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1928 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 1928 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
  • Elfed (outgoing)
  • Pedrog (incoming)

    • Events

  • 12 June – The Welsh National War Memorial is unveiled in Cardiff by The Prince of Wales.
  • 18 June – Amelia Earhart lands near Burry Port, becoming the first woman passenger on a Transatlantic flight.
  • December – Rapallo House, Llandudno, is handed over to the local council to be used as a museum, as a bequest from Francis Edouard Chardon.
  • Dr John Williams establishes a hospital at Durtlang in the Lushai Hills (Mizoram) of India.
  • The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales is founded by Clough Williams-Ellis.
  • The community of Benedictine monks leaves Caldey Island for Prinknash Abbey. They are replaced at Caldey by a Cistercian order in 1929.
  • Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald, buys Gwrych Castle for £78,000.
  • The Grwyne Fawr reservoir is completed in the Brecon Beacons, 16 years after the start of construction (work having been interrupted by World War I).
  • Formation of the Cardiff Station Orchestra, predecessor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

    • Arts and literature

  • October - Eric Gill and members of his artistic community leave Capel-y-ffin for Speen, Buckinghamshire.
  • Sir William Llewellyn is the first Welshman to become President of the Royal Academy of Arts.

    • Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Treorchy)
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – withheld
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Caradog Prichard

    • New books

  • Dorothy Edwards – Winter Sonata
  • Moelona – Breuddwydion Myfanwy
  • T. H. Parry-Williams – Ysgrifau
  • Iorwerth Peate – Y Cawg Aur
  • Richard Thomas – David Williams, y Piwritan
  • Hilda Vaughan – The Invader: a tale of adventure and passion

    • Music

  • David Evans – Incidental music for Alcestis (unpublished)

    • Film

  • The Truth Game, starring Ivor Novello

    • Sport

  • Badminton – The Welsh Badminton Union is formed.
  • Boxing – Welsh Bantamweight champion Tosh Powell dies after a fight with Billy Housego in Liverpool.
  • Football – The 1928 Welsh Cup Final is contested by Bangor and Cardiff City at Farrar Road Stadium, Bangor, and ends in a 2–0 victory for Cardiff.
  • Yachting – The North Wales Cruising Club is formed.

    • Births

  • January–March – Dai Royston Bevan, rugby player (d. 2002)
  • 1 February – Sam Edwards, physicist (d. 2015)
  • 8 February – Osian Ellis, harpist
  • 9 February – Gruffydd Evans, Baron Evans of Claughton, solicitor and politician (d. 1992)
  • 6 March – Glyn Owen, actor (d. 2004)
  • 9 April – Albert Gubay, businessman (d. 2016)
  • 27 April
  • Selwyn Hughes, clergyman and writer (d. 2006)
  • Hubert Rees, television character actor (d. 2009)
  • 7 June – Dave Bowen, football player and manager (d. 1995)
  • 9 June – R. Geraint Gruffydd, academic and theologian (d. 2015)
  • 19 June – Ray Powell, politician (d. 2002)
  • 26 July – Bernice Rubens, novelist (d. 2004)
  • 12 August – Roy Davies, cricketer (d. 2013)
  • 14 August – Sid Judd, Wales international rugby union player (d. 1959)
  • 1 September – Emrys James, actor (d. 1989)
  • 17 September – Dafydd Orwig, educationist (d. 1996)
  • 23 October – Keith Jones, footballer (d. 2007)
  • 20 November – John Disley, distance runner (d. 2016)
  • 19 December – Gwyn Rowlands, rugby union international (d. 2010)

    • Deaths

  • 11 January – Joseph Russell Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk, 63
  • 14 April – Lewis Cobden Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 62
  • 13 May – David John Thomas (Afan), composer and conductor, 47
  • 19 May – Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, heraldry expert (of Welsh descent), 57
  • 23 May – Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist, 50
  • 2 June – Tosh Powell, Welsh champion boxer, 20
  • 21 June – Marie Novello, pianist, c. 30
  • 23 July – John Hinds, businessman and politician, 65
  • 30 August – Hugh Evan-Thomas, admiral, 65
  • 3 December – Isaac Hughes (Craigfryn), poet and novelist, 76
  • 13 December – Harry Jarman, Wales and British Lions international rugby union player, 34–35
  • 29 December – George Boots, rugby player, 54

    • References

    1928 in Wales Wikipedia
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