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1931 in Wales

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Centuries:
  
18th 19th 20th 21st

Decades:
  
1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1931 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

  • 3 March - Bertrand Russell succeeds to his father's earldom.
  • 14 April - A meteorite falls in Pontllynfi, near Caernarfon.
  • The Welsh School of Medicine is founded at Cardiff, later becoming the University of Wales College of Medicine.
  • Nancy Astor addresses a meeting in Cardiff on the subject of recruiting women into the police.
  • Felinfoel Brewery becomes the first brewery outside the United States to produce commercially sold beer in cans.

    • Arts and literature

  • Edward Tegla Davies becomes editor of Yr Efrydydd.

    • Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Bangor)
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - David James Jones
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Albert Evans Jones

    • New books

  • Eliot Crawshay-Williams - Night in the Hotel
  • John Jenkins (Gwili) - Hanfod Duw a Pherson Crist
  • Moelona - Beryl
  • Bertrand Russell - The Scientific Outlook
  • Jennie Thomas – Llyfr Mawr y Plant (first appearance of Wil Cwac Cwac)
  • Lily Tobias – My Mother's House

    • Film

  • Ray Milland appears in The Bachelor Father, Strangers May Kiss, Just a Gigolo, Son of India, Bought, Ambassador Bill, and Blonde Crazy.

    • Broadcasting

  • The BBC's Daventry radio transmitter increases its Welsh language output from a monthly to a fortnightly "Welsh interest" programme and includes a regular religious service broadcast entirely in Welsh.

    • Sport

  • Rugby union
  • Wales, under the captaincy of Jack Bassett, win the Five Nations Championship.
  • 7 February Wales beat Scotland 13–8 at the Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff.

    • Births

  • 10 January - Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids, politician
  • 2 February - Glynn Edwards, actor
  • 4 March - Gwilym Prichard, landscape painter (d. 2015)
  • 20 March - Orig Williams, wrestler and TV presenter
  • 22 March - Leslie Thomas, novelist (d. 2014)
  • 11 April - Lewis Jones, rugby player
  • 29 May – Christopher Evans, computer scientist (d. 1979)
  • 23 June - Brian Sparks, Wales international rugby union player
  • 2 July - Frank Williams, actor
  • 13 July - Philip Jones, businessman and civil servant (d. 2000)
  • 1 September - Mair Wynn Hughes, children's author
  • 25 September - Dafydd Rowlands, Eisteddfod-winning author (d. 2001)
  • 5 November - John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon, politician
  • 27 November - Gareth Griffiths, Wales and British Lions rugby union player
  • 27 December - John Charles, footballer (d. 2004)

    • Deaths

  • 22 February - Sir Hugh Vincent, solicitor and Wales international rugby player, 68
  • 3 March - Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell, 65
  • 13 March - Vernon Hartshorn MP, miners' leader and politician
  • 13 March - Edward Thomas John, politician
  • 14 April - John Bryn Roberts, lawyer and politician, 88
  • 19 April - Evan Richards, Wales international rugby player, 69
  • 12 May - Beddoe Rees, industrialist and politician
  • 22 June - Sir Henry Reichel, academic
  • 28 July - John Neale Dalton, chaplain and tutor to the British royal family, settled in South Wales, 91
  • 7 October - William John Griffith, author
  • 26 October - Edward Perkins Alexander, Wales rugby international, 68
  • 2 November - Arthur Cook, miners' leader, 47
  • 27 December - Alfred Perceval Graves, Irish author settled in Wales, 85

    • References

    1931 in Wales Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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