1924 in Wales

none 1924 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1924 to Wales and its people. 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 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 – Ernest Vaughan, 7th Earl of Lisburne 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 – Ivor Windsor-Clive, 2nd 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 – Charles Coltman-RogersBernard Burke Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry Burke's Peerage 1965 534–5 Events 22 January - Ramsay MacDonald, MP for Aberavon, becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the UK. J. H. Thomas becomes his Secretary of State for the Colonies and Vernon Hartshorn Postmaster General of the United Kingdom.W. Robson (Senior History Master.) W. Robson 20th-century Britain https://books.google.com/books?id=D6AKAQAAMAAJ 1973 Oxford University Press 120 978-0-19-913064-1 April - David Ivon Jones becomes the only Welshman ever to be given a state funeral in the Soviet Union.https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/david-ivon-jones David Ivon Jones South Africa History Online 14 July 2019 26 May - Harry Grindell Matthews fails to convince the War Office of the efficacy of his new invention, the "death ray".Astronautics & Aeronautics https://books.google.com/books?id=F7PGAAAAIAAJ 1974 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 77 July - Harry Grindell Matthews reveals that he has lost the sight in one eye through the effects of his experiments.David Robinson Stephen Herbert Richard Crangle Encyclopaedia of the Magic Lantern https://books.google.com/books?id=G-04AQAAIAAJ 2001 Magic Lantern Society 978-0-9510441-5-5 128 23 October - Formal opening of new Guildhall, Swansea, designed by Percy Thomas in stripped classical style and incorporating the Brangwyn Hall. 29 October - In the 1924 United Kingdom general election: The Welsh electorate is 1,289,924 Of 36 Welsh MPs, eight are elected unopposed. MacDonald loses his position as Prime Minister Only one female candidate stands for election in Wales. Newly elected MPs include Walter D'Arcy Hall (Brecon and Radnor), Henry Arthur Evans (Cardiff South), Alfred Mond (returning to Parliament as MP for Carmarthen)Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru: The National Library of Wales Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=0QfhAAAAMAAJ 1981 Council of the National Library of Wales 342 and Walter Runciman (Swansea West). Ernest Evans defeats George Maitland Lloyd Davies to win the University of Wales seat for the Liberals. 14 December - Earthquake centred on Corwen.British Geological Survey UK Historical Earthquake Database 2022-12-28 http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/historical/query_eq/ Ronald Lockley and Bertram Lloyd estimate that there are 25 to 30 pairs of "Welsh parrots" (puffins) on Cardigan Island.John Lloyd Davies Cardiganshire County History: From the earliest times to the coming of the Normans Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society 1994 86 Freddie Welsh meets and spars with F. Scott Fitzgerald; the encounter would eventually give rise to a theory that Fitzgerald used Welsh as a model for The Great Gatsby.Andrew Gallimore, Occupation Prizefighter: The Freddie Welsh Story, Seren, 2007 Arts and literature August - Artist and designer Eric Gill moves with some of his artistic community from Ditchling in England to the disused Llanthony Abbey at Capel-y-ffin. 4 September - Goscombe John's Carmarthen County War Memorial is unveiled in Carmarthen. A rare handled beaker is found during archaeological excavations at a Bronze Age burial cairn in the Black Mountains. Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Pontypool) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Albert Evans Jones, "I Duw Nid Adwaenir"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 dead2 National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Edward Prosser Rhys New books Edward Morgan Humphreys - Yr Etifedd Coll Saunders Lewis - A School of Welsh Augustans Arthur Machen - The London Adventure R. Williams Parry - Yr Haf a cherddi eraill R. Silyn Roberts - Gwyntoedd Croesion Music Grace Davies - Second Collection of Folk Songs from Anglesey9781783168583 Welsh Traditional Music Phyllis Kinney 15 June 2016 University of Wales Press 248 Film The Prince of Wales is filmed attending the National Eisteddfod in Pontypool by British Pathéhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq8OnZIgd4I The Prince Of Wales In Pontypool Youtube 13 April 2014 15 April 2022 Cinematographer Claude Friese-Greene visits Cardiff, Chepstow and Raglan in the course of his drive from John O'Groats to Land's End "Turn Out of the Cardiff Fire Brigade"https://hwb.gov.wales/api/storage/5594872a-9c75-471a-a6f3-bf5615fb2509/WALESONFILM-HERITAGE.pdf Wales on Film National Library of Wales 8 15 April 2022 Broadcasting 15 January - The world's first radio play, Danger by Richard Hughes (set in a collapsed Welsh coal mine), is broadcast by the British Broadcasting Company from its studios in London, incidentally including the first broadcast words of Welsh when "Ar Hyd y Nos" is sung. May - The BBC broadcasts the first in a series of 18 Welsh-language lessons. 31 July - Broadcast of extracts from Y Pwyllgor, a play by D. T. Davies. 