1932 in Wales

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Centuries: 18th19th20th21st
Decades: 1910s1920s1930s1940s1950s

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1932 to Wales and its people.

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 (outgoing)

Gwili (incoming)

Events

25 January - Leif Jones is created Baron Rhayader.

1 March (Saint David's Day) - Members of Plaid Cymru on two occasions replace the Union Jack flying over Caernarfon Castle with a flag displaying the red Welsh Dragon.

Plaid Cymru adopts self-government as its official policy.

The Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl, is built.

Hilary Marquand’s economic surveys of South Wales highlight the depressed conditions in the area during the Great Depression in the United Kingdom.

Arts and literature

Frank Brangwyn completes the Empire Panels.

Welsh-language newspaper Y Cymro is launched.

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Port Talbot)

National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - D. J. Davies

National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Thomas Eurig Davies

New books

Richard Ithamar Aaron - Hanes Athroniaeth

Margiad Evans - Country Dance

Elisabeth Inglis-Jones - Crumbling Pageant

T. H. Parry-Williams - Canu Rhydd Cynnar

Howard Spring - Darkie and Co.

Hilda Vaughan - The Soldier and the Gentlewoman

David Walters (Eurof) - Pwerau'r Deufyd

Francis Brett Young - The House Under the Water

Music

W. Bradwen - Mab yr ystorm

Grace Williams

Suite for orchestra

Two Psalms for contralto, harp and strings

Film

13 June - Port Talbot-born English actress Peg Entwistle signs a contract with RKO in the United States.

16 September - Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" of the giant Hollywoodland sign.

Edmund Gwenn appears in Tell Me Tonight, Money for Nothing, Condemned to Death, Love on Wheels, Lord Babs and Frail Women.

Sport

Boxing

3 February - Jack Petersen beats Dick Power to take the Welsh heavyweight title.

23 May - Jack Petersen wins the British light-heavyweight title.

12 July - Jack Petersen wins the British heavyweight title.

Births

20 March - Garfield Owen, Wales dual-code rugby international

6 April - Leon Eagles, actor

28 May - John Savage, future prime minister of Nova Scotia

30 May - Ivor Richard, Baron Richard, politician

30 June - Derek Tapscott, footballer (d. 2008)

12 August – Gwilym Jenkins, statistician and systems engineer (d. 1982)

31 August - Colin Gale, footballer (d. 2008)

9 September - Alice Thomas Ellis, novelist

8 October - Ray Reardon, snooker player

18 October - Don Devereux, dual-code rugby player (died 1995)

24 October - Allan Rogers, politician

16 November - Onllwyn Brace, Wales rugby union captain

21 November - Alvan Williams, footballer (d.2003)

7 December - Elystan Morgan, politician

15 December - John Meurig Thomas, chemist

date unknown

Richard Cyril Hughes, historian

Deaths

27 February - Dicky Owen, Wales rugby union international (born 1876)

3 March - Ernest Howard Griffiths, physicist, 80

10 April - Gwyn Thomas, cricketer, 41

14 May - John Hughes, composer of Cwm Rhondda

27 May - M. C. Jones, racing driver, 37 (killed during qualification for Indianapolis 500)

20 July - Bill Beynon, British bantamweight boxing champion, 41

10 July - Martha Hughes Cannon, Welsh-born US physician, politician and campaigner, 75

23 July - Tenby Davies, half-mile world champion runner, 48

30 August - Conway Rees, Wales rugby union international, 62

11 September - Aneurin Rees Wales rugby union international, 74

16 September - Peg Entwistle, actress

26 October - William Howell Davies, merchant and politician, 80

25 November - John Williams, recipient of the Victoria Cross

References

1932 in Wales Wikipedia

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