1916 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1916 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1916 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1916 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 – Henry Gladstone, later Baron GladstoneIvor 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 – 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 thumb|150px|Lloyd George in 1916 Events 1 January The Port Eynon life-boat capsizes and three crew members die. The Royal laryngologist John Milsom Rees is knighted.s2-REES-MIL-1866 Rees, Sir John Milsom (1866-1952), surgeon and laryngologist Emyr Wyn Jones 2001 18 June 2024 8 January – The Apostolic Church in Wales is established. 2 February – Submarine J4 is launched at Pembroke Dock.HMAS J4 http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-j5 2011-03-13 Royal Australian Navy 7 February – The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Cardiff is established. 1 March – Transfer of the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth into its purpose-built premises is completed.David Jenkins (librarian) David Jenkins A Refuge in Peace and War: The National Library of Wales to 1952 Aberystwyth National Library of Wales 2002 1-86225-034-0 168 3 March – Light cruiser HMS Cambrian is launched at Pembroke Dock.Gray Randal Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921 1985 Annapolis, Maryland Naval Institute Press 0-85177-245-5 amp Great Britain and Empire Forces Antony Preston Antony Preston 59 31 May–1 June – Hugh Evan-Thomas distinguishes himself in the Battle of Jutland;The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command Andrew Gordon Andrew Gordon (naval historian) John Murray 1996 London 0-7195-5076-9 he is later knighted. 1 June – Miners' wages in the South Wales Coalfield are increased by 15%.The Miners' Wages Western Mail Cardiff 1916-06-10 4 11 June – Frongoch internment camp is used as a place of imprisonment for approximately 1,800 Irishmen involved with the Easter Rising.Frongoch http://www.easter-rising-frongoch.wales/ https://web.archive.org/web/20160603164136/http://www.easter-rising-frongoch.wales/ usurped 3 June 2016 2018-01-08 4 July – Royal Welch Fusiliers Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon attacks a German trench single-handed, and records the outcome in his memoirs. 7–12 July – The 38th (Welsh) Division loses so many men in the Mametz Wood engagement during the Battle of the Somme that it is unable to re-group for a year. 12 July – Railway worker James Dally is awarded the Edward Medal by King George V for his actions in saving a colleague from falling from the Crumlin Viaduct. July – Jimmy Thomas becomes General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, which he had been instrumental in forming. October – T. E. Lawrence is sent into the desert to report on the Arab nationalist movements. 7 November – Charles Evans Hughes loses narrowly to Woodrow Wilson in the United States presidential election. November – Christopher Williams visits the scene of the Welsh losses at Mametz Wood and later paints his famous The Welsh at Mametz Wood at the request of David Lloyd George.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-36686484 Mametz Wood: The Welsh attack and its legacy 4 July 2016 BBC News 26 August 2018 1 December – Government takes control of mines in the South Wales Coalfield.Government Takes Welsh Coal Mines The New York Times 1916-11-30 1 2 December – Miners' wages in the South Wales Coalfield are again increased by 15%.Miners' Wages The Labour Voice 1915-12-09 2022-09-27 1 https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3978741 7 December David Lloyd George is the first (and, as of a century later, only) Welshman to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.Bentley Gilbert David Lloyd George: A Political Life: Organizer of Victory, 1912–1916 Ohio State University Press 1992 David Alfred Thomas is created Baron Rhondda. He is appointed President of the Local Government Board.South Wales Daily News, 4 July 1918 Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Aberystwyth) Chair - J. Ellis Williams, "Ystrad Fflur"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 2019February 2021 InternetArchiveBot yes Crown - withheld New books Llewelyn Powys and John Cowper Powys - Confessions of Two Brothers Richard Hughes Williams (Dic Tryfan) - Tair Stori Fer Film 22 April – Edmund Gwenn makes his screen debut in The Real Thing at Last. Sport Boxing: 14 February – Jimmy Wilde wins the British flyweight title at Liverpool. Births 26 February - Joan Strothers (later Lady Curran), scientist (died 1999)71958 Joan Elizabeth Curran, Lady Curran (1916–1999) Bill Fletcher none 2 March - Eddie Watkins, rugby player (died 1995) 1 May - Glenn Ford, Welsh-Canadian actor (died 2006)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/leading-man-glenn-ford-dies-at-90-414111.