1929 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1929 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

For United Kingdom incumbents, see 1929 in the United Kingdom § Incumbents.

• Archbishop of Wales – Alfred George Edwards, Bishop of St Asaph[1]
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Pedrog[2]

Events

• 6 January - The abbey on Caldey Island is handed over by the Benedictine order to its new owners, Belgian Cistercians.[3]
• February - 700 people are involved in a riot at Cwmfelinfach, when strikebreakers are used during an industrial dispute at the Nine Mile Point Colliery.[4]
• 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.[5]
• 24–26 April - The Royal Air Force's Squadron Leader Arthur G. Jones-Williams and Flight Lieutenant Norman H. Jenkins make the first non-stop flight from Britain to India.[6]
• 30 May - In the United Kingdom general election:
  • Megan Lloyd George becomes Liberal MP for Anglesey – the first female MP in Wales.[7]
  • 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.
  • J. H. Thomas becomes Lord Privy Seal in the new government.
• 9 July - After a collision with another vessel, HMS L12, the Royal Navy submarine H47 sinks off the Pembrokeshire coast, killing 21 crewmen.[8]
• 10 July - Nine miners are killed in a mining accident at Milfraen, Blaenavon.
• 11 November - 8.3 inches (210 mm) of rain falls within a single day at Lluest-wen Reservoir, a record for a place in Wales.[9] Below in the Rhondda this month, 400 people are made homeless by flooding.
• 25 November - Cargo steamer Molesey is wrecked on Skomer Island with the loss of 7 lives;[10] 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.[11]
• date unknown
  • The University of Wales begins awarding teacher training certificates at colleges of education in Wales.[12]
  • The number of motor vehicles in Wales exceeds 100,000 for the first time.

Arts and literature

• The first Urdd National Eisteddfod is held, at Corwen Pavilion.[13]

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Liverpool)
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - David Emrys Jones, "Dafydd ap Gwilym"[14]
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Caradog Prichard, "Y Gân Ni Chanwyd"[15]

New books

English language

• John Hugh Edwards - David Lloyd George, the Man and the Statesman
• Richard Hughes - A High Wind in Jamaica[16]
• Elisabeth Inglis-Jones - Starved Fields
• Huw Menai - The Passing of Guto[17]
• Bertrand Russell - Marriage and Morals

Welsh language

• Ambrose Bebb - Llydaw
• Kate Roberts - Rhigolau Bywyd[18]

Music

• W. Bradwen - Paradwys y Bardd[19]
• David John de Lloyd - Forty Welsh Traditional Tunes (arrangements)

Film

• Ray Milland appears in his first Hollywood films.

Broadcasting

• Welsh-language radio begins to be broadcast from the BBC's Daventry transmitter.[20]

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 (died 1999)[21]
• 28 January - Clem Thomas, Wales and British Lions international rugby player (died 1996)[22]
• 14 February - Wyn Morris, conductor (died 2010)[23]
• 20 March - Herbert Wilson, physicist and biophysicist (died 2008)
• 25 April - Malcolm Thomas, Wales international rugby union captain (died 2012)
• 20 May - Bobi Jones, author (died 2017)
• 11 August - Alun Hoddinott, composer (died 2008)[24]
• 2 September - Victor Spinetti, actor (died 2012)[25]
• October - Robyn Léwis, politician and archdruid (died 2019)
• 16 October - Ivor Allchurch, Wales international footballer (died 1997)[26]
• 20 October - Colin Jeavons, actor[27]
• 27 October - Alun Richards, novelist (died 2003)[28]
• 2 November - Carwyn James, rugby coach (died 1983)[29]
• 7 November - Urien Wiliam, dramatist (died 2006)[30]
• 4 December - Ednyfed Hudson Davies, politician (died 2018)[31]
• 30 December - Charles Lynn Davies, Wales international rugby player
• date unknown
  • Paul Ferris, author
  • John Morgan, journalist and broadcaster (died 1988)

Deaths

• 2 January - David James, Wales international rugby player, 62
• 15 January - William Boyd Dawkins, geologist and historian, 91[32]
• 20 February - Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare, 77[33]
• 16 April - Sir John Morris-Jones, poet and grammarian, 64[34]
• 29 April - Violet Herbert, Countess of Powis, 63[35]
• 30 April - Cliff Bowen, Wales international rugby player and county cricketer, 54[36]
• 13 May - David Thomas (Afan), composer, 47[37]
• 15 May - Grace Rhys, writer, wife of Ernest Rhys, 64[38]
• 30 May - Owen Davies, Baptist minister and writer, 68/9[39]
• 2 June - Fred Andrews, Wales international rugby player, 64
• 15 June - Llewellyn Atherley-Jones, politician, 78/79[40]
• 23 July - John Hinds, businessman and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire, 65[41]
• 29 August - Viv Huzzey, Wales international rugby union player, 53
• 6 September - Richard Ellis, bibliographer and librarian, 62[42]
• 19 October - John Evan Davies, Calvinistic Methodist minister and writer, 79[43]
• 20 November - David Williams, archdeacon of Cardigan, 88[44]
• 7 December - Jenkin Jones, trade union leader, 70[45]
• 17 December - Arthur G. Jones-Williams, aviation pioneer, 31 (air crash)[46]
• 21 December - James Williams, hockey player, 51
• date unknown - John Evan Davies, minister and writer, 78/9

See also

• 1929 in Northern Ireland

References

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4. The Illustrated London News. Illustrated London News & Sketch Limited. 1929. p. 270.
5. Andrew D. Lambert (May 1987). Warrior: the world's first ironclad, then and now. Naval Institute Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-87021-986-3.
6. O'Connor, Derek, "Going Long," Aviation History, March 2016, p. 53.
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