Zealand 34–8. Births 12 January – T. Glynne Davies, poet, novelist and broadcaster (d. 1988)Who was who https://books.google.com/books?id=Btjc3DN_WX0C 1996 St. Martin's Press 978-0-312-29366-6 145 15 January – Malcolm Davies, rugby player (d. 2011)http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=dh6y4LA7Yao%2FARZuEzS8Sg&scan=1 Birth details at freebmd.org.uk freebmd.org.uk 31 December 2011 1 January 2012 25 January – Richard Davies, actor (d. 2015)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11934131/Richard-Davies-actor-obituary.html Richard Davies, actor - obituary 15 October 2015 The Telegraph 19 June 2020 3 February – John Davies, cricketer (d. 2005) 21 February – Danny Canning, footballer (d. 2014) 2 May – Clive Jenkins, trade union leader (d. 1999)Historical Studies in Industrial Relations https://books.google.com/books?id=NBYoAQAAIAAJ 2006 Keele University Centre for Industrial Relations 8 May – Sir Ronald Waterhouse QC (d. 2011) 13 May – Alwyn Davies, chemist (d. 2023) 17 May – Tenniel Evans, actor (d. 2009)https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/jun/12/obituary-tenniel-evans The Guardian London Tenniel Evans 12 June 2009 27 March 2010 Philip Purser 27 July – Eddie Thomas, boxing champion and manager (d. 1997)Nat Fleischer Nat Fleischer's All-time Ring Record Book ... https://books.google.com/books?id=Tl5LAAAAYAAJ O'Brien Suburban Press 767 30 July – Gareth Alban Davies, poet and Hispanist (d. 2009)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/gareth-alban-davies-poet-who-combined-welsh-and-hispanic-interests-in-his-work-1643001.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/gareth-alban-davies-poet-who-combined-welsh-and-hispanic-interests-in-his-work-1643001.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Gareth Alban Davies: Poet who combined Welsh and Hispanic interests in his work The Independent Meic Stephens Meic Stephens 12 March 2009 18 December 2009 1 August – Robert Thomas, sculptor (d. 1999) 23 September – Courtenay Meredith, Wales and British Lions rugby player (d. 2024)Happy 95th Birthday Courtenay Meredith https://www.wru.wales/2021/09/happy-95th-birthday-courtenay-meredith/ 27 November 2022 WRU 23 September 2021 26 September – Catherine Glyn Davies, historian and translatorhttps://biography.wales/article/s10-DAVI-GLN-1926 Davies, Catherine Glyn ('Caryl') (1926-2007), historian of philosophy and linguistics, and translator Mary Burdett Jones Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 24 September 2019 (d. 2007) 2 October (at Clevedon, Somerset) – Jan Morris (as James Morris), author (d. 2020) 9 October – Ruth Ellis, murderer (executed 1955)David K. Frasier Murder Cases of the Twentieth Century: Biographies and Bibliographies of 280 Convicted Or Accused Killers https://books.google.com/books?id=sHvaAAAAMAAJ 1996 McFarland 978-0-7864-0184-0 14 December – Margaret John, actress (d. 2011)https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/feb/02/margaret-john-gavin-and-stacey Gavin & Stacey star Margaret John dies 2 February 2011 Guardian 4 December 2013 20 December – Geoffrey Howe, politician (d. 2015)John Barnes https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/geoffrey-howe-one-of-the-architects-of-the-thatcher-revolution-who-became-one-of-the-primary-factors-a6689811.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/geoffrey-howe-one-of-the-architects-of-the-thatcher-revolution-who-became-one-of-the-primary-factors-a6689811.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Geoffrey Howe: One of the architects of the Thatcher revolution who became one of the primary factors in her downfall The Independent 11 October 2015 11 March 2019 30 December – Clifford Williams, actor and director (d. 2005) Deaths 5 January – John Bryant, harpistBRYANT, JOHN (Alawydd Glan Tâf; 1832 - 1926), harpist Dictionary of Welsh Biography https://biography.wales/article/s-BRYA-JOH-1832 2026-04-30 biography.wales February – Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn, astronomer and photographer, 91/92The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=F7wxAQAAIAAJ 1925 Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 354 7 February – William Evans Hoyle, director of the National Museum of Wales, 71Obituary: Dr. W. E. Evans Nature 20 Feb 1926 64 117 277 10.1038/117277a0 free 17 March – Sir David William Evans, lawyer, public servant, and Wales international rugby player, 5918 March 1926 The Times Sir David Evans 21 16 April – William Lewis, mineralogist, 79 20 May (in London) – Thomas Rees, academic, 56 24 May – John Williams, royal physician, 85 14 June – Rees Thomas, rugby player, 43/44 3 August – Ernest Willows, aviation pioneer, 40 (killed in a balloon accident)Aeronautics https://books.google.com/books?id=TgcgAAAAMAAJ 1960 10 August – John Humphreys Davies, academic, 55https://biography.wales/article/s-DAVI-HUM-1871 Davies, John Humphreys Ellis Thomas Iorwerth Thomas Iorwerth Ellis Welsh Biography Online National Library of Wales 18 January 2010 20 August – Billy Trew, Wales rugby union captain 5 October – Dorothy Tennant (Lady Stanley), artist, 71The Spectator https://books.google.com/books?id=Q_IhAQAAMAAJ July 1929 F.C. Westley 13 October – Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn), poet, 59https://biography.wales/article/s-WILL-ELI-1867 Williams, Eliseus (Eifion Wyn; 1867-1926), poet T. H. Parry-Williams Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 25 May 2019 4 November – John Owen, Bishop of St David's, 72https://biography.wales/article/s-OWEN-JOH-1854 Owen, John (1854-1926), bishop Thomas Iorwerth Ellis Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 25 May 2019 30 November – Ellis Ellis-Griffith, politician, 66 See also 1926 in Northern Ireland References Wales Category:1926 in Europe Category:1920s in Wales