1921 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1921 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1921 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1921 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 Events 26 January - The Abermule train collision claims 17 lives,The Engineer https://books.google.com/books?id=UglIAQAAMAAJ 1922 Morgan-Grampian (Publishers) 22 including that of the chairman of the rail company, Lord Herbert Vane-Tempest. 18 February - by-election: Ernest Evans becomes Liberal MP for Cardiganshire, winning the seat vacated by Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, on the latter's elevation to the peerage.F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results, 1918-1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1949 p550 7 March - Francis Edward Mostyn is appointed Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff.Chris Larsen Catholic Bishops of Great Britain: A Reference to Roman Catholic Bishops from 1850 to 2015 https://books.google.com/books?id=8Y0NDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA290 1 April 2016 Sacristy Press 978-1-910519-25-7 290 1 April - Alfred Mond becomes Minister of Health.Cameron Hazlehurst Sally Whitehead Christine Woodland A Guide to the Papers of British Cabinet Ministers 1900-1964 https://archive.org/details/guidetopapersofb0000hazl registration 1996 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-58743-3 270 1 April–28 June - Lockout in the coal mining industry; A. J. Cook, the miner's leader, is sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for "inciting to unlawful assembly".Gleanings and Memoranda https://books.google.com/books?id=vqM5AQAAIAAJ 1928 507 4 June - Cardiologist Thomas Lewis is awarded a knighthood in King George V's Birthday Honours.32346 y 4531 4 June 1921 December - Leslie Morris becomes a founder member of the Communist Party of Canada. date unknown The Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited begins work on the UK's first oil refinery at Llandarcy. Last copper smelting in the Lower Swansea valley. Hugh Robert Jones founds the Byddin Ymreolaeth Cymru (“Home Rule Army”), which forms the basis for the development of Plaid Cymru.Meic Stephens Cydymaith i lenyddiaeth Cymru https://books.google.com/books?id=Yy1KAAAAYAAJ 1986 Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru 978-0-7083-0915-5 John Bodvan Anwyl is appointed secretary of the Welsh dictionary project sponsored by the Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales. Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Caernarfon) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Robert John Rowlands, "Min y Môr"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 dead National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Albert Evans-Joneshttps://eisteddfod.cymru/enillwyr-y-goron Enillwyr y Goron Eisteddfod 8 June 2024 cy New books English language Edwin Sidney Hartland - primitive society Evan Frederic Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar - Trial by OrdealMeic Stephens The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic registration April 1986 Oxford University Press 406 978-0-19-211586-7 Margaret Haig Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda - D. A. Thomas, Viscount Rhondda, by his Daughter and Others Francis Brett Young - The Black Diamond Welsh language Edward Tegla Davies - Tir Y Dyneddon John Evan Davies - Blodau'r Grug Moelona - Y Wers OlafWelsh Bibliographical Society The Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society https://books.google.com/books?id=Oi5VAAAAYAAJ March 1932 Welsh Bibliographical Society 275 New drama Saunders Lewis - The Eve of St John Music Ivor Novello & Dion Titheradge - "And Her Mother Came Too" The composer Peter Warlock returns to the family home at Cefn-bryntalch Hall, near Abermule, where he will stay until June 1924. Film A teenage Roger Livesey makes his screen debut in The Four Feathers and in the same year appears in a film version of Where the Rainbow Ends.James Robert Parish Film Actors Guide https://archive.org/details/filmactorsguide0000pari registration 1977 Scarecrow Press 343 978-0-8108-1044-0 Sport Cricket - Glamorgan CCC is admitted to crickets County Championship competition for the first time. Births 5 February (in Birkenhead) - Marion Eames, novelist (d. 2007)s8-EAME-MAR-1921 Eames, Marion Griffith (Williams, Gwladys Marion Griffith) (1921-2007), historical novelist J. Beverley Smith 2012 National Library of Wales 23 September 2019 16 February - Bob Evans, rugby union international (d. 2003) 19 March - Tommy Cooper, comedian (d. 1984)John Fisher Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing https://books.google.com/books?id=mYbZqcJVg7QC&pg=PA17 2006 HarperCollins Entertainment 978-0-00-721510-2 17 3 March - David James, cricketer (d. 2002) 21 March - Antony Hopkins, composer, pianist, conductor and broadcaster (d. 2014)Hewett Ivan Antony Hopkins obituary https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/may/06/antony-hopkins The Guardian 6 May 2014 8 May 2014 4 April - Eileen Beasley, teacher and campaigner (d. 2012)Stephens Meic Eileen Beasley: Welsh language campaigner https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/eileen-beasley-welsh-language-campaigner-8190320.