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.

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[edit] Incumbents

[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.
  • December - Leslie Morris becomes a founder member of the Communist Party of Canada.
  • 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: Chair - Robert John Rowlands
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Albert Evans-Jones

[edit] New books

[edit] New drama

[edit] Music

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

[edit] Film

[edit] Broadcasting

[edit] Sport

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

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths