1914 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1914 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents[]
- Monarch: George V
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Dyfed
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 , MP for East Denbighshire; it fails.[1]
- 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.[2]
- 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.[3]
- 14 November - Light cruiser HMS Carysfort is launched at Pembroke Dock.[4]
- unknown dates
- A women's teacher training college opens at Barry; a men's equivalent opens at Caerleon.[5]
- The hundredth intermediate school in Wales is established under the .
- William James Thomas, industrialist and philanthropist, is knighted.[6]
- Pen-coed Castle is restored by D. A. Thomas, Viscount Rhondda.[7]
Arts and literature[]
- January - The monthly periodical Welsh Outlook is founded by Thomas Jones (T. J.).[8]
Awards[]
- National Eisteddfod of Wales - not held[9]
New books[]
- Rhoda Broughton - Concerning a Vow[10]
- Moelwyn - Caniadau Moelwyn, vol. 4[11]
- Bertrand Russell - Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy[12]
- T. E. Ellis - Pont Orewyn[13]
Drama[]
- T. Gwynn Jones - Caradog yn Rhufain[14]
Music[]
- David John de Lloyd - Gwlad fy Nhadau (cantata)
- Ivor Novello - "Keep the Home Fires Burning"[15]
- William Rhys-Herbert - The Bo'sn's Bride (operetta based on a play by Maude Elizabeth Inch)[16]
Film[]
- Welsh-descended Harold Lloyd begins his film career.
- Wild Wales [17]
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)[18]
- 12 March - Cliff Jones, Wales international rugby captain (d. 1990)
- 21 March - Sir Goronwy Daniel, academic and civil servant (d. 2003)[19]
- 23 April - Glyn Daniel, archaeologist and television presenter (d. 1986)[20]
- 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)[21]
- 12 September - Desmond Llewelyn, actor (d. 1999)[22]
- 22 October - , author (d. 1992)[23]
- 27 October - Dylan Thomas, poet (d. 1953)[24]
- 21 November - Charles Fisher, poet (d. 2006)
- 2 December - Russell Taylor, Wales international rugby player
- 7 December - Bryan Hopkin, economist (d. 2009)[25]
- date unknown - Norah Isaac, educationalist (died 2003)
Deaths[]
- 22 February - Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne, 78[26]
- 4 May - Rowland Griffiths, rugby player, 28 (typhoid)
- 16 June - John Hughes (Landore), composer, 42 (cerebral haemorrhage)[27][28]
- 18 June - Abel Davies, rugby union player, 53?
- 21 June - , engineer, 89[29]
- 23 July - Harry Evans, conductor and composer, 41[30]
- 8 August - Sir Edward Anwyl, academic, 48[31]
- 22 August (in Swanley) - James Dickson Innes, artist, 27 (tuberculosis)[32]
- 27 August - William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, 77[33]
- 17 September - Shadrach Pryce, clergyman and educationalist, 81[34]
- 2 October - Jack Hughes, footballer, 59
- 22 October - William Morgan, cricketer, 51/2
- 27 October - Sir T. Marchant Williams, lawyer and author, 68/9[35]
References[]
- ^ John Kendle (1 January 1989). Ireland and the Federal Solution: The Debate over the United Kingdom Constitution, 1870-1920. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. p. 273. ISBN 978-0-7735-6186-1.
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ "No. 28983". The London Gazette (Supplement). 20 November 1914. p. 9663.
- ^ L. Phillips (3 February 2014). Pembroke Dockyard and the Old Navy: A Bicentennial History. History Press. p. 394. ISBN 978-0-7509-5520-1.
- ^ Great Britain. Department of Education and Science (1958). Education: Being the Report of the Department of Education and Science. H.M. Stationery Office. p. 125.
- ^ Owen Picton Davies. "Thomas, Sir William James (1867-1945), Baronet, coalowner, philanthropist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
- ^ Academi Gymreig (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 512. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
- ^ "Welsh outlook a monthly journal". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
- ^ "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 October 2019.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Rhoda Broughton (1914). Concerning a Vow. Tauchnitz.
- ^ Meic Stephens (1986). The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 269. ISBN 978-0-19-211586-7.
- ^ A Bibliography of Philosophy: A Partial List of Holdings in the USMA Library. U. S. Military Academy. 1972. p. 40.
- ^ "Scott-Ellis, Thomas Evelyn (1880 - 1946)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
- ^ Y Gymraes: cyhoeddiad misol darluniadol i ferched Cymru. E.W. Evans. 1913.
- ^ home fire burning Fuld, James J. (2000). The book of world-famous music: classical, popular and folk. Courier Dover Publications. p. 316. ISBN 978-0-486-41475-1. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
- ^ Frances Diodato Bzowski (1992). American women playwrights, 1900-1930: a checklist. Greenwood Press. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-313-24238-0.
- ^ "Welsh people and culture in film". BBC Wales Arts. 27 October 2008. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
- ^ Patricia Burgess; Roland Turner (1989). The Annual Obituary. St James Press. p. 164.
- ^ Meic Stephens (20 September 2012). Welsh Lives - Gone but Not Forgotten. Y Lolfa. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-84771-605-7.
- ^ Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer. 25 December 2015. p. 427. ISBN 978-1-349-81366-7.
- ^ R. Reginald (1 September 2010). Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Vol 2. Wildside Press LLC. p. 864. ISBN 978-0-941028-77-6.
- ^ Ann Palmer (20 June 2014). Letters to the Dead: Things I Wish I'd Said. CCB Publishing. p. 169. ISBN 978-1-77143-126-2.
- ^ Ieuan Parri. "Lloyd, David Tecwyn (1914-1992), literary critic, author, educationalist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
- ^ James A. Davies (15 February 2014). Dylan Thomas’s Swansea, Gower and Laugharne. University of Wales Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-78316-133-1.
- ^ The International Who's Who 1992-93. Taylor & Francis. 1 August 1992. p. 737. ISBN 978-0-946653-84-3.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). . Encyclopædia Britannica. 32 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 1021.
- ^ "John Hughes". The Calon Lan Society. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
- ^ Meic Stephens (23 September 1998). The new companion to the literature of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-7083-1383-1.
- ^ "Morgan Bransby Williams - 1914 Obituary". Grace's Guide to British Industrial History. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
- ^ Robert David Griffith. "Evans, Harry (1873-1914), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
- ^ Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams. "Anwyl, Sir Edward (1866-1914), Celtic scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
- ^ Art and Artists. Hansom Books. 1977. p. 34.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Lewis, Sir William Thomas (1837-1914), first Baron Merthyr of Senghenydd, coal magnate". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
- ^ "Pryce, John (1828-1903), dean of Bangor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
- ^ Edward Morgan Humphreys. "Williams, Sir Thomas Marchant (1845-1914), barrister and writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
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