1919 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1919 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1919 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1919 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 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 OrmathwaiteObituary, The Times, 15 March 1937 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 1 January – Surgeon John Lynn-Thomas receives a knighthood in the New Year Honours.https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/13384/page/205/data.pdf Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood Edinburgh Gazette 10 January 1919 13 December 2020 13 July 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190713154753/https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/13384/page/205/data.pdf live 13 January – The Red flag is hoisted during a mutiny on Kilbride at Milford Haven.Tony Cliff Lenin https://books.google.com/books?id=Kw0fAAAAMAAJ 1979 Pluto Press 978-0-86104-023-0 4–5 March – Kinmel Park Riots by Canadian troops at Kinmel Camp, Bodelwyddan. Five men are killed and 28 injured.Jason Wilson Soldiers of Song: The Dumbells and Other Canadian Concert Parties of the First World War https://books.google.com/books?id=5o7ZAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT219 6 November 2012 Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press 978-1-55458-883-1 219 5 December 2021 5 December 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211205094835/https://books.google.com/books?id=5o7ZAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT219 live 31 March – Submarine H52 is launched at Pembroke Dock; commissioned on 16 December, she is the last Welsh-built fighting ship to enter the Royal Navy.Derek Walters The History of the British 'U' Class Submarine https://books.google.com/books?id=VyeJ9DOXcOAC&pg=PA2 2004 Casemate Publishers 978-1-84415-131-8 2 5 December 2021 10 April 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210410154857/https://books.google.com/books?id=VyeJ9DOXcOAC&pg=PA2 live 10 May – Philanthropist Sir William James Thomas is created Baronet Thomas of Ynyshir.Roll of the Baronets https://books.google.com/books?id=DgIdAAAAYAAJ 1975 Adlard & Son 74 14 May – The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, establishes probably the world's first Chair in International Politics, endowed by David Davies and his sisters in honour of Woodrow Wilson, with Alfred Eckhard Zimmern as first professor.The Legacy of One Man's Vision http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/interpol/about/ Aberystwyth University, Department of International Politics 2015-01-27 14 May 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210514015740/https://aber.ac.uk/en/interpol/about/ live 6 June – A race riot breaks out in Newport, Monmouthshire. 11 June – Three people are killed in a 4-day race riot in Cardiff.Susan Kingsley Kent Aftershocks: The Politics of Trauma in Britain, 1918-1931 https://books.google.com/books?id=J2sTAQAAIAAJ 15 January 2009 Palgrave Macmillan 978-1-4039-9333-5 51 5 December 2021 5 December 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211205094834/https://books.google.com/books?id=J2sTAQAAIAAJ live 27 June – William James Thomas (Trethomas), coalowner and philanthropist, and James Cory, Cardiff shipowner and philanthropist, are both created baronets.31427 1 July 1919 8221 10 July – Coalition Liberal candidate David Matthews wins the Swansea East by-election following the death of Thomas Jeremiah Williams MP. 4 August – Death of Thomas Francis Roberts, Principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, since 1891; he is succeeded by John Humphreys Davies. 19 August — The Welsh Church (Temporalities) Act 1919 is passed. 25 August – Fire destroys the Waterloo Hydro, Aberystwyth's largest hotel.The Builder https://books.google.com/books?id=I8EhAQAAMAAJ 1919 252 20 December – Six seamen drown while returning to their ship by boat at Milford Haven.The Scottish Law Review and Sheriff Court Reports https://books.google.com/books?id=4KYuAAAAIAAJ 1921 William Hedge and Company 240–244 5 December 2021 5 December 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211205094835/https://books.google.com/books?id=4KYuAAAAIAAJ live unknown dates U.S. chemical company Monsanto enters a partnership with the Graesser chemical works at Cefn Mawr. John Sankey chairs the commission that recommends nationalisation of the coal industry. Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Corwen) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – D. Cledlyn Davies, "Y Proffwyd"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 3 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 – William Williams (Crwys) New books Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney – Noctes Flandricae William Evans (Wil Ifan) – Dail Iorwg David Rees Griffiths – Ambell Gainchttps://biography.wales/article/s2-GRIF-REE-1882 GRIFFITHS, DAVID REES ('Amanwy'; 1882-1953), poet and writer Gomer Morgan Roberts Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 4 October 2018 5 December 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211205094851/https://biography.wales/article/s2-GRIF-REE-1882 live John Cowper Powys – After My Fashion (unpublished until 1980) W. Llewelyn Williams – The Making of Modern Wales Music The Final and Interim Reports of the Adult Education Committee of the Ministry of Reconstruction, 1918-1919 notes that "The population of both industrial and rural Wales offers the finest possible material for musical culture, though up to the present such culture has been confined within somewhat narrow limits."The 1919 Report: The Final and Interim Reports of the Adult Education Committee of the Ministry of Reconstruction, 1918-1919 https://books.google.com/books?id=bZ9RAQAAMAAJ 1980 Department of Adult Education, University of Nottingham 9780902031456 5 December 2021 5 December 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211205094835/https://books.google.com/books?id=bZ9RAQAAMAAJ live Film Ivor Novello appears in his first film: The Call of the Blood. Sport Boxing – Jimmy Wilde goes on a tour of the US, taking on all contenders. Quoits – Wales defeat England 219 – 203 at the Custom House in London. Rugby union – Wales lose to a touring New Zealand Army team. Births 17 February (in Washington, Co. Durham) – Jonah Jones, sculptor, writer