1920 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1920 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1920 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1920 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 Archbishop of Wales – Alfred George Edwards, Bishop of St AsaphWho was Who 1897–2007, 1991, 978-0-19-954087-7 (elected 7 April 1920)Owen Eluned E. 1961 The Later Life of Bishop Owen Llandyssul Gomerian Press 434 Events 22 January - Grant of the royal charter founding the University of Wales, Swansea.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/8473689.stm Swansea University marks 90th anniversary BBC News 22 January 2010 29 May 2019 31 March - The Welsh Church Act 1914 and Welsh Church (Temporalities) Act 1919 come into force, resulting in the creation of the Church in WalesNorman Doe The Law of the Church in Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=UGrZAAAAMAAJ 2002 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1748-8 5 after disestablishment, and appointment of the first Archbishop of Wales. The new Diocese of Monmouth is created. September - Report of the departmental committee on the organisation of secondary education in Wales, chaired by William Napier Bruce. 9 November - In a notorious murder trial at Carmarthen, solicitor Harold Greenwood is found not guilty of poisoning his wife.Colin Wilson Patricia Pitman Encyclopedia of Murder https://books.google.com/books?id=c33aAAAAMAAJ 1962 G.P. Putnam's sons 240 3 December - Five crew members from the Rhoscolyn lifeboat are lost off Llanddwyn, Anglesey.Ken Radford Tales of North Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=-DPCjs1XMwAC 1982 Skilton & Shaw 978-0-284-98614-6 26 21 December - 1920 Rhondda West by-election: William John retains the seat for Labour after the resignation of William Abraham. Mortimer Wheeler becomes Director of the National Museum of Wales. More people are employed in the coal industry in Wales in this year than ever before or since. Opening of the Queen's Dock at Swansea Docks.George Augustus Nokes John Francis Gairns The Railway Year Book https://books.google.com/books?id=Ph9DAAAAIAAJ 1925 Railway Publishing Company, Limited 176 Explorer Edgeworth David and civil servant George Lewis Barstow are knighted. Hugh Evan-Thomas becomes an admiral. Sale of the Downing Hall estate at Whitford, the former home of Thomas Pennant. Arts and literature January - Y Winllan is launched, with Edward Tegla Davies as editor.National Library of Wales Annual Report https://books.google.com/books?id=RgVGAQAAIAAJ 1969 34 Ifan ab Owen Edwards becomes editor of the children’s paper, Cymru’r Plant, originally launched by his father Owen Morgan Edwards. Controversy arises when T. H. Parry-Williams is appointed to the new Chair of Welsh Language at the University of Wales, because of his history of pacifism.Kenneth O. Morgan Rebirth of a Nation: Wales, 1880-1980 https://archive.org/details/rebirthofnationw0000morg registration 1981 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-821736-7 182 Margaret Haig Thomas launches the periodical Time and Tide.Michelle Elizabeth Tusan Women Making News: Gender and Journalism in Modern Britain https://books.google.com/books?id=b0C1xe_Z5I0C&pg=PA220 2005 University of Illinois Press 978-0-252-03015-4 220 Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Barry) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - withheldhttps://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 - James Evans New books Caradoc Evans - My Neighbours Evans Caradoc My neighbours Planet Aberystwyth 2005 9780954088156 183 John Jenkins (Gwili) - Poems Conran Anthony Frontiers in Anglo-Welsh poetry University of Wales Press Cardiff 1997 9780708313954 177 Thomas Mardy Rees - Difyrwch Gwyr MorgannwgHarvard University. Library Celtic literatures: classification schedule, classified listing by call number, chronological listing, author and title listing https://books.google.com/books?id=yC3jAAAAMAAJ 1970 Distributed by the Harvard University Press 978-0-674-10480-8 Thomas Frederick Tout - The Captivity and Death of Edward of Caernarvon Hutchison Harold Edward II Stein and Day New York 1972 9780812814484 141 Music Evan Thomas Davies becomes the first director of music at University of Wales, Bangor. Margaret Hughes sings at the Aeolian Hall under her stage name of "Leila Megane". Film Ivor Novello appears in Miarka: The Daughter of the BearClaude Summers The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance, and Musical Theater https://books.google.com/books?id=mQFuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA188 24 April 2012 Cleis Press 978-1-57344-875-8 188 Broadcasting 22 March - A full duplex commercial service begins operating from the Towyn radio receiving station, and C. S. Franklin develops an improved anti-interference antenna design. Sport Rugby Union 17 January - In a 19-5 win over England, Jerry Shea achieves the first international scoring "Full House"; try, penalty goal, conversion and drop goal. A feat not repeated until 1950.Dai Smith Gareth Williams Fields of Praise: The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union, 1881-1981 https://books.google.com/books?id=XfOBAAAAMAAJ 1 January 1980 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-0766-3 17 February - Wales beat France 6–5 at the Stade Colombes in Paris Births 16 January – Walley Barnes, footballer (d. 1975) 23 February – Ron Berry, writer (d. 1997)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary--ron-berry-1252238.