12 December - The first transmission is made from the 5SX radio relay station in Swansea. The studio is opened by the Mayor of Swansea. Sport Boxing - Johnny Jones wins the Welsh flyweight boxing championship by beating Gus Legge in Treorchy. Football - 49-year-old Billy Meredith becomes the oldest man ever to play in an FA Cup semi-final. Births 11 January – Jack Parry, footballer (d. 2010)Who's Who of Welsh International Soccer Players Davies Gareth Garland Ian 1991 Bridge Books Wrexham 1-872424-11-2 159 5 February – Leo Callaghan, soccer referee (d. 1987) 9 February – George Guest, organist and choirmaster of St John's College, Cambridge (d. 2002)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/dec/04/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries George Guest 4 December 2002 John Gummer The Guardian London 5 August 2019 29 February – Frank Vining, potter (d. 1989) March – Glenys Cour, artist 2 March – Ted Gorin, footballer (d. 2013) 4 March – David Oswald Thomas, philosopher (d. 2005)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/d-o-thomas-226075.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/d-o-thomas-226075.html 2022-05-01 subscription live D. O. Thomas 17 June 2005 The Independent 11 October 2020 15 March – Tom Ellis, politician (d. 2010)https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/apr/18/tom-ellis-obituary Tom Ellis obituary 18 April 2010 Julia Langdon Julia Langdon The Guardian London 5 August 2019 4 April – Emrys Evans, banker (d. 2004)Evans, William Emrys (1924-2004), banker and philanthropist s8-EVAN-EMR-1924 2011 David Lewis Jones 2 April 2026 6 May – Laurie Webb, actor (d. 2026)Laurie Webb, Welsh actor and recent record-holding star of Doctor Who, dies aged 101 https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-laurie-webb-death-newsupdate/ 2026-04-01 Radio Times en 26 May – John Stone, actor (d. 2007) 2 June – Peter Halliday, actor (d. 2012) 7 June – Donald Watts Davies, computer scientist (d. 2000)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jun/02/guardianobituaries2 Donald Davies Jack Schofield (journalist) Jack Schofield 2 June 2000 The Guardian London 5 August 2019 6 July – Donald Pelmear, actor (d. 2025) 7 July – Albert Stitfall, footballer (d. 1998) 17 September – Islwyn Ffowc Elis, author (d. 2004)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/mar/22/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries Islwyn Ffowc Ellis 22 March 2004 D. Ben Rees David Benjamin Rees The Guardian London 5 August 2019 25 October – Rex Willis, Wales rugby union international and British Lion (d. 2000) 8 November – Bernard Ross, footballer (d. 1999) 20 November – Timothy Evans, victim of wrongful execution (d. 1950)Jonathan Oates 2012 John Christie of Rillington Place: Biography of a Serial Killer Pen & Sword Books Ltd Barnsley, England 978-1781592885 43 22 November – Donald Gullick, rugby player (d. 2000) 24 November – Derek Williams, rugby player (d. 2014) 4 December – Shirley Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey, public servant and writer (d. 2017)The Dowager Marchioness of Anglesey https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/the-dowager-marchioness-of-anglesey-grbnvldz8 15 February 2019 The Times 31 January 2017 en 12 December – Dennis Powell, boxer (d. 1993) 14 December – Margaret John, actress (d. 2011)https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/feb/06/margaret-john-obituary Margaret John obituary 6 February 2011 Anthony Hayward Anthony Hayward The Guardian London 5 August 2019 Deaths 1 January – John Morgan, Archdeacon of Bangor, 83The Rev. John Morgan The Times (London, England), Friday, 4 January 1924; p. 12; Issue 43540. 6 January – Henry Hill, cricketer, 78 19 January – Edwin Cross, footballer, 75 20 January – Aneurin Williams, politician, 64‘WILLIAMS, Iolo Aneurin’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 8 Jan 2014 19 March – John Richard Williams (J. R. Tryfanwy), poet, 56https://biography.wales/article/s-WILL-RIC-1867 WILLIAMS, JOHN RICHARD (J.R. Tryfanwy; 1867 - 1924), poet Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales William Gilbert Williams 6 January 2019 2 June – (in Oswestry) William Griffith Thomas, influential clergyman, 63 14 June – George Frederick Harris, portrait and landscape painter, 67 5 July – William Pritchard Morgan, industrialist, 80 19 July – Jack Evans, Wales national rugby player, 53http://www.espnscrum.com/wales/rugby/player/1178.html Jack Evans player profile Scrum.com 4 October 2020 6 August – John Roberts (Pencerdd Gwynedd), organist and composer, 76https://biography.wales/article/s-ROBE-HEN-1848 ROBERTS, JOHN HENRY (Pencerdd Gwynedd; 1848-1924), musician Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales Robert David Griffith 6 January 2019 20 September – Caradoc Rees, politician, 66Great Britain. Treasury Finance Accounts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=ZIMbAQAAIAAJ 1925 12 December – Charlie Arthur, Wales international rugby player 12 December – Mostyn Evan, Welsh-descended Australian lawyer and sports administrator, 83http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87514315 Obituary. The Chronicle Adelaide 3 January 1925 3 March 2015 40 National Library of Australia See also 1924 in Northern Ireland References Wales Category:1924 in Europe Category:1920s in Wales