and educationist (died 2004) 18 March – Menna Gallie née Humphreys, novelist and translator (died 1990)s11-GALL-MEN-1919 Gallie, Menna Patricia (1919-1990), writer John P. Jenkins 2017 11 December 2021 15 April – Emyr Humphreys, writerhttps://www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office/latest-news/emyrhumphreysat100swanseauniversityhostssymposiumtocelebratethelegacyofoneofwalesmosteminentwriters.php Emyr Humphreys at 100: Swansea University hosts symposium Swansea University 30 May 2019 30 May 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190530145340/https://www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office/latest-news/emyrhumphreysat100swanseauniversityhostssymposiumtocelebratethelegacyofoneofwalesmosteminentwriters.php live (died 2020) 22 May – Glyn Davies, economist (died 2003) 16 June – Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare (died 2005)https://biography.wales/article/s6-BRUC-LYN-1919 Bruce, Morys George (1919-2005), politician and sportsman David Lewis Jones Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 7 June 2019 30 September 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200930002450/https://biography.wales/article/s6-BRUC-LYN-1919 live 16 July – Harold Rubens, pianist and human rights activist (died 2010, in London)https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/tributes-to-pianist-harold-rubens-1916847 Tributes to pianist Harold Rubens Wales Online Karen Price 2010-05-08 2019-07-04 4 July 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190704160457/https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/tributes-to-pianist-harold-rubens-1916847 live 14 September – Kelvin Thomas, conductor, composer, singer and writer (died 2019) https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/in-your-area/bath-musical-legend-who-singing-2994491 Bath musical 'legend' who was 'singing right until his last breath' dies aged 99 Somerset Live 20 June 2019 Richard Mills 15 January 2021 25 January 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210125083429/https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/in-your-area/bath-musical-legend-who-singing-2994491 live 17 October – Wyn Griffiths, footballer (died 2006) 19 October - Owen Filer, Welsh centenarian 22 October – Abdulrahim Abby Farah, Somali diplomat and politician (died 2018 in the United States)Who's who in the United Nations and Related Agencies https://books.google.com/books?id=YbgMAAAAYAAJ Arno Press 1975 9780405004902 19 May 2015 25 April 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160425135658/https://books.google.com/books?ei=ZaZbVeVAgu6wBbWxgagP&id=YbgMAAAAYAAJ& live 9 December – Meredydd Evans, collector, editor, historian and performer of Welsh folk music (died 2015)Meredydd Evans, Welsh language campaigner - obituary The Telegraph 26 February 2015 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11437540/Meredydd-Evans-Welsh-language-campaigner-obituary.html 25 August 2022 12 December – Cliff Davies, Wales international rugby player (died 1967) 27 December – Brinley Rees, academic (died 2004)https://biography.wales/article/s8-REES-ROD-1919 Rees, Brinley Roderick (1919-2004), classical scholar, educationist and university college principal Ceri Davies Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 7 June 2019 7 June 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190607190344/https://biography.wales/article/s8-REES-ROD-1919 live Deaths 2 January – Arthur Gould, Wales international rugby captain, 54 3 January – James Hills-Johnes, Victoria Cross recipient, 85https://biography.wales/article/s-HILL-JAM-1833 Hills-Johnes, Sir James (1833-1919), general Herbert Johnes Lloyd-Johnes Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 30 May 2019 30 May 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190530151506/https://biography.wales/article/s-HILL-JAM-1833 live 24 February – Edward Bishop, Wales international rugby player, 54 27 February – Robert Harris, Welsh-born painter, 69 12 June – Thomas Jeremiah Williams, Coalition Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Swansea East, 47The Times, 13 June 1919 (obituary) 13 July – Theo Harding, Wales international rugby player, 59 26 July Griffith Hugh Jones (Gutyn Arfon), composerhttps://biography.wales/article/s-JONE-HUG-1849 Jones, Griffith Hugh (Gutyn Arfon; 1849-1919), musician Robert David Griffith Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 30 May 2019 30 May 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190530151510/https://biography.wales/article/s-JONE-HUG-1849 live Richard Hughes Williams (Dic Tryfan), writer, 41https://biography.wales/article/s-WILL-HUG-1878 Williams, Richard Hughes (Dic Tryfan; 1878?-1919), journalist and short story writer Edward Morgan Humphreys Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 7 June 2019 7 June 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190607190342/https://biography.wales/article/s-WILL-HUG-1878 live 4 August – Thomas Francis Roberts, academic, 58https://biography.wales/article/s-ROBE-FRA-1860 Roberts, Thomas Francis (1860-1919), principal, University College, Aberystwyth Thomas Iorwerth Ellis Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 7 June 2019 7 June 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190607190346/https://biography.wales/article/s-ROBE-FRA-1860 live 27 September – Adelina Patti, singer, 76Nicolas Slonimsky Music Since 1900 https://books.google.com/books?id=W5PlAAAAMAAJ 1938 W.W. Norton, Incorporated 197 15 October – Arthur Owen Vaughan (Owen Rhoscomyl), novelist, 56https://biography.wales/article/s-VAUG-OWE-1863 Vaughan, Arthur Owen (Owen Rhos-comyl; 1863?-1919), adventurer and author William Llewelyn Davies Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 30 May 2019 21 September 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200921145518/https://biography.wales/article/s-VAUG-OWE-1863 live 3 December – Volney Rogers, Welsh-American lawyer, 73Joseph Green Butler (Jr.) History of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley, Ohio https://books.google.com/books?id=iRgVAAAAYAAJ 1921 American Historical Society 207 5 December 2021 13 August 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110813205736/http://books.google.com/books?id=iRgVAAAAYAAJ live See also 1919 in Ireland References Category:1919 in Europe Category:1910s in Wales