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/leading-man-glenn-ford-dies-at-90-414111.html 1 May 2022 subscription live Leading man Glenn Ford dies at 90 31 August 2006 The Independent 26 August 2018 6 May - Ted Peterson, British baseball player (died 2005) 7 May - Huw Wheldon, broadcaster (died 1986)Journal of the Royal Society of Arts https://books.google.com/books?id=lD9QAAAAYAAJ 1985 Society 340 8 May - Sylvia Sleigh, painter (died 2010)Gaze Delia Dictionary of Women Artists 2 Sleigh, Sylvia Brown Betty Ann Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers London 1997 1280–1281 22 May - Rupert Davies, actor (died 1976) 3 July - Nigel Heseltine, writer (died 1995)D. H. Lawrence The First 'Women in Love' Cambridge University Press 2002 9780521007092 464 23 August - Willie Davies, Wales international rugby union and league player (died 2002) 29 August - Rhydwen Williams, poet, novelist and minister (died 1997)Donald Evans Rhydwen Williams https://books.google.com/books?id=G0AcAQAAIAAJ 16 December 1991 University of Wales Press 6 978-0-7083-1131-8 13 September - Roald Dahl, novelist (died 1990)Philip Howard, "Dahl, Roald (1916–1990)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. 14 September - Cledwyn Hughes, politician (died 2001)Jones David Lewis Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos https://biography.wales/article/s8-HUGH-CLE-1916 Dictionary of Welsh Biography 7 June 2019 24 September - W. J. Gruffydd (Elerydd), poet and Archdruid (died 2011)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/wj-gruffydd-writer-who-helped-keep-alive-the-welsh-tradition-of-lsquo-country-poets-rsquo-2316933.html WJ Gruffydd: Writer who helped keep alive the Welsh tradition 20 July 2011 The Independent London 11 May 2022 31 October - Stan Trick, cricketer (died 1995) Deaths 12 March - Llywarch Reynolds, solicitor and Celtic scholar, 72s-REYN-OWA-1814 Reynolds, Jonathan Owain (Nathan Dyfed, 1814–1891), author 1959 Williams Edward Ivor 10 March 2009 14 March - Lou Phillips, Wales international rugby player, 38 (killed in action)https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/world-war-one-wales-rugby-7166621 World War One: The Wales rugby internationals who died on the battlefield 25 May 2014 Robin Turner WalesOnline 14 October 2019 18 March - David Cuthbert Thomas ("Dick Tiltwood"), soldier, 21 (killed in action)'Little Tommy': 16th June 1895 – 18th March 1916 Anne Marsh Penton Siegfried's Journal 9–17 Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship 1758-5856 14 April - Charlie Pritchard, Wales international rugby player, 32 (killed in action) May - John Griffiths, mathematician, 79 5 June - James Williams, footballer, 32 (killed in action) 26 June - Henry Allan Rolls, younger brother and heir presumptive of 2nd Baron Llangattock, 44George Edward Cokayne The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: Lindley to Moate St. Catherine Press Limited 1932 99 27 June - Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen), writer and temperance activist, 78s-REES-JAN-1839 REES, SARAH JANE (Cranogwen; 1839-1916), schoolmistress, poet, editor, temperance advocate 1959 National Library of Wales William Llewelyn Davies William Llewelyn Davies 8 February 2019 7 July - Dick Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 32 (killed in action at Mametz Wood, during the Somme) 12 July - Johnnie Williams, Wales international rugby player, 34 (died of wounds received at Mametz, on the Somme) 14 July - David Watts, Wales international rugby player, 30 (killed in action) 30 July - Eveline Willett Cunnington, social reformer in New Zealand, 67Eveline Willett Cunnington Roberta Nicholls 3c44 23 April 2017 3 September - Horace Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 26 (killed in action) 11 September - Thomas Lemuel James, Welsh-American banker and U.S. Postmaster-General, 85Sobel, Robert https://archive.org/details/biographicaldire00sobe Biographical Directory of the United States Executive Branch, 1774-1989 1990-07-24 Greenwood Publishing Group 0-313-26593-3 etal registration 28 September (in Bath, Somerset) - Richard Thomas, industrialist, 78s1-THOM-RIC-1838 THOMAS, RICHARD (1838-1916), industrialist 1959 National Library of Wales Watkin William Price 8 February 2019 7 October - Leigh Richmond Roose, footballer, 38 (killed in action)http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/75199170/ROOSE,%20LEIGH%20RICHMOND Casualty Details Reading Room Manchester 11 October - David Richard Thomas, clergyman and historian, 83s-THOM-RIC-1833 Thomas, David Richard (1833–1916), cleric and historian Jenkins Robert Thomas Robert Thomas Jenkins 5 November 2008 31 October - John Rolls, 2nd Baron Llangattock, 46 (killed in action)Obituary, The Times 2 November 1916; Issue 41314 12 November - Sir Walter Morgan, 1st Baronet, banker and Lord Mayor of London, 85 s-MORG-VAU-1831 MORGAN, Sir WALTER VAUGHAN (1831-1916), lord mayor of London 1959 National Library of Wales Robert Thomas Jenkins 8 February 2019 14 November - William Davies, footballer, 61 See also 1916 in Ireland References Category:1916 in Wales Wales Category:1916 in Europe Category:1910s in Wales