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1921 in Wales

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Centuries:
  
18th 19th 20th 21st

Decades:
  
1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1921 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - Edward
  • Princess of Wales – vacant
  • Archbishop of Wales – Alfred Edwards, Bishop of St Asaph
  • Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dyfed

    • Events

  • 26 January - The Abermule train collision claims 17 lives, including that of Lord Herbert Vane-Tempest, youngest son of the Marquess of Londonderry.
  • February - 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.
  • 1 April - Alfred Mond becomes Minister of Health.
  • April–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".
  • December - Leslie Morris becomes a founder member of the Communist Party of Canada.
  • 23 December - The Maid of Delos sinks off the coast of Dyfed, with 26 deaths.
  • 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.
  • Cardiologist Thomas Lewis is knighted.
  • John Bodvan Anwyl is appointed secretary of the Welsh dictionary project sponsored by the Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales.
  • Francis Edward Mostyn becomes Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff.

    • Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Caernarfon)
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Robert John Rowlands
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Albert Evans-Jones

    • New books

  • Edward Tegla Davies - Tir Y Dyneddon
  • John Evan Davies - Blodau'r Grug
  • Edwin Sidney Hartland - Primitive Society
  • Moelona - Y Wers Olaf
  • Evan Frederic Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar - Trial by Ordeal
  • Margaret Haig Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda - D. A. Thomas, Viscount Rhondda, by his Daughter and Others
  • Francis Brett Young - The Black Diamond

    • 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

  • Edmund Gwenn stars in a silent version of The Skin Game.
  • Roger Livesey makes his screen debut in The Four Feathers.

    • 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)
  • 19 March - Tommy Cooper, comedian (d. 1984)
  • 21 May - Leslie Norris, poet (d. 2006)
  • 4 June - Allen Forward, Wales international rugby union player (d. 1994)
  • 28 June - R. Tudur Jones, theologian (d. 1998)
  • 31 August - Raymond Williams, academic and writer (d. 1988)
  • 8 September - Sir Harry Secombe, entertainer (d. 2001)
  • 13 September - Handel Greville, Wales international rugby union player
  • 15 September - Billy Cleaver, Wales international rugby union player (d. 2003)
  • 12 October - Kenneth Griffith, actor and director (d. 2006)
  • 18 October – Billy James, footballer (d. 1980)

    • Deaths

  • 11 February - William Evans (Tonyrefail), minister and author, 82
  • 25 February - John Thomas of Llanwrtyd, composer, 81
  • 6 July - Alfred Onions, politician, 62
  • 15 August (at Ilfracombe) - Sir David Brynmor Jones QC, lawyer and historian, 68 or 69
  • 21 July - Tom Deacon - Wales international rugby union player
  • 27 July - John Jones (Myrddin Fardd), author, 85
  • 27 July (in London) - James Winstone, miners' leader and politician, 58
  • 23 August (in Oswestry) - Francis Jayne, bishop and academic, 76
  • 11 October - Willie Thomas, Wales international rugby captain, 55
  • 15 December - Hopkin Maddock, Wales international rugby player, 40
  • 16 December - Owen Morgan, journalist, 85
  • 21 December - Joseph Morewood Staniforth, editorial cartoonist, 57 or 58

    • References

    1921 in Wales Wikipedia
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