1922 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1922 to Wales and its people.

[edit] Incumbents

October
- David Lloyd George is replaced by Andrew Bonar Law as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, after the Conservatives leave the Coalition Government.
- In a by-election at Newport, caused by the death of Liberal MP Lewis Haslam, Reginald Clarry wins the seat for the Conservatives.
October 11 - Leila Megane makes the first complete recording of Sir Edward Elgar's Sea Pictures, with Elgar himself conducting.
The Welsh youth organisation Urdd Gobaith Cymru is founded by Ifan ab Owen Edwards.
Wilfred Mitford Davies sets up the first Welsh children's book publisher, Cymru'r Plant.
The Gregynog Press is established.
Alfred Mond becomes Minister of Health.
Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway is incorporated into the Great Western Railway.

D. Ambrose Jones - Llenyddiaeth a Llenorion Cymreig y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg
Henry Jones - A Faith that Enquires
Arthur Machen - The Secret Glory

Lyn Harding makes an early screen appearance in When Knighthood Was in Flower.
Ivor Novello stars in The Bohemian Girl

4 February - Sir Henry Jones, philosopher
22 April - W. Llewelyn Williams, lawyer and historian
14 May - William Abraham ("Mabon"), politician
20 June - John Williams, politician
12 August - Arthur Griffith, Irish-born nationalist politician of Welsh descent
25 December - Percy Jones, former world boxing champion
date unknown
- Thomas John Price Jenkins, rugby player
- John Ward, archaeologist