1921 in Wales

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1921 in the United Kingdom

1921 in Ireland

Other events of 1921

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1921 to Wales and its people.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Arts and literature 3.1 Awards 3.2 New books 3.3 New drama 3.4 Music 4 Film 5 Broadcasting 6 Sport 7 Births 8 Deaths

[edit] Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Edward, Prince of Wales, son of King George V of the United Kingdom
• Princess of Wales - vacant
• Archbishop of Wales - Alfred George Edwards
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Dyfed

[edit] Events

• February - Ernest Evans becomes Liberal MP for Cardiganshire, winning the seat vacated by Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, on the latter's elevation to the peerage.
• 23 December - The Maid of Delos sinks off the coast of Dyfed, with 26 deaths.
• The Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited begins work on the UK's first oil refinery at Llandarcy.
• Hugh Robert Jones founds the Byddin Ymreolaeth Cymru (“Home Rule Army”), which forms the basis for the development of Plaid Cymru.
• Cardiologist Thomas Lewis is knighted.
• John Bodvan Anwyl is appointed secretary of the Welsh dictionary project sponsored by the Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales.
• A. J. Cook is sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for "inciting to unlawful assembly".
• Francis Edward Mostyn becomes Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Caernarfon)

• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Robert John Rowlands
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Albert Evans-Jones

[edit] New books

• Edward Tegla Davies - Tir Y Dyneddon
• John Evan Davies - Blodau'r Grug
• Edwin Sidney Hartland - Primitive Society
• Moelona - Y Wers Olaf
• Evan Frederic Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar - Trial by Ordeal
• Margaret Haig Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda - D. A. Thomas, Viscount Rhondda, by his Daughter and Others

[edit] New drama

• Saunders Lewis - The Eve of St John

[edit] Music

• Ivor Novello & Peter Dion Titheradge -"And Her Mother Came Too"

[edit] Film

• Edmund Gwenn stars in a silent version of The Skin Game.
• Roger Livesey makes his screen debut in The Four Feathers.

[edit] Broadcasting

[edit] Sport

• Cricket - Glamorgan was admitted to the County Championship competition for the first time.

[edit] Births

• 5 February (in Birkenhead) - Marion Eames, novelist
• 19 March - Tommy Cooper, comedian (d. 1984)
• 21 May - Leslie Norris, poet (d. 2006)
• 28 June - R. Tudur Jones, theologian (d. 1998)
• 31 August - Raymond Williams, academic and writer (d. 1988)
• 8 September - Sir Harry Secombe, entertainer (d. 2001)
• 12 October - Kenneth Griffith, actor and director (d. 2006)

[edit] Deaths

• 11 February - William Evans (Tonyrefail), minister and author, 82
• 25 February - John Thomas of Llanwrtyd, composer, 81
• 6 July - Alfred Onions, politician
• 5 August - Sir David Brynmor Jones, QC, politician, 70?
• 27 July
  • John Jones (Myrddin Fardd), author, 85
  • James Winstone, politician, 58?
• 23 August - Francis Jayne, bishop and academic, 76
• 16 December - Owen Morgan, journalist, 85?