1915 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1915 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1915 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1915 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-West Potter Matthew The concept of the 'master' in art education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the present Routledge Abingdon, Oxon 2016 9781351545471 149 Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – William Glynne Charles Gladstone28512 11 July 1911 5168 (until 13 April); Henry Gladstone, later Baron Gladstone (from 23 June)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 – 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 Events January - A memorial to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, in the form of a model lighthouse, is erected on an island in Roath Park Lake, commemorating the support given to Scott's expedition by the people of Cardiff.Morgannwg: Transactions of the Glamorgan History Society https://books.google.com/books?id=Eh8iAQAAIAAJ 1988 50 26 February - The Welsh Guards regiment is created. 4 April - Three German prisoners-of-war escape from an internment camp at Llansannan in Denbighshire, but are quickly recaptured.Gary Dobbs Cardiff and the Valleys in the Great War https://books.google.com/books?id=54SuCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA42 31 March 2015 Pen and Sword 978-1-4738-5778-0 42 23 April - The body of Will Gladstone, recently killed at the Western Front, is re-buried in the churchyard of St Deiniol's, Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales.Hawarden – 1914-1918 War Memorial http://www.clwydfhs.org.uk/cofadeiladau/hawarden-wwi_wm.htm Clwyd Family History Society 17 January 2014 1 January 2014 1 February 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140201200926/http://www.clwydfhs.org.uk/cofadeiladau/hawarden-wwi_wm.htm dead With special permission from King George V of the United Kingdom, he becomes the last casualty to be officially repatriated to the United Kingdom during the First World War.Van Emden Richard Richard van Emden The Quick and the Dead Bloomsbury London 978-1408822456 131–133 7 June 2012 25 April - At Gallipoli, Able Seaman William Charles Williams of Chepstow helps secure lighters on HMS River Clyde under continuous fire. He is posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross - the first such award made to a member of the Royal Navy in World War I. CWGC casualty record. 7 May - When Lusitania is sunk by a German torpedo, notable survivors include David Alfred Thomas, Viscount Rhondda and tenor Gwynn Parry Jones.John Bourne Who's Who in World War I https://books.google.com/books?id=nfWEAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA285 June 2002 Routledge 978-1-134-76752-6 285 26 July - The Glamorganshire Canal closes between Abercynon and Pontypridd.Cardiff Naturalists' Society Reports and Transactions https://books.google.com/books?id=kjzWAAAAIAAJ 1971 14 11 September - The first branch of the Women's Institute in Britain opens at Llanfair PG, Anglesey. 1 October - For his conduct at the Battle of Hooge, Lt. Rupert Price Hallowes of Port Talbot is posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. November - The 38th (Welsh) Division is posted to France. 15 November - Sir James Cory, 1st Baronet, becomes MP for Cardiff, following the death in action of the previous incumbent, Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart. 25 November - In the Merthyr Tydfil by-election, caused by the death of Keir Hardie, Charles Stanton becomes Independent Labour Party MP for Merthyr. 4 December - First submarine to be launched at Pembroke Dock, J3. Welshmen continue to enlist for military service in World War I, including architect Percy Thomas, who joins the Artists' Rifles. Sir William Rice Edwards becomes surgeon-general of Bengal. Arts and literature August - Clough Williams-Ellis marries Amabel Strachey.Military Marriages: a Trio of Interesting Weddings The Sketch llustrated London News and Sketch 11 August 1915 108 unknown date - Gomer Berry and William Ewart Berry become owners of The Sunday Times. Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Bangor) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - T. H. Parry-Williams, "Eryri"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod of Wales 4 April 2022 4 April 2022 13 February 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair dead National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - T. H. Parry-Williamshttps://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod of Wales 4 April 2022 4 April 2022 7 November 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191107194429/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners dead New books English language Caradoc Evans - My People: Stories of the Peasantry of West WalesDavid T. Lloyd Writing on the Edge: Interviews with Writers and Editors of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=tnkf8bL6BIAC&pg=PA7 1997 Rodopi 90-420-0248-4 7 John Gwenogvryn Evans (ed.) - Poems from the Book of Taliesin, amended and translated Arthur Machen - The Great ReturnS. T. Joshi The Weird Tale https://books.google.com/books?id=ubE5ylK0GTgC&pg=PA19 1 January 2003 Wildside Press LLC 978-0-8095-3122-6 19 John Cowper Powys - Wood and Stone Welsh language William Evans (Wil Ifan) - Dros y Nyth Eluned Morgan - Plant yr Haul Music David Roberts - Y Tant Aur (2nd edition) William Penfro Rowlands - "Blaenwern" (hymn tune), in Henry H. Jones' Cân a Moliant Film The Birth of a Nation directed by Welsh-descended D. W. Griffith. Sport Boxing - Llew Edwards wins the British and Commonwealth featherweight titles. Births 16 January - David Michael Davies, 2nd Baron Davies (died 1944)s2-DAVI-DAV-1880 Gwilym Davies Davies, David of Llandinam (1880-1944), first BARON DAVIES (created 1932) 2001 4 April 2022 11 February - Mervyn Levy, artist (died 1996)Levy, Ceri https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-mervyn-levy-1347766.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-mervyn-levy-1347766.html 1 May 2022 subscription live Obituary: Mervyn Levy 17 May 1996 The Independent London 20 March 2011 20 February - Mary Jones, actor (died 1990) 25 March - Dorothy Squires, singer (died 1998)Harris M. Lentz Obituaries in the Performing Arts https://books.google.com/books?id=E5sHAQAAMAAJ 1998 McFarland & Company 978-0-7864-0748-4 210 2 April - Patrick Gibbs, RAF Wing Commander, author and film critic (died 2008)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/wing-cdr-patrick-gibbs-air-ace-and-journalist-815380.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/wing-cdr-patrick-gibbs-air-ace-and-journalist-815380.html 25 May 2022 subscription live Wing Cdr Patrick Gibbs: Air ace and journalist The Independent London Nicolas Barker 25 April 2008 4 March 2009 9 April - Bill Clement, Welsh international rugby player and Secretary of the WRU (died 2007) 13 May - Hrothgar John Habakkuk, economic historian (died 2002)Obituary, The Telegraph (18 November 2002) 4 June - David Bell, writer and curator (died 1959) 1 July - Alun Lewis, poet (died on active service 1944)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alun-Lewis Alun Lewis | Welsh poet Encyclopædia Britannica 6 July 2020 3 July - Ifor Owen, illustrator (died 2007) 30 August - Lillian May Davies, later Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, fashion model and Swedish princess (died 2013)http://www.royalcourt.se/royalcourt/royalfamily/hrhprincesslilian.4.396160511584257f2180001074.html The Royal Court of Sweden Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland 4 April 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20100724021715/http://www.royalcourt.se/royalcourt/royalfamily/hrhprincesslilian.4.396160511584257f2180001074.html 24 July 2010 dead 4 September - Roland Mathias, poet and critic (died 2007)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/oct/17/guardianobituaries.books Roland Mathias 17 October 2007 Sam Adams The Guardian 5 December 2019 10 September - Geraint Bowen, poet and Archdruid (died 2011) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/geraint-bowen-archdruid-of-wales-who-campaigned-against-nuclear-dumping-and-championed-welsh-2332050.html Obituary for Geraint Bowen 5 August 2011 1 July 2018 The