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1922 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 1922 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

  • 1 January - The Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway is incorporated into the Great Western Railway.
  • February - The last fighting ship completes fitting out and commissioning at Pembroke Dock, Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Capetown.
  • 26 April - The last ship is launched from Pembroke Dock, Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker Oleander.
  • 11 October - Leila Megane makes the first complete recording of Sir Edward Elgar's Sea Pictures, with Elgar himself conducting.
  • 18 October - In a by-election at Newport, caused by the death of Liberal MP Lewis Haslam, Reginald Clarry wins the seat for the Conservatives.
  • 22 October - David Lloyd George is replaced by Bonar Law as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, after the Conservatives leave the Coalition Government.
  • The Welsh youth organisation Urdd Gobaith Cymru is founded by Ifan ab Owen Edwards.

    • Arts and literature

  • Wilfred Mitford Davies sets up the first Welsh children's book publisher, Cymru'r Plant.
  • The Gregynog Press is established by the sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies (granddaughters of Victorian industrialist David Davies) of Gregynog Hall.
  • The University of Wales Press is established.

    • Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Ammanford)
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - J. Lloyd-Jones
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Robert Beynon

    • New books

  • D. Ambrose Jones - Llenyddiaeth a Llenorion Cymreig y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg
  • Henry Jones - A Faith that Enquires
  • Arthur Machen - The Secret Glory

    • Music

  • Walford Davies is knighted for his services to music.

    • Film

  • The Last King of Wales, starring Charles Ashton
  • Lyn Harding makes an early screen appearance in When Knighthood Was in Flower.
  • Ivor Novello stars in The Bohemian Girl

    • Sport

  • Rugby union - Wales wins the Five Nations championship.
  • Football (soccer)
  • Cardiff City FC win the Welsh Cup
  • Porth F.C. win the Welsh Football League
  • Garden Village Football Club is formed.

    • Births

  • 16 February – Sir Geraint Evans, opera singer (d. 1992)
  • 16 April
  • Kingsley Amis, novelist associated with Swansea (d. 1995)
  • Rees Stephens, Welsh international rugby union captain (d. 1998)
  • 21 April – Allan Watkins, England Test cricketer (d. 2011)
  • 18 July – Ray Cale, dual code international rugby player (d. 2006)
  • 20 July – Ruth Bidgood (née Jones), poet
  • 31 October – Talfryn Thomas, comedy actor (d. 1982)

    • Deaths

  • 29 January – George Owen, footballer, 56
  • 4 February – Sir Henry Jones, philosopher, 69
  • 22 April – W. Llewelyn Williams, lawyer and historian, 55
  • 3 May – Dick Kedzlie, Wales international rugby player, 59
  • 14 May – William Abraham ("Mabon"), politician, 79
  • 16 May – Thomas Powel, Celtic scholar, 76/77
  • 2 June – Sir John David Rees, politician, 67
  • 18 June – John Ward, archaeologist, National Museum of Wales, 65/66
  • 20 June – John Williams, politician, 60
  • 8 July – James Bevan Edwards, army officer and politician, 86
  • 6 August – Thomas Pryce-Jenkins, Wales international rugby player, 60
  • 12 August – Arthur Griffith, Irish-born nationalist politician of Welsh descent, 50
  • 22 August – John Bryn Edwards, ironmaster, 33
  • 12 September – George Rowles, Wales international rugby player, 55/56
  • 28 September – Charlie Newman, Wales rugby union captain, 65
  • 25 December – Percy Jones, former world boxing champion, 29
  • 27 December – Thomas William Rhys Davids, Pali scholar, 79

    • References

    1922 in Wales Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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