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1930 in Wales

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Centuries:
  
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Decades:
  
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1930 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

  • 17 March - The South Wales Daily Post and Cambria Daily Leader merge in Swansea.
  • 9 May - An elephant from the Monmouth mop fair escapes.
  • 24 December - In London, Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his device to project pictures to the clouds.
  • First coal raised from Cefn Coed Colliery, the world's deepest anthracite mine.
  • The Crumlin branch of the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal is closed.
  • The Three Valleys Festival is launched.
  • The first youth hostel of the Youth Hostels Association, the first in the UK, is opened at Pennant Hall in the Conwy valley near Llanrwst.
  • A. H. Dodd succeeds Sir John Edward Lloyd as Professor of History at University of Wales, Bangor.
  • Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones becomes Foreign Affairs Secretary to David Lloyd George.
  • John Edward Jones becomes Secretary of Plaid Cymru.
  • Thomas Lewis becomes first chairman of the Medical Research Society.

    • Arts and literature

  • The first Welsh Books Festival is held in Cardiff.
  • John Ballinger, first Librarian of the National Library of Wales, is knighted for his services to librarianship.

    • Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Llanelli)
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - David Emrys James
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - William Jones

    • New books

  • David Davies (Llandinam) - The Problem of the Twentieth Century
  • Saunders Lewis - Monica
  • Kenneth Morris - Book of the Three Dragons
  • Bertrand Russell - The Conquest of Happiness
  • Hilda Vaughan - Her Father's House
  • Edward Williamson - The Story of Llandaff Cathedral

    • Music

  • Caniedydd Newydd yr Ysgol Sul (collection of hymns)
  • Grace Williams - Hen Walia

    • Sport

  • Cricket - Maurice Turnbull is the first Welsh player to be capped for England.

    • Births

  • 28 January - David Morris, politician (died 2007)
  • 7 February - Peter Jones, sports broadcaster (died 1990)
  • 7 March - Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, photographer
  • 7 April - Cliff Morgan, rugby player and television presenter (died 2013)
  • June - Edward Millward, politician
  • 1 July - Ron Hughes, footballer
  • 9 July - Stuart Williams, footballer
  • 10 July - Wyn Roberts, Baron Roberts of Conwy, politician
  • 14 July - R. H. Williams, rugby player
  • 8 August - Terry Nation, screenwriter (died 1997)
  • 28 August - Windsor Davies, actor
  • 1 September - Emrys James, actor (died 1989)
  • 21 September - John Morgan, comedian (died 2004)
  • 23 September - Ellis Evans, academic
  • 14 October - Alan Williams, politician
  • 11 November - Vernon Handley, conductor (died 2008)
  • 12 December - Gwyneth Dunwoody, politician (died 2008)
  • date unknown
  • Aneurin Jones, painter
  • Brian Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris, poet and critic (died 2001)

    • Deaths

  • 18 January - Bobby Lloyd, rugby player, 41
  • 26 January - Harry Jones, rugby player, 51
  • 25 March - John Gwenogvryn Evans, palaeographer, 78
  • 1 May - Richard Bell, politician, 70
  • 28 May - Cliff Williams, Wales international rugby union player, 32
  • 15 June - John Cynddylan Jones, theologian, 90
  • 17 June - Hugh Robert Jones, Nationalist leader, 36
  • 22 June - Mary Davies, singer, 75
  • 23 June - Ben Davies, Wales international rugby player, 57
  • 15 August - Silyn Roberts, author, 59
  • 13 September - Jehoida Hodges, rugby player, 53
  • 7 October - Margaret Verney, educationist, 85
  • November - John Hagan Jenkins, politician

    • References

    1930 in Wales Wikipedia
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