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary--ron-berry-1252238.html 1 May 2022 subscription live Obituary: Ron Berry The Independent Stephens, Meic 24 July 1997 28 December 2010 25 March – Arthur Lever, international footballer (d. 2004) 12 April – The Cox Twins, music hall entertainers (d. (Frank) 2007 and (Fred) 2013) 5 May – Sir Glanmor Williams, historian (d. 2006)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/25/guardianobituaries.obituaries Sir Glanmor Williams 25 March 2006 D Ben Rees The Guardian 20 January 2019 7 May – Tommy Davies, middleweight boxer (d. 1998) 13 May – Gareth Morris, flautist, brother of Jan Morris (d. 2007)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1545039/Gareth-Morris.html Gareth Morris 10 March 2007 The Telegraph 20 January 2019Priests and Prelates: The Daily Telegraph Clerical Obituaries https://books.google.com/books?id=awPGiqoCrSgC&pg=PA196 23 June 2006 A&C Black 978-0-8264-8100-9 196 12 July – Howell Witt, bishop in Australia (d. 1998) 6 September – Trevor Morris, football player and manager (d. 2003) 7 September – Harri Webb, poet (d. 1994)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-harri-webb-1566453.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-harri-webb-1566453.html 1 May 2022 subscription live Obituary: Harri Webb 23 October 2011 The Independent 9 October 2021 24 September – Gweneth Lilly, writer and teacher (d. 2004)Rees D. Ben David Benjamin Rees 20 April 2004 Gweneth Lilly The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/apr/20/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries 20 April 2021 8 October – Frank Herbert, science fiction novelist of Welsh ancestry (d. 1986) 31 October – Dick Francis, jockey and crime novelist (d. 2010)Nikkhah Roya Dick Francis interview for Even Money https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/6121481/Dick-Francis-interview-for-Even-Money.html The Daily Telegraph 1 September 2009 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090905182401/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/6121481/Dick-Francis-interview-for-Even-Money.html 5 September 2009 10 November – Peter Philp, antiques expert and dramatist (d. 2006) 11 November – Roy Jenkins, politician (d. 2003) Campbell John Roy Jenkins : a well-rounded life Vintage Books London 2015 9780099532620 9 20 November – Len Blyth, Wales international rugby player (d. 1995) 2 December – George Edwards, international footballer (d. 2008) 23 December – Tommy Best, footballer (d. 2018) 18 December – Merlyn Rees, politician (d. 2006)https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2006/jan/05/labour.uk1 Lord Merlyn-Rees 5 January 2006 Edward Pearce The Guardian 20 January 2019 Deaths 11 January – Pryce Pryce-Jones, entrepreneur, 85s3-PRYC-PRY-1834 Pryce-Jones, Sir Pryce (Pryce Jones until 1887; 1834-1920), pioneer of mail order business Maurice Richards National Library of Wales 9 February 2021 16 January – Evan Rowland Jones, politician, 79‘JONES, Major Evan Rowland’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 (subscription required) 21 February – Anna Thomas (Morfudd Eryri), poet and campaigner for the Eisteddfod, 81 March – John Thomas, footballer, age unknownDenis Clarebrough & Andrew Kirkham Sheffield United Who's Who Hallamshire Press 2008 314 978-1-874718-69-7 11 March – Daniel James (Gwyrosydd), poet, 73https://biography.wales/article/s-JAME-DAN-1847 James, Daniel (Gwyrosydd; 1847-1920), poet David Myrddin Lloyd National Library of Wales 18 March 2020 14 March – Owen Owen, educationist, 69/70https://biography.wales/article/s-OWEN-OWE-1850 Owen, Owen (1850–1920), first chief inspector of the Central Welsh Board for Intermediate Education in Wales Jones Edgar William Welsh Biography Online National Library of Wales 9 February 2021 5 May – Robert Bryan, poet and composer, 61 15 May – Owen Morgan Edwards, historian and educationist, 61https://biography.wales/article/s-EDWA-MOR-1858 Edwards, Sir Owen Morgan (1858-1920), man of letters Robert Thomas Jenkins Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 23 September 2019 5 June – Rhoda Broughton, novelist, 79Marilyn Wood Rhoda Broughton (1840-1920): Profile of a Novelist https://books.google.com/books?id=-khaAAAAMAAJ 1993 Paul Watkins 978-1-871615-34-0 123 7 June – Hugh Ellis-Nanney, politician, 75L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 76. 9 August – Samuel Walker Griffith, prime minister of Queensland, 75 1 September – Frederick Rutherfoord Harris, politician, 64Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died During the Period ... https://books.google.com/books?id=rZ8LAQAAIAAJ 1929 A. & C. Black 467 30 November – John Meredith, Wales national rugby player, 57 See also 1920 in Ireland References Category:1920 in Europe Category:1920s in Wales