1928 in Wales

1928 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1928 to Wales and its people.

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

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 - Pedrog

Events

• 12 June - The Welsh National War Memorial is unveiled by the Prince of Wales.
• 18 June - Amelia Earhart lands near Burry Port, becoming the first woman passenger to fly the Atlantic.
• December - Rapallo House, Llandudno, is handed over to the local council to be used as a museum, as a bequest from Francis Edouard Chardon.
• Dr John Williams establishes a hospital at Durtlang in the Lushai Hills (Mizoram) of India.
• The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales is founded by Clough Williams-Ellis.
• The community of Benedictine monks leaves Caldey Island for Prinknash Abbey. They are replaced at Caldey by a Cistercian order.
• Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald, buys Gwrych Castle for £78,000.
• 16 years after the start of construction, work having been interrupted by the First World War, the Grwyne Fawr reservoir is finally completed in the Brecon Beacons.
• Formation of Cardiff Station Orchestra.

Arts and literature

• Sir William Llewellyn is the first Welshman to become President of the Royal Academy of Arts.
• Eric Gill leaves Capel-y-ffin.

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Treorchy)

• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - withheld
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Caradog Prichard

New books

• Dorothy Edwards - Winter Sonata
• Moelona - Breuddwydion Myfanwy
• T. H. Parry-Williams - Ysgrifau
• Iorwerth Peate - Y Cawg Aur
• Richard Thomas - David Williams, y Piwritan
• Hilda Vaughan - The Invader: a tale of adventure and passion

Music

• David Evans - Incidental music for Alcestis (unpublished)

Film

• The Truth Game, starring Ivor Novello

Broadcasting

Sport

• Badminton - The Welsh Badminton Union is formed.
• Boxing - Welsh Bantamweight champion Tosh Powell dies after a fight with Billy Housego in Liverpool
• Yachting - The North Wales Cruising Club is formed.

Births

• ?January - Dai Royston Bevan, rugby player (d. 2002)
• 1 February - Sam Edwards, physicist
• 6 March - Glyn Owen, actor (d. 2004)
• 27 April - Selwyn Hughes, clergyman and writer (d. 2006)
• 7 June - Dave Bowen, football player and manager (d. 1995)
• 9 June - R. Geraint Gruffydd, academic and theologian
• 26 July - Bernice Rubens, novelist (d. 2004)
• 12 August - Roy Davies, cricketer
• 14 August - Sid Judd, Wales international rugby union player (d. 1959)
• 1 September - Emrys James, actor (d. 1989)
• 17 September - Dafydd Orwig, educationist (d. 1996)
• 23 October - Keith Jones, footballer
• 19 December - Gwyn Rowlands, rugby union international (d. 2010)
• date unknown - Gruffydd Evans, Baron Evans of Claughton, politician (d. 1992)

Deaths

• 11 January - Joseph Russell Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk, 63
• 14 April - Lewis Cobden Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 62
• 13 May - David John Thomas (Afan), composer and conductor, 47
• 19 May - Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, heraldry expert (of Welsh descent), 57
• 23 May - Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist, 50
• 2 June - Tosh Powell, Welsh champion boxer, 20
• 30 August - Hugh Evan-Thomas, admiral, 65
• 3 December - Isaac Hughes (Craigfryn), poet and novelist, 76
• 13 December - Harry Jarman, Wales and British Lions international rugby union player, 34-35
• date unknown - Marie Novello, pianist