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/eileen-beasley-welsh-language-campaigner-8190320.html 1 May 2022 subscription live 11 August 2017 The Independent 29 September 2012 9 April - Jack Jones, footballer (d. 2001)Jack Jones http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player2/jackjones.html Neil Brown 23 July 2018 6 May - Ted Morris, footballer (d. 2000) 21 May - Leslie Norris, poet (d. 2006)James A. Davies Leslie Norris https://books.google.com/books?id=pR1bAAAAMAAJ 1991 University of Wales Press 10 978-0-7083-1117-2 28 May - Rhys Probert, aeronautical engineer (d. 1980) 4 June - Allen Forward, Wales international rugby union player (d. 1994) 8 June - Alwyn Williams, geologist (d. 2004)Sir Alwyn Williams (obituary) https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/apr/23/guardianobituaries.highereducation The Guardian 23 April 2004 18 December 2009 London Howard Brunton 28 June - R. Tudur Jones, theologian (d. 1998)https://biography.wales/article/s8-JONE-TUD-1921 Jones, Robert Tudur (1921-1998), theologian, church historian and public figure D. Densil Morgan Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 23 September 2019 16 August - Roger Ashton (footballer), footballer (d. 1985) 31 August - Raymond Williams, academic and writer (d. 1988)Fred Inglis Raymond Williams https://books.google.com/books?id=_4pC-Fwd-PEC&pg=PA17 23 June 2005 Routledge 1-134-66238-6 17 8 September - Sir Harry Secombe, entertainer (d. 2001)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1315822/Sir-Harry-Secombe.html Sir Harry Secombe The Telegraph 12 April 2001 29 May 2019 13 September - Handel Greville, Wales international rugby union player (d. 2014) 15 September - Billy Cleaver, Wales international rugby union player and colliery manager (d. 2003) 12 October - Kenneth Griffith, actor and director (d. 2006)Lawrence Goldman Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008 https://books.google.com/books?id=nbGcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA461 7 March 2013 OUP Oxford 978-0-19-967154-0 461 3 October – Graham Davies, footballer (d. 2003) 18 October – Billy James, footballer (d. 1980) 17 December - Ron Davies, photographer (d. 2013) 21 December - T. Harri Jones, poet and academic (d. 1965)s8-EAME-MAR-1921 Jones, Thomas Henry (Harri; 1921 - 1965), lecturer and poet Mary Auronwy James National Library of Wales 23 September 2019 Deaths 11 February - William Evans (Tonyrefail), minister and author, 82 25 February - John Thomas of Llanwrtyd, composer, 81 29 April - Billy Matthews, footballer, 37/38 6 June - James Havard Thomas, sculptor, 66Clausen, George. "James Havard Thomas." In Memorial Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by the Late J. Havard Thomas (1845–1921). London: Leicester Galleries, 1922, 5–10. 5 July - Alfred Onions, politician, 62Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died During the Period ... https://books.google.com/books?id=sVsJAQAAIAAJ 1929 A. & C. Black. 797 13 July - Emily Davies, educationist, 90Walter Yust Encyclopædia Britannica https://books.google.com/books?id=9aLnAAAAMAAJ 1954 Encyclopædia Britannica 83 21 July - Tom Deacon - Wales international rugby union player 27 July John Jones (Myrddin Fardd), author, 85s-JONE-JOH-1836 JONES, JOHN (Myrddin Fardd; 1836-1921), writer, antiquary, and collector of old letters and manuscripts William Rowlands 1959 21 January 2019 (in London) - James Winstone, miners' leader and politician, 58s-WINS-JAM-1863 Winstone, James (1863-1921), miners' leader in South Wales Huw Morris-Jones 1959 8 November 2019 6 August (in Ilfracombe) - Sir David Brynmor Jones QC, lawyer and historian, 68 or 69The Law Times https://books.google.com/books?id=K-8wAQAAIAAJ 1922 Office of The Law Times 108 23 August (in Oswestry) - Francis Jayne, bishop and academic, 76http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34162 Jayne, Francis John (1845–1921) D. T. W Price January 2007 10.1093/ref:odnb/34162 2008-02-11 31 August (in Coorparoo, Queensland) - Thomas Rees, mayor of Brisbane, Australia, 76http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article20510681 Family Notices. The Brisbane Courier 10 September 1921 30 January 2015 3 National Library of Australia 3 October - William Rhys-Herbert, composer, conductor, organist and pianist, 53The Etude Obituary T. Presser 1921 769 9 October - Gwyneth Bebb, lawyer, 31Woman's Leader https://books.google.com/books?id=hycoAAAAMAAJ 1921 474 11 October - Willie Thomas, Wales international rugby captain, 55 12 November - Edward Windsor Richards, engineer, 90Wilkins, Charles History of the Iron, Steel, Tinplate and Other Trades of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=erQgxZfov-IC&pg=PA201 Cambridge University Press 1903 201–2 978-1-108-02693-2 (published digitally in 2011) 15 December - Hopkin Maddock, Wales international rugby player, 40 16 December - Owen Morgan, journalist, 85s1-MORG-OWE-1836 Morgan, Owen (Morien; 1836?-1921), journalist and miscellaneous writer Robert Thomas Jenkins National Library of Wales 22 January 2020 21 December - Joseph Morewood Staniforth, editorial cartoonist, 57 or 58Laurel Brake Chandrika Kaul Mark W. Turner The News of the World and the British Press, 1843-2011: 'Journalism for the Rich, Journalism for the Poor' https://books.google.com/books?id=tV_NCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA135 16 March 2016 Springer 978-1-137-39205-3 135 See also 1921 in Northern Ireland References Wales Category:1921 in Europe Category:1920s in Wales