1914 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1914 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

For United Kingdom incumbents, see 1914 in the United Kingdom § Incumbents.

• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dyfed[1]

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves[3]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans[4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John William Gwynne Hughes
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – William Glynne Charles Gladstone[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Osmond Williams, 1st Baronet[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank[9]

• Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams[10]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Joshua Pritchard Hughes[11]
• Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)[12]
• Bishop of St Davids – John Owen[13]

Events

• 14 January - The first trolleybuses in Wales come into operation, in Aberdare.
• 23 February - Light cruiser HMS Cordelia is launched at Pembroke Dock.
• 11 March - A Welsh Home Rule Bill is introduced by Edward T. John, MP for East Denbighshire; it fails.[14]
• 4 April - Ystradfellte Reservoir inaugurated.
• 2 May - South Wales Transport begins operating motorbuses in the Swansea area.
• 4 August - World War I: Declaration of war by the United Kingdom on the German Empire.[15]
• 6 August - Pembroke Dock-built HMS Amphion (1911) becomes the first British naval casualty of the war when she strikes mines off the east coast.
• 18 September - Welsh Church Act, disestablishing the Church in Wales, receives Royal Assent, but simultaneously with the Suspensory Act which delays its coming into effect.
• 21 September - William Charles Fuller wins the Victoria Cross for carrying a wounded officer to safety under fire.[16]
• 14 November - Light cruiser HMS Carysfort is launched at Pembroke Dock.[17]
• unknown dates
  • A women's teacher training college opens at Barry; a men's equivalent opens at Caerleon.[18]
  • The hundredth intermediate school in Wales is established under the Welsh Intermediate and Technical Education Act, 1889.
  • William James Thomas, industrialist and philanthropist, is knighted.[19]
  • Pen-coed Castle is restored by D. A. Thomas, Viscount Rhondda.[20]

Arts and literature

• January - The monthly periodical Welsh Outlook is founded by Thomas Jones (T. J.).[21]

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales - not held[22]

New books

• Rhoda Broughton - Concerning a Vow[23]
• Moelwyn - Caniadau Moelwyn, vol. 4[24]
• Bertrand Russell - Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy[25]
• T. E. Ellis - Pont Orewyn[26]

Drama

• T. Gwynn Jones - Caradog yn Rhufain[27]

Music

• David John de Lloyd - Gwlad fy Nhadau (cantata)
• Ivor Novello - "Keep the Home Fires Burning"[28]
• William Rhys-Herbert - The Bo'sn's Bride (operetta based on a play by Maude Elizabeth Inch)[29]

Film

• Welsh-descended Harold Lloyd begins his film career.
• Wild Wales [30]

Sport

• Boxing
  • 26 January: Percy Jones wins the British, European and World (disputed) featherweight titles.
  • 30 March: Jimmy Wilde wins the European flyweight title.
  • 7 July: Freddie Welsh wins the World lightweight title
  • 14 December: Johnny Basham wins the British welterweight title.
• Rugby union
  • 14 March: After Percy Jones is targeted by Irish players during the 1914 Five Nations Championship, Harry Uzzell leads his men in retaliation in a game notorious for its on the field violence. Wales win the match, and the Welsh pack are dubbed the 'Terrible Eight' by the press.

Births

• 28 January - Trefor Morgan, financier (d. 1970)
• 11 February - Mervyn Levy, art critic (d. 1996)
• 12 March - Tommy Farr, boxer (d. 1986)[31]
• 12 March - Cliff Jones, Wales international rugby captain (d. 1990)
• 21 March - Sir Goronwy Daniel, academic and civil servant (d. 2003)[32]
• 23 April - Glyn Daniel, archaeologist and television presenter (d. 1986)[33]
• 18 May - Louis Ford, footballer
• 24 May
  • Sir Granville Beynon, physicist, (d. 1996)
  • Harry Parr Davies, composer and songwriter (d. 1955)
• 9 September - Alexander Cordell, novelist (d. 1997)[34]
• 12 September - Desmond Llewelyn, actor (d. 1999)[35]
• 22 October - David Tecwyn Lloyd, author (d. 1992)[36]
• 27 October - Dylan Thomas, poet (d. 1953)[37]
• 21 November - Charles Fisher, poet (d. 2006)[38]
• 2 December - Russell Taylor, Wales international rugby player
• 7 December - Bryan Hopkin, economist (d. 2009)[39]
• date unknown - Norah Isaac, educationalist (died 2003)

Deaths

• 22 February - Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne, 78[40]
• 4 May - Rowland Griffiths, rugby player, 28 (typhoid)
• 17 May - John L. Griffiths, US lawyer and diplomat of Welsh parentage, 58[41]
• 16 June - John Hughes (Landore), composer, 42 (cerebral haemorrhage)[42][43]
• 18 June - Abel Davies, rugby union player, 53?
• 21 June - Morgan Bransby Williams, engineer, 89[44]
• 23 July - Harry Evans, conductor and composer, 41[45]
• 8 August - Sir Edward Anwyl, academic, 48[46]
• 22 August (in Swanley) - James Dickson Innes, artist, 27 (tuberculosis)[47]
• 27 August - William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, 77[48]
• 17 September - Shadrach Pryce, clergyman and educationalist, 81[49]
• 2 October - Jack Hughes, footballer, 59[50]
• 22 October - William Morgan, cricketer, 51/2
• 27 October - Sir T. Marchant Williams, lawyer and author, 68/9[51]

See also

• 1914 in Ireland

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