Independent 22 September - Thomas Williams, politician (died 1986) 23 September - John Samuel Rowlands, GC (died 2006)7 June 2006 Air Marshal Sir John Rowlands, obituary https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1520490/Air-Marshal-Sir-John-Rowlands.html 22 November 2021 The Telegraph 11 October - T. Llew Jones, writer (died 2009)https://news.bbc.co.uk/welsh/hi/newsid_4120000/newsid_4129700/4129778.stm Colli 'un o eiconau'r genedl' BBC Cymru Welsh 17 September 2019 10 November - Leslie Manfield, Wales international rugby union player (died 2006) 26 December - Keidrych Rhys, poet and journalist (died 1987)International Who's who in Poetry International Biographical Centre 1970 259 Deaths 6 January - Owen Roberts, educator, 79The Times Death of Sir Owen Roberts, a Pioneer of Technical Education 6 8 January 1915 24 January - Charles Taylor, naval officer and Wales rugby international, 51 (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 30 January - Thomas Benbow Phillips, pioneer settler, 85 5 March - George "Honey Boy" Evans, musician and entertainer, 44 (cancer)Frank Cullen Florence Hackman Donald McNeilly Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performances in America https://books.google.com/books?id=XFnfnKg6BcAC&pg=PA365 2007 Psychology Press 978-0-415-93853-2 365 21 March - Edward Pegge, Wales international rugby player, 50 13 April - William Glynne Charles Gladstone, Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire, 29671332 Gladstone, William Glynne Charles 30 August 2016 25 April - William Charles Williams, posthumous Victoria Cross recipient, 34 (killed in action) 6 June - John Lloyd, political reformer, 81 s-LLOY-JHN-1833 LLOYD, JOHN (1833-1915), political reformer and antiquary 1959 National Library of Wales Robert Thomas Jenkins 8 February 2019 31 July - Billy Geen, soldier and Wales international rugby union player, 24 (killed in action)Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News https://books.google.com/books?id=AapEAQAAMAAJ June 1915 George S. Maddick 673 4 September - David Gwynne-Vaughan, botanist, 44s-GWYN-THO-1871 Gwynne-Vaughan, David Thomas (1871-1915), botanist 1959 National Library of Wales Robert Thomas Jenkins 8 February 2019 7 September - Robert Lewis-Lloyd, rower and barrister, High Sheriff of Radnorshire, 79 26 September - Keir Hardie, Scottish-born serving MP for Merthyr Tydfil (Labour) and pacifist, 59 (died in Scotland)https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/keir_hardie_james.shtml BBC History James Keir Hardie (1856-1915) 8 February 2019 27 September - Richard Garnons Williams, soldier and Wales international rugby union player, 59 (killed in action)Archaeologia Cambrensis https://books.google.com/books?id=xsg1AAAAMAAJ 1916 W. Pickering 358 30 September - Rupert Price Hallowes, posthumous Victoria Cross recipient, 34 (killed in action)Paul Oldfield Victoria Crosses on the Western Front - 1917 to Third Ypres: 27 January–27 July 1917 https://books.google.com/books?id=3YwTDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT803 30 September 2016 Pen & Sword Books Limited 978-1-4738-8488-5 803– 2 October - Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart, Scottish-born British Army officer and serving MP for Cardiff (Unionist), 32 (killed in action)The Scots Law Times https://books.google.com/books?id=FJYuAAAAIAAJ 1921 W. Green & Son 132 22 November - Llewellyn John Montfort Bebb, Principal of St David's College, Lampeter, 53s3-BEBB-MON-1862 Bebb, Llewellyn John Montfort (1862-1915), cleric 2001 National Library of Wales Thomas Iorwerth Ellis 8 February 2019 29 November - Rachel Davies (Rahel o Fôn), Baptist preacher, 69s-DAVI-RAC-1846 Davies, Rachel (Rahel o Fôn; 1846-1915), lecturer and preacher 1959 National Library of Wales Robert (Bob) Owen 5 December 2019 10 December - David Jenkins, composer, 66 17 December - Sir John Rhys, philologist, 75https://biography.wales/article/s-RHYS-JOH-1840 Rhys, Sir John (1840-1915), Celtic scholar Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales Ifor Williams 15 August 2019 See also 1915 in Ireland References 1915 Wales Wales Category:1915 in Europe Category:1910s in Wales