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1929 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1929 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 – Pedrog

    • Events

  • February - 700 people are involved in a riot at Cwmfelinfach, when strikebreakers are used during an industrial dispute at the Nine Mile Point Colliery.
  • 13 March - Former ironclad warship HMS Warrior (1860) is towed to Pembroke Dock to finish her service with the Royal Navy as an oil fuelling hulk.
  • 24–26 April - The Royal Air Force's Squadron Leader A. G. Jones-Williams and Flight-Lt N. H. Jenkins make the first non-stop flight from Britain to India.
  • 30 May - In the United Kingdom general election:
  • Megan Lloyd George becomes Liberal MP for Anglesey – the first female MP in Wales.
  • Aneurin Bevan becomes MP for Ebbw Vale.
  • Other newly elected MPs include John Jestyn Llewellin at Uxbridge and Robert Richards at Wrexham.
  • Lewis Valentine is Plaid Cymru’s first parliamentary candidate. Plaid Cymru obtain a total of 609 votes in Wales.
  • Jimmy Thomas becomes Lord Privy Seal in the new government.
  • 9 July - The Royal Navy submarine H47 sinks off the Pembrokeshire coast, killing 21 crewmen.
  • 10 July - Nine miners are killed in a mining accident at Milfraen, Blaenavon.
  • 25 November - Cargo steamer Molesey is wrecked on Skomer Island with the loss of 7 lives; British Movietone News shoots the first-ever sound footage of such an event.
  • 28 November - Seven miners are killed in an accident at Wernbwll Colliery, Penclawdd.
  • November - In the Rhondda, 400 people are made homeless by flooding.
  • The abbey on Caldey Island is acquired by Belgian Cistercians.
  • The University of Wales begins awarding teacher training certificates at colleges of education in Wales.
  • The number of motor vehicles in Wales exceeds 100,000 for the first time.

    • Arts and literature

  • The first Urdd eisteddfod is held, at Corwen.

    • Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Liverpool)
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - David Emrys Jones
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Caradog Prichard

    • New books

  • Ambrose Bebb - Llydaw
  • John Hugh Edwards - David Lloyd George, the Man and the Statesman
  • Richard Hughes - A High Wind in Jamaica
  • Elisabeth Inglis-Jones - Starved Fields
  • Huw Menai - The Passing of Guto
  • Bertrand Russell - Marriage and Morals

    • Music

  • W. Bradwen - Paradwys y Bardd
  • David John de Lloyd - Forty Welsh Traditional Tunes (arrangements)

    • Film

  • Ray Milland appears in his first Hollywood films.

    • Sport

  • Football - The Football Association of Wales makes its first overseas tour, to Canada.
  • Rugby Union
  • 23 February - 1929 Wales beat France 8–3 at the National Stadium in Cardiff

    • Births

  • 2 January - John Lansdown, computer graphics pioneer (d. 1999)
  • 28 January - Clem Thomas, Wales and British Lions international rugby player (d. 1996)
  • 14 February - Wyn Morris, conductor
  • 25 April - Malcolm Thomas, Wales international rugby union captain
  • 11 August - Alun Hoddinott, composer (d. 2008)
  • 2 September - Victor Spinetti, actor (d. 2012)
  • 20 October - Colin Jeavons, actor
  • 27 October - Alun Richards, novelist (d. 2003)
  • 2 November - Carwyn James, rugby coach (d. 1984)
  • 7 November - Urien Wiliam, dramatist (d. 2006)
  • 4 December - Ednyfed Hudson Davies, politician
  • 30 December - Charles Lynn Davies, Wales international rugby player
  • date unknown
  • Paul Ferris, author
  • Bobi Jones, author
  • John Morgan, journalist and broadcaster (d. 1988)

    • Deaths

  • 2 January - David James, Wales international rugby player
  • 15 January - William Boyd Dawkins, geologist and historian, 91
  • 20 February - Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare, 77
  • 16 April - Sir John Morris-Jones, poet and grammarian, 64
  • 29 April - Violet Herbert, Countess of Powis, 63
  • 30 April - Cliff Bowen, Wales international rugby player and county cricketer, 54
  • 15 May - Grace Rhys, writer, wife of Ernest Rhys
  • 2 June - Fred Andrews, Wales international rugby player, 64
  • 15 June - Llewellyn Atherley-Jones, politician
  • 29 August - Viv Huzzey, Wales international rugby union player, 53
  • 21 December - James Williams, hockey player, 51

    • References

    1929 in Wales Wikipedia
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